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PMP Question of the Week: Legal Issues

February 9, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

A PMP certified project manager receives a contract from a client to manage a software development project and discovers that 25% of the software developers are also contractors and do not have legal software licenses. What is the project manager responsible to do in this situation?

PMP Question of the Week: Documented Scope Changes

February 2, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You have taken on the role of project manager for a project already underway. Fortunately, the previous project manager maintained project documentation. What document should explain how scope changes will be managed?

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?

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?