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You are a Project Manager managing a large team at diversified locations. There are many groups
within a project like architects, human resources, legal, quality engineers, etc. with their own
hierarchy and reporting structure. In order to ensure that each team member has clarity on their
own and other members’ reporting structure, you decide to capture all of this information
graphically. Which of the following documents will you be using for this purpose?
a) Project Organization Chart
b) Resource Breakdown Structure
c) Organization Breakdown Structure
d) Resource Assignment Matrix
Answer: (a) Project Organization Chart. A project organization chart is part of the human resource
plan and displays project team members and their reporting structure. Depending on the project
requirements, team size and their reporting hierarchy, this chart could be highly detailed or broadly
framed. Please refer PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition pg. 319.
44. A Project Manager wants to capture information related to staff acquisition and release, training
needs, resource calendar, recognition, and rewards. Which of the following documents would be
most appropriate?
a) Project Management Plan
b) Staffing Management Plan
c) Project Staff Assignments
d) Issue Log
Answer: (b) Staffing management plan. A staffing management plan which is part of the human
resource plan describes when and how human resource requirements will be met. Option (a) project
management plan may or may not contain a staffing management plan; hence (b) is a better option.
Option (c) Project staff assignments is an output of the ‘acquire project team’ process and can
include project team directories, memos to team members, etc. Option (d) issue log is used for
capturing project issues and is not the correct answer. Please refer to PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition
pg. 96.
45. You are a Project Manager in a functional structure organization, hence it is important that you
negotiate suitable resources for your project from the functional manager. Which of the following
tools could be a valuable asset to prove your project resource requirements to the functional
manager?
a) Staffing Management Plan
b) Network Diagram and Project Schedule
c) Resource Assignment Matrix
d) Project organization chart
Answer: (b) Network Diagram and Project Schedule. Project schedule along with network diagram
(that graphically represents the project schedule) provides the most convincing visual proof of the
resource requirements in the project and shall be used during resource negotiation by Project