CONTENTS
Why do organizations do projects?
What is the project life cycle?
What is the project management triangle or the triple constraint?
What are the project baselines?
Who are the project stakeholders?
What is a deliverable in the project?
What is a project justification?
What is the requirements process?
What is a work breakdown structure (WBS)?
How do I do a work breakdown structure?
How do I test the work breakdown structure?
What terms are used in estimating?
What is statistical cost estimating?
What is the difference between estimated cost and price?
What is the law of diminishing returns?
What is a cost improvement curve?
Why do we have two separate reserves to take care of the risks?
Why am I concerned with cost budgeting?
What is the time value of money?
What is the fundamental accounting equation?
What are the financial measures ROS, ROA, and EVA?
What are the early start, early finish, late start, and late finish dates of a project schedule?
How do I make a project schedule?
What is float or slack in a project schedule?
What is the critical path method?
What is a summary or hammock activity?
What is crashing and fast-tracking a schedule?
What is the Monte Carlo process?
What is Goldratt’s critical chain theory?
Chapter 6: Human Resources Management
What is the difference between management and leadership?
What are the major theories of behavioral and situational leadership?
What are the major team leader skills?
What are the concepts of job enrichment and job enlargement?
What is a team role structure?
What are the major theories of motivation?
What are the main types of power?
What does the staff acquisition process include?
What are the tools and rules for human resource coordination in projects?
Chapter 7: Building Projects in Organizations
How do I organize for project management?
What is a balanced matrix organization?
Why would we want to use an unbalanced matrix organization?
What does moving toward matrix management require?
How do organizations affect the projects and how does project management influence organizations?
What are the major spheres for change and the problems associated with them?
What is a change process and what are its stages?
What are the basic steps in risk management?
What are risk response strategies?
How do risk management approaches correlate with the other parts of project management methodology?
What are the principles of modern quality management?
What are the quality management processes?
What are the major principles of economics of quality?
What are the Seven Tools for Quality Management?
Chapter 10: Earned Value Reporting
What is an earned value report?
What is the budget at completion?
What is the cost performance index?
What is the schedule performance index?
What is the estimate at completion?
Are there other ways of calculating the EAC?
What is the to complete cost performance index?
Is there a similar measure to the TCCPI for schedules?
What is the estimate to completion?
What are the major types of communications?
How can we increase accuracy in communications?
What are the major barriers to communications?