QA

Question 1 : Project Management Basics

a) What is a project?

b) What is project management?

c) What are 5 skills that are often necessary for project managers? Explain.

d) How does project management differ from operations management?

e) Give 3 examples of projects you have worked on (at work, at home, etc.); explain.

f) Give 3 examples of projects you have managed; explain and discuss which of the 5 skills you identified in number “c” above you used as you managed these projects.

Question 2 : Project Scheduling

Below are 8 stages of a hypothetical system upgrade project.

Stage	Direct predecessor	Duration
1. Stakeholder buy-in		30 days
2. Define requirements	1	10 days
3. Define scope, schedule, goals, objectives	1	20 days
4. Team formation	2,3	30 days
5. Development	4	90 days
6. Testing	5	45 days
7. Maintenance	5	180 days
8. Closeout	7	5 days

a) What is the critical path for this project?

b) What is the earliest possible completion time?

c) What are the potential repercussions of incorrectly estimating the duration of stages?

d) Create a WBS for this project.

e) Create a Gantt chart for this project.

Question 3 : Project Team Dynamics

Compare the following terms as they relate to IT projects. Give a practical example of each terms to illustrate the criteria for each definition. Be sure to indicate how each term differs from the others.

a) Goals

b) Requirements

c) Deliverables

Question 4:

People play a very important role in all types of projects.

a) Identify and describe each phase of some type of IT project.

b) Identify the various people and the role they play in each of the phases.

c) Identify and discuss the skills project managers need to manage the people associated with the project you described?