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Project Management Weekly Challenge 10_Updating

 

Project Planning: Putting It All Together (W2)


1. Which of the following are relevant project documents you should link to in your project plan? Select all that apply.

A:
- RACI charts that define roles and responsibilities for individuals on a team
- The project charter that defines the projects and outlines project goal details

2. Fill in the blank: Time estimation predicts the total amount of time required to complete a task, while the actual time it takes to complete a task _____.

A: may vary depending on overlooked potential risks

3. Fill in the blank: To determine the _____ of a project, list the milestones you must reach in order to meet the project goal on schedule.

A: Critical path

4. Which examples below demonstrate a project manager asking an open-ended question? Select all that apply.

A:
- What are the steps in your customer feedback review process and what factors do you include in your report of this review?
- What are the issues I need to be aware of regarding the current project timeline?

5. Which of the following should you include in a project plan that are essential for project success? Select all that apply

A:
- Specifically who are completing what tasks
- A timeline of when the team will complete the tasks
- All project tasks

6. Imagine you’re a project manager helping a car company with a new vehicle launch. Your project goal is to ensure vehicle delivery to dealerships. To achieve this, you speak with stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand the granular details of the project. This information helps you know what steps to take to best achieve the project goal. This example includes which project plan best practice?

A: Carefully understand project deliverables, milestones, and tasks

7. Which of the following is a best practice when estimating the project timeline? Select all that apply.

A:
- Be thorough during the planning process
- Escalate any timeline concerns to stakeholders

8. What is a strategy to overcome the planning fallacy?

A: Add task buffers

9. Imagine you’re a project manager creating a critical path. Your stakeholders request the earliest and latest start dates for each task. What is a strategy to make this time estimate?

A: Use the forward pass or backward pass method.

10. Fill in the blank: A Kanban board utilizes cards placed in columns to _____.

A: manage tasks

11. When creating a project plan, you include important points within the schedule that indicate progress. Which project plan component does this represent?

A: Milestones

12. What tools can a project manager use to account for issues that may cause a project delay? Select all that apply.

A:
- Task buffer
- Project buffer

13. Tools like Gantt charts and Kanban boards help benefit team members in what three ways?

A:
- They can illustrate when they need to complete their individual tasks.
- They provide clear context about work project details.
- They can demonstrate how their individual tasks connect to other tasks in the project.

14. As a project manager, you’re the main supporter of your project plan. You explain to teammates why it benefits them to stay on top of the plan. You hope that this persuades the team to support the plan and update it regularly. What project plan best practice does this represent?

A: 
- Giving yourself time to plan
- Recognizing and planning for the inevitable

15. Which of the following strategies could help a team meet a project deadline? Select all that apply.

A: 
- Increase the team size
- Streamline tasks
- Eliminate unnecessary tasks

16. Fill in the blank: The ____ is the tendency to underestimate the amount of time it will take to complete a task.

A: Feedback fallacy

17. A project manager is leading an initiative that includes changing an organization's logo and slogan, What mandatory tasks should be part of the critical path? Select all that apply.

A:
- Set a budget
- Receive sponsor approval
- Determine a new slogan

18. As a project manager, the project is your number one priority. However, you have team members with competing priorities from other projects. You want to influence them to make your project their priority. To do this, you bridge the high-level goals of the project and the day-to-day perspective of the team. You collaborate to find an outcome that works for everyone. What interpersonal skill did you mainly use in this scenario?

A: Negotiate effectively

19. Which of the following strategies follow project plan best practices? Select all that apply.

A: 
- Ask yourself if the information in your plan is clear enough for stakeholders to understand
- Ask your team members to identify risks that will most likely occur and create plans to prevent or mitigate those risks
- Ask team members questions about their work to gain deeper insights into their tasks for the project

20. Which of the following are some steps to create a critical path? Select all the apply.

A:
- Make time estimates
- Set dependencies
- Create a network diagram



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