ASSIGNMENT CASE STUDY

Jane Flattery is a recent hire at the Comet Company. She was specifically hired to be the project manager for Comets largest project, which is a project with a budget of just over $500,000 US. Her resume showed she had the PMP certification and seven years of experience. Jane has been on the job for about two months. John Forsyth is Janes boss. John is quite concerned because Jane has been struggling and he has received numerous complaints that Jane is not grasping the project and is not taking responsibility for getting the project done. John had some counselling sessions with Jane, and he documented those as a matter of record. Because Jane did not appear to grasp the project management concepts that John discussed, he started to wonder about Janes credentials. John called customer care at the Project Management Institute. He specifically asked if Jane was a Project Management Professional (PMP). The customer care agent advised John that Jane was not listed but did warn him that Jane could keep herself off the registry. John decided to give Jane another couple of weeks to see if she was doing better with the project. Within ten days, John received a call from two different functional managers. Each functional manager stated that the project was about to collapse. Also, each functional manager had project team members who wanted to be released from the project. Their reason was Jane Flattery was not doing her job and did not seem to know how to do so. John had enough. He called Jane into the office. He asked her why she was not on the PMI certification registry. Jane said she preferred not to have her name made public due to some personal issues. John then asked her for the exact date and the actual PMP certificate. Jane again had several excuses as to why she did not know the exact date of certification and as to why she could not provide her certificate. John asked Jane to contact Project Management Institute customer care and ask for a duplicate of her certificate or some other official document verifying that she was indeed a credentialed PMP. John reminded Jane that she was a member of the Project Management Institute and there should be no problem asking for the document from the customer care agent. The next day Jane admitted she was not a PMP and had never taken the exam. She also admitted that she lied on her resume. She had only worked as a project expediter for one year. Jane was fired that day.

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C. Risk Analysis (You need to analyze possible risk(s) involved in the case study and what could be the list of possible risk(s) mitigation.)