Session 3-4

Which of the following leadership styles most frequently creates “additional” time robbers for a project manager?

• Telling

• Selling

• Participating

• Delegating

Which of the following leadership styles most frequently creates “additional” time robbers for the project team?

• Telling

• Selling

• Participating

• Delegating

Which of the following time robbers would a project manager most likely want to handle by himself or herself rather than through delegation to equally qualified team members?

• Approval of procurement expenditures

• Status reporting to a customer

• Conflicting directives from the executive sponsor

• Earned-value status reporting

What is one of the keys to effective project management?

• Stakeholder matrix

• Disciplined time management

• Deadline

• Stakeholders

Incomplete work, day-to-day administration, buck-passing, waiting for people are examples of...

• project planning

• time machine

• time robbers

• effective communication

How to prioritize tasks?

• 4-square method

• eat the unicorn

• Eat the frog

• 3 baskets

In 4-square method tasks are categorized by

• communication and relevance

• urgent and stakeholders

• important and time

• important and urgent

The main idea of the method "Eat the frog" is...

What is NOT an example of effective time management?

• chat on the phone

• task delegation

• following the schedule

• do the tough part first

Who is a stakeholder?

• anyone who is actively involved in the project, or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project

• a person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or similar organization

• is a person who provides guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a group of individuals (the team) for the purpose of achieving a key result or group of aligned results

• is the person who identifies the customer need and the larger business objectives that a product or feature will fulfill, articulates what success looks like for a product, and rallies a team to turn that vision into a reality