13/12_chap4

You are planning communications on a new service development project. Your stakeholder list is large, but not terribly complicated. Not all stakeholders will understand the need for developing an actual communications plan, and you already have good relationships with most stakeholders on this project. What is one of the major driving forces for communication on a project?

• Optimization

• Integrity

• Integration

• Differentiation

The customer has accepted the completed project scope. However, the lessons learned required by the project management office have not been completed. What is the status of the project?

• The project is incomplete because it needs to be replanned.

• The project is incomplete until all project and product deliverables are complete and accepted.

• The project is complete because the Customer has accepted the deliverables.

• The project is complete because it has reached its due date.

Your well-planned project is likely to encounter a number of change requests and approved changes during its life cycle. In the change management plan, you have outlined the processes that you and others will use to understand the impacts of changes. Getting stakeholder acceptance of the decisions related to change on this project is critical, as a failed project could impact shareholder value and the earning projections for the organization. Your attention is best focused on which of the following regarding changes on your project?

• Making changes

• Tracking and recording changes

• Informing the sponsor of changes

• Preventing unnecessary changes

The customer on a project tells the project manager they have run out of money to pay for the project. What should the project manager do first?

• Shift more of the work to later in the schedule to allow time for the customer to get the funds.

• Close Project or Phase.

• Stop work.

• Release part of the project team.

All the following are parts of an effective change management plan except:

• Procedures

• Standards for reports

• Meetings

• Lessons learned

A Work authorization system can be used to:

• Manage who does each activity.

• Manage when and in what sequence work is done

• Manage when each activity is done.

• Manage who does each activity and when it is done.

Which of the following would be most important to include in a charter for an agile project?

• The roles and responsibilities of the team members assigned to the project

• Authorization for the product owner to prioritize features to maximize value

• The approvals required for specific product development milestones

• The preassigned resources available to the project

A project is plagued by requested changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary?

• The project manager

• The project team

• The sponsor

• The stakeholders

Effective project integration usually requires an emphasis on:

• The careers of the team members

• Timely updates to the project management plan

• Effective communication at key interface points

• Product control

The project manager's many responsibilities include being of service to the team, integrating new team members as the project progresses, and ensuring that the project meets its objectives within scope, time, budget, and other constraints. Which of the following best describes the project manager's role as an integrator?

• Help team members become familiar with the project.

• Put all the pieces of a project into a cohesive whole

• Put all the pieces of a project into a program.

• Get all team members together into a cohesive whole.