Virtual Design quiz 3
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. The Virtual Design Team (VDT) paper describes the VDT framework, which provides the theoretical basis for SimVision. Which of the following statements is true about the VDT/SimVision project model?
The Virtual Design Team (VDT) paper describes the VDT framework, which provides the theoretical basis for SimVision. Which of the following statements is true about the VDT/SimVision project model?
a) The VDT organization-process model represents activities or tasks (rectangles) and actors of a project, as does the traditional CPM model
b) The VDT organization-process model represents Reports-to among actors relationships, shown by lines
c) The VDT organization-process model represents Responsible-for relationships between actors and activities, shown by lines
d) The VDT organization-process model represents Successors, Reciprocal-Information-Dependence, and Failure-dependence among activities relationships by lines
e) Only a, b and c
f) All of a – d
g) None of a – d
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. The paper makes which of the following statements about the VDT micro theory of project organizations?
The paper makes which of the following statements about the VDT micro theory of project organizations?
a) The basic premise of the VDT model is that organizations are fundamentally information-processing and working structures that work and move information.
b) Actors send and receive messages along specific lines of communication (e.g., formal lines of authority) via communication tools at (fast) Internet speeds.
c) “Exceptions” are unsolicited offers of advice or direction when local knowledge or authority is sufficient to deal with the information processing requirements posed by an actor’s activity.
d) The organization’s information processing capacity, in the VDT view, is limited both by the bounded rationality (Simon 1976) of the actors, or their limited ability to do perfect work, and by the limited information carrying capacity of the information “channels” that connect actors.
e) Only a, b and c
f) All of a – d
g) None of a – d
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. The VDT/SimVision model includes which of the following inputs and outputs?
The VDT/SimVision model includes which of the following inputs and outputs?
a) Controls (“Assumed Model”) include all definitions of Organization (structure), Process description (activities), Actors and Communication tools
b) Inputs (variables) include all definitions of Organization (structure), Process description (activities), Actors and Communication tools
c) Mechanisms (“System”) include Actor and Activity micro-behaviors, including tasks stochastically succeeding or failing and actors deciding which task to do next when there are several possible tasks awaiting attention
d) Outputs include project product quality, process quality, total cost, time, task durations and actor backlog, all of which are predicted
e) Only a, b and c
f) All of a – d
g) None of a – d
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. In which of the following ways are the Critical Path and VDT models are similar?
In which of the following ways are the Critical Path and VDT models are similar?
a) Like conventional Critical Path Method (CPM) activity models, the VDT activity model explicitly represents the coordination among specialists assigned to interdependent activities.
b) Like conventional Critical Path Method (CPM) activity models, the VDT model represents sequential dependency relationships among activities,
c) Like conventional Critical Path Method (CPM) activity models, the VDT model represents activity coordination requirements in terms of verification failure probability arising from activity complexity, and information exchange communication intensity arising from activity uncertainty and interdependence.
d) Like conventional Critical Path Method (CPM) activity models, the VDT model represents coordination activity, i.e., exception processing and communication among interdependent actors, and rework on failed and dependent subtasks as inputs to describe the direct work by actors with interdependent activities and assigned organizational roles.
e) Only a, b and c
f) All of a – d
g) None of a – c
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. The VDT project model represents which of the following attributes?
The VDT project model represents which of the following attributes?
a) Centralization of decision-making responsibility (high, medium, low);
b) Formalization of communications in memos, organized meetings (high, medium, low);
c) How frequently the actor responsible for an activity (probably) needs to communicate with the actors responsible for functionally interdependent activities;
d) Probability that each subtask comprising the activity “fails” in the verification that occurs as it is completed and the failure causes internal rework (%) or rework in other activities (%);
e) Only a, b and c
f) All of a – d
g) None of a – c
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