IPA IP 2021 Question 42
A question IPA Japan published in 令和3年度 ITパスポート試験 公開問題 問42, translated into English. ITPEC is based on the same exams.
In a system development project, it was decided to additionally create a program in order to respond to a request from users. In order to create this program, it was decided to assign a programmer who had finished creating the preceding programs. Then, the schedule was changed so that all of the programs could be created by the planned start date of the integration test, and the new plan was made known within the project. Which of the following is the activity that manages change requests in this way?
Explanation
Project integration management — the change touched scope, staffing and schedule at once, and handling a change request across all of them is integration management.
The users' request added a program (scope), a programmer was assigned to it (resources), the schedule was revised to keep the start date of the integration test (schedule), and the new plan was made known to the project. Integration management is the knowledge area that ties the others together. Its integrated change control reviews each change request, weighs its effects on scope, schedule, cost and resources together, approves or rejects it, and updates and communicates the project plan.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) Project resource management — acquires and assigns people and equipment; assigning the programmer is only one part of the response
- •(b) Project scope management — defines and controls the deliverables and the work; adding the program is one part, but not the staffing and the new schedule
- •(c) Project schedule management — draws up and controls the schedule; changing it is one part, but not the decisions on scope and staff
Key rule: A change request handled across several areas at once, with the overall plan updated and shared, is integration management (integrated change control).
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