Project Management Failure Modes
A scenario-based Quiz about why projects slip, grow, stall, or become confusing. Each Question names a recognizable project smell and uses the Explanation to teach the underlying failure mode.
Questions
- Not answered. A feature keeps gaining small requirements after work starts. What failure mode is this?
- Not answered. Which signs suggest a dependency risk?
- Not answered. What project-management term fits a blocker that was not visible in the plan?
- Not answered. Why can starting more tasks make a project finish later?
- Not answered. A team ignores past overruns and predicts the next similar project will be quick. What bias is showing?
- Not answered. Which causes commonly make an estimate too optimistic?
- Not answered. A design is handed to engineering without states, constraints, or acceptance criteria. What is the main failure mode?
- Not answered. What problem does a shared Definition of Done mainly prevent?
- Not answered. Which signals point to unclear ownership?
- Not answered. In RACI, which letter names the role ultimately answerable for a deliverable?
- Not answered. Which project smell points most directly to late risk discovery?
- Not answered. A late software project adds more engineers and becomes slower. Which idea explains why?