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PMP Question of the Week: Project Charter

January 26, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Which of the following statements is not true regarding a project charter?

The Benefits of Deploying IT Skills Frameworks

January 21, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Organizations that strive to ensure their IT departments can successfully add business value can derive numerous benefits from utilizing and deploying IT skills frameworks. IT skills frameworks provide a foundation for identifying the core IT skills that are necessary to support the strategic direction of the business. The increasing trend toward business transformation in which CIOs are tasked with demonstrating business value from IT resources requires a holistic insight into the current state of IT skills readiness, the future state of IT skills readiness and the gap that exists between the two endpoints.

PMP Question of the Week: Project Initiator

January 19, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

What formally initiates the project?

PMP Question of the Week: Change Order Request Next Steps

January 12, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You are the project manager on a very large, complex system software deployment project. The schedule is set for three years and the budget is $8 million. The project is approximately 50% complete but is slightly behind schedule and over budget (SPI = 0.94 and CPI = 0.96). One of the key project stakeholders (accounting department functional manager) contacts you to discuss what the accounting departmental manager believes to be required additional scope. You ask this key stakeholder to put his request in the form of a Change Order Request (COR). When you receive the COR, you expect to work the COR through the Control Scope process. After the impact of the COR has been determined, what is the best thing to do next?

PMP Question of the Week: Risk Impacts

January 5, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You have taken over a multiphase, complex telecommunication project that is entering the second phase. There are many risks for this project, including in the second phase. However, you predecessor project manager failed to evaluate the risks and assess the range of potential impacts for the project and phase one. What should be your next step?