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Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 10mins
If a project sponsor gives you a deadline you think is unrealistic, what should be some strategies you use?
Walk away from the project
Give a very motivating speech to team members
Negotiate with sponsor for an extended deadline
If a project sponsor gives you a deadline you think is unrealistic, what should be some strategies you use?
Ask sponsor to allow for overtime
Write an email to the CEO to explain that you are being treated unfairly
Quietly start de-scoping project without telling sponsor
You are managing the opening of a pizza shop. After the project has started, the project sponsor comes to you and requests to remove light fixtures that were already installed as part of the project because she found some lights that were nicer looking. What should be your appropriate reaction to this?
Politely refuse to change anything in the project
Negotiate to see if you can change only half the lights
Start doing it quickly because the sooner you start, the sooner your finish
Evaluate the impact on the cost & schedule and discuss them with the sponsor
Say you will do it but then just ignore the request
You are managing the opening of a pizza shop. After the project has started, the project sponsor demands to remove light fixtures that were already installed as part of the project and install new ones. This is a non-negotiable demand from the sponsor. What should you do?
Accept on the spot and get to work
Negotiate to see if the sponsor can drop this request
Accept but warn the sponsor that the project will be delayed
Present the impact on costs and schedule and demand a written approval from sponsor
All of the above
If ever a project starts falling behind schedule, there are different ways to try and remediate to this problem. Can you identify it?
Find someone else to blame for the delay
Hide the fact that there is a delay from the sponsor
Ask your team to start working overtime
If ever a project starts falling behind schedule, there are different ways to try and remediate to this problem. Can you identify it?
Wait and see if the problem will go away on its own
See if you can do some tasks earlier, even if they overlap with current tasks
Find who is causing the delay and threaten them
If ever a project starts falling behind schedule, there are different ways to try and remediate to this problem. Can you identify it?
See if you can remove some tasks from the project
Increase quality of project so that even if it is late, end result will look nice
Accept blame for the delay and offer resignation
It is often said that if a project starts getting delayed, you can just throw “more bodies at it”. Meaning, just add more people to make things go faster. What could be an issue with this strategy?
Maybe more people are not available for the job
Maybe the project cost will not exceed the planned budget
It is often said that if a project starts getting delayed, you can just throw “more bodies at it”. Meaning, just add more people to make things go faster. What could be an issue with this strategy?
Maybe people being put on the job are not properly trained
Maybe people being added to project might be even more efficient
During a project, you realize that the person you had scheduled to do a task is not available. What could be a cause of this?
Team is poorly motivated
You assigned the person to another task at the same time (over-assigned)
Proper training was not given to team members
Project sponsor cancelled a task
In a project, following monitoring, which of the following would trigger project control?
Team members are generally happy and do good work
All the activities are being started and finished on time
The sponsor informs you that the scope will be reduced
More resources or less resources haven been used than planned
In a project, which of the following could lead to bad schedule performance?
Initial bids were too low
Scope of work increased
Bad sequencing of activities
Initial budget was bad
Monitoring and controlling tends to act like a feedback loop. What is monitoring most concerned with?
Measuring & performance analysis
Actions to correct deviations
Monitoring and controlling tends to act like a feedback loop. What is controlling most concerned with?
Measuring & performance analysis
Actions to correct deviations
In management, we use the acronym “KPI”. What does the "P" stand for
Parameter
Performance
Pro-rata
Power
In management, we use the acronym “KPI”. What does the "I" stand for
Information
Initiation
Indicator
Inspection
When starting a meeting, there is an important document that you should create before the start of the meeting and use during the meeting to ensure the meeting goes smoothly. What is that document?
A meeting chart
A meeting schedule
List of attendants
A meeting agenda
At the end of a meeting, you want to make sure that everyone knows what new things they are responsible for and must do. What are these called?
Roles and responsibilities
Human resources management
Action items
Tasks or activities
At the very start of the project, an important type of meeting should be organized by the project manager. What is this type of meeting?
Kick-off meeting
Group chat
Change control meeting
Status update meeting
Once a project has started, you want to do periodical checks of how the project is going. What types of meetings are those?
Kick off meetings
Project status meetings
Stakeholder meetings
Monitoring and controlling
In project management, what does a monitoring system refers to?
The monitors on a computer
The size of your project team
A system for collecting an analyzing data
A system to ensure you have a proper budget
