Week 5 Project

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Nature of Conflict As the project life cycle evolves, the nature of conflict changes. During project formation, priorities and procedures are the issues that tend to be the major areas of conflict. In subsequent phases, scheduling and technical (scope and quality) issues become common. At the planning stage, you will not be able to foresee everything; therefore, the chances of the plan getting modified are always there. Cost is not always the foremost concern as, theoretically, the budget still has enough in it to get by on a short-term basis. As the project gets into full swing, delays and uncertainties cause possible schedule violations and technical shortfalls. Near the end of the project, just finishing on time can become such an obsession that all other concerns may suffer. So, over the life cycle of the project, individual problems change in their seriousness. Pressures to prioritize problems result in making trade-offs, and the nature of the trade-offs can change too.