Session I2PM 2

As a project manager, is it your responsibility to coordinate project teams?

• A project manager’s primary responsibility is to coordinate a team. The project manager may not be the direct manager for those team members, so you will always have to find a balance between your authority on the project and your ability to influence the team.

• A project manager is responsible for managing the project, but team members should coordinate their work as they see fit.

• Project managers should not be responsible for managing teams.

• Don’t know

What personality style should all project managers use?

• A mix of authoritarian and technology-driven styles.

• The style you use is not as important as delivering the project.

• Project managers all have their unique approach and style, but they should always make an effort to adjust for the team’s culture to affect any change the project will bring.

• Don’t know

What is the typical project manager’s authority?

• To force people to do certain work on the project.

• To deliver a project and manage the project team’s non-project time.

• To deliver a project and run the project team.

• Don’t know

Which ones are the major categories of influences?

• PMO and OPAs

• EEFs and PMO

• EEFs and OPAs

• Infraestructure and Organizational

Organizational Process Assets are outside the project and ofter the organization

• True

• False

Mark all the examples of EEFs that apply...

• Scheduling software tools, web interfaces, work authorization programs

• Organization lessons learned, artifacts, practices

• Benchmarking results, industry risk study, risk databases

• Complete schedules, risk data, and earned value data

Why its important to understand and be minful of EEFs and OPAs?

• Cause as PM we need to know to tell the client

• Cause it will help us document potential risks, dependencies and assumptions

• Cause its a requirement of the methodology

• Dont know

What is a System within the Organizational Systems?

• Refers to the interaction of multiple factors within an individual organization creates a unique system that impacts the project operating in that system.

• Its an outcome of the analysis of the OPAs and EEFs

• A system is a collection of various components that together can produce results not obtainable by the individual components alone.

If my PMO helps me with templates and lessons learned but do not manage my project I am talking about ...

• Directive

• Supportive

• Controlling

• Advisor

What are the 3 main competencies of the PM?

• Leadership, Strategic, Cost specialist

• Technical SME, Client facing, Leadership

• Accountability, Emphatic, Directive

• Strategic, Leadership, Technical PM