Engineering Project Management
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Engineering Project Management introduces students to the fundamental concepts, tools, and techniques used to effectively plan, execute, and oversee engineering projects. The course covers key topics such as project life cycles, scope development, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, resource allocation, and quality assurance. Students will also explore leadership and team dynamics, communication strategies, and ethical considerations unique to engineering projects. Through real-world case studies and practical assignments, learners gain hands-on experience in managing projects within scope, on time, and within budget, preparing them for successful roles in a variety of engineering industries.
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Contemporary Project Management 4th Edition by Timothy Kloppenborg
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management
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Q1) The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)published by the Project Management Institute identifies five process groups.Briefly identify and describe each of these five process groups.
Answer: Key concepts to be covered in the response include: A project management process group is a "logical grouping of the project management processes to achieve specific project objecitves" The five process groups defined in the PMBOK Guide are: Initiating: Define a project or new phase by obtaining authorization Planning: Establish the project scope,refine objectives,and define plans and actions to attain objectives. Executing: Complete the work defined to satisfy project specifications. Monitoring and controlling: Track,review and regulate progress and performance,identify changes required,and initiate changes. Closing: Formally complete or close project or phase.
Q2) In reality,many projects are fully successful in some ways,but less successful in others.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Project Selection and Prioritization
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Q1) Strategic analysis is an important first step in setting strategic direction.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Projects tend to be the primary method for implementing many objectives.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following statements best describes the contemporary use of financial models and scoring models for project selection?
A) These methods are often used together to ensure financial and non-financial factors are both considered.
B) Financial methods are preferred because they ensure alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
C) Scoring models are unreliable because they fail to consider financial factors.
D) One of these techniques is typically used to the exclusion of the other, due to time demands.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Chartering Projects
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Q1) The addition of acceptance criteria factors to the milestone schedule in a project charter helps the team understand who will judge the quality of the deliverable associated with each milestone,and _____.
A) that stakeholder's role on the team.
B) the risk associated with each milestone.
C) the penalties for not achieving the desired quality.
D) what criteria will be used for that determination.
Answer: D
Q2) The project charter serves as a formal legal contract between the project team and the project sponsor.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) During project charter creation there is typically a very general understanding of the project,so any budget included is approximate and should be called a preliminary budget with a corresponding confidence level for this estimate.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Organizational Capability: Structure, Culture and Roles
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Q1) Which of the following organizational structures is designed to achieve a balance of task focus and technical capability?
A) functional organization
B) projectized organization
C) matrix organization
D) siloed organization
Q2) All of the following are advantages associated with managing projects in a projectized organization EXCEPT:
A) One boss - the project manager
B) Response times and decision making are swift.
C) Departmental barriers are reduced.
D) Workers know they will still have a job when they finish work on a project.
Q3) Projectized organizations often adopt which of the following techniques where project team members are physically placed close to one another to improve communications and working relationships?
A) collaboration
B) co-location
C) coordination
D) consolidation
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Chapter 5: Leading and Managing Project Teams
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Q1) All of the following are among the activities a project manager should undertake to develop a highly effective team EXCEPT:
A) assess sponsor capability
B) assess project team capability
C) establish team ground rules (team charter)
D) assess individual member capability
Q2) The "relationship" topics within team ground rules,such as "discuss openly and protect confidentiality" and "avoid misunderstandings",should eliminate the need for the team to address how to handle conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Describe the beneficial and destructive aspects of conflict on a project and identify at least three out of the six steps in the conflict resolution process that a project manager can use.
Q4) All of the following are among the steps of the negotiation process EXCEPT:
A) clarify both parties' interests
B) work toward a common goal
C) use "good cop / bad cop" technique
D) clarify and confirm agreements
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Chapter 6: Stakeholder Analysis and Communication Planning
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Q1) One common feature of agile projects is the "walk-around meeting".
A)True
B)False
Q2) The sponsor,project manager and team can establish powerful relationships with key stakeholders.This starts with an understanding of what motivates each stakeholder,which can be summarized by the old saying ______:
A) the early bird catches the worm.
B) what gets planned gets done.
C) you get what you pay for.
D) what's in it for me?
Q3) Stakeholders include people who have their routines disrupted by the project. A)True
B)False
Q4) A stakeholder is anyone who will use,will be affected by or could impact the project. A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the importance of project communications,and the essential factors to be considered when creating a project communications plan.
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Chapter 7: Scope Planning
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Q1) The priority of the product in agile is more significant than in traditional project management,as the outcome,or product,will drive the elaboration of the project.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following items best describes a project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
A) an organizational chart depicting who will perform project work
B) a schedule depicting when project work will be performed
C) a tool that the team uses to progressively divide deliverables into smaller and smaller pieces
D) a list of activities to complete the project work packages
Q3) The project scope is the work that must be performed to deliver a product,service or result with the required features and functions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Plan scope management is the process of creating a project scope statement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Scheduling Projects
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Q1) The critical path is the sequence of schedule activities determining the duration of the project,and is generally the shortest path through the project.
A)True
B)False
Q2) GANTT refers to the Generalized Activity Network Tracking Technique which was developed to better understand how variability in the duration of individual activities impacts the expected project duration.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Consider the Research Project depicted in Figure 7-2.Based on the information provided,what is the slack associated with activity C - "Review Reports"?
A) 0 days
B) 1 day
C) 2 days
D) 4 days
Q4) Describe free float and how you can use it to your advantage in scheduling and managing a project.
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Chapter 9: Resourcing Projects
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Q1) Project managers must often face the challenge of compressing the project schedule.All of the following actions can be taken to reduce the duration of the critical path EXCEPT:
A) Reduce the project scope and /or quality.
B) Overlap sequential activities using finish-to-finish, start-to-start, or start-to-finish relationships.
C) Use the float in critical path activities
D) Partially overlap sequential activities by using time leads.
Q2) Describe how crashing and fast tracking can be used to compress a project schedule.What limitations could there be with each of these methods?
Q3) Consider the programmers resource histogram presented in Figure 8-3.Which activity is an ideal candidate to delay in order to achieve a feasible schedule?
A) Activity A - Define Requirements
B) Activity B - Design Application
C) Activity C - Draft User Manual
D) Activity F - Correct Defects
Q4) What should a project manager's considerations be when resourcing projects?
Q5) What methods could a project manager use to resolve resource overloads?
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Chapter 10: Budgeting Projects
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Q1) There are many causes of variation in project costs.Which of the following accurately describes the nature of this variation?
A) Variation is generally greater on projects that use well-known technology and an experienced project team.
B) Variation occurs in all work processes and the novelty associated with most projects creates many opportunities for variation.
C) Special cause variation comes from many small causes that are inherent in a work process.
D) Normal cause variation is when something out of the ordinary occurs
Q2) Costs that repeat as project work continues such as the cost of writing code or laying bricks are appropriately classified as:
A) fixed costs.
B) indirect costs.
C) nonrecurring costs.
D) recurring costs
Q3) Describe analogous,parametric and bottom-up estimating,and briefly discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
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Chapter 11: Project Risk Planning
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Q1) Project managers can identify risks by learning and understanding the cause and effect relationships that bear on risk events.All of the following approaches rely upon an understanding of cause and effect relationships to identify risks EXCEPT:
A) develop a flow chart that shows how people, materials or data flow from one person or location to another
B) conduct a root cause analysis
C) understand trigger conditions, or circumstances under which a risk strategy or risk action will be invoked
D) perform a Monte Carlo analysis
Q2) The risk register is a component of the project management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed on a project.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify five common project risk strategies employed to address threats that your project may face.Give an example of each.
Q4) Identify and describe three risk identification techniques.What are some of the benefits of each technique?
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Chapter 12: Project Quality Planning and Project Kick-Off
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Q1) Project quality is defined as the characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) W.Edwards Deming argued that managers must understand cause and effect relationships to predict future behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Four aspects of empowered performance are understanding variation,deciding what to measure,working correctly with data,and using the resulting information appropriately.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Just as total quality dramatically changed general management in the 1990s,agile is dramatically changing project management in the 2010s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Project Supply Chain Management
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Q1) Project partnerships can be advantageous to both the client and the vendor,in terms of improved project execution,flexibility,and reduced bid administration.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Project partnerships offer which of the following advantages to both clients and vendors?
A) Ability to explore new technologies
B) Potential of lower cost for client
C) More effectively managed risks
D) Opportunity for vendor to prove themselves
Q3) Which party to a contract absorbs the majority of cost risk when a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP)contract is used?
A) the seller
B) the buyer
C) the cost risk is equally shared.
D) the insurer
Q4) According to the PMBOK Guide,the Project Procurement Management knowledge area includes three processes.Identify and briefly describe each of these processes.
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Chapter 14: Determining Project Progress and Results
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Q1) Consider the project performance report presented in figure 14.1.As a project manager,these results should lead you to...
A) take actions to understand and remedy the schedule performance on the active avionics work packages.
B) take actions to understand and resolve budgetary overruns on the active communications work packages.
C) take actions to understand and remedy the schedule performance on the active training work packages.
D) notify the project owner that you will not require all of the funding currently budgeted for this project.
Q2) Quality control charts are helpful in answering the question "how big of a change is big enough to count?"
A)True
B)False
Q3) The control quality process deals with using correct policies and convincing stakeholders that the project team is capable of producing good output.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Finishing the Project and Realizing the Benefits
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Q1) When a contract is terminated for convenience,the contractor must complete all deliverables in process and submit the completed deliverables to the buyer.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Closure of a project generally entails all of the following activities EXCEPT:
A) ensuring all work has been accomplished
B) ensuring all resources have been reassigned
C) ensuring all documentation is complete
D) updating the project management plan
Q3) Lessons learned can include significant project successes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) All of the following reasons might lead to a contract termination for default EXCEPT:
A) problems associated with the project schedule
B) changing customer priorities
C) a loss of confidence in the contractor performing the project
D) problems associated with the project cost
Q5) What is "validate scope" and why is it important to the project?
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