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Progress: In stage 2, the music lawyer is a team manager working on the draft contract for the singer. He usually sends an email to the project manager every two days summarizing the status of the work. No major progress is expected over the next week, so the project manager amends the work package to receive reports over the phone.

Is this appropriate, and why?

Progress: The ‘Website’ will be accessible by users for 24 hrs each day with and average expected uptime of 99.8% per day.

Which tolerance area does it represent?

Progress: The ‘Website’ will be accessible by users for 24 hrs each day with and average expected uptime of 99.8% per day.

Which tolerance area does it represent?

Progress: Here is a statement relating to a Music Album Project. In which management product (A-E) should this information be recorded?

An incident at the recording studio caused a delay in recording the songs. However, this will be completed within time tolerance.

Progress: Here is a statement relating to a Music Album Project. In which management product (A-E) should this information be recorded?

An incident at the recording studio caused a delay in recording the songs. However, this will be completed within time tolerance.

Progress: Here is an action relating to controlling progress on a community Football Pitch project.
Which role should carry this action out?

Confirm management stage and project progress against agreed tolerances.

Progress: There were 48 quality reviews held during the full project. The average number of follow-on actions was 14. The quality review technique worked well.

Regarding to controlling the progress of the project, in which management product the above statement be recorded?

Principles: During stage 4 of a new Mobile App, the project manager authorizes the work package for the next part of the development to the team. Using the MoSCoW technique, the project manager and team manager agreed that the project should deliver all Must and Should feature and 20% of the Could features.

Which principle is being applied, and why?

Progress: Here is an action relating to controlling progress on a community Football Pitch project. Which role should carry this action out?

Confirm management stage and project progress against agreed tolerances.

Progress: The “Website” plans to generate 50,000 new visitor +/- 5%.

Which tolerance area does it represent?

Progress: The “Website” plans to generate 50,000 new visitor +/- 5%.

Which tolerance area does it represent?

Progress: There were 48 quality reviews held during the full project. The average number of follow-on actions was 14. The quality review technique worked well.

Regarding to controlling the progress of the project, in which management product the above statement be recorded?

Progress: During the ‘starting up a project’ process, the project manager was told that the Production Assistant will not be available for the first stage. This issue needs to be managed formally.

Which management product should be used to record this issue, and why?

Progress: The ‘Website’ must include registration and login option. It should also include exam simulator.

Which tolerance area does it represent?

Progress: The project is in stage 2. The project manager is reviewing stage status and has collected the checkpoint reports from the team managers. These show that the products are being completed on schedule. However, project support has raised issues that quality reviews have not been completed as agreed. The project manager reports in the highlight report that the stage is progressing well.

Is this appropriate, and why?

Progress: Here is a statement relating to a Music Album Project. In which management product (A-E) should this information be recorded?

There were problems with the power supply at the recording studio throughout stage 2. It is recommended that the studio use an alternative power supply for future projects.

Progress: Here is an action relating to controlling progress on a community Football Pitch project. Which role should carry this action out?

Ensure that progress toward the outcome remains consistent from the user perspective.

Progress: Here is an action relating to controlling progress on a community Football Pitch project. Which role should carry this action out?

Inform project support of completed quality activities.

Progress: As the project can no longer be completed within the time tolerance, the preferred option is for the supplier of the ‘e-learning course’ to instruct the team manager to work overtime.

Regarding to controlling the progress of the project, In which management product this statement be recorded?

Progress: There are currently nine issues relating to the ‘e-learning course’ and ‘marketed courses’ work packages, for which corrective actions have been agreed. These will be resolved by the end of the stage.

In which management product should the above statement be recorded during the controlling a stage process?

Progress: Here is a statement relating to a Music Album Project. In which management product (A-E) should this information be recorded?

When producing the ‘artwork’, the Graphic Designer needs to inform the singer which images have been selected.

Progress: The project is now in stage 3. The ‘Logo design’ will not be delivered to schedule and the stage is forecast to exceed its time tolerance. As a result, the project manager has agreed with the team manager that the ‘Logo design’ will be delivered in stage 4 instead of stage 3.

Is this an appropriate action, and why?

Progress: The ‘Website’ must include registration and login option. It should also include exam simulator.

Which tolerance area does it represent?

Progress: Project assurance complains to the project manager that the frequency of the checkpoint reports is not consistent for the whole project (eg: each Tuesday morning at 10:00).

Is this appropriate, and why?

Progress: Here is a statement relating to a Music Album Project. In which management product (A-E) should this information be recorded?

There were problems with the power supply at the recording studio throughout stage 2. It is recommended that the studio use an alternative power supply for future projects.

Progress: During stage 3 with 4 weeks length, a work package was authorized for the ‘User Interface design’ to be completed by the end of week 2. The ‘Tested Homepage’ work package will start in week 3. Both work packages have zero tolerances, and ‘User Interface design’ is dependent on feedback from the “User requirements” from week 1.
During week 1, there were some problems with “User Requirements” , so at the start of week 2 the team manager rescheduled the ‘User Interface design’ to week 3, and reported this in the weekly checkpoint report at the end of week 2.

Should the team manager have reported this delay previously as an issue, and why?

Progress: Here is an action relating to controlling progress on a community Football Pitch project. Which role should carry this action out?

Inform project support of completed quality activities.

Progress: During a third stage of a project, the project manager sees that they are going to be 3% above the 20% tolerance and they escalate to the project board.

The project board reviews the exception report and decides to widen this current stage time tolerance to 25%.

Is this appropriate, and why?

Progress: There are currently nine issues relating to the ‘e-learning course’ and ‘marketed courses’ work packages, for which corrective actions have been agreed. These will be resolved by the end of the stage. In which management product should the above statement be recorded during the controlling a stage process?

Progress: The project is part of a programmed to develop a new service. The programmed manager has instructed the project manager to deliver the ‘Website’ incrementally. The project manager has asked the programmed manager how often the highlight reports are required, and what format the reports should be presented in.

Is this an appropriate approach to controlling progress, and why?