Quizzes, Templates, Project Files, and Videos:
Note to all users of my book: Please provide your suggestions for the next edition coming out later this year. Thanks! Kathy Schwalbe schwalbe@augsburg.edu
- New (Feb 2021): A few people have had problems accessing quizzes, and someone asked if I would post them all in a pdf. Here it is: proprofs quizzes
- Interactive multiple-choice quizzes: Click on the chapter name to go to that quiz. Note: If you ever get an error message, please email me at schwalbe@augsburg.edu. The site I use now limits the number of users, so I have to delete users every now and then. Also, if you’re using Safari for your browser, you may have to change some settings. See this link. Thanks.
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 - Interactive true/false quizzes
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 - New Quiz with sample PMP exam questions. Note that many questions are longer, as PMI likes to have longer, situational questions on the exam.
- Note: See the home page (www.intropm.com) for the templates and Microsoft Project files and the Links tab for many other resources.
Video Highlights
Chapter 1
- PMI Project of the Year Awards: Read the page to find a few videos of award-winning projects
- History of Project Management (music only) (5 minutes 26 seconds)
- Author’s Perspective by Mark Kozak-Holland (5 minutes 5 seconds)
Chapter 2
- Maximise the Power of Your Brain – Tony Buzan on mind mapping (5 minutes 39 seconds)
- How to Make a Mind Map – The Basics – McGrercy Consultants (2 minutes 52 seconds)
- How To Make A Mind Map – Version 1 by ukbraintrainer ( 2 minutes 55 seconds)
Chapter 3
- TEDxRainier – Joe Justice – WikiSpeed (9:56)
- Scrum in 10 Minutes (8 minutes 52 seconds)
- Intro to Kanban in Under 5 Minutes (4 minutes 9 seconds)
Chapter 4
- How to Create WBS – Brainstorm and Organize Planning Content by Jim Franklin (3:48)
- Work Breakdown Structure demonstration by Andy Kaufman (8:57)
- How to Plan Projects with your Team by Jennifer Bridges (3:07)
- Tips to Perfect the Project Planning Process by Jennifer Bridges (4:40)
Chapter 5
- Embracing agile Harvard Business Review (4:20)
- Agile alliance videos (various) Public videos are free
Chapter 6
- Titanic Movie Trailer (4 minutes 10 seconds)
- Titanic Project Management Blunders (19 minutes 12 seconds)
Chapter 7
- Jimmy Kimmel Handsome Men’s Club (9 minutes 26 seconds)
- Dan Pink’s Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (10 minutes 48 seconds)
Chapter 8
- Myki embarrasses the Government (2 minutes 4 seconds)
- Not so smart (1 minute 42 seconds)
- Police could be called in to control myki barriers (3 minutes 19 seconds)
Chapter 9
- Challenger disaster live on CNN (2 minutes 24 seconds)
- Challenger’s lessons still echo 25 years later (2 minutes 23 seconds)
Chapter 10
11 Ted Talks Every Project Manager Should Watch (see titles and lengths below)
- Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed [12:20]
- Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation [18:32]
- Itay Talgam: Lead Like the Great Conductors [20:44]
- Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend [14:25]
- Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify [11:58]
- David Allen: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity [22:15]
- Navi Radjou: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits [16:25]
- David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings [6:40]
- Tom Wujec: Build a tower, build a team [6:44]
- What It Takes to Be a Great Leader by Roselinde Torres [9:15]
- Julia Galef: Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong [11:37]
Additional Videos
- Lots of short training videos at projectmanager.com
- Several Project Online videos by a Microsoft expert
- The presentation skills of Steve Jobs (7 minutes)
- An introduction to project management using the great pyramids as an example by Dr. Linda Henderson (6 minutes 14 seconds)
- Here’s a great “solution” to the Project Management Videos case study in my third edition. Students at Weber State University acted out a silent film entitled, “If there were a project manager in fairy tale times.” You can see their work here (10 minutes 41 seconds).
- Link to a youtube playlist for my new book on healthcare project management
Corrections
Even after three reviewers and proofreader read this new edition, I still found a few corrections, listed below by page number. If you find more, please email me at schwalbe@augsburg.edu. Thanks!
- 21st bullet, second line, change 2017 to 2027.
- 30 1. D Change 22% to 33% so that it is false and the correct answer. Currently all answers are true.
- 35 Add stakeholder management to knowledge areas definition here and in the glossary
- 69 First key term, capitalize “able”
- 86 figure 307, delete the words “Axis Title” at the bottom of the figure
- 87 last line, insert “and assumptions log” after charter
- 106 Question 1, delete option E. closing
- 106 Question 2, change “monitoring and controlling” to “closing.” As the questions reads now, both B and D are true
- 181 second last line, change “time” to “schedule.”
- 187 last two lines, capitalize “when” in each line
- 244 last paragraph. Risk management does include a process under executing, so deleting wording to the contrary
- 301 change “time” to “schedule” for the third knowledge area in the table
- 452 delete detailed table of contents
- 453 delete second bulleted item
Test bank correction for chapter 7. The following fill-in-the-blank question answer should be D instead of C. Here’s the question:
_______________ can assist in ensuring and improving quality by improving work flow.
A. Pareto C. Fishbone or Ishikawa
B. Mind map D. Kanban