Introducción a Proyectos

Esta representado por el cumulo de fases que se desarrollan para llevar de principio a fin a un resultado único.

• Proyecto

• Programa

• Ciclo de vida

• Operación

Las áreas de conocimiento básicas a manejar en un proyecto son:

• Costo

  Calidad

  Compras

• Costo

  Tiempo

  Riesgo

• Tiempo

  Calidad

  Recursos

• Costo

  Alcance

  Tiempo

No es una característica de un proyecto

• Temporal

• Gradual

• Resultado único

• Multidisicplinario

Salim is a project manager who works in a Dubai-based Civil and construction

company. Salim's company is going to start work soon on the development of a new

community center in Dubai. This will be the 2nd community center project on which

this company is going to work & the historical data, lessons learned and other project

information from the previous project is already archived and is available in the

company's information system. The overall scope & requirements of this new project

are fairly stable and are not expected to be changed in future. Salim has to decide the

project management approach for this project. Which of the below are the most

suitable choices?

• ScrumBan approach

• Waterfall approach

• Adaptative approach

• predictive approach

Ken is a part of the PMO within his organization. The project management office in his

organization has the responsibility of helping all the projects run smoothly and follows

a set of standard practices to be used in all the projects across the organization. One of

Ken's colleagues is managing at least three related projects in a coordinated manner.

When Ken asked him why he was doing this, the reply was that the project leadership

understood that managing the individual projects would not achieve the benefit they

wanted to achieve and hence he is managing all the 3 projects in a coordinated manner.

What is managed here by Ken's colleagues?

• Organizational system

• Program

• Project

• Portfolio

Due to expected frequent changes, the leadership at Skill Valley Inc. has decided to use

the adaptive approach to the delivery of the new project. This project will have a

business analyst and project team to work on a daily basis, together. You are working

as a project manager and wanted to use adaptive planning for this project. Which of

the below statements correctly describe the characteristics of adaptive planning?

• Adaptive planning defines a plan but acknowledges that once the project work starts,

  the priorities may change and the plan needs to reflect this new knowledge.

• Adaptive planning doesn't define any plan up-front but acknowledges that once the

  project work starts, the priorities may change and the plan needs to reflect this new

  knowledge.

• Adaptive planning defines a plan but acknowledges that once the project work starts,

  the priorities will not change.

• Adaptive planning defines a plan but acknowledges that once the project work starts,

  the priorities may change and the plan need not have to reflect this new knowledge.

The new pesticide development project is just getting started. You are working as a

project manager on this project. The project team is a subject-matter expert in this

area and has developed similar pesticides previously. From the project sponsor, there is

a clear direction that any changes to the scope of the project has to be carefully

managed, and that there should not be multiple iterations. You are about to select the

project life cycle for this project. Based on the aforementioned scenario, which of the

below project life cycle approaches is best suited?

• Predictive life cycle

• Change-driven life cycle

• Incremental life cycle

• Agile life cycle

In one of the executive briefings, Saeed heard one of the senior executives mention the

need for synergy between projects, programs, and portfolios. While Saeed is familiar

with projects and programs, he has never heard the term "portfolio." How can you

explain to him what is meant by "portfolio"?

• Programs and operations managed as a group to achieve the strategic objectives

• Operations managed as a group to achieve the strategic objectives

• Projects, programs and operations managed as a group to achieve the strategic

  objectives

• Projects and operations managed as a group to achieve the strategic objectives