Project Management Book Characteristics
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Who else, besides students studying project management, can benefit from the book according to the text?

  • Only beginning students
  • Only prospective project managers
  • Only senior managers
  • Senior managers, prospective project managers, and students (correct)

What characteristic of the book is highlighted in the text?

  • The focus on large engineering-oriented projects
  • Ignoring the importance of project initiation
  • Discussing risk and planning in a single section
  • Treating 'procurement' as a stand-alone issue (correct)

What is the main reason given for not confining the remarks in the book to large engineering-oriented projects?

  • Senior managers prefer small projects
  • Small projects require different tools and techniques (correct)
  • Beginning students focus on large projects
  • Large projects are more complex

What is suboptimization in project management?

<p>Achieving the best within a function or area but at a cost to the larger whole (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where does project management actually begin?

<p>With the initial concept for the project (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How are work packages and tasks related in project management?

<p>Work packages are sub-elements of tasks used to assign costs and values (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some limitations of project management?

<p>Inflexibility in responding to changes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do programs, projects, tasks, and work packages differ?

<p>Programs are broader than projects, which are broader than tasks, which are broader than work packages (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a common characteristic of project life cycles, similar to organic entities?

<p>They resist closure (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the text describe the interactions between projects within an organization?

<p>They are common and often involve competition for resources (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a key feature of the project mentioned in the text at IT University of Copenhagen?

<p>It aimed to improve traveler-tracking using Bluetooth signals (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a typical trajectory of project growth described in the text?

<p>A slow start, peak, decline, and eventual closure by a due date (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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