Performance Management_CEGEPGIM

If a project sponsor gives you a deadline you think is unrealistic, what should be some strategies you use?

• Walk away from the project

• Give a very motivating speech to team members

• Negotiate with sponsor for an extended deadline

If a project sponsor gives you a deadline you think is unrealistic, what should be some strategies you use?

• Ask sponsor to allow for overtime

• Write an email to the CEO to explain that you are being treated unfairly

• Quietly start de-scoping project without telling sponsor

You are managing the opening of a pizza shop. After the project has started, the project sponsor comes to you and requests to remove light fixtures that were already installed as part of the project because she found some lights that were nicer looking. What should be your appropriate reaction to this?

• Politely refuse to change anything in the project

• Negotiate to see if you can change only half the lights

• Start doing it quickly because the sooner you start, the sooner your finish

• Evaluate the impact on the cost & schedule and discuss them with the sponsor

• Say you will do it but then just ignore the request

You are managing the opening of a pizza shop. After the project has started, the project sponsor demands to remove light fixtures that were already installed as part of the project and install new ones. This is a non-negotiable demand from the sponsor. What should you do?

• Accept on the spot and get to work

• Negotiate to see if the sponsor can drop this request

• Accept but warn the sponsor that the project will be delayed

• Present the impact on costs and schedule and demand a written approval from sponsor

• All of the above

If ever a project starts falling behind schedule, there are different ways to try and remediate to this problem. Can you identify it?

• Find someone else to blame for the delay

• Hide the fact that there is a delay from the sponsor

• Ask your team to start working overtime

If ever a project starts falling behind schedule, there are different ways to try and remediate to this problem. Can you identify it?

• Wait and see if the problem will go away on its own

• See if you can do some tasks earlier, even if they overlap with current tasks

• Find who is causing the delay and threaten them

If ever a project starts falling behind schedule, there are different ways to try and remediate to this problem. Can you identify it?

• See if you can remove some tasks from the project

• Increase quality of project so that even if it is late, end result will look nice

• Accept blame for the delay and offer resignation

It is often said that if a project starts getting delayed, you can just throw “more bodies at it”. Meaning, just add more people to make things go faster. What could be an issue with this strategy?

• Maybe more people are not available for the job

• Maybe the project cost will not exceed the planned budget

It is often said that if a project starts getting delayed, you can just throw “more bodies at it”. Meaning, just add more people to make things go faster. What could be an issue with this strategy?

• Maybe people being put on the job are not properly trained

• Maybe people being added to project might be even more efficient

During a project, you realize that the person you had scheduled to do a task is not available. What could be a cause of this?

• Team is poorly motivated

• You assigned the person to another task at the same time (over-assigned)

• Proper training was not given to team members

• Project sponsor cancelled a task