Quiz Initiating-Stakeholder

Having obtained approval from the Project Sponsor for your project charter, you schedule a 2-hour session with core members of your project team. Your intention in the session is to facilitate the team in identifying and categorizing the individuals and groups that will be impacted both positively and negatively from the delivery of the outcomes of the project. Which process is being performed?

On a power-interest grid, the project sponsor should typically fall in which group?

During the chartering process, you defined the schedule as a critical constraint on your project. More specifically, you must complete your project within seven months. As you begin planning for your project and evaluating your project risks, you become concerned about the quality and availability of competent technical resources within your organization. Additionally, you have identified a department in another division managed by a peer, that may have the resources sufficient to help meet your project demands. The individual has been determined to have high-power and low-interest in the project. It is your goal to obtain the resources necessary to meet your schedule constraints from this individual. What direction of influence does this individual have with respect to your position as the project manager?

The Project Management Office recommended that you utilize a salience model to complete a stakeholder analysis and classify stakeholders. Using this model, by which three characteristics are you evaluating each stakeholder?

The influence-impact grid is one of multiple data representation tools and techniques used to visually display and group stakeholders. The information deduced from this grid helps to inform and create which key output of the Identify Stakeholder process?

One of the stakeholders on your project has been identified as having high power, low urgency, and appropriate legitimacy (involvement in the project). Which classification method did you use?

Frank is completing the two processes within the initiating process group. He has completed the Develop Project Charter process and is currently working to complete the Identify Stakeholder process. What is the primary output created through the Identify Stakeholder process?

You realize the importance of creating a comprehensive stakeholder register that includes stakeholders from inside and outside of the executing organization. Which of the following is least likely to be a stakeholder on a software development project?

A project has been initiated to develop a trolley system linking two commercial shopping districts. Upon analysis, your team determines that due to the wide-ranging effects and the need of support for the project, from both inside your company and in the surrounding community, it is prudent to include key representatives from the community as project stakeholders. Which of the following best describes the action taken in this situation?

You have been hired as a project manager in a new firm. In your previous company, project managers operated with a significant amount of autonomy and control. Who has the most power in a functional or centralized organization?