ITPEC IP April 2020 Question 56

Applied when a team is created to construct a system — project management fits work that is temporary and aims at a specific result.

Building a system has a goal, a start and an end, a budget and a team assembled for it. Project management methods (WBS, scheduling, cost and quality control, risk management) exist to plan and control exactly this kind of one-off undertaking until the goal is reached.

Answer (d)

Why not others:

• •(a) — routine operation of a computer system is continuing, repeated work, handled by operations and service management, not as a project
• •(b) — standards for setting prices when work is outsourced are procurement and contract rules; they are not a way of running a project
• •(c) — defining the roles of a permanent department is organizational design; a department continues indefinitely, unlike a project

Key rule: Use project management for a temporary effort with a specific goal; ongoing, repeated work is operations and is managed differently.

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