PMG201c

A project manager can defend against scope creep with a good ___________!

• Project management plan
• Risk management plan
• Change control process
• Procurement process

Scope creep results in:

• Completion delays, decrease in costs, and increase in project complexity.
• On-time deliverables, escalation of costs, and increase in project complexity.
• Completion delays, escalation of costs, and decrease in project complexity.
• Completion delays, escalation of costs, and increase in project complexity.

True or FALSE,: In the context of a project, change is always a bad thing.

• FALSE,
• True

Your project team is customer focused and often agrees to incorporate many small scope changes throughout the project execution. The changes are documented in an issues log. Which of the following is not a potential problem?

• Management of product specifications and configuration become more difficult.
• Many small changes may accumulate to create trouble for one of the project objectives.
• Changes with impacts on cost or time will be elevated to the Change Control Board.
• Changes may not be integrated across the whole project

To ensure control over the incidence and frequency of change, the project manager establishes a:

• Work breakdown structure
• Responsibility assignment matrix
• Work procedure schedule
• Change control process

The purpose of capturing lessons learned is:

• To document who performed well on the project and who did not so that poor performers can be punished.
• To show stakeholders how difficult the project was so that next time their demands will not be so high.
• To capture what went well so that you can recreate the good and to capture what could have gone better so that next time it will go better.
• To show that you are following project management best practices and therefore you are a superior project manager.

A good change process will:

• Be very complex in order to discourage changes.
• Have change thresholds that are appropriate for the type of change.
• Allow the project manager to approve all changes.
• Require the same level of approval for all changes.

Which of these types of changes should be discouraged as a poor project practice:

• Stakeholders did not take the time to define scope earlier in the project.
• A new way to handle a problem is discovered after scope was documented and approved.
• Another project team is doing similar work and is farther along than your project.
• A team member discovers an issue and it makes good business sense to correct the issue as part of the project.

True or FALSE,: Unregulated changes allow for innovation and flexibility. Regulating changes causes a lack of creativity.

• True
• FALSE,

Which one of these situations most closely represents scope creep:

• The project scope keeps changing and team members are not sure why and the project seems like it will never end.
• The project scope was used to create a WBS that was used to create estimates and a schedule.
• The scope of the project is clearly agreed upon by the key project stakeholders.
• The project scope changes through the use of a formal change control process.