Questions and Answers of Effective Project Management Traditional Agile Extreme Hybrid

The PDQ system consists of the following six subsystems:■ Pizza Factory Locator■ Order Entry■ Logistics■ Order Submit■ Routing■ Inventory Management Pick one of these subsystems and build
You are the project manager of a project to develop a new system for the company. You have two options for a resource to work on a specific programming task for your project. The task is not on the
Even though all of your tasks have met the WBS completion criteria, what scheduling problems might prompt you to further decompose one or more of them, and how will that resolve the problems?? LOP5
The project network diagram has been constructed, and the project completion date is beyond the management-imposed deadline.You have compressed the schedule as much as possible by introducing
Prepare a simple budget showing an order of magnitude estimate, a budget estimate, and a definitive estimate. What did you have to do to bring each successive budget closer to the final working
Discuss a project on which you’ve worked where time was the major factor in determining the success or failure of the project.What did you do about cost considerations? Did the sponsor(s)agree with
You have used the three-point method to estimate the duration of a task that you know will be critical to the project. The estimate produces a very large difference between the optimistic and
Can you think of any activities that would not meet all six completeness criteria, yet need not be further decomposed? Give specific examples.? LOP5
Under what conditions might you choose to decompose an activity that meets all of the six completeness criteria? Give specific examples.? LOP5
The WBS identifies all of the work that must be done to complete the project. What would you do if the answer to a question posed as part of the work determines which of the two alternatives
Your planning session seems to have reached an impasse. The planning team is divided between two ways to approach a particularly difficult part of the project. Approximately two-thirds of the team
What are the advantages and disadvantages of holding a JPPS session onsite versus offsite?? LOP5
Determine the appropriate use of substitute resources?? LOP5
Utilize various approaches to leveling resources? LOP5
Understand and apply management reserve? LOP5
Use advanced network dependency relationships for improving the project schedule? LOP5
Analyze the network for possible schedule compression? LOP5
Define free slack and total slack and know their significance? LOP5
Identify the critical path in the project? LOP5
Understand lag variables and their uses? LOP5
Compute the earliest start (ES), earliest finish (EF), latest start(LS), and latest finish (LF) times for every task in the network? LOP5
Recognize the types of constraints that create task sequences? LOP5
Understand the four types of task dependencies and when they are used? LOP5
Construct a network representation of the project tasks? LOP5
Understand the process of determining resource requirements at the task level? LOP5
Schedule people to project activities using a skill matrix? LOP5
Understand the process of creating cost estimates at the task level? LOP5
Use any one of six task-duration estimation methods? LOP5
List and explain the causes of variation in task duration? LOP5
Explain the relationship between resource loading and task duration? LOP5
Understand the difference between effort and duration? LOP5
Define a work package and its purposes? LOP5
Understand top-down versus bottom-up processes for building the WBS? LOP5
Use the WBS as a planning tool and reporting tool? LOP5
Generate a complete WBS? LOP5
Explain the approaches to building the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)? LOP5
Understand the importance of the completeness criteria to your ability to manage the work of the project?? LOP5
Recognize the difference between activities and tasks? LOP5
Know the contents of the project proposal? LOP5
Know how to plan a JPPS? LOP5
Understand the purpose of the Joint Project Planning Session (JPPS) LOP5
Understand the importance of planning a project? LOP5
What sort of approach would you use for an Agile project if your client wasn’t willing or able to participate? What are the strengths and/or weaknesses of your choice? p-85
Clients are always reluctant to get too involved in planning.What might you do to sell them on the idea that their full involvement in APF is needed for this effort to succeed?? p-85
You are the project manager over one of your company’s first APF projects. You are having trouble getting the client’s involvement. What would you do?? p-85
You have completed your first APF project. Compare and contrast the TPM and APF approaches when both of them reach this same point.? p-85
Suppose a project should have used a TPM approach, but you used APF.Comment on what might be different. Would the traditional approach have given you a better outcome? Why or why not? Be specific.?
Know when to use Extreme Project Management (xPM) or Emertxe Project Management (MPx)
Use and adapt the Extreme PMLC model
Explain the benefits and use of the INSPIRE Extreme PMLC model
Anticipate and resolve the potential problems of using an Extreme PMLC model?
What Is Extreme Project Management?
What did you learn?
What can you do to enhance goal attainment?
What new ideas arose and should be pursued?
What should you do in the next phase?
What has happened in the just-completed Incubate stage?
What new information do you have?
What approaches have you eliminated?
What new discovery suggests a change in goal direction and definition?
Are you converging on a more clearly defined goal that has business value?
How does the new goal statement affect the deliverables list?
Should some items be removed?
Should new items be added?
How is the functionality embedded in the new goal statement affected?
What Is Emertxe Project Management?
Senior management will always ask what business value they will realize from the PSO. How would you measure the return on investment for your PSO? (Be careful — this is a trick question.)
Understand current practices in corporate project portfolio management and how they are applied
Know how to deliver explicit business value through a strategically aligned project portfolio
Adapt the concepts and practices of project portfolio management to agile project portfolio management?
In what ways, if any, would Traditional Project Management (TPM), APM, and xPM projects affect your project portfolio management process? Be specific.
Recognize a potentially distressed project? p-69
Understand why projects become distressed? p-69
Implement prevention strategies? p-69
Use the tools, templates, and processes for preventing distressed projects? p-69
Understand and apply the intervention steps for a distressed project? p-69
Conduct a Root Cause Analysis for a distressed project? p-69
Understand the roles and responsibilities of the Project Support Office(PSO) with respect to distressed projects?? p-69
Define the multiple team (multi-team) project situation? p-696
Know the different types and complexity of multi-team projects? p-696
Understand the challenges presented by multi-team projects?
Describe the ending step using the Boundaries symbol. Sometimes a process may have more than one ending boundary.
Make sure that each decision loop reenters the process or is pursued to a conclusion.
When a decision step is reached, write a yes/no question in a diamond and develop each path.
Keep asking. ‘‘What happens next?’’ Write each of the subsequent steps using the appropriate symbols. .
Describe the beginning step using the Boundaries symbol.
Define the beginning and ending steps of the process, also known as boundaries.
Decide on the process to be diagrammed.
How Are Corrective Action Steps Taken to Correct for Noncompliance?
How Are Project Managers Monitored for Compliance?
Is There a Way to Incorporate Best Practices into the Practice of the Project Management Process?
Know how to use and interpret the eight tools for business process analysis?
Be able to diagram a business process?
Know the benefits of having a CPIM?
Have a working knowledge of the Continuous Process Improvement Model(CPIM)?
Understand and be able to construct the Process Quality Matrix (PQM) and the Zone Map?
Be able to explain the five levels of maturity?
Know what process and practice maturity is all about?
Understand the differences between project management processes and practices?
How is it updated?

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