Project Management Chapter 3

TRUE statements regarding project scope

• Establishing project priorities

• Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• Integrating the WBS with the organization

• Coding the WBS for the information system

The elements of project scope checklist

• Project objective

• Budget

• Milestone

• Technical Requirements

Elaboration of "deliverables" in project scope chekclist?

• Overall objective to meet your customer’s needs

• The expected outputs over the life of the project

• The boundary of the project by stating what is not included

• Completion of the scope checklist

Major segments of work, rough-cut estimates of time, cost, and resources for the project representing

• Deliverables

• Technical requirements

• Limit and exclusion

• Milestones

"The understanding and agreement of expectations" refering to

• Customer review

• Project objective

• Milestones

• Limit and exclusions

The primary jobs of a project manager is to manage the trade-offs among

• Task

• Time

• Cost

• Performance

The performance should be ...., time should be ...., and cost should be .....

• enhanced, accepted, constrained

• accepted, enhanced, constrained

• constrained, enhanced, accepted

• constrained, accepted, enhanced

Definition of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

• A map of the project and an outline of the project with different levels of detail

• A product or service will have technical requirements to ensure proper performance

• Answers the questions of what, when, and how much

• The completion of the scope checklist ends with a review with your customer; internal or external

WBS helps to:

• Assure project managers that all products and work elements are identified

• Integrate the project with the current organisation

• Establish a basis for control

• Taking advantage of opportunities to either reduce costs or shorten the schedule

The following statements define WBS:

• Provides management with information appropriate to each level

• Defines all the elements of the project in a hierarchical framework and establishes their relationships to the project end items

• Provides the opportunity to “‘roll up" (sum) the budget and actual costs of the smaller work packages into larger work elements

• Serves as a framework for tracking cost and work performance

• Can also be used to define communication channels and assist in understanding and coordinating many parts of the project