Test Bank for Information Technology Project Management Revised 6th Edition Kathy Schwalbe 38

Test Bank for Information Technology Project Management Revised 6th Edition Kathy Schwalbe 38 Until the 1980s, project management primarily focused on providing schedule and resource data to top management in the military, computer, and construction industries. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 2 2. A research report showed that the U.S. spends $2.3 trillion on projects every year, an amount equal to 40 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 3 3. One attribute that helps define a project is that a project has a unique purpose. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 7 4. A project should be developed using progressive elaboration, starting from specific details and broadening in scope as it progresses. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 7 5. Projects are often defined narrowly when they begin. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 7 6. Projects rarely involve uncertainty. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 8 7. Every project is constrained in different ways by its scope and cost goals; these limitations are sometimes referred to in project management as the double constraint. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 8 8. Questions about how long a project’s schedule should be are related to the issue of the project’s scope. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 8 9. Because projects involve uncertainty and limited resources, projects rarely finish according to discrete scope, time, and cost goals as originally planned. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 8 10. Managing the triple constraint involves making trade-offs between scope, time, and cost goals for a project. ANS: T