1. MBAX 6440 Authority and roles & Responsibilities
Project Management
MBAX 6440
Authority and roles & Responsibilities

2. What is Responsibility?

3. Moral, legal or mental accountability!
Responsibility Is!
Moral, legal or mental accountability!

4. What is Authority?

5. Authority Is? Power to influence or command thought!
How is this different than responsibility?
Which do you need to be successful?
Let’s identify what you need for your projects?

6. What is Synergy?

7. What is Synergy?
When two or more people work together to solve a problem!
What does together mean to you?
Skills matrix
Responsibility Matrix

8. What are Deliverables?

9. What are Deliverables?
Deliverables are project output, what you must create in order to achieve your project objectives!
Project charter
Review case study deliverables
Your project deliverables?

10. What is Integration Management?
The most heavily tested knowledge area on the exam
Includes the processes required to ensure the various elements of a project are properly coordinated
Involves making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives in order to meet project objectives

11. What is Integration Management?
Keys to successful integration management are:
Effective change control and communications
Early problem identification and resolution

12. Organization Structures?
Functional
Projectized
Matrix (weak to strong)
Discuss examples

13. PMP Integration Questions Review
For project integration to be the most effective, it usually requires a focus on:
The personal ambitions of team members
Regular updates to the project plan
Effective communications at key interface points
Effective internal controls

14. PMP Questions Review
A major disadvantage of the projectized organization structure is the following:
a. Multiple boss reporting
b. Redundant resources
c. Deep functional expertise
d. Project manager has responsibility without authority

15. PMP Questions Review Integration is the responsibility of the:
Project team
Project manager
Management
Stakeholders

16. PMP Questions Review
The customer requests a change to the project which doesn’t affect the timeline and is simple to complete; what should the project manager do FIRST?
Make the change
Request permission to make the change from the change control committee
Evaluate each of the other triple constraints
Inform the sponsor of the change being made

17. PMP Questions Review The benefit of project management is:
Executive identification of problems so customer’s needs can be addressed quickly
Early identification of problems so the project manager can quickly address them
Standard methodology that is used the same way on every project
Early identification of problems so the customer can be notified quickly