Daily Question #1153
In preparing for a team meeting you want to let the team know how they are doing on the project schedule over all. You calculate the task achievements as follows: planning has a PV of $20,000 and an EV of $25,000, testing has a PV of $17,000 and EV of $15,000, and design has a PV of $34,000 and a EV of $42,000.
As a whole your project is:

Daily Question #63
The project status meeting is not going well. Everyone is talking at the same time, there are people who are not participating, and many topics are being discussed at random.
Which of the following rules for effective meetings is NOT being adhered to?

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Daily Question #5392
A project manager is working on a major construction project. Part of the agreed-upon plan was to use a cloud-based system with a server that runs on high-speed optic internet service since most of the team members work virtually. The company needs to reduce operating costs as much as possible and management insists that the project will now use a system running on a conventional twisted-pair service.
What should the project manager do next?

Daily Question #6086
For your program, you prepared a detailed stakeholder analysis. Stakeholder A thought that the program objectives were to deliver a detailed plan for your city’s growth and development over the next 10 years; Stakeholder B thought that the purpose was to design a water-retention process to ensure that each citizen would have adequate water in the future; Stakeholder C thought that the program was to provide services to the city for its overall management by outsourcing its information technology (IT) services, personnel, and procurement functions; and Stakeholder D thought that the program was to provide a detailed workflow for all the city’s functions. In the face of this lack of common understanding of the program’s purpose, you need to:

Daily Question #2961
A project sponsor is concerned that the scope is not being met correctly and has questioned several team members about this individually. When the project sponsor approached the project manager, the project manager realized that the issue was that the project sponsor understood the scope in a different manner than the project team.
What should the project manager do to address this issue?
Answers:
a. Request that the project team change their task deliverables to reflect the project sponsor's requirements.
b. Set up a daily standup and request that the project sponsor attend to understand the project's tasks and deliverables.
c. Ask the project team to compile a project scope document and obtain approval from the project sponsor.
d. Facilitate a stakeholder alignment session so that the team and project sponsor are in agreement with the deliverables.

Daily Question #351
The engineering department wants the project objective to be a 10% improvement in throughput. The information technology department wants no more than 5% of its resources to be used on the project. Management, who is also your customer, wants the project team to decrease tax liability.
The BEST thing you can do is:
Answers:
a. Put a plan together that meets all the objectives.
b. Have these people get together and agree on one objective.
c. Include the engineering and information technology objectives but hold further meetings regarding management's objective.
d. Include only management's objective.

Daily Question #5301
A key project team member has exhibited high interest in a project. The input from this person has been very useful, and the project is steadily progressing. Suddenly, this individual's participation decreases, and activities that they were responsible for are not being completed within the planned period.
What should the project manager do?
Answers:
a. Reallocate tasks for the team member of concern so that work is handled by another team member.
b. Schedule a meeting to discuss recent observations with the team member.
c. Organize a team-building session with all of the team members.
d. Consult the resource allocation matrix to see if the team member is still required for the project.

Daily Question #5249
A project manager has been assigned to initiate a large project to deliver complex equipment. Part of the project will be the result of a long research process, but once this is completed, the other part of the project must be incrementally delivered to the customer.
Which approach should the project manager choose for this project?

Daily Question #943
You are managing a project to develop an alternative fuel vehicle that lacks high-speed capability. To address this, you hire a lobbying firm to fight against any increases in state speed limits.
This scenario is an example of: