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Upon completion of this discussion, you will be able to

•Monitor and control scope and schedule.

•Deal with ethical issues in project time management.

When the project manager ensures that requirements have been collected sufficiently to satisfy the stakeholders, a major chunk of the uncertainties in the project can be removed. Where the requirements cannot be fully collected upfront, it is better to use an adaptive life cycle model. This situation may not arise at all in certain industries such as nuclear or can occur very frequently in some industries such as software development.

Proper scope management will help with project time and cost management also. The project timeframes and schedules often create conflicts among the project stakeholders. Managing time judiciously on the project will reduce the stresses on the project manager.

Discuss the following topics in your initial post about scope and schedule management.

•As a project manager how will you ensure that the work will meet the scope requirements?

•Narrate an example of an ethical dilemma that project managers may have to contend with in project time management.

•What approach would you take to deal with requests to make changes to scope or schedule?