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Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Projects in Contemporary Organizations
Term | Definition |
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Project management today is: | a flexible method for managing large or small endeavors. |
What are the three primary objectives of projects? | Stay within budget, within time constraints, within scope |
The two primary tasks of the Project Manager are what? | Managing tradeoffs and anticipating and addressing risks to the project. |
A universal characteristic of all projects is that projects are: | unique |
If the primary goal of a project is to produce 10 new widget designs, what might be an important ancillary goal? | Determine skill & creativity level of the design department. |
What is a "quasi-project"? | A situation in which all of the three primary project objectives are ill-defined. |
Most of the credit for developing project management techniques belongs to: | the military. |
Actual experience with PM indicates that _________ organizations using it claim to experience better customer relations and increase in their ROI. | a majority of... |
A common negative aspect of implementing PM is __________ | greater organizational complexity. |
Project management has resulted in an overall ____. | decline in the use of traditional hierarchical management. |
The largest amount of effort applied to a project is during the ________ phase. | planning, scheduling, monitoring, and control |