Project Charters and Kick-off Meetings

True or false: Initiating processes only take place during the planning phase of a project?

True or false: The project management plan encompasses information from all other plans?

True or false: The monitoring and controlling process group is responsible for regularly measuring and monitoring progress to ensure that the project team meets the project objectives?

The project management process groups consist of five phases: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.

Decisions and actions taken in one knowledge area of project management do not affect other knowledge areas.

The project management process groups are not related to the project management knowledge areas.

True or false: Monitoring and controlling a project only occurs during the execution phase.

True or false: Project closing involves gaining stakeholder and customer acceptance of the final products and services.

True or false: An agile approach to project management is more suitable for projects with rigid constraints and clear requirements.

True or false: The main purpose of project planning is to guide execution?

True or false: Project managers must use their leadership skills to handle the challenges that occur during project execution?

True or false: A project charter should be short and include key project information and stakeholder signatures?

True or false: The Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework focuses on team productivity and enables all team members to deliver software best practices to the organization.

True or false: The Six Sigma methodologies include Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) for improving existing business processes and Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify (DMADV) for creating new product or process designs.

True or false: Organizations that excel in project management complete 89 percent of their projects successfully compared to only 36 percent of organizations that do not have good project management processes.

True or false: Sprint reviews are meetings where the team discusses ways to improve the product and the process based on a review of the actual performance of the development team.

True or false: Sprint retrospectives are meetings where the team demonstrates to the product owner what it has completed during the sprint.

True or false: In Scrum, the planning phase is similar to the PMBOK® Guide, where a scope statement is created and a Gantt chart is used for the entire project schedule.

True or false: In Scrum, the executing phase is different from the PMBOK® Guide because the project team meets every morning to discuss progress.

True or false: In Scrum, the monitoring and controlling phase uses a burndown chart instead of an earned value chart to track progress.