Question 1

The financial resources required for project delivery come from the supplier domain but the human and technological resources required are the responsibilities of the owner domain.

Accepted Answer

The financial, human, and technological resources required for project delivery can come from both the supplier and the owner domains, depending on the project's structure and agreements.

Question 2

The most important resources on the project are human.

Accepted Answer

Human resources are considered the most important resources in a project because they bring the necessary skills, creativity, decision-making capabilities, and effort required to complete the project successfully.

Question 3

Matching
Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of:
-R
A) stands for who is accountable for assuring the task is executed properly
B) stands for who needs to be informed that it has started, finished, or both
C) stands for who is responsible for executing the task.
D) stands for who needs to be consulted about task execution

Accepted Answer

A

Question 4

Matching
Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of:
-A
A) stands for who is accountable for assuring the task is executed properly
B) stands for who needs to be informed that it has started, finished, or both
C) stands for who is responsible for executing the task.
D) stands for who needs to be consulted about task execution

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

Matching
Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of:
-C
A) stands for who is accountable for assuring the task is executed properly
B) stands for who needs to be informed that it has started, finished, or both
C) stands for who is responsible for executing the task.
D) stands for who needs to be consulted about task execution

Accepted Answer

The RACI chart is a responsibility assignment matrix that clarifies the roles and responsibilities of team members in completing tasks or deliverables for a project. "C" in RACI stands for "Responsible," indicating the person or role responsible for executing the task.

Question 6

Matching
Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of:
-I
A) stands for who is accountable for assuring the task is executed properly
B) stands for who needs to be informed that it has started, finished, or both
C) stands for who is responsible for executing the task.
D) stands for who needs to be consulted about task execution

Accepted Answer

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Resources are allocated to the project structure...

Question 7

In the RACI chart, the difference between Responsible and Accountable is important. The Accountable person organizes execution of the task and leads the task execution team, while the Responsible person appoints the A-person, and ensures that the A-person delivers.

Accepted Answer

In the RACI chart, the Accountable person is the one ultimately answerable for the activity or decision, including ensuring its completion or correctness, while the Responsible person is the one who actually performs the task or does the work.

Question 8

Matching
Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects:
-Functional project organization
A) Where the project manager has clear responsibilities for overall co-ordination, monitors progress and brokers competition for resources, but is, in the end reliant on the resource base managers to make appropriate allocations of resources to the project
B) Where the converse is true, and the project manager has the stronger hand, overriding resource allocations made by resource base managers
C) Where the project manager has complete autonomy - including the possibility of hiring staff directly
D) Where resource-base managers have complete responsibility, the project manager has little more than a liaison role

Accepted Answer

The correct answer is A because in a functional project organization, the project manager has clear responsibilities for overall coordination, monitors progress, and brokers competition for resources, but is ultimately reliant on the resource base managers to make appropriate allocations of resources to the project.

Question 9

Matching
Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects:
-Lightweight project organization
A) Where the project manager has clear responsibilities for overall co-ordination, monitors progress and brokers competition for resources, but is, in the end reliant on the resource base managers to make appropriate allocations of resources to the project
B) Where the converse is true, and the project manager has the stronger hand, overriding resource allocations made by resource base managers
C) Where the project manager has complete autonomy - including the possibility of hiring staff directly
D) Where resource-base managers have complete responsibility, the project manager has little more than a liaison role

Accepted Answer

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Within the project matrix, the balance between...

Question 10

Matching
Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects:
-Heavyweight project organization
A) Where the project manager has clear responsibilities for overall co-ordination, monitors progress and brokers competition for resources, but is, in the end reliant on the resource base managers to make appropriate allocations of resources to the project
B) Where the converse is true, and the project manager has the stronger hand, overriding resource allocations made by resource base managers
C) Where the project manager has complete autonomy - including the possibility of hiring staff directly
D) Where resource-base managers have complete responsibility, the project manager has little more than a liaison role

Accepted Answer

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Within the project matrix, the balance between...

Question 11

Matching
Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects:
-Autonomous project organization
A) Where the project manager has clear responsibilities for overall co-ordination, monitors progress and brokers competition for resources, but is, in the end reliant on the resource base managers to make appropriate allocations of resources to the project
B) Where the converse is true, and the project manager has the stronger hand, overriding resource allocations made by resource base managers
C) Where the project manager has complete autonomy - including the possibility of hiring staff directly
D) Where resource-base managers have complete responsibility, the project manager has little more than a liaison role

Accepted Answer

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Within the project matrix, the balance between...

Question 12

The allocation of human resources to project delivery organizations generates considerable tensions as project managers and resource-base managers compete for resources.

Accepted Answer

This tension arises because project managers need specific resources to meet their project deadlines and objectives, while resource-based managers aim to optimize the overall utilization and development of resources across all projects and operational work, leading to competing priorities.

Question 13

The agile working methods should ease resource allocation tensions because they eliminate the problem of schedule overrun and hence the retention of resources by a particular project when they are needed on another project.

Accepted Answer

Agile working methods aim to reduce schedule overruns and improve resource allocation by breaking down projects into smaller, more manageable tasks. This allows for more flexibility in resource allocation and reduces the likelihood of resources being tied up on one project when they are needed on another.

Question 14

Regions - typically major cities - where the human resources required for the delivery of projects congregate :
A) Project networks
B) Smart cities
C) Project ecologies
D) Project portfolio

Accepted Answer

Project ecologies refer to the environments or regions, often major cities, where there is a concentration of human resources necessary for the execution of projects. These areas provide a rich pool of talent and resources that facilitate the delivery of various projects.

Question 15

Knowledge that is fully communicable between any two or more individuals. Knowledge that can be traded internationally in the form of intellectual property, or it can be held in secret as proprietary knowledge to gain competitive advantage:
A) Implicit knowledge
B) Stock of information
C) Tacit knowledge
D) Explicit knowledge

Accepted Answer

Explicit knowledge is easily communicated and shared, including in the form of intellectual property or proprietary information, making it fully communicable between individuals or entities.

Question 16

Matching
While utilizing knowledge as a resource is essential in SPO, and many organizations have established strategies for its acquisition and deployment, these often remain ineffective for a number of reasons:
-Time 
A)There are important trade-offs between the centralization of knowledge capture within the organization so that diffusion is maximized, and its decentralization so that more intensive team learning is favoured. In many centralized IT-based systems, senior managers become arbiters of what is appropriate knowledge, and knowledge management becomes seen as a specialist function.
B) In many PBFs, delivering the current project and capturing the next is the overwhelming priority. The time required to take a day for the post-project meeting, to add to the intranet database, to make presentations at professional conferences is all time that is not directly fee-earning.
C) The aim of organizational knowledge strategies is to turn individual learning into organizational learning. This means that incentives are required to encourage people to share their expertise. Where employment relationships are collegial, organizational culture can play an important role in generating incentives; where employment is casualized through project ecologies, there are positive disincentives to share personal learning organizationally.

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

Matching
While utilizing knowledge as a resource is essential in SPO, and many organizations have established strategies for its acquisition and deployment, these often remain ineffective for a number of reasons:
-Incentives
A) There are important trade-offs between the centralization of knowledge capture within the organization so that diffusion is maximized, and its decentralization so that more intensive team learning is favoured. In many centralized IT-based systems, senior managers become arbiters of what is appropriate knowledge, and knowledge management becomes seen as a specialist function.
B) In many PBFs, delivering the current project and capturing the next is the overwhelming priority. The time required to take a day for the post-project meeting, to add to the intranet database, to make presentations at professional conferences is all time that is not directly fee-earning.
C) The aim of organizational knowledge strategies is to turn individual learning into organizational learning. This means that incentives are required to encourage people to share their expertise. Where employment relationships are collegial, organizational culture can play an important role in generating incentives; where employment is casualized through project ecologies, there are positive disincentives to share personal learning organizationally.

Accepted Answer

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While utilizing knowledge as a resource is...

Question 18

Matching
While utilizing knowledge as a resource is essential in SPO, and many organizations have established strategies for its acquisition and deployment, these often remain ineffective for a number of reasons:
-Centralization
A) There are important trade-offs between the centralization of knowledge capture within the organization so that diffusion is maximized, and its decentralization so that more intensive team learning is favoured. In many centralized IT-based systems, senior managers become arbiters of what is appropriate knowledge, and knowledge management becomes seen as a specialist function.
B) In many PBFs, delivering the current project and capturing the next is the overwhelming priority. The time required to take a day for the post-project meeting, to add to the intranet database, to make presentations at professional conferences is all time that is not directly fee-earning.
C) The aim of organizational knowledge strategies is to turn individual learning into organizational learning. This means that incentives are required to encourage people to share their expertise. Where employment relationships are collegial, organizational culture can play an important role in generating incentives; where employment is casualized through project ecologies, there are positive disincentives to share personal learning organizationally.

Accepted Answer

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While utilizing knowledge as a resource is...

Quiz 10: The Resource Interface

The financial resources required for project delivery come from the supplier domain but the human and technological resources required are the responsibilities of the owner domain.

The most important resources on the project are human.

Matching Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of: -R

Matching Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of: -A

Matching Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of: -C

Matching Resources are allocated to the project structure resulting from the design by the PBFs from their resource-based. A valuable tool for doing this is the RACI chart which consists of: -I

In the RACI chart, the difference between Responsible and Accountable is important. The Accountable person organizes execution of the task and leads the task execution team, while the Responsible person appoints the A-person, and ensures that the A-person delivers.

Matching Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects: -Functional project organization

Matching Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects: -Lightweight project organization

Matching Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects: -Heavyweight project organization

Matching Within the project matrix, the balance between the responsibility of the project managers compared to the resource-base managers varies across different projects: -Autonomous project organization

The allocation of human resources to project delivery organizations generates considerable tensions as project managers and resource-base managers compete for resources.

The agile working methods should ease resource allocation tensions because they eliminate the problem of schedule overrun and hence the retention of resources by a particular project when they are needed on another project.

Regions - typically major cities - where the human resources required for the delivery of projects congregate :

Knowledge that is fully communicable between any two or more individuals. Knowledge that can be traded internationally in the form of intellectual property, or it can be held in secret as proprietary knowledge to gain competitive advantage:

Matching While utilizing knowledge as a resource is essential in SPO, and many organizations have established strategies for its acquisition and deployment, these often remain ineffective for a number of reasons: -Time

Matching While utilizing knowledge as a resource is essential in SPO, and many organizations have established strategies for its acquisition and deployment, these often remain ineffective for a number of reasons: -Incentives

Matching While utilizing knowledge as a resource is essential in SPO, and many organizations have established strategies for its acquisition and deployment, these often remain ineffective for a number of reasons: -Centralization