,Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management
TRUE/FALSE
1. Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top
management in the military, computer, and construction industries.
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2. A research report showed that the U.S. spends $2.3 trillion on projects every year, an amount equal to
40 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.
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3. One attribute that helps define a project is that a project has a unique purpose.
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4. A project should be developed using progressive elaboration, starting from specific details and
broadening in scope as it progresses.
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5. Projects are often defined narrowly when they begin.
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6. Projects rarely involve uncertainty.
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7. Every project is constrained in different ways by its scope and cost goals; these limitations are
sometimes referred to in project management as the double constraint.
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8. Questions about how long a project’s schedule should be are related to the issue of the project’s scope.
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9. Because projects involve uncertainty and limited resources, projects rarely finish according to discrete
scope, time, and cost goals as originally planned.
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10. Managing the triple constraint involves making trade-offs between scope, time, and cost goals for a
project.
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11. Some people refer to the “double constraint” of project management to include quality and customer
satisfaction.
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12. In the example of building a new house, the support staff would provide the wood, windows, flooring
materials, appliances, and so on.
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13. Stakeholders’ needs and expectations are only important in the beginning of a project.
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14. There are six core knowledge areas of project management.
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15. Follow-up studies done by the Standish Group showed that the number of failed projects has more
than doubled in the past decade.
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16. The 2006 Standish Group survey showed that IT project success rates had risen from 16 percent in
1994 to 35 percent in 2006.
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17. Project management is the silver bullet that guarantees success on all projects.
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18. A key finding of a 2004 study is that relationship management is viewed as a top success factor for
information systems in China, while it is not mentioned in U.S. studies.
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19. Winners in project delivery know that strong program managers—referred to as project leaders—are
crucial to project success.
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20. A program is “a group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control
not available from managing them individually.”
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21. Program managers are not responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, functional groups,
suppliers, and operations staff.
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22. The job description for a project manager can vary by industry and by organization.
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, 23. Project managers should possess general management knowledge and skills.
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24. Project managers must be able to make effective use of technology as it relates to the specific project.
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25. Project managers for large information technology projects have to be experts in the field of
information technology.
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26. Project managers often take on the role of both leader and manager.
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27. Today’s project managers still draw Gantt charts by hand.
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28. Determining the relationships among tasks is not essential in helping to improve project scheduling.
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29. New software makes basic tools, such as Gantt charts and network diagrams, inexpensive, easy to
create, and available for anyone to update.
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30. Many people still use basic productivity software, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, to perform many
project management functions.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A research report showed that the U.S. spends ____ on projects every year.
a. $2.3 billion c. $2.3 trillion
b. $23 billion d. $23 trillion
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2. A research report showed that the U.S. spends the equivalent of ____ percent of the nation’s gross
domestic product on projects every year.
a. 10 c. 25
b. 20 d. 50
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3. Many organizations assert that using project management provides advantages, such as ____.
a. lower profit margins c. less internal coordination
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