Technology Project Management Flashcards
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Which document formalizes the business case, objectives, and initial scope of an AI consulting project at inception?
Answer: Project charter
The project charter is the founding document that authorizes the project and defines high-level objectives and constraints.
An AI project is in its third sprint when the client discovers the training dataset contains PII that wasn't disclosed. The project manager's FIRST action should be:
Answer: Immediately pause data processing and escalate to legal and compliance teams
PII exposure is a compliance and legal issue that must be escalated immediately to prevent regulatory violations.
In technology project management, 'technical debt' in an AI context most often refers to:
Answer: Shortcuts in model development that increase future maintenance burden
AI technical debt includes hardcoded preprocessing, undocumented pipelines, and brittle model code that slows future iteration.
A project manager needs to communicate an AI model's limitations to a non-technical executive. The MOST effective approach is to:
Answer: Present business-impact scenarios showing when the model succeeds and fails
Business-impact scenarios translate technical limitations into language executives use to assess risk and make decisions.
Which scheduling tool is BEST suited for visualizing dependencies between AI project phases like data collection, feature engineering, model training, and deployment?
Answer: A Gantt chart with task dependencies
Gantt charts visualize task sequences, durations, and dependencies, making project phase scheduling transparent to all stakeholders.
When an AI consulting project transitions from development to production, which handoff artifact is MOST critical for the client's operations team?
Answer: Runbooks documenting model retraining, monitoring, and incident response procedures
Runbooks give operations teams the procedures to maintain, monitor, and respond to issues with the live AI system.
A client's AI project budget has a 20% contingency reserve. When should this reserve be used?
Answer: Only for identified risks that materialize as actual problems
Contingency reserves are allocated for known risks that occur, not routine costs or scope additions.