1. There are many types of formal management plans (scope, schedule, communication, etc.,) that should be created in order to complete a project on time and within budget. Consider the group project that you worked on for this class and choose one type of management plan that you wish had been formally in place for your project. Discuss how a formal management plan (for whichever category you choose) could have improved the project experience for stakeholders and how not having such a plan in place may have made some aspects of the project more challenging. Conclude your essay with a final paragraph that extends the concept from your specific project to a general project. (NOTE: To answer properly probably requires at least ½ page single spaced or one page double spaced).
2. You are working on your research and development project when your customer asks you to include a particular component in the project. You know that this represents new work, and you do not have excess funds available. Discuss how you would handle this situation. (NOTE: To answer properly probably requires at least ½ page single spaced or one page double spaced).
3. You are the IT Project Manager for an implementation of seven new servers. The scope of the project is to install and configure a new network operating system for your organization. Three of the servers are to be located in your company headquarters in New York. Two are to be installed in the Denver office, and two in the Miami office. The servers have been successfully installed in New York and Denver, but Rocky, the network administrator in Miami has yet to install the servers. He reports that he is leery of moving from his current, stable environment to the new operating system the servers provide. You have insisted that he install the servers as planned to complete the project. A week has passed and Rocky has still not completed the installation. What steps would you take to ensure the installation is completed? (NOTE: To answer properly probably requires at least ½ page single spaced or one page double spaced).
4. Company X just fired their project manager during the very early development phase of project Y.