project mgmt Questions

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MGMT331 – Project Management

Tutorial week 4

Exercise 4.1

Assume that you are the leader of a virtual team that includes members who are in New

York, London, Kuwait and Tokyo. You would like to choose a day and time for a weekly

conference call to keep the project on track. Choose a day and time and explain your choice

and the compromises and problems it will likely cause for each participant.

Exercise 4.2

Consider the communications technologies with which you are familiar. Describe how they

can be used on projects. Relate these ideas to what you learned about project management

and describe how new communications technologies could be used to innovative project

management.

Exercise 4.3

Where would you place the importance threshold for involving a client in a decision? What

criteria would you use and how would you involve the client with that process of

establishing the threshold?

Exercise 4.4

Recall a project or teamwork in which you were involved where the participants did not

know each other well enough to trust each other; describe the effect of this lack of trust on

the project. Describe alignment activities that could have increased trust on that project.

Additional exercises

See exercises 5.4, 5.6, 5.10, 5.14, 5.18, 5.19 and 5.26ff pp. 318ff of the textbook.

(end of tutorial activity)