You are tasked with writing a business case for a new internal software project within your organization. You are considering how your organizational practices and norms would affect the project, thinking through the roles, governance structure, life cycle choice, etc.
What is the most appropriate analysis technique that you would use to compare organizational practices and norms?
PESTLE is a technique that can be used to determine factors that may impact or influence a project's business case. What does the letter "S" in PESTLE represent?
You have been appointed as project manager on a transformation project which is looking to improve the recruitment process for a large engineering company. The project has a clearly defined scope, as well as clear milestones and timescales. A hybrid life cycle is being used for this project.
State a total of five features from both linear and iterative life cycles and describe why you recommend incorporating each one in this scenario.
During a project review, which of the following would be the best indicator of how the project outputs are progressing?
You have been assigned to manage a new project team. The team has recently been set up to improve service levels which have drastically reduced over the past year.
Only a few of the team members have worked together before. It is your responsibility as the leader to facilitate the team's development.
Question:Identify two models you could use to facilitate developing your team. (2 marks)
Question:Explain three ways team development models can help the team meet their objective to improve service levels. (3 marks)
Which of the following are not typical responses to risks?
Complete root cause analysis to understand why the situation has occurred.
Reduce the probability of the threat occurring or the impact on the project.
Change objectives or practices to change the cause of the threat so it can no longer occur.
There are no acceptable or viable approaches to take to avoid or reduce, so the threat and any residual risk must be managed.
Prepare a risk management plan to document the risk and give it to your sponsor.
Pass the responsibility for bearing the impact of the threat from one party to another.
You are the project manager of a promotional campaign project that’s currently in the development phase. The project sponsor is concerned about the project’s financial performance and has asked you to send them an update report.
Which of the three following reports could be used to highlight the project’s current financial position?
Business case.
Cash flow.
Benefits forecast.
Actual costs versus forecasted costs.
Investment appraisal.
Earned value analysis.
A financial services company is launching a new banking product for which the sponsors have set a challenging timeline for an initial launch. The stakeholders have provided a list of conflicting requirements to be included in the new product design and build.
The project manager has decided to deliver the project in an iterative life cycle due to the time constraints.