ISEB ISEB-PM1 Exam A project manager needs the project team to make a group decision. Which of the following is a method that can be used to reach a group decision?

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Options

• AExpert judgment
• BMajority
• CSWOT analysis
• DBrainstorming

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  75% (21)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  14% (4)

Explanation

Majority is a recognized group decision-making technique where the group votes and the option receiving more than half the votes is selected. It's one of several formal methods (alongside unanimity, plurality, and autocratic decision) that project managers use to drive a team toward a collective outcome.

• A (Expert judgment) is wrong because it relies on input from one or more specialists - it's an information-gathering or estimation technique, not a group decision method.
• C (SWOT analysis) is wrong because it's a strategic planning tool used to evaluate Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats - useful for analysis, not for reaching a decision.
• D (Brainstorming) is wrong because it's an idea-generation technique used to produce options, not to select among them.

Memory tip: Think of group decision methods as things that end in a verdict - Majority, Unanimity, Plurality, Autocratic. Tools like brainstorming or SWOT feed into a decision but don't make one. If the answer sounds like a vote or ruling, it's a decision method.

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