Questions and Answers of Effective Project Management Traditional Agile Extreme Hybrid

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Use goal and solution clarity to define the project landscape? p=98
Understand and explain the four quadrants of the project landscape? p=98
Know the characteristics of Traditional Project Management(TPM), Agile Project Management (APM), Extreme Project Management (xPM), and Emertxe Project Management (MPx)? p=98
Know how complexity and uncertainty affect the project landscape? p=98
Incorporate requirements, flexibility, adaptability, change, risk, team cohesiveness, communications, client involvement, specifications, and business value into how you will choose and use a project
Know how cost, duration, market stability, technology, business climate, number of departments affected, organizational environment, and team skills and competencies affect the choice of a best-fit
Understand the similarities and differences between Linear, Incremental, Iterative, Adaptive, and Extreme PMLC models? p=98
Use the Requirements Breakdown Structure (RBS) as the key ingredient of the best-fit decision model?? p=98
Where in each of the five PMLC models would you expect the most failures occur? Defend your answer.? p=98
Where in each of the five PMLC models would you expect the greatest risk? What mitigation strategies would you consider? Defend your choices.? p=98
For each of the five PMLC models, identify a project from your experience that would seem to have been a good fit. Would using that PMLC for that project have improved the outcome? Why?? p=98
Appreciate and understand the history of traditional project management(TPM)? p-69
Know when to use TPM? p-69
Use and adapt the Linear project management life cycle (PMLC) model? p-69
Explain the benefits and use of the Rapid Linear PMLC model? p-69
Explain the benefits and use of the Feature-Driven Development (FDD)model? p-69
Anticipate and resolve the potential problems from using a Rapid Linear PMLC model? p-69
Explain the benefits of using an Incremental PMLC model? p-69
Anticipate and resolve the potential problems of using an Incremental PMLC model?? p-69
What Is Traditional Project Management?? p-69
How would you sell your client on the wisdom of using management reserve?? p-69
How would you go about the task of decomposing the project into meaningful business chunks in preparation for an Incremental approach? Speak to the rules you might employ.? p-69
List the advantages and disadvantages of using management reserve.? p-69
What is the impact on your risk management plan for using a Rapid Linear PMLC model instead of a Linear PMLC model — that is, what risks are added and what mitigation plans would you put in
Are there any projects in the case study that would benefit from any of the PMLC models studied in this chapter? (Remember the six subsystems defined for the case are Order Entry, Order Submit,
Explain the difference between the critical path and the critical chain?=98 p
Identify resource constraints and know how to resolve them?=98 p
Use the critical chain approach to project management for single projects??=98 p
What Is the Critical Chain??=98 p
1. Assume that your organization is interested in using CCPM along with TPM. What criteria would you use to decide which approach makes more sense for a given project? You might try answering this
You are a senior project manager in your company. You have 15 years’ experience with them and a solid reputation for delivering successful projects. What might you do, acting on your own, to get
Appreciate and understand the history of Agile Project Management (APM)p--369
Know when to use APM ?p--369
Use and be able to adapt the Iterative project management life cycle (PMLC)model and variations?p--369
Explain the benefits and use of the Iterative PMLC model?p--369
Anticipate and resolve the potential problems from using an Iterative PMLC model?p--369
Know how and when to use the Prototyping Iterative PMLC model?p--369
Know how and when to use the Rational Unified Process (RUP) Iterative PMLC model?p--369
Use and be able to adapt the Adaptive PMLC model??p--369
Explain the benefits of using an Adaptive PMLC model?p--369
Anticipate and resolve the potential problems of using an Adaptive PMLC model?p--369
Know how and when to use the Adaptive Software Development (ASD)PMLC model?p--369
Know how and when to use the Adaptive Project Framework (APF) PMLC model?p--369
Know how and when to use the Scrum Adaptive PMLC model?p--369
Know how and when to use the Dynamic Systems Development Method(DSDM) Adaptive PMLC model??p--369
What Is Agile Project Management??p--369
Is Harry overcommitted??p--369
If Project Alpha is delayed, what is the impact on Project Beta??p--369
Who decides the project priority if there is a scheduling conflict with Harry??p--369
Can Harry’s work on Project Alpha be overlapped with his work on Project Beta??p--369
What if Harry leaves the company??p--369
What should we do??p--369
What can we do??p--369
What will we do?
How will we do it??p--369
Was the expected business outcome realized??p--369
What was learned that can be used to improve the solution??p--369
What was learned that can be used to improve the effectiveness of APF??p--369
What do you need to do??p--369
What will you do??p--369
Referring to the case study, which subsystems would you develop using an Agile model? Be specific as to which model you would choose and why.List any advantages or disadvantages that will result from
Discuss the concept of the work package as an insurance policy. How is it an insurance policy, and what might it contain that would make it an insurance policy? P-69
A number of your clients seem to be abusing the change request process. You have seen an increase in the number of frivolous requests.These, of course, must be researched and resolved, and that takes
Your past projects gave the client wide berth when it came to suggesting changes at any time they saw fit. Often they expressed an unbridled enthusiasm in making frequent changes, many of which were
Your project managers have been able to communicate very effectively with all of your clients except one. Getting feedback from this client has always been a nagging problem. What should you do?1.
You have recently been promoted to the position of project manager.Your team consists of senior members of the technical staff, and it is time to establish the team operating rules. You expect some
How will you know if you have done the job? (Information dissemination/Communication)?? P-69
How should people be organized into teams? (Communication/Interpersonal skills)?? P-69
Who would do the job? (Human resources)?? P-69
What are the uncertainties? (Risk)?? P-69
How much will it cost? (Budget/Cost)?? P-69
When is it required and in what sequence? (Schedule)?? P-69
How well must it be done? (Quality)? P-69
Why should it be done? (Justification)? P-69
What has to be done and where? (Scope)? P-69
Know when to require a work package description?? P-69
Describe the format and explain the contents of a work package?? P-69
Finalize the project schedule?? P-69
Assign resources?? P-69
Know project communications requirements and use ?? P-69
Define scope change processes and change management processes?? P-69
Establish and use a team war room?? P-69
Know the types of team meetings and when to use each type? P-69
Establish team operating rules for problem solving, decision making, and conflict resolution? P-69
Help contract team members become part of the team? P-69
Understand the different roles and responsibilities of core versus contract team members? P-69
Describe the characteristics of an effective project team member? P-69
Explain the difference between the critical path and the critical chain? LOP5
Identify resource constraints and know how to resolve them? ? LOP5
Use the critical chain approach to project management for single projects?? LOP5
Know when to use Extreme Project Management (xPM) or Emertxe Project Management (MPx)L01
Use and adapt the Extreme PMLC model? L01
Explain the benefits and use of the INSPIRE Extreme PMLC model? L01
Anticipate and resolve the potential problems of using an Extreme PMLC model?L01
What has happened in the just-completed Incubate stage?L01
What new information do you have?L01

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