Project Leadership in Health Care-Half

According to the PMBoK, a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service.

• True

• False

In project management, does estimating activity durations involve forecasting the time needed for each activity?

• True

• False

Arjun, the project sponsor, is responsible for following instructions throughout the project management process.  

• True

• False

External stakeholders are those in the organization who are interested in the project outcome.

• True

• False

In the PDSA Cycle, when developing and testing a strategy, interventions include:

• Choose measures to monitor progress.  Develop changes.  Conduct small tests of change.  Adapt changes to organizational context.  Identify and manage barriers.

• Choose measures to monitor progress.  Develop changes.  Investigate potential interventions.  Adapt changes to organizational context.  Identify and manage barriers.

• Prepare for the change.  Develop changes.  Conduct small tests of change.  Adapt changes to organizational context.  Identify and manage barriers.

• Choose measures to monitor progress. Evaluate progress against criteria. Conduct small tests of change. Adapt changes to organizational context. Identify and manage barriers.

The goal of the microsystem approach is to emphasize large, difficult to replicate systems.

• True

• False

Estimating duration in project management is a qualitative measure.

• True

• False

Challenges in the Agile Approach are:

• There is a rigid leader in place who will meet timelines.

• There is the flexibility of a leader who could take the project to great heights.

• Its self-organized team does not have a clear manager, and the customer might take the lead.

• Its team has a manager.

Waterfall project management:

• Uses fixed, sequential steps to complete processes and projects.  It requires no planning before execution.

  Schedules can be lengthened if input from the clinical areas is requested.

• Uses fixed, sequential steps to complete processes and projects.  It requires considerable planning before execution, which is constrained by predetermined project scope, scheduling and budget.

  The is a fixed schedules to be followed.

• Uses abstract concepts to meet goals and objectives.

  It requires considerable planning before execution, which is constrained by predetermined project scope, scheduling and budget.  Schedules can be lengthened if input from the clinical areas is requested.

• Uses fixed, sequential steps to complete processes and projects.  It needs significant planning prior to execution, which is constrained by predetermined project scope, scheduling and budget.  Schedules can be lengthened if input from the clinical areas is requested.

A dashboard report is:

• A way to display performance. Presents important data in great detail in order to make it easier to identify gap in performance and trend performance against goals.

  Sharing consistent information across multiple levels of an organization.

• A way to display performance. Presents important data in summary form so that it is easier to identify gaps in performance and trend performance against goals. Sharing consistent information across multiple levels of an organization.

• A method to display performance. Presents important data in summary form in order to make it easier to identify gap in performance and trend performance against goals. Sharing selected information to various executives in an organization.

• A way to keep performance confidential. Presents important data in summary form in order to make it easier to identify gap in performance and trend performance against goals. Sharing consistent information across multiple levels of an organization.