Week 3 Assignment

1. You are the project manager for a pharmaceutical company. You are currently working on a project for a new drug your company is creating. A recent change in a law governing drug testing will impact your project and change your project scope. The first thing you should do as project manager is:

A. Create a documented change request.

B. Proceed as planned since the project will be grandfathered beyond the new change in the law.

C. Consult with the project stakeholders.

D. Stop all project work until the issue is resolved.

A. Change requests should first be documented in the project’s change control system. B is incorrect because the new law will require changes to the project. C is incorrect because it may be inappropriate to consult with the project stakeholders, especially on a large project. D is incorrect because we do not know the impact of the change, and it may not justify halting the project work.

5. Robert is the project manager of the HBQ Project. This project requires all of the telephones in the organization to be removed and replaced with an Internet phone. He’s learned that the removal of some of the phones has damaged the walls in the office building and they will need to be repaired. This project has a deadline and little time for repairing errors that weren’t anticipated. Based on this information, which one of the following is the best example of defect repair review?

A. Adding labor to a project to reduce errors during the installation of hardware

B. Retraining the project team on how to install a new material so that all future work with the new materials is done correctly

C. Repairing an incorrectly installed door in a new home construction project D. Inspecting work that has been corrected because it was done incorrectly the first time

D. Defect repair review is a review of the defect repair. Even though the project may be on a deadline, Robert’s project team will still need to repair the walls and confirm the repair is acceptable. A is an example of a preventive action.

B is an example of a corrective action. C is an example of defect repair.

4. Marty is the project manager of the Highway 41 Bridge Project and he’s working with his project team members to create the WBS. Marty shows the team how to break down the project scope into the WBS components, but the team doesn’t understand how far down the breakdown should occur. Marty should call the lowest-level item in a WBS what?

A. A deliverable

B. A work package

C. An activity

D. A leaf object B. The smallest item in the WBS is called the work package. A, deliverables, may be true to a degree, but B is a more precise answer.

C is incorrect because activities are found in the activity list. D is an invalid WBS term.