October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
23h 9m
English
Content preview from Effective Project Management: Traditional, Agile, Extreme, Sixth Edition
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Discussion Questions
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of confirming the accuracy of status reports filed by your team members?
- You correctly defined and introduced the Scope Bank to your client, who initially agreed to use it. However, the client seems to have forgotten their agreement. The Scope Bank needs a deposit in order to process a new change request, and the client insists on integrating the most recent change request without removing any functions or features not yet integrated into the solution. You are at an impasse. How will you resolve the stalemate?
CASE STUDY – PIZZA DELIVERED QUICKLY (PDQ)
The project work is soon to begin, and you are conferring with your team members to decide on reporting requirements and frequency. Take into account the stakeholders in this project and what their needs might be. Refer back to the case study background statement in this book's “Introduction” for the input you will need to answer the following questions:
3. Who are the people that you need to hear from to determine whether they are satisfied with your progress on this project?
4. How will you get information from your team and distribute it to the other stakeholders for this project?
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