Below are four mini$-$cases from practice. Break into small groups and $(1)$ analyze

the case and $(2)$ provide five recommendations for the IT department.

Project A

You've just taken over a project from another project manager and have come back

from a very uncomfortable meeting with your business sponsor. In the meeting, the

sponsor told you how dissatisfied he is with the project's performance to date and that

he's getting ready to pull the plug on the project entirely. Deadlines keep slipping, the

application isn't complete, and the sponsor feels like he can't get in touch with anyone

to give him an update on the project's status and progress.

From conversations with your project team, you learn that requirements still haven't

been finalized, and the team is waiting for input before being able to proceed on several

key parts of the application. Despite that, they've been able to push forward in other

areas, and are quite proud of the work they've done. However, they haven't had a

To complicate matters further, your boss has made it clear that this project must be

completed on schedule, because he needs the resources for another project.

What do you do$?$ What impact do your decisions have on the project's cost, sched$-$

ule, and performance?