Exam 4: Project Planning: the Project Infrastructure

A communication plan, a quality management plan, and change management plan are all associated with which part of the project charter?

Describe the functional organizational structure.

_____ integrates areas and resources throughout the organization.

The main feature of the Matrix Organizational structure is the ability to integrate areas and resources throughout an organization.

Describe the project governance structure.

Disadvantages of the Project Organizational structure include project isolation, duplication of effort, and projectitis.

An IT project manager's technical knowledge is much more important that his or her ability to communicate with people.

How should a manager go about assembling a project team and what skills should drive his/her choice?

The _____serves as the agreement and contract between the project sponsor and the project team including such items as the project MOV, infrastructure, and project plan details.

Project team members should be chosen based upon their technology skills, business/organization skills, and interpersonal skills.

Breadth, depth of knowledge, and experience are advantages for projects sponsored by organizations with functional structures.

Problems determining authority and responsibility, poor response time, and poor integration are disadvantages of:

The project environment includes not only the physical space where the team will work, but also the project culture as well.

How are an organization's structure and its strategy related?

Higher potential for conflict and poor response time are disadvantages of:

The _____ describes how changes to the project's scope will be submitted, logged, and reviewed.

High potential for conflict and poor response time are disadvantages of the Matrix Organizational structure.

_____ supports projects as the dominant form of business with each treated as a separate and independent unit within the organization.

The more traditional organizational form best describes:

Which structure will tend to work well when an organization cannot dedicate scarce resources to a project?