Project Management

Project Management, 2e (Pinto)
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Project Management?

1.1 True/False

1) Projects, rather than repetitive tasks, are now the basis for most value-added in business.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Section: 1.0 Introduction
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective

2) Projects have a process orientation.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.1 What Is a Project?Skill: Definition
AACSB Tag: Reflective

3) A typical project stays within functional and organizational boundaries.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.1 What Is a Project?
Skill: Definition
AACSB Tag: Reflective

4) The special nature of projects relieves project managers from their routine of planning, organizing, motivating, directing, and controlling.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2Section: 1.1 What Is a Project?
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective

5) A project exists outside of the standard line organization.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.1 What Is a Project?
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective


6) The initial goal and technical specifications of the project are developed during the planning stage.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.3 Project LifeCycles
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective
7) Client interest in a project is highest during the termination and conceptual phases.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.3 Project Life Cycles
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective

8) The classic triple constraint standard for project performance is composed of time, cost, and client acceptance.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.4Determinants of Project Success
Skill: Definition
AACSB Tag: Reflective

9) The business success dimension of project success determines whether the project achieved significant commercial success.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.4 Determinants of Project Success
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective

10) The Atkinson model for assessing project success gathers input from all of theproject's stakeholders.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.4 Determinants of Project Success
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective

11) The use of benchmarking allows companies that are relatively immature at project management to achieve quantum leaps of improvement.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.5 Developing Project Management Maturity
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective12) Most effective project maturity models chart both a set of standards that are currently accepted as state-of-the-art as well as a process for achieving significant movement towards these benchmarks.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.5 Developing Project Management Maturity
Skill: Factual
AACSB Tag: Reflective
13) Acme uses no recognizable project management processes and hasentertaining project meetings because each member has a unique way of reporting progress or lack thereof. Acme is most likely at the moderate level in the generic project management maturity model.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.5 Developing Project Management Maturity
Skill: Conceptual
AACSB Tag: Reflective

14) Any organization, no matter how initially unskilled in project management,can begin to chart a course toward the type of project organization they wish to become.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.5 Developing Project Management Maturity
Skill: Definition
AACSB Tag: Reflective

15) A company's culture has little impact on whether projects are successfully implemented.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 2
Section: 1.6 Project Elements and Text Organization
Skill:Conceptual
AACSB Tag: Reflective

1.2 Fill in the Blank

1) A __________ refers to ongoing, day-to-day activities in which an organization engages while producing goods and services.
Answer: process
Diff: 1
Section: 1.1 What Is a Project?
Skill: Definition
AACSB Tag: Reflective


2) The goals of a project are sometimes called __________.
Answer: deliverables
Diff: 1
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