7) You have just passed a major milestone in your genetic engineering research effort and have invited stakeholders to a fancy catered luch. You want to impress upon this group of scientists and sophisticated technical marketers that your Project is on the right track and you are still the most competent person to lead it. What is the best thing to do?

A) Send emails with status reports to all stakeholders, prepare to hand hard copy spreadsheets of cost reports, and choose an award to give to the most communicative stakeholder.

B) Prepare large wall charts showing progress and expected plans, ask team leads to give minute-long presentations on the next steps, and announce a contest with a prize to your team member who uncovers the best previously unidentified risk.

C) Prepare a packet of charts and graphs to hand to the participants as they arrive, have a looping Power Point presentation that describes the deliverable, and feature a microscope showing slide of the human tissue that graphically shows the success of you.

D) Prepare t-shirts to celebrate the milestone, make a gingerbread model of the molecule you think will be your most successful final product, and invite stakeholders to wager a dollar to go to charity on the project’s final completion date.

8) The organization wants to expand its pet care line. Research and development has developed a new concept and marketing advice that all efforts should be made to create and release this product as soon as possible. A business case has been created and accepted, and you have been named Project manager for this effort. You are determining how you will proceed. All the following should be determined before Project planning except:

A) Project stakeholders

B) Business case

C) Project scope statement

D) Project charter

9) To achieve project success, organizational culture including management policies and procedures, should be;

A) Understood and managed for the benefit of the project and the organization

B) Disregarded, as they are irrelevant to project success

C) Consistent in all organizations, thereby decreasing the challenges of project management

D) Manipulated to conform to the preferences of the project manager

10) The new CEO of your company calls you into her Office to informally discuss a potential Project for your organization. The Project involves moving your largest call center to new building twenty-eight kilometers away, installing new hardware and call monitoring software, and giving the staff three days of intensive, product-specific training. She asks your opinion of this work. How should you respond?

A) You should suggest that the project needs a formal charter.

B) You should ask whether she has determined the impact to the staff of moving the call center so far away.

C) You should inform the CEO that this initiative may involve more than one Project.

D) You need to meet with the IT and call center managers to get more detail on the plan.