Programme learning goals
- Be inquiring, open, and agile thinkers able to seek out and address complex problems 2. Be knowledgeable in a specialist area(s)
Paper learning outcomes
- To effectively analyse teamwork in project management 2. To effectively analyse leadership in project management 3. To effectively analyse the process of project management throughout the project life cycle 4. To effectively analyse suitable organisational structure for projects 5. To be knowledgeable users of project management tools
QUESTION 1
- You are scheduling a resource constrained project. Activities A and B both have early starts of 0 and zero slack. A has a duration of 4 days and B has a duration of 2 days. Which should you schedule first?
| a. | A | |
| b. | B | |
| c. | A and B | |
| d. | neither should be scheduled |
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QUESTION 2
- You are performing a project management audit in your company. Which of the following statements is not true?
| a. | Poor planning and insufficient updating of project management plans are common reasons for cost and time overruns. | |
| b. | Projects should not be started without an approved plan. | |
| c. | The baseline of the project plan must be kept up to date with actual project performance. | |
| d. | A tracking Gantt chart should be updated regularly. |
QUESTION 3
- You are the project manager in an engineering project and have recently signed a fixed-price contract with a software contractor for the development of a complicated control solution. The software will be used to control machinery equipment which your project team is currently developing. The contractor has estimated a target cost which seem low to you. Which of the following statements is not true for this situation?
| a. | This form of contract should only be chosen when all the requirements for the building of the product are well-known by all parties involved. | |
| b. | In a fixed-price contract, change requests can cause issues regarding additional time and extra costs for the changes to be applied. | |
| c. | It is likely that your organisation may have to assume any unexpected additional costs for the software development. | |
| d. | It is the contractor’s risk in this type of contract that their profit may vanish if costs have been underestimated. |
QUESTION 4
- Calculations – Project crashing
What is the shortest project time with the lowest total costs of the project EXCITE? Please refer to the instructions in the word document!
| a. | 27 | |
| b. | 24 | |
| c. | 25 | |
| d. | 26 |
QUESTION 5
- Calculations – Project crashing
What are the lowest total costs of the project EXCITE? Please refer to the instructions in the word document!
| a. | 301 | |
| b. | 296 | |
| c. | 284 | |
| d. | 293 |
QUESTION 6
- Calculations – Project crashing
What is the shortest time the project EXCITE could be completed in? Please refer to the instructions in the word document!
| a. | 27 | |
| b. | 24 | |
| c. | 25 | |
| d. | 26 |
QUESTION 7
- Calculations – Earned value analysis I
You are the project manager on the project PIXIES, which has just completed day 7, and you have been given the updated project control chart shown in fig 2 in the word document. The project PIXIES in fig. 2 could be considered to be:
| a. | Likely ahead of schedule and under cost | |
| b. | Likely behind schedule and under cost | |
| c. | Likely on schedule and under cost | |
| d. | Likely behind schedule and over cost |
QUESTION 8
- Calculations – Earned value analysis II
You are the manager on a time-constrained project called OKCOMPUTER and you have just received new information at the end of period 10. Your original baseline plan scheduled budget – the PV – is shown in Table 1 in the word document.
Work out the measures indicated in table 2 for the end of period 10 for project OKCOMPUTER.
What is the CV for Activity E of the project “OKCOMPUTER”?
| a. | -4 | |
| b. | -8 | |
| c. | -3 | |
| d. | 3 |
QUESTION 9
- Calculations – Earned value analysis II
You are the manager on a time-constrained project called OKCOMPUTER and you have just received new information at the end of period 10. Your original baseline plan scheduled budget – the PV – is shown in Table 1 in the word document.
Work out the measures indicated in table 2 for the end of period 10 for project OKCOMPUTER.
What is the SV for activity C of the project “OKCOMPUTER”?
| a. | 8 | |
| b. | -4 | |
| c. | -12 | |
| d. | -8 |
QUESTION 10
- Calculations – Earned value analysis II
You are the manager on a time-constrained project called OKCOMPUTER and you have just received new information at the end of period 10. Your original baseline plan scheduled budget – the PV – is shown in Table 1 in the word document.
Work out the measures indicated in table 2 for the end of period 10 for project OKCOMPUTER.
What is the CV for the project “OKCOMPUTER”?
| a. | -7 | |
| b. | -11 | |
| c. | -8 | |
| d. | 2 |
QUESTION 11
- Calculations – Earned value analysis II
You are the manager on a time-constrained project called OKCOMPUTER and you have just received new information at the end of period 10. Your original baseline plan scheduled budget – the PV – is shown in Table 1 in the word document.
Work out the measures indicated in table 2 for the end of period 10 for project OKCOMPUTER.
What is the CPI for the project “OKCOMPUTER”?
| a. | 1.23 | |
| b. | 0.74 | |
| c. | 0.63 | |
| d. | 0.47 |
QUESTION 12
- Calculations – Earned value analysis II
You are the manager on a time-constrained project called OKCOMPUTER and you have just received new information at the end of period 10. Your original baseline plan scheduled budget – the PV – is shown in Table 1 in the word document.
Work out the measures indicated in table 2 for the end of period 10 for project OKCOMPUTER.
What is the SPI for the project “OKCOMPUTER”?
| a. | 0.37 | |
| b. | 0.62 | |
| c. | 0.86 | |
| d. | 1.4 |
QUESTION 13
- Calculations – Earned value analysis II
You are the manager on a time-constrained project called OKCOMPUTER and you have just received new information at the end of period 10. Your original baseline plan scheduled budget – the PV – is shown in Table 1 in the word document.
Please write your evaluation both of the project OKCOMPUTER at the end of day 10 and a recommendation to the client and project team for future action. The client’s priority is that the project is time-constrained. Technical quality to date has been acceptable.
QUESTION 14
- You are the project manager of the project “INNOVATEPLUS” with the aim to develop a new security lock using face recognition technology. The project is strategically very important for the company as the security lock would be one of the first of it’s kind on the market. Therefore, the company wants to launch as quickly as possible to gain a frontrunner position and secure the most market shares. In order to develop the new security lock many experts from different departments need to work together in order to develop and produce this innovative product.
As the project manager which project management structure would you choose to be successful with this endeavour and why would you choose it? Please also explain the project management structure that you would choose in further detail.
QUESTION 15
- The project “INNOVATEPLUS” is now running, however, you as a project manager face major challenges. Two of your best programmers who have expert knowledge in facial recognitionhave resigned, the management board requested to launch the product one month earlier than originally planned and the product designer had a major fallout with one of the developers so that they stopped talking to each other although they would need to closely work together in order to produce the highly complex security lock.
As a project manager, which leadership style would you apply in this situation and why? Please describe this leadership style in detail.
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