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ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Social Media - ✔✔Assume anything you post is public and will remain forever
✔✔Self-promoting - ✔✔Art of communicating your value to others
✔✔Your brand - ✔✔What people say about you when you're not in the room
✔✔Networking - ✔✔Act or process of expanding your professional connections
✔✔Effective - ✔✔successful in producing a desired or intended result
✔✔Efficient - ✔✔achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or
expense
✔✔Project - ✔✔Fixed time frame, temporary, specific pre-defined purpose, distinct
results, high risk, multi step, requires others, interconnected tasks
✔✔Task - ✔✔Ongoing time frame, more routine, limited risk, single step, completed by
one person
✔✔Project owner - ✔✔Person who initiates or sponsors the project and defines high-
level requirements
✔✔Stakeholder - ✔✔People impacted by outcome of project
✔✔Deliverables - ✔✔Specific, tangible outcomes produced as a result of the project
✔✔Scope - ✔✔Goals and parameters of the project
✔✔Project Success Factors - ✔✔Was it completed?
On (or under) budget?
On time?
Did it meet the original goal or stated business objective?
✔✔Stages of Project Management - ✔✔Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring,
Closing
✔✔Precedent task - ✔✔Must be completed before another task can be done
✔✔Dependent task - ✔✔Can only be done after another task is completed
, ✔✔Concurrent task - ✔✔A task that can be completed at the same time as another
task.
✔✔Safety Margin - ✔✔Additional time added to estimates to deal with the unexpected
(50%)
✔✔Gnatt Chart - ✔✔Visual representation of a project that illustrates a variety of
elements at a glance
✔✔Switch Tasking - ✔✔Rapidly switching from one task to another
✔✔Background tasking - ✔✔Tasks that can be done simultaneously because one or
both of them does not require mental effort
✔✔Rapid refocus - ✔✔Ability to focus fully on the task at hand and then smoothly
transition that concentration wholly to the next task
✔✔Batching - ✔✔Process of doing all items that are similar in nature in one period of
time to reduce ramp up and slow down time
✔✔Time blocking - ✔✔Marking time on the calendar to focus on one specific item or a
batch of items
✔✔Parkinson's Law - ✔✔work expands or contrasts to fill the time available for its
completion
✔✔Systems - ✔✔Existing processes by which tasks are completed
✔✔Systems Components - ✔✔Clear, consistent, correct, consensual, concrete
✔✔Six Sigma - ✔✔A methodology for process improvement
✔✔Opportunity cost - ✔✔Cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue
a certain action
✔✔Activity log - ✔✔Logs all activity in each day
✔✔Time management matrix - ✔✔Categorizes tasks based on importance and urgency
✔✔Paired comparison matrix - ✔✔Helps you understand the value of each task as it
relates to other tasks
✔✔Events - ✔✔Special, large in scale, requires more resources, planning and time
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Social Media - ✔✔Assume anything you post is public and will remain forever
✔✔Self-promoting - ✔✔Art of communicating your value to others
✔✔Your brand - ✔✔What people say about you when you're not in the room
✔✔Networking - ✔✔Act or process of expanding your professional connections
✔✔Effective - ✔✔successful in producing a desired or intended result
✔✔Efficient - ✔✔achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or
expense
✔✔Project - ✔✔Fixed time frame, temporary, specific pre-defined purpose, distinct
results, high risk, multi step, requires others, interconnected tasks
✔✔Task - ✔✔Ongoing time frame, more routine, limited risk, single step, completed by
one person
✔✔Project owner - ✔✔Person who initiates or sponsors the project and defines high-
level requirements
✔✔Stakeholder - ✔✔People impacted by outcome of project
✔✔Deliverables - ✔✔Specific, tangible outcomes produced as a result of the project
✔✔Scope - ✔✔Goals and parameters of the project
✔✔Project Success Factors - ✔✔Was it completed?
On (or under) budget?
On time?
Did it meet the original goal or stated business objective?
✔✔Stages of Project Management - ✔✔Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring,
Closing
✔✔Precedent task - ✔✔Must be completed before another task can be done
✔✔Dependent task - ✔✔Can only be done after another task is completed
, ✔✔Concurrent task - ✔✔A task that can be completed at the same time as another
task.
✔✔Safety Margin - ✔✔Additional time added to estimates to deal with the unexpected
(50%)
✔✔Gnatt Chart - ✔✔Visual representation of a project that illustrates a variety of
elements at a glance
✔✔Switch Tasking - ✔✔Rapidly switching from one task to another
✔✔Background tasking - ✔✔Tasks that can be done simultaneously because one or
both of them does not require mental effort
✔✔Rapid refocus - ✔✔Ability to focus fully on the task at hand and then smoothly
transition that concentration wholly to the next task
✔✔Batching - ✔✔Process of doing all items that are similar in nature in one period of
time to reduce ramp up and slow down time
✔✔Time blocking - ✔✔Marking time on the calendar to focus on one specific item or a
batch of items
✔✔Parkinson's Law - ✔✔work expands or contrasts to fill the time available for its
completion
✔✔Systems - ✔✔Existing processes by which tasks are completed
✔✔Systems Components - ✔✔Clear, consistent, correct, consensual, concrete
✔✔Six Sigma - ✔✔A methodology for process improvement
✔✔Opportunity cost - ✔✔Cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue
a certain action
✔✔Activity log - ✔✔Logs all activity in each day
✔✔Time management matrix - ✔✔Categorizes tasks based on importance and urgency
✔✔Paired comparison matrix - ✔✔Helps you understand the value of each task as it
relates to other tasks
✔✔Events - ✔✔Special, large in scale, requires more resources, planning and time
