P3G Practice Questions

Which of the following are benefits of effective P3G?

• Greater delivery confidence

• Avoidance of decision-making gaps and overlaps

• Improved alignment of change with organisational strategic objectives?

• All of the above

The term change, when used in the P3 environment, refers to

• A. Projects

• B. Programmes

• C. Projects, programmes and portfolios

• D. All of the above except if funded by operational expenditure

What is the role of assurance?

• Project decision making

• Reducing the need for methodologies such as agile and waterfall

• Supporting decision makers

• B and C

A project funded from day to day operational expenses:

• Is not really a project and should be treated as BaU

• Should be funded instead from capital so that project governance principles can be applied

• Should not have P3G principles applied because it is not a capital investment

• Should have the same P3G principles applied as a project funded from capital

Which of the following is not a principle of P3G?

• Enable evidenced based investment decision making

• Delivery outcome accountability determines project or programme accountability

• Separate project and programme decision making from stakeholder engagement

• Treat change differently from business as usual

The phrase Treat Change differently to Business as Usual has a similar meaning to:

• Separate project and business as usual decision-making structures

• Ensure a single point of accountability

• Separate stakeholder management and project decision making

• A and C

The business as usual organisational structure does not meet the needs of projects because:

• It is designed for BaU decision making, not project decision making

• Project decisions impact multiple stakeholders across the organisation and the organisation structure is not designed to accommodate that

• Project decision making using the normal organisation reporting lines would be slow and less effective

• All of the above

The most important accountability on a project or programme is accountability for:

• Asset delivery

• The business case

• The success of the project or programme

• Service delivery

The SRO of a programme should be appointed when?

• Just before the approval of the full business case

• Early in the programme, before a Programme Manager is appointed

• Once the Programme Board has voted on the position

• Just ahead of award of the main construction contract

Complete the following sentence: as a project moves through its lifecycle, the organisational role nominated as project sponsor should...

• Remain constant unless the person holding that organisational role changes

• Should remain constant even if the person holding that role changes

• Should change to reflect which business unit is leading the delivery at that lifecycle stage

• Should change whenever the person holding the organisational role changes