Project Management Framework (Rita's)

Understanding the culture, policies, and procedures of the organization in which the project is being performed is most challenging in:

• Global organizations

• Manufacturing organizations

• Small organizations

• Agile organizations

A project team is discussing the benefits and drawbacks of working on projects within their organization now that it has become project oriented. They can agree on many advantages for the team and for the organization, but also agree there are some drawbacks relative to the strong matrix structure the organization used to have. In a project-oriented team, the project team:

• Reports to many bosses

• Has no loyalty to the project

• Reports to the functional manager

• Will not always have a "home"

A project manager is trying to complete a software development project but cannot get enough attention for the project. Resources are focused on completing process-related work, and the project manager has little authority to assign resources. What form of organization must the project manager be working in?

• Functional

• Matrix

• Expediter

• Coordinator

A project manager has little experience, but she has been assigned as the project manager of a new project. Because she will be working in a matrix organization to complete her project, she can expect communication to be:

• Simple

• Open and accurate

• Complex

• Hard to automate

A project team member is talking to another team member and complaining that many people are asking him to do things. If he works in a functional organization, who has the power to give direction to the team member?

• The project manager

• The functional manager

• The team

• The PMO

Two project managers have just realized that they are in a weak matrix organization and that their power as project managers is quite limited. One figures out that he is really a project expediter, and the other realizes she is really a project coordinator. How is a project expediter different from a project coordinator?

• The project expediter cannot make decisions

• The project expediter can make more decisions

• The project expediter reports to a higher-level manager

• The project expediter has some authority.

Who has the most power in a project-oriented organization

• The project manager

• The functional manager

• The team

• They all share power

All of the following are characteristics of a project except:

• It is temporary

• It has a definite beginning and end

• It has interrelated activities

• It repeats itself every month

A framework for keeping an organization focused on its overall strategy is:

• Organizational project management

• The PMBOK Guide

• Project governance

• Portfolio management

A project manager's primary responsibility is to deliver the product of the project within project constraints. Actions taken and changes made to the benefit of on constraint could negatively affect another. Which of the following best describes the major constraints on a project?

• Scope, number of resources, and cost

• Scope, cost, and schedule

• Scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, resources, and customer satisfaction

• Schedule,. cost, and number of changes