Technology Project Management Flashcards
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In a hybrid project management approach for a telecom billing system upgrade, when should waterfall phases typically be combined with agile sprints?
Answer: Waterfall for stable infrastructure work; agile for software feature development
Hybrid approaches typically use waterfall for predictable, sequential infrastructure work and agile for iterative software development where requirements evolve.
What is the primary role of a Project Management Office (PMO) in a large telecom organization?
Answer: Standardize project governance, methodology, and provide oversight across projects
A PMO establishes standards, provides templates and tools, and ensures consistent project governance across the portfolio.
During project closure for a major network rollout, which activity is most important for organizational learning?
Answer: Documenting and sharing lessons learned
Lessons learned documentation captures what worked well and what didn't, enabling future projects to benefit from the experience.
A CTE candidate is reviewing a telecom project where Schedule Variance (SV) = -$50,000 and Cost Variance (CV) = +$30,000. How should this be interpreted?
Answer: Project is behind schedule but under budget
Negative SV means behind schedule (less work done than planned); positive CV means under budget (cost less than earned value).
Which stakeholder engagement level in the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix represents a stakeholder who actively works to ensure project success?
Answer: Champion
A champion stakeholder is fully engaged and actively advocates for and supports the project beyond passive support.
In telecom project risk management, what is the difference between a risk and an issue?
Answer: A risk is a potential future event; an issue is a risk that has already occurred
Risks are uncertain future events that may impact the project; once they occur, they become issues requiring immediate response.
A telecom project manager must decide between crashing and fast-tracking to recover a delayed schedule. What is the key distinction?
Answer: Fast-tracking overlaps tasks that were originally sequential; crashing adds resources to shorten task duration
Fast-tracking performs tasks in parallel that were planned sequentially (increasing risk); crashing adds resources to shorten critical path tasks (increasing cost).