Description
Question 1 Reflect on the assigned readings for the week (chapter – 7,8) . Identify what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding.
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
a) The sponsor for a project you have been managing sends you an email that he would like to make a small change to the project. What is your response and why?
b) A potential client wants you to be project manager for the construction of a new house, but she is vague about the details. List a few questions you could ask her to gain a better understanding of the scope of the project.
c) Many factors can impact the accuracy of activity duration estimates. Describe four of the problems associated with estimating activity durations accurately, and the techniques you could use as a project manager to overcome them.
Question 2 Project/ Business Case – News source (APA reference): Feiner, L., (2021). Google will pay News Corp for the right to showcase its news articles.
Web address: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/google-and-news-corp-strike-deal-as-australia-pushes-platforms-to-pay-for-news.html
City: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
a.) Draft a two or three sentence scope description for the above project (similar to Exhibit 7.4 on page 219 of the textbook).
b.) Provide six (6) key deliverables that are required to consider the project to have been completed successfully. Then state what the Acceptance Criteria entails to consider these Key Deliverables completed. Deliverables and Acceptance Criteria need to follow SMART criteria. That means that these need to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely. This exercise only needs to identify six (6) of the potential Deliverables needed in the project. It does not mean to identify six (6) deliverables to complete the whole project. These Deliverables will be utilized to create a future WBS with Activity List. So again, be specific and utilize SMART criteria.
c.) Define and identify Exclusions, Constraints and Assumptions. First, briefly define what these concepts are utilizing material from the weekly reading (textbook) in support of creating your definition. Then identify these i
