Which of the following tasks prepares the technical management plan in planning the technical effort?

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Options

• ATask 10
• BTask 9
• CTask 7
• DTask 8

• B
  92% (23)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Task 9 is correct because it is specifically designated as the task responsible for preparing the Technical Management Plan (TMP) - the foundational document that governs how the technical effort will be organized, executed, and controlled throughout a project. In most systems engineering frameworks (such as INCOSE), tasks within the Technical Planning process are assigned distinct, sequential responsibilities, and Task 9 is the one explicitly mapped to TMP preparation.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• Task 7 (C) typically addresses defining the technical effort scope or establishing the technical approach, not writing the plan itself.
• Task 8 (D) generally focuses on identifying technical risks or constraints that feed into the plan rather than authoring it.
• Task 10 (A) usually comes after plan preparation - commonly involving review, approval, or baseline establishment of the plan.

Memory tip: Think of the tasks as a pipeline - scope → inputs → WRITE THE PLAN (Task 9) → approve. Task 9 sits at the center of that pipeline because you can't write the plan until you've gathered inputs (Task 8) and can't approve it until it's written. Nine = "nailing it down" on paper.

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