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4. Understand how to develop the resource management plan required to complete all project activities and then match planned resources to those available from internal, external, and procured sources.
3. Analyze and refi ne project time and cost estimates by applying estimating tools and techniques to all WBS tasks in order to determine and defi ne the project baseline, schedule, and budget.
2. Develop the WBS using the Scope Statement, Statement of Work (SOW), and other project specifi cation documents. From this defi nition, decomposition techniques are used to facilitate detailed project planning, which is then used in the executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing processes.
1. Identify, analyze, refi ne, and document project requirements, assumptions, and constraints through communication with stakeholders and/or by reviewing project documents to baseline the scope of work and enable development of the plan to produce the desired result.
4. What is the related resource requirement and from which sources?
3. What is the cost of the initiative?
2. How long will the effort require?
1. How well does this proposal mesh with enterprise goals?
10. Provide comprehensive information by producing a project Charter document indicating formal approval of the project’s planned scope, schedule, and budget.
9. Defi ne and document an appropriate project budget and schedule by determining time and cost estimates
8. Identify, estimate, and document key resource requirements
7. Identify and list performance criteria by referring to product/service specifi cations and process standards
6. Defi ne the project strategy by evaluating alternative approaches in order to meet stakeholder requirements, specifi cations, and/or expectations
5. Identify and document project schedule, budgetary, resource and other assumptions by determining information that must be validated or situations to be controlled during the project in order to facilitate the project planning process
4. Identify and document project schedule, budgetary, resource, quality, and other constraints through coordination with stakeholders
3. Identify, document, and communicate project management process outputs by selecting appropriate practices, tools, and methodologies to ensure required product/service delivery
2. Determine, describe, and document products or service deliverables by reviewing or generating the scope of work, requirements, and/or specifi cations to meet stakeholder expectations
1. Determine and document project goals by identifying and working with project stakeholders
7. What does Murphy’s law have to do with management problems?
6. How does procrastination affect a schedule?
5. Name some reasons why a WP estimate might be wrong.
4. Defi ne the fi ve basic items necessary to generate a schedule.
3. What is the difference between a WBS and the WBS dictionary?
2. If a WP represents an item that has to be completed to execute the project, why would the total project schedule not be the sum of all WPs?
1. What is the difference in effort, duration, and elapsed time? What would happen to these three parameters if the allocated resources were cut in half?
3. Using the high-level description of EPM, describe some of the implementation issues that you see for the organization pursuing this goal.
2. If it makes such logical rationale for organizations to properly select their portfolios of projects, why is this activity not well practiced?
1. Why would the existence of standardized project management procedures help achieve higher rates of project success?
7. Key project vocabulary that is needed to understand the more detailed sections that follow later in the text.
6. Some of the contemporary trends that are changing the view of project management. Basic project scope, time, and budget mechanics
5. An introductory overview of the Project Management Institute’s project model
4. Benefi ts of the project management process
3. An understanding of the typical challenges faced by project managers
2. Basic history of project management
1. Definition of a project and its general characteristics
Take a look at the SDGs through a web search. Do they seem to be a comprehensive approach to defining quality of life to you? What could be potential advantages and drawbacks of focusing on SDGs?
In what ways is China offering a different approach to development assistance? In what ways is this approach more attractive to the South? Discuss China’s parallel institutions in your answer.
What is the Washington Consensus? What is the Beijing Consensus, and how does it differ from the Washington Consensus? What form do you think a post- Washington Consensus should take?
What are structural adjustment loans, and what is the reasoning behind conditiona lities? How have they affected LDCs, women, and the poorest groups in LDCs?
How would you compare the effectiveness of import substitution, socialism, export-led growth, and neoliberal development strategies? What does historical experience tell us?
Why do the DCs give official development assistance, and why have ODA levels as a percent of countries’ GNIs generally declined over the years? What are the debates regarding the effectiveness of aid giving?
How important has China become as a source of outward FDI, and how do you explain this?
Have NGOs had an impact on the behavior of MNCs? What is CSR, and what are the competing theoretical views regarding the value of the concept? Can corporations genuinely adopt a sense of social responsibility? What are the arguments for and against?
What is the obsolescing bargain model? Does the OBM have more validity in some areas and periods of time than in others?
What is the role of BITs, NAFTA, the United Nations, the WTO, and the OECD in regulating FDI? Why did the DCs decide to negotiate an MAI in the OECD, and was this a wise decision?
What are some of the major effects of MNCs on home and host states? Do you think that, on the average, the effects have been more positive or negative?
Examine the data tables in this chapter. What are the major trends over time and what remains the same? Why would you say that FDI tends to be concentrated in certain regions and countries? What do Vernon’s product cycle and the eclectic paradigm suggest about FDI decision- making?
What are the implications of global value chains for developing countries? Does it affect their chances of improving their ability to move into more valued types of production?
Do liberals, neomercantilists, and Marxists believe that the nationality of an MNC makes a difference? Do you think that the competitiveness of a country is closely tied with the competitiveness of its MNCs?
How would you compare the foreign investment regime with the global trade and monetary regimes? How and why do liberals, neomercantilists, and Marxists differ in their views of what should be regulated in a foreign investment regime?
What was the TPP and what were the factors in its demise? Why did the CPTPP replace it? Consider applying the two- level game framework discussed in Chapter 4 in your analysis.
What are the major changes to NAFTA under the new USMCA? What is the reasoning behind them and whom do they benefit?
In what ways is the EU a unique PTA? What are the neofunctionalist, liberal intergovernmentalist, constructivist, and postfunctionalist theoretical approaches to economic integration, and why are they applied mainly to Europe? What is plu tocratic theory (or plutocracy), and how does it differ from
In what ways do LDCs receive special treatment as members and associate members of PTAs? Does Mexico receive special treatment in NAFTA?
What conditions does GATT Article 24 impose on PTAs? How successful has the GATT/ WTO been in regulating PTAs?
In what ways can PTAs be trade- diverting and trade- creating? Do you think that PTAs are stepping stones or obstacles to global trade liberalization, and why do you think liberal theorists cannot agree on this issue?
How do neomercantilists, liberals, and Marxists explain the rise and consequences of regional integration?
What are the differences between an FTA, CU, common market, and economic union? Do any PTAs fit completely within one of these models of integration? Why do you think it is often difficult for trading partners to increase their level of inte gration? Consider the challenges of each step.
Should labor rights be part of enforceable trade agreements, or is it better to keep them(and environmental standards) separate? What do you think of the argument of many LDC governments that imposing labor standards constitutes domestic interference?
What is the relationship between civil society groups and the GATT/ WTO, and how has this relationship changed over time?
Do you think that China is cheating on world trade principles and rules, or is it simply trying to catch up to the North in terms of economic growth?
In what way does China pose a challenge to DC dominance in the global trade regime?
What are the similarities and differences between GATT and the WTO? How successful has the WTO been in global trade governance? What are the competing explanations for the Doha Round problems, and which explanations do you think are the most plausible?
Why are safeguards an essential part of most trade agreements? What are CVDs and ADDs, and what must a country demonstrate to impose them? Why are CVDs and ADDs so controversial?
How has liberal trade theory evolved over time? (Discuss the theories of absolute and comparative advantage, and the Heckscher– Ohlin and Stolper– Samuelson the ories.) How do the neomercantilist concepts of competitive advantage and strategic trade theory differ from the liberal concept of
Which argument about the Chinese financial system do you think is more convin cing? Is it a fragile house of cards, or an insulated edifice for further growth?
What kinds of threats does offshore banking pose to the economic system? What about cryptocurrencies? Would you recommend using a cryptocurrency for the company you were working for? Under what circumstances?
Why are banks so often central to financial crises? What was the Glass– Steagall Act and what is its current status? What are collateralized debt obligations, subprime mortgages, and mortgage- backed securities? How were they involved with the 2008 global financial crisis?
What were the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis? To what extent was finan cial deregulation a factor? What are the competing arguments of those calling for austerity versus government stimulus in response to financial crises? Which side’s arguments do you find most convincing and why?
What is the relationship among the London Clubs, the IMF, and the Paris Club in dealing with foreign debt? How has the relationship between the IMF and World Bank changed as a result of the foreign debt and financial crises? Why do you think some of the most important institutional groupings such
What are the views of orthodox, institutional, and interventionist liberals and Marxists regarding the best means for reforming the international financial architecture?
What are the similarities and differences between the European debt crisis and the 1980s foreign debt crisis?
What are the competing theoretical views regarding the causes of the 1990s Asian financial crisis? What are the similarities and differences between the 1980s foreign debt crisis and the 1990s Asian financial crisis?
Are the euro and Chinese RMB likely to pose a challenge to the U.S. dollar as the key international currency? What are SDRs, and could they pose a challenge to the U.S. dollar?
Why was the eurozone formed, and what are its strong and weak points?
What are the characteristics of the current global monetary regime, and in what ways has it contributed to instability? What is the “Unholy Trinity,” and does it limit the changes that IMF members can make in the current monetary regime?
What have the IMF’s functions been in the global monetary regime? How did the shift from pegged to floating exchange rates affect the role of the IMF vis- à- vis the G7? How has the role of the G20 changed in relation to the G7, and what is the reason for this change?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the dollar as the key currency, both for the U.S. and for other countries?
When did the United States first have a balance- of- payments deficit, and when did it first have a balance- of- trade deficit? Why was the Bretton Woods monetary regime unsustainable, and what role did the “Triffin dilemma” and the eurocur rency market play in the breakdown of the regime?
What are some of the criticisms of the critical perspectives, and how valid do you think they are?
How have new developments in automation and the “gig economy” affected labor and income mobility? Are these passing issues, or are they here for the long term?
What are the differences between public goods, private goods, club goods, and common property goods? In what way do common property goods present a col lective action problem?
What are the differences between neomercantilist, liberal, and critical environmental theorists? What are the differences between liberal and critical constructivists? How significant are the differences among feminist theorists?
What are the main features of Gramscian and neo- Gramscian analysis and how does it differ from classical Marxism? What is the role of intellectuals?
Explain the difference between the hard- core, structuralist view of dependency and the dependent development view. How do these differ from the world systems perspective?
What are the similarities and differences among Marxism, dependency theory, and world-systems theory?
What are the core ideas of Marxism? Who are the main actors and what are their positions? What is the role of surplus/ profit, and how does it feed into cycles of capitalism?
What does the neoliberal approach suggest are impediments to economic growth in the South? How convincing are their key policy prescriptions to you? How would you start to test their validity?
In what way does regime theory draw on both the liberal and neomercantilist perspectives? What are the major criticisms of regime theory? Is “global govern ance” a more useful concept than “regimes”?
In what way do both the provision of public goods and prisoners’ dilemma demonstrate“collective action problems”? How and why do liberals and neomercantilists differ in their views regarding the possibilities for cooperation under prisoners’ dilemma?
Compare Keynesian ideas with those of neoliberalism. How do they differ on optimal types and levels of state intervention and why? How do they understand the causes of business cycles and inflation?
What is economic statecraft? Does it offer viable alternatives to the use of military force? Examine the case of U.S. sanctions on Iran, for example.
How do theorists differ in their views regarding the current status of U.S.hegemony? Is any other actor likely to replace the United States as the global hegemon?
What are “public goods”? Why are they necessary, and why does their provision present “collective action” problems? What is the relationship between hegemony and public goods?
What is hegemony, and what are theorists’ views regarding the strategies and motives of hegemonic states? Is a hegemon necessary to create and maintain open, stable economic regimes?
What are the similarities and differences between realism, neomercantilism, and economic nationalism? Does neomercantilism offer a different development path for LDCs?
What is rational choice, and what are its strengths and shortcomings as an approach to the study of IPE?
What are civil society groups, and how do they differ in terms of tactics and goals?What are TANs?
What is the WEF, and in what way does it contribute to a blurring of lines between“public” and “private” in the international political economy?
What type of challenge does China present to the KIEOs? Weigh the consequences if China decided to exit from participation in the KIEOs.

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