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What is the primary purpose of a project manager in project monitoring and control?
What type of review takes place during the implementation phase?
How often do team members report their progress to the project manager?
What is the primary purpose of a daily stand-up meeting?
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What is a risk in the context of project management?
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What is the first step in risk management?
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What is the purpose of a risk management plan?
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How long do daily stand-up meetings typically last?
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Study Notes
Project Management
- A project manager is responsible for overseeing all relevant tasks in a large-scale IT project.
- Project management includes planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling, and reporting on information system development.
Project Constraints
- A successful project must be completed on time, within budget, and deliver a quality product that satisfies users and meets requirements.
- The project triangle consists of cost, scope, and time, and finding the optimal balance among these factors is a challenge.
Planning
- Planning involves identifying all project tasks, estimating the completion time and cost of each task, and creating a specific timetable.
- Project managers perform four activities: planning, scheduling, guiding, and monitoring.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- A WBS involves breaking a project down into a series of smaller tasks to simplify a complex project.
- A WBS includes an estimated duration and must clearly identify each task.
Gantt Charts and PERT/CPM Charts
- A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that represents a set of tasks, combining several activities into a task group that contains subsidiary tasks.
- A PERT/CPM chart is a bottom-up technique that analyzes a large, complex project as a series of individual tasks.
- Both types of charts list tasks on the vertical axis and time intervals on the horizontal axis.
Task Estimation
- A person-day represents the work that one person can complete in one day, but this approach may not always be accurate.
- Project managers often use a weighted formula to estimate the duration of each task, considering optimistic, probable, and pessimistic estimates.
- Four factors to consider when developing duration estimates are project size, human resources, experience with similar projects, and constraints.
Project Monitoring and Control
- The project manager must keep track of tasks and progress, compare actual progress with the project plan, and take corrective action.
- Structured walk-throughs are reviews of a project team member's work by other team members, occurring throughout the SDLC.
- The project manager collects, verifies, organizes, and evaluates information received from the team.
Reporting
- Effective reporting requires strong communication skills and a sense of what others want and need to know about the project.
Risk Management
- A risk is an event that could affect the project negatively.
- Risk management involves identifying, analyzing, anticipating, and monitoring risks to minimize their impact on the project.
- The first step in risk management is to develop a specific plan that includes a review of the project's scope, stakeholders, budget, schedule, and any other internal or external factors that might affect the project.
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Description
This quiz covers fundamental concepts of information systems, including project management, work breakdown structures, task patterns, and risk management.
