PROJ-430 Advanced Project Management Week 7 Checkpoint, All questions answered, A+ Tutorial

Summary Questions

This week’s set of questions will pull together many of the concepts covered throughout the course. As with your previous Checkpoint assignments, you are expected to exercise good observation and thorough critical thinking skills. You are also expected to use good writing skills, with good grammar and spelling. You should prepare your answers in Microsoft Word prior to entering them in to the Checkpoint tab. Use the functions of Microsoft Word to help you.

When you are ready, Click the Begin Checkpoint button below, where you will enter your answers. Please make sure to prepare your answers before you enter the Checkpoint assignment. See Syllabus/"Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information.

You may enter this area as often as needed before the due date. However, be sure to save your updates each time you enter the Checkpoint tab. Be sure to submit your answers when you are finished.

Questions:

1. Will project management work in all companies? Why or why not? Provide examples of companies or industries to support your answer.
2. Consider a project in which all project planning is performed by a group. After all planning is completed, including the program plan and schedule, a project manager is selected. Is there anything wrong with this arrangement?
3. The director of project management calls you into his office and informs you that one of your fellow project managers had a severe heart attack midway through a project. You will be taking over his project, which is well behind schedule and overrunning costs. The director of project management then "orders" you to complete the project within time and cost. How do you propose to do it? Where do you start? Should you shut down the project to re-plan it?
4. Do cost overruns just happen, or are they caused?
5. Once the functional manager and project manager agree on a project schedule, who is responsible for getting the work performed? Who is accountable for getting the work performed? Why the difference, if any?