Project Management: Why Adding People Can Make You Later
How projects really run: life cycles and teams, work breakdown, the critical path, PERT, resources, crashing, earned value, risk and agile methods.
Project Management · 50 questions
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1. When in a project's life cycle are changes cheapest to make?
- Late, during execution and testing
- Equally cheap at every phase
- Early, during definition and planning
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Answer: Early, during definition and planning
Early on, a change is a revision on paper; later it means redoing finished work, so costs climb steeply.
2. In a matrix organization, project team members typically report to whom?
- Only the project manager
- Only the client's representative
- Both a project and a functional manager
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Answer: Both a project and a functional manager
Matrix structures share people between projects and departments, creating two lines of authority.
3. In a projectized, or pure project, organization, who holds most of the authority?
- Functional department heads
- The finance department
- The project manager
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Answer: The project manager
Teams are organized around projects, so the project manager controls staff and budget directly.
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