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Jack Jones the project manager of the Electricity Cost Reduction project remarks to one
of his peers that his project has 300 communications channels. She replies, "Wow that's
a lot of communications channels, how many people are you dealing with 150?" Jack
says nowhere near that, communications channels grow exponentially, actually there
are... - ✔✔
A member of a project team tells the project manager that he is not sure which of the
many projects he is working on is most important and since he is assigned to help on
several projects, he's not sure which one should receive his priority if there is a time
conflict. Who should determine priorities among multiple projects? - ✔✔PMO
A project manager is approached by a member of senior management and informed
that a resource that is essential to the project needs to be moved to a different project
because the other project needs that person's skillset. How should the project manager
react? - ✔✔escalate the resource requirement to the program manager
It is important to have scheduled status meeting to keep the project on track. Many
people don't like going to meeting because their schedule is so crammed, and they try
to avoid meetings whenever possible. Sometimes it makes sense to cancel a meeting,
other times it doesn't, of the following scenarios, which one is not a good reason to
cancel a meeting - ✔✔
Jan Plotte, of the PMO is giving an orientation presentation to the new group of summer
interns at her organization. One of the topics she is covering is project reporting
requirements. She tells the interns that each project is expected to provide forecast
reports on a monthly basis to the PMO, these reports... - ✔✔
Two project managers are discussing the challenges they face in bringing their project
in on time, on budget, and in scope. One of them says, the hardest part of managing a
,project is dealing with the conflicts between team members, both among themselves,
and with stakeholders. The other project manager notes that good communications are
essential in conflict resolution because... - ✔✔
Two project managers are discussing communications management. During this
discussion, one project manager points out that communication management tends to
focus on the infrastructure used to get timely and accurate project communications to
the right people. She emphasizes this point by noting that the following is a tool and
technique of the Manage Communications process - ✔✔
The project is approximately 80% complete, and Mary Stokes, the project manager is
communicating with stakeholders regarding the status of the project. What will provide
guidance to her in determining which stakeholder gets which reports? - ✔✔
Gulfport Manufacturing has created a project to determine the best course of action to
take in response to the regulatory requirements that have been recently enacted by the
state legislature for its industry. The company has three plants located in the state, two
of which were built 20+ years ago, and will likely not be cost effective to modernize. The
CEO has warned that this project will succeed or fail as a result of effective
communications. During the plan communications management process, the project
manager and his team will rely on two key inputs, specifically... - ✔✔
Bill Neison is the project manager of the Retail Rebranding project. The production of
the rebranding new interior furniture is being outsourced to an offshore furniture
company that specializes in the furniture design required. There have been a number of
communication challenges with many requirements being misinterpreted and on time
delivery of furniture to the stores as the rollout has proceeded. What communication
dimension should be employed to minimize these problems? - ✔✔
Jan Plotte, of the PMO is giving an orientation presentation to the new group of summer
interns at her organization. One of the topics she is covering is project reporting
requirements. She tells the interns that each project is expected to provide variance
reports on a monthly basis to the PMO, these reports... - ✔✔
Jack Jones the project manager of the Electricity Cost Reduction project remarks to one
of his peers that his project has a team of 50 persons and 12 major stakeholders, and
, that his sponsor just called him to let him know that 4 more major stakeholders have
been identified. How many communications channels have been added? - ✔✔
Jan Plotte, of the PMO is giving an orientation presentation to the new group of summer
interns at her organization. One of the topics she is covering is project reporting
requirements. She tells the interns that each project is expected to provide Earned
Value reports on a monthly basis to the PMO, these reports... - ✔✔
June Clever is explaining communications requirements to her new assistant. She
points out that determining communications requirements are an essential to successful
project communications. While discussing the communications requirements, she points
out that all the following are important to communications, except... - ✔✔
Tom Eidlemen has recently been promoted to a project manger position. In order to
increase communications among the team members and stakeholders, he has
scheduled a number of meetings. The meetings have been unorganized, chaotic, and
lacking direction. He asks Marge Sampson, a seasoned project manager, if she has any
suggestions to help his meetings be more effective. She suggests... - ✔✔
Bill Alderman and Stacey Black are discussing the communications model. Stacy points
out that a more simplistic version of the model would have a sender encode a message
and encapsulate it in a medium, the receiver would then decode the message, and
hopefully provide feedback. Bill asks for some examples of mediums, Stacy replies
mediums are the format used to convey the message and all the following could be
considered mediums except... - ✔✔
Jan Plotte, of the PMO is giving an orientation presentation to the new group of summer
interns at her organization. One of the topics she is covering is project communications
requirements. She tells the interns that effective communications are imperative if a
project is to be successful, that in reality project managers spend... - ✔✔
Bill Alderman and Stacey Black are discussing the communications model. Stacy points
out that a more simplistic version of the model would have a sender encode a message
and encapsulate it in a medium, the receiver would then decode the message, and
hopefully provide feedback. Bill states that he is not sure why there's such an emphasis
on feedback, Stacy replies feedback is important because... - ✔✔