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1. Explain the differences between Project and General Management?
2. Why is making progress visible so important? Describe some methods for making progress visible and specify your ideal method/s of choice?
3. Why might compiling project documentation be considered such a burden to the team, yet be so essential? Describe some methods for documentation and specify your ideal method/s of choice?
4. What are the implications for a project manager of being told that the time and quality of the project was the most important objective for them to achieve? Discuss with an example?
5. In the launch of a particular product, two key stakeholder groups were identified - the customers and the marketing department of the firm launching the product. As the project manager for this project, identify what the requirements and likely measures are for these two groups and any problems you might face managing these two groups.
6. Why is an aggregate project plan beneficial for an organization that pursues a number of projects at the same time? Explain with an example?
7. Should the activities in a project be run sequentially or concurrently? Choose a project and analyze the options for the outline plan?
8. Is there a trade-off in undertaking risk in project- Explain? Using examples describe the use and applicability of qualitative approaches to risk assessment?
9. Using an example, describe the process of review in project completion? What are the challenges faced during reviews and how do reviews help in process improvement?
10. Identify a personal project that you have completed in the recent past - this may be a piece of coursework, a DIY project, etc. Consider the way in which the project was planned, carried out, the results analyzed and then acted upon. What would you do differently if you were doing it all over again?
11. Compile a list of project roles based on one of the project management standards (PMI, APM or PRINCE). Which is the most important role in your view for the success of a project?
12. Explore the possibilities for gaining professional qualification and recognition in project management, through both APM and PMI. How well would these fit with your own intentions regarding your profession?