Quiz Executing-Integration

A member of your team, on loan from another department, is currently working to identify defects in a deliverable. He has requested your assistance in clarifying how to accurately log the details of a defect. Which procedures should you refer the team member to in order to provide the information requested?

You have taken over a project in which the previous project manager was relieved of his role due to poor project performance and stakeholder complaints of mismanagement. As you begin the task of assessing the project’s needs and organizing a turn-around plan, you prioritize the need to integrate multiple aspects of the project and establish a system to maintain a clear understanding of the project status throughout the team and stakeholder community. Which of the following options would best provide a real-time overview of the project status, facilitate knowledge transfer, and empower team members and other stakeholders to help identify and solve issues?

The project manager of a large web development project is using a pull-based / on-demand scheduling technique to define the features to be built and the necessary activities to be performed to execute the work. The team is completing a sprint to complete a collection of activities related to the user interface of the site. During the execution a programmer developed a great idea for an additional feature that the team believes will dramatically improve the functionality of the site. Your team is eager to implement the upgrade. What is the most appropriate action for the project manager to take?

Mid-execution, senior stakeholders were involved in a heated debate, which concluded in the decision to approve a change request to reduce the quantity of work to be performed. It is generally believed that while the nature of the product features will be reduced, the overall impact, as perceived by the customer, will suffer minimal negative deterioration. You have also deduced that the conditions the deliverable meets have not been modified. As the project leader, you have been instructed to update the scope statement to reflect the changes. Which of the following components would you update?

A learning and development consultant advises the project manager to capture team knowledge, as it will provide value to future projects. He recommends that the project manager use multiple methods to ensure that a more complete picture of the team’s knowledge is retained. Seeing that the recommendations are too time-consuming to implement in practice, the project manager creates a solitary link to on an online collaboration tool where people can post their comments. Over the course of the project, the team provides comments, but the project manager is not satisfied with the usefulness of the responses. Which of the following could best explain the reason for unsatisfactory responses?

Your project has been set up with the project manager sharing responsibility with functional managers for acquiring and directing people to work on the project. You have found it difficult, in practice, to negotiate with the functional managers to ensure that your project has sufficient resources to complete the tasks required in a timely manner. Name the type of organizational structure within which you are operating.

Donald is currently leading his project team in the completion of the implementation phase of a project to upgrade a manufacturing plant with new equipment. Despite his efforts to influence spending decisions, he laments that the project may miss its defined deadline because he does not have control over the allocation and management of his project’s budget. In which of the following organizational structures is Donald working?

While implementing an approved change request, a conflict arises between two team members as to the optimal method to complete the activity defined. Having a detailed understanding of the technical aspects related to the change request, you have a distinct opinion as to the optimal method of completing the activity. The team members have come to you, each stating they are correct. You remember your sponsor advising you to behave like a leader and not a manager in difficult times. Which of the following approaches would be the least effective to utilize?

As an experienced employee with both operations and project management experience, you were engaged by your company to answer questions from new hires in a company townhall. One individual inquired as to if your roles in operations and project management differed greatly in focus, perspective, and daily activities. Which of the following best describes the characteristic of operations management?

There has been a debate raging over the role of the project manager in the organization. Some say that the project manager must be actively involved in project work, while others are proponents of a supervisory function. Which of the following do you think is the ideal role of the project manager?