6.5 Exercise Here or in your Exercise Notebook, write the initials of the key role responsible for solving each of the issues listed.

Because much of the confusion for students is between roles of team members (T), the project manager (PM), the sponsor (SP), and the functional manager (FM), this exercise is limited to those roles.

Consider what you have learned about project roles and remember to keep matrix organizations in mind when reading through these situations.

Situation 1. Two project team members are having a disagreement.

2. There is a change to the overall project deliverable.

3. A functional manager is trying to pull a team member off the project to do other work.

4. The project manager does not have the authority to get things done.

5. There are not enough resources to complete the project.

6. The team is unsure of what needs to happen when.

7. An activity needs more time and will cause the project to be delayed.

8. An activity needs more time without causing the project to be delayed.

9. A team member is not performing.

10. The team is not sure who is in charge of the project.

11. There is talk that the project may no longer be needed.

12. The sponsor provides an unrealistic schedule objective.

13. The team is in conflict over priorities between activities.

14. The project is behind schedule.

15. A team member decides another method should be used to complete their activity.

16. The project is running out of funds.

17. Additional work that will increase cost (not identified during the risk management process)

is added to the project.