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The authors identify three forces that combine to mandate the use of teams to solve problems. Identify the force that the authors named.

According to the authors, the prime objectives of project management are

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

The seven attributes that characterize a project are __________.

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

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

In a conventional project lifecycle, as work progresses, uncertainty about the expected outcome should __________.

As sub-elements of a task, these __________ need to be accomplished to achieve the objectives of the task.

The project to construct a highway is unique because __________.

The process of creating artificial deadlines and budgets to accomplish specific, though routine, tasks within a functional department is called ______.

Identify the example that would not usually be considered a project

Who, according to the authors, has played a significant role in the development of techniques for project management?

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

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

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

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

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

Which of the following is not one of the four dimensions of project success?

Projects often interact with other projects being carried out simultaneously within the organization and these interactions take the form of competition for scarce resources between project. This is an example of project __________.

A project selected using the sacred cow model will be maintained until successfully completed or until __________.

If the NPV for a project is < 0, it indicates that the project will __________.

Which of the following is NOT a type of nonnumeric model?

Firms usually have two or more projects and this collection of projects is referred to as __________.

The project manager's responsibilities are broad and fall primarily into three separate areas. Identify the item that is NOT one of these.

According to the authors, of all the characteristics desirable in a project manager, __________ is the most important.

Project managers must have __________, which refers to possessing enough technical abilities to direct the project.

Resources initially budgeted for a project are frequently __________ for the task, partly because of natural optimism by the proposer about how many resources are needed.

The functional manager uses the __________ approach and the PM uses the __________ approach.

Which of the following is NOT typically recommended to be considered when hiring new team members?

30. The two basic types of project selection models identified in the text are ________.

Project proposals should include all of the following, EXCEPT __________.

The __________ is also called the benefit-cost ratio.

Identify the attribute that is NOT normally associated with the job of functional manager.

According to the authors the project manager should be more skilled at __________.

The project manager needs __________ credibility.

PMI offers a certification for project managers. PMI offers examination for certification as __________.

One of the major problems project managers have with creating a project team is coming up with adequate human resources. One way this commonly happens is by __________.

Most of the time spent by a project manager is spent __________.

A party to a conflict will usually be satisfied when the level of frustration has been __________.

Conflicts within the organization typically differ from conflicts with outsiders in one important way. As far as the organization is concerned, these conflicts are __________.

41. During project formation, the organizational structure selected will have a major impact on the ways in which conflicts are handled. Lack of clarity about the relative power/influence/authority of the PM and the functional managers is a major component of all conflicts involving __________.

Personality conflicts during project phase-out are often caused by __________.

The authors mention three situations where the highest level of negotiating skill is required by the project manager. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Identify the statement that is NOT a major advantage of placing a project within a functional element of the parent organization.

Identify the statement that is NOT a major advantage of placing a project within the pure project organization.

Identify the statement that is NOT a major advantage of placing a project in the matrix approach.

The project management office is often created by organizations to __________.

A characteristic of __________ projects is that the work these projects can cross time, space, organizational, and cultural boundaries.

Most of the conflicts that involve the organization and outsiders have to do with __________.

If a resource conflict arises between two high-priority projects, precedence is typically given to the project with the __________.

The need to manage technical interfaces and to correct incompatibilities is likely to create technical conflicts during the __________ phase of the project lifecycle.

Identify the category of conflict that is NOT included in the categories used by Thamhain and Wilemon in their study of project conflict.

Which of the following is NOT included in the authors' four part agreement for partnering?

Identify the statement that is NOT a major disadvantage of placing a project within a functional element of the parent organization

Identify the statement that is NOT a major disadvantage of placing a project within the pure project organization.

Identify the statement that is NOT a major disadvantage of placing the project in the matrix approach.

The key to conflict resolution is to turn a __________ into a __________.

A major contribution of __________ is to establish project administration procedures for selecting, initializing and planning, budgeting, and scheduling projects as well as to serve as a repository for reports on the performance of the planning, budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation processes.

The project plan must be designed in such a way that the project outcome meets __________.

The success of the project launch meeting is dependent on the existence of __________. o

This project plan element should include profit and competitive goals as well as technical goals.

This element of the project plan contains a brief description of the procedure to be followed in monitoring, collecting, storing, and evaluating the history of the project.

The __________ is a list of the project activities with major activities broken down into subactivities.

Identify the statement that is not correct regarding a project budget.

. In order to develop a budget, the PM must forecast __________.

The traditional organizational budget is __________.

The authors identify __________ estimation errors as the two types of generic estimation errors.

__________ costs vary with output.

The __________ is a specialized view of the action plan that focuses on who has what responsibility for each projecttask.

This project plan element describes both the managerial and the technical approaches to the work. The technical discussion describes the relationship of the project to available technologies

This project plan element lists all milestone events. It identifies the estimated time for each task and is used to construct the master project schedule.

__________ is the tendency for the project objectives to be changed with little or no discussion with other parties actively engaged in the project.

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The project's budget should __________.

A work element whose cost is fully developed would __________.

__________ budgeting allows income and expenditures to be aggregated across projects.

If projects include repetitive tasks with significant human input, the __________ rate should be factored into the cost estimate.

___________ costs are not associated with any specific product or class of products and are typically charged as a fixed percentage of some direct cost.

In application, PERT(ADM) has primarily been used for __________.

In the AOA network, circles depict ________.

The shortest time in which the entire network can be completed is referred to as the __________.

__________ was developed by the U.S. Navy while the __________ was developed by __________.

In CPM, __________ are specified.

The formula for computing the cost/time slope for each activity that can be crashed is __________.

The principal reason why a project manager is surprised by resource constraints on a project is the failure to include __________ in risk identification activities.

__________ describes the amounts of individual resources an existing schedule requires during specific time periods.

Task F has duration of 10 days and an earliest start date of 20 days. Based on the given data, determine the early finish duration for task F.

Slack is also known as __________.

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of a Gantt chart?

The difference between the late start and early start for an activity is called its __________.

The standard practice with AOA and AON is to estimate activity times under the assumption of resource loadings that are __________.

The __________ technique overlaps the design and build phases of a project to expedite its completion.

The tasks that logically precede a particular task in time are referred to as __________.

When crashing a project, our first task is to develop __________.

__________ aims to minimize the period-by-period variations in resource loading by shifting tasks within their slack allowances. The purpose is to create a smoother distribution of resource

Monitoring, as an activity, should be kept distinct from __________, which uses data supplied by monitoring to bring actual performance into approximate congruence with planned performance.

According to the authors, the key items to be planned, monitored, and controlled are __________.

The first step in setting up a monitoring system is to __________.

In earned value analysis, if the cost variance is (-$10,000), __________.

Microsoft's PMIS product is referred to as Microsoft __________.