If I wanted to motivate my team members as a project manager I would want to talk to them about what motivates and try to act on that. This is because what each team member needs to be motivated will ...

From this class, I learned that communication and planning are key to a successful project. The simulations and mini-sims have shown that with proper communication and proper planning the problems tha...

For me, I am motivated when the work I am doing is interesting and challenging. To give an example, I have been more successful on my college projects when I got to choose what I wanted to do compared...

For the first question I think that the project manager should coordinate communication between the upper management and the project team. For communication that is between the project team I think ea...

Quality Assurance and Quality Control are the same in that they both have the output of an action which improves quality but what they look at. Quality Assurance looks at the entire process and makes ...

If someone on the project team was no longer able to perform a critical task for the project, it will require a change to the original project schedule. To make sure that the delay is not too large, t...

When a project is planned, it is important to define what risks that you expect to encounter, the probability of them to occur, and the impact they will have on the project. This is used to create a ...

Of the monitoring and controlling techniques discussed in the lecture, the most essential of these seems to be the metrics which are used to determine the state of the project. By looking at the sched...

I think that the most important part of the Closing Phase is the logging of lessons that were learned. This is especially important for projects that were closed prematurely, as the reasons for their ...

Even though the executing phase requires the most time and money, I still believe that the planning phase is the most important phase because it defines the rest of the project. To give an example, if...

Scope creep is a problem because it makes can delay a project by making the scope larger than what was originally in the project plan. To prevent this, there would need to be a system for making chang...

As a project manager, I would need to consult the gantt chart and use my negotiating skills to keep a project on pace. If a task was delayed or a complication occurred, the impact of the delay needs t...

For a design input document to be useful and efficient, I think that it would need to both meet customer needs and be feasible. Thus, I think that the groups that should have an input on the Design In...

On a gantt chart, the order of which tasks are done are based upon the resources required and the prerequisite tasks. Tasks are done in parallel when they are not dependent on each other and they don’...

I think that the longer a project goes, the smaller changes the project team can make to the schedule, budget, and design without consequence. To give an example, it would be difficult to change to ma...