# Foundations of Project Management - Module 2 Challenge
1. **As a project manager, you are careful to recognize team members’ particular strengths and match them to tasks they are most capable of completing. What project management value does this represent?**
* Prioritization
* Effective communication
* Optimism
* Delegation
2. **As a project manager, you keep track of project activities so that you can demonstrate progress to your stakeholders. Which project management responsibility does this represent?**
* Removing unforeseen barriers
* Managing the budget
* Utilizing productivity tools
* Managing tasks
3. **As a project manager on a product team, your stakeholders ask you to help the marketing team come up with a strategy to attract customers. What project management responsibility does this represent?**
* Collaborate with other teams at the organization.
* Ensure that issues and risks are tracked and visible.
* Hold all team members accountable for their assigned tasks.
* Help teammates adopt the right workflows and project management styles.
4. **What is an example of measuring progress for a cross-functional team?**
* Asking team members if they anticipate being finished on time and, if not, how you can help them succeed.
* Setting up effective tools so the team can easily work together.
* Defining key items and encouraging team members to ask questions.
* Learning what makes team members feel supported and giving positive feedback.
5. **You’re a project manager on a team improving a product. How can you make sure the project stays on schedule?**
* Track daily product improvement tasks of team members in a spreadsheet.
* Limit communication with stakeholders to avoid input until product launch.
* Have a meeting with stakeholders to make them aware of product concerns.
* Provide data and feedback about how customers interact with the product.
6. **As a project manager, you learn that a teammate will be out sick for at least a week. They will be unable to complete their tasks, potentially causing the project to go past its deadline. Which work reallocation strategy can keep the project on schedule?**
* Have teammates work longer hours to get their tasks done and then do the out-sick teammate’s tasks
* Get leadership to approve overtime so the teammate can catch up on work when they return.
* Review the out-sick teammate’s tasks to determine which tasks have “float” and figure out where the order of tasks can be changed or resources can be juggled.
* Distribute all of the out-sick teammate’s tasks evenly among team members
7. **A project manager's ability to guide teammates to complete their assigned work without acting as their direct managers is called \_\_\_\_\_.**
* understanding motivations
* influencing without authority
* conflict mediation
* adjusting interpersonal dynamics
8. **As a project manager impacting an organization, you want to *break down barriers* to help your team succeed. Which of the following would a project manager do to *break down barriers*?**
* Advocate for additional resources for your team.
* Make sure you clearly understand customer expectations.
* Communicate the impacts of each process within the project to the team.
* Identify the right team for a project.
9. **Which of the following are examples of internal customers?** Select all that apply.
* Team members
* Organizational departments
* Management
* Suppliers
10. **As a project manager, how can you protect the team from changes to the project?** Select all that apply.
* Document initial expectations of the project.
* Limit communication outside the team once the project begins.
* Clearly identify any project changes.
* Let the stakeholders know how changes impact the budget and schedule.
11. **To be an effective project manager, what important actions/steps should you take?**
* Limit communication between team members so they can complete their work
* Gain mastery over every detail of a project at all times
* Confirm team members handle the documentation and organization necessary to finish the project
* Ensure team members understand the team’s objectives and their individual tasks
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