1 Successful project managers develop good relationships wit

1. Successful project managers develop good relationships with project stakeholders to understand and meet their needs and expectations. You are the project manager tasked with developing the software for a new smartphone to be released by your company. Who among the following are not your project’s stakeholders?

a. Product development head who initiated the project

b. Contracting agency for temporary hire of additional resources

c. Focus customer group providing input on desired features

d. Software development staff whose time is fully scheduled on other projects

2. The CTO has asked you to evaluate the concept of introducing recruitment software to the organization. You want to obtain the views of various stakeholders. Who among the following is not a stakeholder?

a. Vendors of recruitment software

b. Sales head

c. Recruiters in human resources department

d. Online recruitment portals

3. Agile project management has become increasingly popular. Which of the following is not true about agile project management?

a. Time goals are set

b. Can be used in rapidly changing environments

c. Iterative development process

d. It makes sense for all projects

4. Projects are bound by limiting factors known as project constraints. Which one of the following is not a part of the quadruple constraint of project management?

a. Scope

b. Time

c. Resource availability

d. Cost

Solution

1. answer is option \"d\" - staff who are working on other projects are stakeholders of those other projects and cannot be a stakeholder for your project without working on it.

2. answer is option \"d\" - online recruitment portal is not a stakeholder in this case. A stakeholder is a person with an interest or concern. Introducing recruitment software will affect and concern the vendors, the sales head (in terms of efficiency of recruitment) and recruiters (their work will become easy and somewhat automated).

online recruitment portal is not getting affected.

3. answer is option \"d\" - agile project management is not suitable for all kinds of projects. Empirical projects and unpredictable projects cannot use agile project management.

4. Scope, cost, time and quality are considered the four constraints that make or break a project. so resource availability is not a part of quadruple constraint. answer is option \"c\"