PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT
DIRECTIONS
Answer the following questions using the information presented in class and available in the text. This paper is open-book and open-note and is to be completed individually.
Paper Questions-
1. Identify and describe two ways to classify projects with scheduling problems.
2. List and describe the disadvantages of resource leveling or smoothing.
3. Why should project managers be cautious about using the splitting scheduling technique?
4. Why is it important to make efforts to identify resource scheduling problems before the project is implemented?
5. If your project has spent $50,000 versus a budget of $45,000 and it is a week ahead of schedule, is it a certainty that your project is doing well? Explain why or why not.
6. Identify and briefly describe the six reasons for attempting to reduce the duration of a project.
7. What is crashing? (Include a discussion of crash time and crash cost).
8. Why should a project manager be cautious when adding resources to reduce project duration?
9. The easiest way to add more labor to a project is not to add more people, but to schedule overtime. What are the disadvantages of scheduling overtime?
10. What does it mean to say that a project network is sensitive and why is that important to a project manager who needs to reduce the duration of his or her project?
11. "Managing a project and leading a project is essentially the same thing." Agree or disagree. Support your conclusion.
12. Identify and describe the five commonly traded organizational currencies.
13. What is "management by wandering (walking) around" and why would it be useful to project managers?
14. Identify and describe the eight traits associated with being a successful project manager.
15. "All the eight traits of being a good project manager can be taught and learned." Agree or disagree? Support your conclusion.
16. Identify and describe the four steps in creating a control process that measures and evaluates project performance.
17. In reviewing the budget report of a project, you notice that spending on the project is running about ten percent over plan. Is the project in trouble? Why or why not, and what would you do?
18. Schedule variance (SV) is in dollars and does not directly represent time. Is it still useful? Why or why not? Support your conclusion.
19. What is scope creep and how does it impact project control?
20. What is a "rubber baseline" and how does it undermine project control?
21. Before an evaluation of the project team can be effective and useful, a minimum core of conditions needs to be in place before the project begins. Identify and describe four of these conditions.
22. During the closure process, how does the project manager meet the challenge to keep the project team focused on the remaining project activities and delivery to the customer until the project is complete?
23. Identify three reasons it is important to use an independent facilitator to collect and implement lessons learned to improve management of current and future projects.
24. What are the six barriers to effective lessons learned?
25. Identify and describe the five common parts to a final project report. Which is considered the most valuable and why? Support your conclusion.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.