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1. Contrast the project plan and the work breakdown structure.?

Ans: 1 On the one hand, the project plan establishes a guide for all project planning. It is a document that had to be approved that specifies the activities to be executed, the supervision and control of the Project. Its main objective is to document planning decisions, help communication between Project members, as well as set out the costs, scope, and approved times. For its part, the breakdown structure work is the center of the Project. It serves to divide the Project into controllable activities so that it is visually easy to understand the activities and hierarchies within the Project. They can include partial projects, deliverables, and word packages. It serves as the basis for estimating the resources needed and creating a time and cost schedule.

2. How should a PM decide which problems or conflicts deserve being reported to management?

Ans: 2 This decision depends on the PM's ability to identify the relevance and the level of criticality that the problem or conflict may represent for the fulfillment of the project. The manager must be informed and updated about the time, the possible bottlenecks of the activities that could affect more significantly the development of the project, also the PM must consider the assigned budget and control it.

3. You are the project manager of a team of software specialists working on a project to produce a piece of application software in the field of project management. Give some examples of things that might go wrong on such a project and the sorts of trade-offs you might have to make.?

Ans: 3 During a project of this nature, factors that go wrong could occur, such as, for example, lack of people trained in technical issues for software development, other internal factors such as changes in the initial budget due to new challenges presented in project development. Conflicts of interest by the members of the project team. It could also be affected by external factors, such as changes in customer requirements, which would affect the time and budget of the project plan.