Product Director: We Need to Pick the Best Manager for the Prensabi

question 99

Multiple Choice

Product Director: We need to pick the best manager for the Prensabi software project. The project involves the latest technology and is very complicated. For example, this project uses a technology called Stage, which is a motion-capture technique that does not require actors to wear specialized gear to record their movements. Since this is a technical project that requires strong technical skills, we should pick the manager with the strongest technical skills.

Executive: The manager needs some familiarity with the technology, but he or she won't actually be writing the software code. The bigger challenge here is to analyze the goals of the project and make sure that it is being developed according to a strong overall vision. That's why we should insist that the manager have outstanding conceptual skills.
Which of the following, if true, would weaken the product director's argument?

• A) The project manager with the weakest technical skills also has the weakest human skills.
• B) The Prensabi project is so large that the project manager for the Prensabi project will be unable to take on any other projects until the Prensabi project is finished.
• C) The requirements of the Prensabi project are highly unusual.
• D) The project manager with the strongest technical skills has no experience with motion-capture technology.
• E) The project manager with the strongest conceptual skills has the weakest technical skills.

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