Quiz: Best Practices
DueMar 3 at 11:59pm
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Score for this quiz:50out of 50
Submitted Mar 1 at 6:11pm
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Question 1
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The typical mechanism for evaluating teams are peer reviews by all team
members of themselves and all other team members. In some cases, peer
reviews of some stakeholders are included as well.
false
Question 2
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Evaluation of project team performance tends to be based on achieving
project objectives according to______.
ANSWER: All of these alternatives are correct.
Question 3
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Motivation can be the chief challenge when wrapping up closure activities.
ANSWER: true
Question 4
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Within which Maturity Model level are project audits performed on all
significant projects and lessons learned are recorded and used on
subsequent projects?
ANSWER: Management of Project Management System
Question 5
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In organizations where projects are managed within a functional
organization, the team member's area manager, not the project manager, is
responsible for assessing performance.
ANSWER:true
Question 6
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__________ of lessons learned are designed to improve performance on
current and future projects.
ANSWER:Retrospectives
Question 7
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Performance appraisals generally fulfill two functions. The first is to identify
individual strengths and weaknesses and to develop action plans for
improving performance. The second involves salary or merit adjustments.
Why should these two functions be addressed at different times?
ANSWER: Employees are so eager to learn about a potential raise that they
tend to tune out constructive feedback.
Question 8
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Which part of the audit report is designed to be the most useful on future
projects?
ANSWER: Lessons learned
Question 9
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Which of the following summarizes project performance and provides useful
information for continuous improvement?
ANSWER: The audit report
Question 10
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In organizations where projects are managed within a ____________, the team
member's area manager, not the project manager, is responsible for
assessing performance.
ANSWER: functional organization
Question 11
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In premature project closure, the project may be completed early with some
parts of the project eliminated.
ANSWER: true
Question 12
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The purpose of project evaluation is to assess how well
ANSWER: the project team, team members and project manager performed.
Question 13
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The purpose of all maturity models is to enable organizations to assess their
_____ in implementing the best practices in their industry and move to
_______.
ANSWER: progress, improvement
Question 14
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The retrospective facilitator should be able to deliver bad news to the project
sponsor or senior management without recriminations.
ANSWER: true
Question 15
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The typical mechanism for the evaluation of teams is normally
ANSWER: a survey completed by the team members.
Question 16
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The content of the audit report typically includes the following topics EXCEPT
ANSWER: team reviews.
Question 17
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Each retrospective is assigned a(n) _________, typically a team member who
is very interested in and familiar with the retrospective. This individual will
serve as the contact point for anyone needing information relating to the
retrospective.
ANSWER: owner
Question 18
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In retrospective methodology a facilitator uses several questionnaires to
conduct post-project audits. The facilitator acts as a guide who leads the
project team through an analysis of project activities. The facilitator must be
perceived as _____ and _____.
ANSWER: independent, unbiased
Question 19
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A project closure where the project is completed early with some parts of the
project eliminated would be classified as a failed project.
ANSWER: false
Question 20
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At what level of the Project Management maturity model is the project
information system fine-tuned; specific and aggregate information is
provided to different stakeholders?
ANSWER: Level 5
Question 21
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Implementing project closure includes getting delivery acceptance from the
customer.
ANSWER: true
Question 22
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The ________ section of the audit report includes concise and factual review
statements of the project, such as project scope objectives, quality
objectives, cost objectives, and schedule objectives.
ANSWER: analysis
Question 23
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Project managers should wait to give feedback to the project team and team
members until the project has been completed. Giving feedback throughout
the project can distract project teams.
ANSWER: false
Question 24
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Two views (perspectives) are collected when the audit questionnaires are
collected and two sets of questions are used for each view. What are those
two views?
ANSWER: Organization view and project team view
Question 25
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Armed with information gleaned from one-on-one sessions and other
sources, the facilitator __________.
ANSWER: leads a team retrospective session.
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