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...

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 ...

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...

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

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. Qualit...

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 schedul...

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 wi...

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...

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 ...

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 defin...

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...

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 comp...

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...

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 ...

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...