Assembling the Right Quantity and Variety of Skills and Experience

question 43

Multiple Choice

Assembling the right quantity and variety of skills and experience for the project team can be quite challenging. One strategy is to staff the project with a combination of experienced and less experienced workers. All of the following are benefits associated with this approach EXCEPT:

• A) It often costs less to use an inexperienced person.
• B) The project manager can dominate the more junior team members
• C) It helps to achieve organizational learning.
• D) The more experienced person can mentor the inexperienced person.

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Definitions:

Dispersed Distribution

Refers to how spread out or scattered the data points are within a distribution.

Weighted Mean

An average in which each quantity to be averaged is assigned a weight, reflecting its importance or frequency.

Geometric Mean

The nth root of the product of n numbers, used to calculate average rates of return or growth over time for variables that fluctuate multiplicatively.

Data Value

A specific piece of information, often numerical, that is collected, analyzed, or stored as part of a data set.