Project Management - 2 Discussions

Discussion -1

Read the case study "Communication Failures" starting on page 329 and answer the questions on page 332. (Questions added below for reference also added text book PDF as an attachment)

Q1-How important are communication skills in project management?

Q2-Was Herb the right person to be assigned as the project manager?

Q3-There were communications issues with Alice, Bob, Betty, and Frank. For each communication issue, where was the breakdown in communications: encoding, decoding, feedback, and so on?

Discussion-2

Read the case study "McRoy Aerospace" on page 332 and answer questions 4 and 5 on page 333.

4. What should Mark have done if Jack still was not able to resolve the problem?

5. Would it make sense for Mark to assign this problem to someone else now, after Jack could not solve the problem the second time around?