Which of the following are phases of the project life cycle? Select all that apply.
Execute and complete tasks
Improve and control
Initiate the project
Close the project
What phase of the project management life cycle involves keeping the team motivated and ensuring they complete tasks on time?
Plan the project
Close the project
Initiate the project
Execute the project
What project management methodology would work best for building a house?
Agile methodology
Iterative methodology
Flexible methodology
Linear methodology
Which project management methodology describes the ability to move quickly and easily through a project by working on many tasks at once?
Waterfall methodology
Agile methodology
DMAIC methodology
Lean Six Sigma Methodology
What is the main advantage of the Agile approach over the Waterfall methodology?
Agile has clearly defined expectations and helps teams avoid expensive changes to a project once it has started.
Agile takes a flexible approach, letting teams make adjustments as they go.
Agile allows the project manager to make centralized decisions and assign tasks.
Agile focuses on reducing waste within an operation.
A project manager monitors the current process of a project closely. They want to avoid the project reverting to previous inefficient ways. What phase of the Lean Six Sigma methodology involves these activities?
Analyze
Improve
Control
Define
Fill in the blank: _____ can be people, equipment, software programs, vendors or locations needed to complete a project.
A team
An approval
A budget
A resource
When closing a project, in what meeting does the team reflect on what went well and didn’t go well in the project?
Agile perspective
Retrospective
Stakeholder acceptance
Positives and negatives
In which project phase does it help to ask questions such as: “Who are the stakeholders?”, “What skills and resources will the project require?”, and “What are the client’s or customer’s goals?”
Close the project
Execute the project
Initiate the project
Make a plan
Which project management tool involves sticky notes or note cards to represent the team’s tasks with categories like “To do”, “In progress”, and “Done”?
Agile
Lean
Waterfall
Kanban
