Project Management JumpStart, 4th Edition

Appendix A Answers to Review Questions

Chapter 1: Building the Foundation

1. Project management involves applying skills, knowledge, and established project management tools and techniques to your project to fulfill the requirements of the project to the customer’s satisfaction.
2. The benefits of a project-oriented organization are the project manager has ultimate authority over the project and that the focus of the organization is on project work.
3. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing are the five process groups.
4. During project planning, you’ll define project deliverables, define project activities and estimates, and publish the scope statement (among many other project planning documents).
5. The Executing process ...