It is the middle of the project when the project manager is informed by her scheduler that the project control limits are secure. That same morning she receives a note from a team member about a problem he is having. The note says, "This activity is driving me crazy and the manager of the accounting department won't help me until the activity's float is in jeopardy." In addition, the project manager has e-mails from a minor stakeholder and 14 e-mails from team members. While she is reading the e-mails, a team member walks into the project manager's office to tell her a corrective action was implemented by a team member from the project management office, but was not documented. What should the project manager do NEXT?
A. Report the documentation violation to the project management office, evaluate the security of the control limits, and review the e-mailing rules in the communications management plan
B. Clarify the reasoning behind documentation being a problem, get the accounting department to assist the team member, and respond to the minor stakeholder
C. Add the implemented corrective action to the historical records, discuss the value of documentation at the next team meeting, and smooth the team member with the accounting department problem
D. Find out who caused the problem with the accounting department, respond to the minor stakeholder before responding to the other e-mails, and review the process listed in the communications management plan for reporting concerns with the team member having the documentation problem
Answer C
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Integration Management Questions
- The output of Direct and Manage Project Execution process is
- When changes are approved and made to the project, they should be:
- Change control meetings are held as part of which process:
- If you are creating a single document to guide project execution, monitoring and control and closure, you are creating:
- The person or group responsible for evaluating change on ap roject is:
- Approved corrective action is an input to
- You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on ____ during planning in order to improve your chance of success.
- A project is plagued by changes to the project charter. Who has the primary responsibility to decide if these changes are necessary?
- You are in the middle of executing a major modification to an existing product when you learn that the resources promised in the beginning of the project are not available. The BEST thing to do is:
- A defect in the product was brought to the project manager's attention and now the project team is engaged in repairing it. Which project management process would be the most applicable to this?
- The project management information system would likely include all of the following EXCEPT:
- The project charter is:
- You are meeting with a new Project Manager who has taken over a project that is in the middle of executing. The previous project manager has left the company and the new project manager is upset that the change reports are streaming in from numerous sources including his boss, the customer and various stakeholders. The project manager is not even aware of how to process all of these incoming change requests. Where would you refer him?
- Project Management Plan Updates are NOT an output of:
- Producing a Project Plan may BEST be described as:
- Your company can accept one of the three posible projects. Project A has a net present value (NPV) of $30,000 and will take six years to complete. Project B has a net present value of $60,000 and will take three years to complete. Project C has an NPV of $90,000 and will take four years to complete. Based on this information, which project would you pick?
- All technical work is completed on the project. Which of the following remains to be done?
- Your existing project has a cost performance index (CPI) of 1.2 and a schedule performance index (SPI) of 1.3, so you have some room to add work without delaying your existing project or going over budget. However, you cannot see how the new work fits within the project charter for your existing project. After some analysis, you determine that the new work and existing work do not overlap and can be done concurrently. They also require different skill sets. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?
- You have created the project charter, but could not get it approved. Your manager and his boss have asked that the project begins immediately. Which of the following is the BEST thing to do?
- Linear programming is an example of what type of project selection criteria?
- A project manager is trying to convince management to use more formal project management procedures and has decided to start improving the company's project management by obtaining a project charter. Wich of the following BEST describes why the project charter would help the project manager?
- Which of the following is included in a project charter?
- All of the following would occur during the Close Project or phase process EXCEPT:
- An output of the Close Project or Phase process is the creation of:
- Project A has an internal rate of return (IRR) of 21 percent.