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Project Team Leadership
Two businesses share a single shopping-plaza-style parking lot, and they have recently been unhappy with each other regarding how their respective employees and customers park. Choose three
Thinking about a recent team experience, what are some personality traits that you find difficult to relate to? What could members of the team who have these traits do to increase your level of trust?
Your 7-member engineering team has been in Tuckman’s “performing” stage for over a month. Unfortunately, recent reorganization of the company has reassigned two of your team members to another
You are tasked with creating an interdisciplinary team for an important technical project slated to start in the next quarter. Other than their aptitude in specific skill areas, what properties would
Choose two of the factors in the What Makes a Team Successful? section (starting on page 111). For each, explain how this success factor would contribute to each of the four team structures listed
You’re in the process of creating a new team for a high-profile project within your division. You feel that the typical structure in the industry is a top-down team, but your company’s culture
Name a famous team (examples: Cirque du Soleil, the USPS, Plato and Socrates).What major factors played a role in its successes? How is it structured? Did this team include defined roles?
When using a “RASCI” accountability matrix, which letter must be assigned to at least one party for each task or responsibility?
Of the three “angles” of accountability, which is unique to the team experience?
Which three parties/entities need to enter into commitments for a successful team experience?
Your team has reached deadlock regarding a major decision with a quickly-approaching deadline. Which resolution technique is a better fit:collaborating or forcing?
Your team seems to have resolved most disagreements and is starting to shift concern to the objectives you’ve been given. Which stage of Tuckman’s Model for Team Development is this team
What are three important skills needed by the information manager role?
You and a colleague are both part of a large, variable structure team but have never worked together directly.What strategy should you use when considering him or her?
Which type of team will most likely have its members primarily focus on the “boss”?
Which category of team enjoys solving difficult problems?
A team attributes its success primarily to complimentary skillsets. Which type of team structure does it most likely follow?
Using the columns below, list 5 stakeholders or stakeholder groups for a pizza delivery business. Be sure to analyze each stakeholder’s level of power and interest.ID Name Title Info Notes Power
Your department has decided to change office locations and you’ve been placed in charge of planning the move. List 5 different risks and formulate mitigation or management responses for each.
A project leader currently tracks work progress by asking each team member what their status is each week. What are three things that they could do to increase project visibility?
Using the tasks below, create a precedence diagram, determine the duration needed to complete the tasks, and label the critical path.Task Estimated Duration Dependencies A Confirm # of Attendees 5
You’re considering whether to share a milestone chart or a Gantt chart with an executive who is interested in your project. Give two advantages and two disadvantages of using each type of schedule
Identify the components of a basic home and organize them into a work breakdown structure at least 3 levels deep (example: Bedroom!Bed!Pillow, Blanket).
A major stakeholder is adamant that your estimate be an exact number, stating that the previous project leader had always delivered very precise estimates.What strategies can you use here?
As a project progresses, estimates relating to the expected completion date should become more precise while keeping a consistent level of accuracy. What are the dangers of overly precise estimates
You have given the general manager of your organization an estimate of 4-6 weeks for the next phase of the project, but you’re worried that she will assume the 4 weeks instead of the range. How
It is determined that a project stakeholder has low interest and high power. What management strategy should be used?
Risk ID 4 has been on the list for 3 weeks now. It has a probability of 20%and a 5 week impact. What is its Risk Exposure?
Using the project information below, what is the current earned value?Task Status Planning 150/150 Section 1 Build 320/500 Section 2 Build 150/600 Completion 0/100
“A measure of how exact a value is.”Is this accuracy or precision?
You are trying to complete a top-down estimation. According to the oneto-two rule, at what point have you reached enough granularity?
You’re trying to estimate the total length of a project, but the individual components and activities aren’t yet known and seem likely to change.Which estimation method is least useful?
A team has chosen to find a similar project in order to draw conclusions about how long their current project will take. Which estimation method have they selected?
The project sponsor has just chosen you to lead a new web-based software project.Create a basic agenda for the project’s 2-hour kickoff meeting.
You’re using the layered approach to define the outcome of a parking lot project for the local public high school. Write 3 goals/objectives, a scope statement including what is and isn’t a part
The first phases of your design project have gone well, but the final version of the smoke detector you team has designed has failed a few required tests. Given what you know about the balance of
The organization you work for has traditionally used plan-focused processes when completing projects. Because your current customer often changes their mind on what they expect of you and your team,
Project-focused organizations can experience negative effects when their projects compete for the limited resources available. In an environment that should focus on productivity, project leaders may
You’ve been tasked with overseeing the design, production, and marketing of a new type of hand-held media player. Name five projects that could be completed as part of this product’s life cycle.
Until now the organization you work for has typically focused on operational factory production work. You’ve just been hired as a project manager to complete several important upgrades, and
Which section of the project plan is usually written last?
Which element describing project outcomes focuses on stating what is and what isn’t to be included in the project?
Your project has solid require ments/specifications and an inexperienced team. Which category of process models is most appropriate?
A project is assigned two resources from marketing, one from finance, and three from IT. Which type of organization does this likely represent?
Name two project functions.
Which phase typically follows the planning phase in the project life cycle?
Who is responsible for identifying the problem or opportunity to be addressed by the project and often authors the project charter?
In addition to a defined beginning and end, which other feature characterizes a project?
One important professional responsibility of project leadership is advocating for team members. Explain a situation you’ve encountered where a leader advocated for you or a team member? How did it
Leading a project team requires self-discipline and a careful consideration of the ethics behind every action you take. What is a scenario you’ve encountered where ethics were violated? What could
Your project team is designing and building an online portal for your state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. Excluding your fellow project team members, list 6 stakeholders or stakeholder groups
What are some defining cultural characteristics of your team, organization, or field of study?
Consider the lists of cultural elements for teams and organizations starting on page
Look at the list of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators on page 8 and rank them from most important to least important to you. Primarily, do you consider yourself to be extrinsically or intrinsically
Choose a prominent, well-known leader who has influenced you in some way.What do you believe their primary leadership style, way of influencing others, and motivators were/are?
Choose three titles from those listed in the What’s in a Name? section on page 2.For each, what do you believe is their primary leadership style, type of influence, and motivator?
Which type of influence do you believe is most compatible with an authoritarian style of leadership? Which is least compatible?
How important is a leader’s title as it relates to their effectiveness? Does a title change affect the leader more than it does those being led?
Your company has asked you to sign a non-disclosure agreement to prevent its competitors from learning about a new product. Which ethical concern does this address?
You are completing a project for the Operations Director of another division of your organization. To which stakeholder groups does the Director belong?
A project manager notices a distinct difference between the way her new team works verses what she’s previously encountered. What concepts would you enlist in explaining why things may be different?
The project you are leading has several people who have the potential to either help or disrupt things moving forward. What key term describes this group of people?
Is recognition an intrinsic or extrinsic motivator?
A colleague seems to be more productive when working with new ideas or problems that require creativity.What is most likely to be his primary motivator?
You respect a coworker because of her longstanding ability as a great problem solver. What types of influence are demonstrated here?
What properties do the affiliative and democratic leadership styles have in common?
Which leadership style is most likely to allow individuals to choose their own tasks and priorities?
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