Healthcare Project Management Review
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Course Introduction
Healthcare Project Management focuses on the principles, methodologies, and tools necessary to plan, execute, and evaluate projects within the healthcare sector. Students will explore the unique challenges of managing projects in environments such as hospitals, clinics, and public health organizations, where regulatory compliance, patient safety, and interdisciplinary coordination are crucial. Key topics include project life cycles, stakeholder analysis, risk management, budgeting, scheduling, and performance measurement, all tailored to the complexities of healthcare delivery. Through case studies and applied exercises, students will develop the skills needed to lead successful projects that improve healthcare quality, efficiency, and patient outcomes.
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Contemporary Project Management 2nd Edition by Timothy J. Kloppenborg
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management
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Q1) Which of the nine knowledge areas defined in the Project Management Body of Knowledge includes the activities of generating,collecting,distributing,storing,retrieving and disposing of timely and appropriate project information?
A) Scope management
B) Quality management
C) Communications management
D) Procurement management
Answer: C
Q2) The project manager is normally directly accountable for the project results,schedule and budget.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Project managers frequently face competing constraints. Identify these common constraints and describe approaches that project managers can use to make the trade-offs required to succeed.
Answer: Answer will vary
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Chapter 2: Project Selection and Prioritization
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Q1) The organization's leadership should establish guiding principles such as the vision and mission for an organization before developing the strategic objectives.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) None of the financial project selection models ensure alignment of the project with an organization's strategic goals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Strategic objectives should focus decisions regarding which projects to select and how to prioritize them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Strategic analysis is an important first step in setting strategic direction.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Organizational Capability: Structure,Culture and
Roles
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Q1) In a projectized organization staff members are grouped by areas of specialization. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In "role cultures" reliable workers have the utmost respect for regulations and laws.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) When the project sponsor and manager are determining how to create the project culture,it is important to make the project culture as ethical as possible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Chartering Projects
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Q1) The scope overview and business case sections of the project charter provide the high-level "what and why" of the project.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The milestone schedule in the project charter:
A) is a very detailed schedule that informs team members when to start every activity in the project.
B) is a very detailed schedule that identifies the planned duration for every activity in the project.
C) is a summary-level schedule that identifies significant points or events in the project. D) is a summary-level schedule that identifies key precedence relationships between major milestones.
Q3) As a project manager you elect to involve your core team members in the preparation of the project charter. Describe the advantages of adopting this approach.
Q4) Describe and contrast the roles played by the project sponsor and the project manager with respect to the preparation of the project charter.
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Chapter 5: Stakeholder Analysis and Communication Planning
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Q1) While expensive,it is often advisable for virtual team members who live across the globe to meet face-to-face at least once,especially early in the project.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Establishing a positive relationship early with all key stakeholders is vital because it serves as the communication foundation for the project.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A project management plan is a formal document that defines how the project will be initiated and planned.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Project management plans generally include all of the following elements EXCEPT: A) schedules and budgets
B) business case
C) risks and quality considerations
D) communications
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Chapter 6: Defining Scope and Constructing Work
Breakdown Structures (WBS)
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Q1) Scope planning is the process of creating a project scope statement. A)True
B)False
Q2) A thorough scope definition process will often yield multiple project deliverables including intermediate project deliverables due before the project is complete.
A)True
B)False
Q3) For each component in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS),the WBS dictionary includes all the following fields that will be progressively elaborated EXCEPT:
A) a brief scope description
B) name of team member(s) that will be responsible for creating the deliverables
C) a list of associated activities
D) defined deliverables
Q4) Define Scope is the process of developing:
A) a project scope management plan.
B) a detailed description of the project and product.
C) a project work breakdown structure.
D) a project scope network diagram
Q5) Identify and describe the six steps of the scope definition process.
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Chapter 7: Scheduling Activities
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Q1) Faced with significant schedule challenges,the project manager has several responsibilities. All of the following are among the project manager's responsibilities EXCEPT:
A) willingly accept end dates dictated by customers or sponsors B) persuade all stakeholders that the schedule makes sense
C) deliver the project according to the agreed-upon schedule D) determine a feasible schedule
Q2) Consider the Research Project depicted in Figure 7-2. Based on the information provided,what is the late start date for activity A - "Plan Research"?
A) Day 0
B) Day 2
C) Day 4
D) Day 10
Q3) Consider the Assembly Project depicted in Figure 7-1. Based on the information provided,what is the early start date for activity D - "Attach Modules 1 & 2"?
A) Day 0
B) Day 3
C) Day 4
D) Day 5
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Chapter 8: Resourcing Projects
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Q1) Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)was developed to address several problems that are common in organizations that use traditional project scheduling. Which of the following describes a common problem addressed by CCPM?
A) Many team members render overly optimistic estimates of the time it will take them to complete project activities.
B) Many team members work solely on a single task until it is complete - impeding work on other related activities.
C) Many team members tend to use all of the time available for an activity rather than completing it early.
D) Many team members work best when multi-tasking
Q2) Consider the project crashing information presented in Figure 8-4. What is the total cost to complete this project in 7 days if crashed in the most cost efficient manner?
A) $ 180
B) $ 220
C) $ 240
D) $ 270
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Chapter 9: Budgeting Projects
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Q1) Typically,expedited costs are preferred over regular costs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the most common cost elements to be included in a project cost estimate.
Q3) Activity based costing allocates indirect costs based on different types of cost drivers. Which of the following cost drivers serve as a basis of allocation when activity based costing is used?
A) number of units produced
B) direct labor hours
C) direct material costs
D) direct equipment costs
Q4) Estimates of the likely amount a project will cost should always include an indication of accuracy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the general approach you would employ to develop a time-phased budget for a project.
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Chapter 10: Project Risk Planning
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Q1) The process of deciding how to approach,plan and execute risk management activities for a project is known as Project Risk Absorption Methodology (PRAM).
A)True
B)False
Q2) Project teams can often identify risks by conducting any of several types of reviews.
Which of the following illustrates a valuable type of risk review?
A) review the project schedule to determine if certain people are overloaded
B) review previous projects to verify that each current assumption is correct
C) review the communication plan to determine where poor communications could cause a problem
D) review of sunk costs to determine project continuance
Q3) Which of the following activities illustrates a risk response strategy designed to mitigate a threat?
A) adopt a fixed price type contract
B) train a team member to cover for a potentially unavailable key resource
C) change the project plan or scope
D) develop change control procedures
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Chapter 11: Project Quality Planning and Project Kick: off
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Q1) The four core project quality concepts include which of the following?
A) assumption-based management
B) stakeholder satisfaction
C) benchmarking
D) Earned Value management
Q2) The project manager is responsible for selecting appropriate quality standards for the project. Typically,these standards apply to all of the following EXCEPT:
A) team selection criteria
B) documentation created during the project
C) deliverables created by the project
D) materials and related inputs used by the project
Q3) The quality policy on a specific project should defer the quality policies of the parent organization when major customer needs and policies create a conflict.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Deming,Juran,Crosby and Taguchi are among the thought leaders who introduced ideas that fueled the quality revolution. Briefly identify and describe important ideas and concepts that each of these thought leaders contributed.
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Chapter 12: Project Supply Chain Management
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Q1) Project partnerships offer all of the following advantages to vendors EXCEPT:
A) there is a more dependable stream of work
B) the expected outcome is more clearly stated
C) the buyer gains at the vendor's expense
D) greater potential profit
Q2) Effective project partnerships generally require shared responsibilities,shared resources,shared information,shared rights and shared risks between suppliers and customers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Often a project team will start the selection process by establishing a list of potential suppliers. All of the following information sources are frequently used to identify these potential suppliers EXCEPT:
A) supplier catalogs
B) phone directories
C) stakeholder register
D) trade journals
Q4) Compare and contrast traditional project procurement management with the more contemporary approach - project partnering. What are the advantages associated with project partnering?
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Chapter 13: Leading and Managing Project Teams
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Q1) When a decision needs to be made quickly or requires significant authority it is often useful to delegate the decision to one or two team members.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Frequently,project managers lack legitimate power based upon position and instead resort to persuading others based upon personal relationships. This type of power is known as:
A) coercive power
B) referent power
C) connection power
D) positional power
Q3) All of the following are advantages associated with assigning both core team members and subject matter experts to the project as soon as possible EXCEPT:
A) implementers are more motivated when they help create the plan
B) early assignment of resources saves the project money
C) early assignment helps ensure team members are available when needed
D) plans are more realistic when implementers are involved in the planning
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Chapter 14: Determining Project Progress and Results
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Q1) Detailed project progress should be reported to stakeholders and clients frequentlytypically on a daily basis.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When discrepancies are identified during a project quality audit,the presumption must be that workers failed to comply with procedures and should be reprimanded accordingly.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Project managers interested in controlling quality on projects will often concentrate upon project inputs. Which of the following are important considerations for the project managers concentrating on inputs to ensure project quality?
A) ensure the workers assigned are capable of doing their work
B) ensure that rework is kept to a minimum
C) ensure that internal and external inspections are conducted
D) ensure that all outsourced deliverables are validated
Q4) Identify a business process that is often critical to project success. Now describe the approach you would employ to improve the business process you identified.
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Chapter 15: Finishing the Project
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Q1) The process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables is known as:
A) product acceptance.
B) system turnover.
C) verify scope
D) control scope
Q2) Some project sponsors will only approve a project charter if it includes and reflects lessons learned from other recently completed projects.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When a contract is terminated for convenience,the contractor is typically reimbursed for the money spent up to that point in time and must complete all deliverables in process and submit the completed deliverables to the buyer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Lessons learned are often based on significant project successes.
A)True
B)False
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