Project Charters and Kick-off Meetings

True or false: The project management process groups are the same as the project management knowledge areas?

True or false: The project management process groups include initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing?

True or false: Decisions and actions taken in one knowledge area have no impact on other knowledge areas?

True or false: Project management can be viewed as a series of interlinked processes?

True or false: The initiating process involves defining and authorizing a project or project phase?

Initiating processes only take place during the planning phase of a project.

The project management plan includes information from all other plans.

Monitoring and controlling processes are responsible for reporting project performance.

Closing processes involve documenting lessons learned and receiving formal acceptance of the delivered work.

The process groups can be applied to each major phase or iteration of a project or to an entire project.

True or false: A project charter is a short document that includes key project information and stakeholder signatures.

True or false: It is good practice to hold a kick-off meeting at the beginning of a project so that stakeholders can meet each other, review the goals of the project, and discuss future plans.

True or false: Project planning is the main purpose of project execution.

True or false: A project scope statement is one of the key outputs included in the JWD project.

True or false: Project executing involves taking the necessary actions to complete the activities in the project plan.

True or false: Project sponsors and customers primarily focus on completing major milestones?

True or false: Project monitoring and controlling only occurs during the execution phase of a project?

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

True or false: An agile project team typically waits until the end of the project to provide one product?

True or false: The ScrumMaster is responsible for deciding what work to do and in what order, as documented in the product backlog?

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

True or false: Six Sigma methodologies include Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) used to improve an existing business process, and Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify (DMADV) used to create new product or process designs.

True or false: A 2011 study found that two-thirds of organizations in some stage of Agile adoption are realizing key software and business benefits such as faster delivery of products to the customer, an improved ability to manage changing requirements, and higher quality and productivity in IT.

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: Poor project performance costs over $109 million for every $1 billion invested in projects and programs, according to PMI estimates.

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

True or false: Planning in Scrum is not different from the PMBOK® Guide.

True or false: The project team meets every morning, physically or virtually, in the executing phase of Scrum.

True or false: The names of key reviews in the monitoring and controlling phase of Scrum are the daily Scrum and the sprint review.

True or false: The retrospective in the closing phase of Scrum focuses on a longer period of time and answers the question 'What went well during the last sprint that we should continue doing?'.

True or false: The project management plan coordinates and encompasses information from all other plans.

True or false: Closing processes involve formally accepting the project or project phase and ending it efficiently.

True or false: Project managers in any field know how important it is to follow a good process.

True or false: Many organizations develop their own project management methodologies, especially for IT projects.

True or false: The PRINCE2 methodology includes activities such as Directing a project and Controlling a stage.

True or false: The project management process groups are independent of each other and do not interact with one another?

True or false: The project management process groups can be applied to each major phase or iteration of a project or to an entire project?

True or false: The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software development process that focuses on team productivity and enables all team members to deliver software best practices to the organization?

True or false: Decisions and actions taken in one knowledge area at a certain time usually do not affect other knowledge areas?

True or false: Project monitoring and controlling only occurs during the execution phase of a project?

True or false: A project charter is a document that includes key project information and stakeholder signatures.

True or false: Project planning is the main purpose of project execution.

True or false: It is good practice to hold a kick-off meeting at the beginning of a project so that stakeholders can meet each other, review the goals of the project, and discuss future plans.

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

True or false: Project executing involves taking the necessary actions to complete the activities in the project plan.

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

True or false: Six Sigma methodologies include Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control (DMAIC) used to improve an existing business process, and Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, and Verify (DMADV) used to create new product or process designs.

True or false: A 2011 study found that two-thirds of organizations in some stage of Agile adoption are realizing key software and business benefits such as faster delivery of products to the customer, an improved ability to manage changing requirements, and higher quality and productivity in IT.

True or false: Poor project performance costs over $109 million for every $1 billion invested in projects and programs, according to PMI estimates.

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: The Quartier international de Montreal project turned a once unpopular area into a thriving section of the city with a booming real estate market and has generated $770 million in related construction?

True or false: An agile project team typically uses several iterations or deliveries of software instead of waiting until the end of the project to provide one product?

True or false: Scrum artifacts include the product backlog, sprint backlog, and burndown chart?

True or false: The ScrumMaster is responsible for ensuring that the team is productive, facilitating the daily Scrum, enabling close cooperation across all roles and functions, and removing barriers that prevent the team from being effective?

True or false: Projects with less rigid constraints, experienced and preferably co-located teams, smaller risks, unclear requirements, and more flexible scheduling would be more compatible with an agile approach?

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

True or false: Sprint retrospectives are meetings in which the team looks for ways to improve the product and the process based on a review of the actual performance of the development team.

True or false: The Scrum framework includes five process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.

True or false: The Scrum approach involves producing several releases of software, which may confuse users who are expecting only one iteration of the product.

True or false: The daily Scrum and the sprint review are key reviews in the monitoring and controlling phase of Scrum.

True or false: Initiating processes take place during each phase of a project to ensure that the project team completes all the work, that someone documents lessons learned, and that the customer accepts the work?

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

True or false: Monitoring and controlling processes are responsible for reporting project performance?

True or false: Closing processes involve documenting lessons learned and receiving formal acceptance of the delivered work?

True or false: Project executing involves taking the necessary actions to complete the activities in the project plan?

True or false: The project management process groups include initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing, and decisions and actions taken in one knowledge area at a certain time usually affect other knowledge areas?

True or false: Project management can be viewed as a series of interlinked processes, and the project management process groups are independent of each other and do not interact with one another?

True or false: Many organizations develop their own project management methodologies, especially for IT projects, and the Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software development process that focuses on team productivity and enables all team members to deliver software best practices to the organization?

True or false: The retrospective in the closing phase of Scrum focuses on a longer period of time and answers the question 'What went well during the last sprint that we should continue doing?'?

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: The Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a software development process that focuses on team productivity and enables all team members to deliver software best practices to the organization.

True or false: A 2011 study found that two-thirds of organizations in some stage of Agile adoption are realizing key software and business benefits such as faster delivery of products to the customer, an improved ability to manage changing requirements, and higher quality and productivity in IT.

True or false: Poor project performance costs over $109 million for every $1 billion invested in projects and programs, according to PMI estimates.

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 in which the team looks for ways to improve the product and the process based on a review of the actual performance of the development team.

True or false: The project charter includes key project information and stakeholder signatures.

True or false: The project planning phase is the main purpose of project execution.

True or false: Project monitoring and controlling processes are responsible for reporting project performance.

True or false: The Scrum approach involves producing several releases of software, which may confuse users who are expecting only one iteration of the product.

True or false: Decisions and actions taken in one knowledge area have no impact on other knowledge areas.

True or false: The Quartier international de Montreal project turned a once unpopular area into a thriving section of the city with a booming real estate market and has generated $770 million in related construction?

True or false: An agile project team typically waits until the end of the project to provide one product?

True or false: Projects with less rigid constraints, experienced and preferably co-located teams, smaller risks, unclear requirements, and more flexible scheduling would be more compatible with an agile approach?

True or false: The Scrum framework includes five process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.

True or false: The project management process groups are independent of each other and do not interact with one another?

True or false: Scrum sprint reviews are meetings in which the team looks for ways to improve the product and the process based on a review of the actual performance of the development team.

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

True or false: The Scrum approach involves producing several releases of software, which may confuse users who are expecting only one iteration of the product.

True or false: The project management plan includes information from all other plans.

True or false: The retrospective in the closing phase of Scrum focuses on a longer period of time and answers the question 'What went well during the last sprint that we should continue doing?'.