Organizational Leadership and Project Management
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Course Introduction
This course explores the principles and practices of effective organizational leadership and project management within diverse professional settings. Students will examine the roles and responsibilities of leaders in guiding teams, driving organizational change, creating strategic vision, and establishing a positive work culture. The course covers essential project management methodologies, including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, while emphasizing risk management, resource allocation, and stakeholder communication. Through case studies and practical applications, learners will develop the skills required to successfully lead projects, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and achieve organizational goals in dynamic and complex environments.
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Project Management in Practice 5th Edition by
Jack R. Meredith
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Chapter 1: The World of Project Management
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Q1) A PM does not need to understand why a project is selected for funding because he did not initiate the process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Explain what the third alternative is in negotiation.
Answer: Not Answered
Q3) The comparative benefits method is considered a nonnumeric project selection method.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) A disadvantage of using scoring models rather than financial models for selecting projects is that they cannot include the project's profitability.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) Briefly describe the two different life cycles of projects.
Answer: Not Answered
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Chapter 2: The Manager, the Organization, and the Team
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Q1) Integration management and parallel tasking are fundamentally concerned with coordinating the flow of information.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Explain the importance of credibility and why PM's need it.
Answer: Not Answered
Q3) Briefly describe and contrast pure project organization, functional project organization, and the matrix project organization.
Answer: Not Answered
Q4) When making trade-offs on a project, the project manager needs to be aware that profit for the firm is always the most important of the project's goals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q5) It is said that the distinction between the traditional manager-as-supervisor and the modern manager-as-facilitator is diminishing in recent years. Why?
Answer: Not Answered
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Chapter 3: Planning the Project
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Q1) When planning, it is best for the project manager to breakdown and define the different levels of the project plan.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) While the design structure matrix can help identify potential rework situations, typically nothing can be done to avoid them.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) A representative of senior management should be invited to the project launch meeting.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) Predecessors must be listed in the WBS because they are critical for scheduling.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Budgeting the Project
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Q1) What are the key elements of contingency planning?
Q2) A problem with bottom-up budgeting is:
A) individual team members overstate their budget needs
B) lack of involvement from the project team
C) underestimating the project task's budget requirements
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
Q3) The project's budget is merely the sum of its resource costs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Budget cuts are usually disastrous to an exponential life-cycle project.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly contrast the three different perspectives cost can be viewed from.
Q6) The best approach to handling change in projects is to accept the negative change and take a loss on the project.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Explain how you would use the shape of a project's life cycle to resolve budget conflicts between a superior and subordinate.
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Chapter 5: Scheduling the Project
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Q1) The actual project duration will be known with certainty after the project is completed.
A)True B)False
Q2) Technical dependencies are generally easier to see on a Gantt chart than on PERT/CPM networks.
A)True B)False
Q3) AON and AOA networks can both be used to depict any project network. A)True B)False
Q4) A project schedule is a project action plan converted into a timetable. A)True B)False
Q5) Milestones cannot be identified on a Gantt Chart. A)True B)False
Q6) The difference between LST and LFT is called slack. A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Allocating Resources to the Project
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Q1) A task has a normal duration of 9 days and a crash duration of 7 days. Its normal cost is $40 and its crash cost is $100. What is the crash cost per day?
A) $140
B) $70
C) $50
D) $40
E) $30
Q2) Briefly overview Goldratt's common chain of events.
Q3) If resources were not scarce, the resource allocation problem would be concerned solely with cost minimization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The task duration with standard-practice resource usage is referred to as the A) expected task duration
B) nominal task duration
C) crash duration
D) normal task duration
E) planned task duration
Q5) What is the effect of not reporting the early completion of project activities?
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Chapter 7: Monitoring and Controlling the Project
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Q1) Explain why virtual projects may be necessary?
Q2) The most important use of data gathered from monitoring is learning from mistakes. A)True
B)False
Q3) When a PM updates a project all of the following should be updated except:
A) Tables
B) Charts
C) Action plans
D) All of the above should be updated
E) None of the above should be updated
Q4) A common mistake is to focus too much on results and not enough on the intensity of activity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the two primary purposes of control?
Q6) To maximize efficiency, project team meetings should follow Robert's Rules of Order.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Evaluating and Terminating the Project
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Q1) Which of the following is not a main duty of the termination manager?
A) Oversee the closing of the project's books
B) Complete the project final report
C) Ascertain any product support requirements
D) Ensure completion of work
E) Ensure that documentation is complete
Q2) List several key items to consider for project evaluation report recommendations.
Q3) The timing of an audit depends on the purpose of the audit.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Poor up-front planning is a fundamental reason for project failure.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the steps in a project audit?
Q6) The project final report is a history of the project.
A)True
B)False
Q7) What kind of measurement models can we a PM use to measure the projects performance against a planned budget?
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