Exam 1: Projects in Contemporary Organizations

A conventional project life cycle is a(n)__________ curve.

The authors identify four parties-at-interest or stakeholders in any project. These stakeholders are

The chance that project processes or outcomes will not turn out as planned is called __________.

The most crucial attribute of a project is that it must be important in the eyes of the ________

An important implication of the project lifecycle concept is that a project will resist __________ of its existence.

The Project Management Institute offers a popular certificate called the ______________.

Explain why it is important for the project team to understand the purpose of a project.

Relations between organizational functions, where one function or task is dependent on others, are known as __________.

__________ occurs when the expectations of the client increase as the project progresses.

The largest amount of effort applied to a project is during the __________ phase.

The military uses the term __________ to refer to an exceptionally large, long-range objective that is broken down into a set of projects.

Earned value is based on the concept that the percentage of project completion is closely correlated with __________.

This "stretched-S" pattern observed during the project lifecycle, for the most part, is a result of the _________.

Which of the following is not a trend that we see in project management?

When done properly, project management begins with __________.

The desired outcomes or results of a project are called ____________.

Which of the following is not a likely attribute of quasi-projects?

The conventional project lifecycle can be described as a pattern characterized by ____________.

The __________ of the project team is a crucial, but unstated, element of ancillary trade offs that the project manager must consider.

The __________ project is generally credited with beginning the era of modern project management.