Ch4 Test Bank Answers - Visioning And Inventing

Chapter 04 - Visioning and inventing

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 1

01) The process of imagining how a project will be developed and progressed throughout its lifecycle, and how private advantage and public benefit will be combined in future value:

a. Future perfect thinking

b. Projecting

c. Narrating

d. Shaping

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 2

02) In order to develop the project mission into a compelling narrative for the project that will motivate staff and suppliers and commit stakeholders, it is usually complemented with other materials that communicate the principles underpinning how the project will be done.

a. True

b. False

Type: matching question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 3

03) The project narrative can be communicated in various forms:

Feedback: The project narrative can be communicated in spoken forms (e.g. talks, presentations);

The project narrative can be communicated in written forms (e.g. reports, business cases);

The project narrative can be communicated in visual forms (e.g. videos, pictures, PowerPoint packs).

A-head reference: 4.2

a. Spoken forms = videos, pictures, PowerPoint packs

b. Visual forms = reports, business cases

c. Written forms = talks, presentations

Type: matching question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 4

04) There could be distinguished different types of project narratives:

Feedback: Reference narrative is central to how leaders project under high levels of uncertainty; projecting involves trying to shape that unknowable future in alignment with the project mission;

Ante-narratives (before-narratives) are narratives that are not yet fully formed as project narratives which are still competing for the attention of stakeholders;

Counter-narratives are offer resistance to, either implicitly or explicitly to dominant project narratives.

Project identity narratives are about what project managers tell the team in order to achieve shared understanding and commitment during delivery.

A-head reference: 4.3

a. Counter-narratives = Narratives that are about the what project managers tell the team in order to achieve shared understanding and commitment

b. Project identity narratives = Central to how leaders project under high levels of uncertainty; projecting involves trying to shape that unknowable future in alignment with the project mission

c. Ante-narratives = Narratives that offer resistance to, either implicitly or explicitly to dominant project narratives

d. Reference narratives = Narratives that are not yet fully formed as project narratives are still competing for the attention of stakeholders

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 5

05) Project image is conveyed internally to the project team and the supply chain whereas project identity is projected to external stakeholders such as investors, campaigners, and policymakers.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 6

06) Constructing a favourable project image narrative is of high importance as the inability to garner legitimacy and support of external stakeholders can affect the delivery of project outputs.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 7

07) Project narratives are temporal in nature so that they do change throughout a project lifecycle.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 8

08) A step change in best practice that could be a product, process and service new to the specific context, not necessarily to the world, that could be economic, environmental, or societal benefits for the owner and its stakeholders:

a. Innovating

b. Designing

c. Creating

d. Engaging

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 04 Question 9

09) Innovating on projects is fundamentally about problem-solving in order to deliver on the owner’s project mission – the more complex that mission is, the more challenging that will be.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 04 Question 10

10) The role in an organization in stimulating and promoting innovation in projects:

a. Owners.

b. Innovators

c. Facilitators

d. Innovation champions