Human resource management week 2 assignment

Please select the correct answers from the multiple questions

Question 1

What is a downside of innovating new best practices with current business operations?

It is hard and should not be done.

Contracts and agreements might have to be adjusted when innovating.

Why change?

There are no downsides; things need to always be changing.

Question 2

Which of these is the lowest level of complexity of standards and best practices?

PMI professional standards

Company-specific standards

Project-specific standards

Industry standards

Question 3

Which of these is a parent organization variable?

How well the PM is liked

A willingness to adapt to change

The economy

The team members

Question 4

A major disadvantage of a pure product organization is which of these?

Lack of sharing people resources

Long lead times

Disconnection to corporate

No project management function

Question 5

What is the difference between lessons learned and best practices?

Best practices are always the result of lessons learned.

Lessons learned can be favorable or unfavorable, whereas best practices usually have favorable outcomes.

Lessons learned are only unfavorable and best practices are favorable outcomes.

There is no difference between lessons learned and best practices.

Question 6

The success of a project manager depends on many factors. They interact with upper-level management, the C-suite, and many others in the organization. What are the four variables that can help determine their success?

Credibility, Priority, Accessibility, Visibility

Credibility, Priority, Demeanor, Leadership

Approach, Priority, Political Savvy, Visibility

Approach, Demeanor, Political Savvy, Leadership

Question 7

Which of these refer to best practices?

Processes that a company adopts to manage things

The everyday process that every project manager does

Activities that lead to a sustained competitive advantage in project management

Only items in the PMBOK

Question 8

Which of these refer to lessons learned?

Make an important process to identify concerns and issue changes to not repeat

Know anything can be held at any point in the project

Place a required meeting to have at the end to signify closure

Allow every team member to complain about what went wrong

Question 9

Which of these best describes product management?

Operates only vertically in an organization focused on the products

Operates horizontally and vertically in an organization focused on the products

Operates only horizontally in an organization focused on the products

Question 10

Why should the term “best practice” be replaced with “proven practice”?

Best practice is an older buzzword and proven practice is the new buzzword.

A proven practice will always work and will never need to be replaced.

A proven practice is proven to be effective in the organization; a best practice might not work in every organization

We want proof it works.

Question 11

What is an example of an attribute that top management expects from project managers?

A self-starter

Do what they are told

Never disagree with leadership

Always provide positive status reports

Question 12

A pure product organization (that is “projectized”) is characterized by which of these?

No or poor service

Every product for themselves

Shorter lead times than in the past

Many cross functional teams from all over the organization