True/False Questions
1. Project management is the process of scoping, planning, staffing, organizing, directing, and controlling the development of an acceptable system at a minimum cost within a specified time frame.
Answer: True Page: 121 LOD: Easy
2. The causes of failed projects include shortcuts taken during the project, expectations mismanagement, lack of or unreasonably precise targets, poor estimating techniques, budget overruns, missed schedules, and lack of management and leadership.
Answer: True Page: 122 LOD: Easy
3. Feature creep is the uncontrolled addition of technical features to a system under development without regard to schedule and budget.
Answer: True Page: 122 LOD: Easy
4. A common and effective project management technique is to assign more people to the team if a project gets behind schedule.
Answer: False Page: 122 LOD: Medium
Rationale: This is the mythical man-month. There is no linear relationship between time and number of personnel. The addition of people often creates more communication problems, causing the project to get further behind schedule.
5. A project is considered successful if, (1) the resulting information system is acceptable to the customer; (2) the system was delivered on time; (3) the system was within budget; and (4) the system development process had a minimal impact on ongoing business operations.
Answer: True Page: 121 LOD: Easy
6. One key to successful project management is to commit to a fixed budge and schedule as early as possible and then stick to it.
Answer: False Page: 122 LOD: Hard
Rationale: Premature commitment to a fixed budge and schedule is one of the common project mismanagement problems.
7. Over-optimism is the tendency for systems analysts and project managers to fail to recognize that project slips in one phase or activity can cause corresponding slips in many other phases and activities, and...