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CEE 5900 Quiz 1
Question | Answer |
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role of management | to integrate resources and tasks to achieve organizational goals |
five functions of a manager | planning, organizing, leadership, control, change/organizational goals |
classical management | one best way to manage. a set of scientific management principles applied to all situations. |
behavioral management | emphasis shifted from jobs to the human and social aspects of organizations |
systems approach | faces up to complexity and differing causal relationships |
five general criteria to help decide when to use project management | 1. Magnitude of the effort 2. Unfamiliarity 3. Changing environment 4. Interrelatedness 5. Reputation of the organization |
essential skills of a project manager | conceptual skill, human skill, negotiating skills, technical skill |
triple constraint | cost/budget, performance/specification, time/schedule |
Understand what "success" means. | nothing else matters if a system is not productively employed. you have to ensure that a system meets with a clients needs before it is deemed a success |
WBS | a family tree subdivision of a project, beginning with the end objective and then subdividing these objectives into successively smaller work packages. an end item oriented family tree. a skeletal outline of program objectives. |