Question: Milo has managed two projects before starting on his new project. The team he is working with had a bad experience with a previous project

Milo has managed two projects before starting on his new project. The team he is working with had a bad experience with a previous project manager. As a result, they are not comfortable sharing their opinions with him and communicate only when asked direct questions. What should Milo do?

Question 27 options:

1)

Work on trust building with his team.

2)

Ask to be reassigned to a new project.

3)

Disregard the feelings of the team and state your expectations.

4)

Work with the functional managers and reassign the most offensive team members to other work and replace them with new resources.

Question 28 (1 point)

Which of the following is the best option regarding rewarding superior performance?

Question 28 options:

1)

Cash rewards are the most effective.

2)

Rewards are more meaningful when given in public.

3)

Rewards should be given according to the discretion of the project manager.

4)

Make sure the reward is commensurate with the performance.

Question 29 (1 point)

Will is the CEO of Big Widgets, Inc., and has approached you with a new project idea. He wants to create a completely new and revolutionary style of widgetthe likes of which have never been attempted before. Considering you must provide some high-level cost estimates for the project charter, how do you go about providing the required information? Choose two.

Question 29 options:

1)

You dont, because there is simply no way to estimate the project costs.

2)

You look at previous projects and find similarities you can use for high-level estimating.

3)

You talk to vendors about endeavors that may be somewhat similar to get some sense of project costs.

4)

You use stoichiometric evaluation.

Question 30 (1 point)

Joe is a programmer working on your matrix-organization-style project team. He was "borrowed" from your company's engineering section and is on temporary loan to the project. The engineering department has a deep interest in the outcome of the project. You just learned that the manager of the engineering department, Amanda, visited Joe and instructed him to include some extra coding modules in the work that he's already working on so as to increase the functionality of the project. The requested module additions do not fit in with the current list of deliverables. What is your next step?

Question 30 options:

1)

Tell Joe that he cannot work on the requested new modules.

2)

Get the project sponsor to talk to Amanda so she's aware the requested changes are out of scope.

3)

File a formal change request for the new modules so that the sponsor and key stakeholders can review and approve or deny.

4)

Chalk it up to scope creep and move on.

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