What are some key attributes of an effective project manager? Have you seen these applied in your workplace? 1b.  Provide an example of a project that might fall into one of the following project categories.  Justify your answer.

Questions

1a.  What are some key attributes of an effective project manager? Have you seen these applied in your workplace?

1b.  Provide an example of a project that might fall into one of the following project categories.  Justify your answer.

  1. Derivative projects
  2. Platform projects
  3. Breakthrough projects
  4. R&D projects

1c.  In the assigned article by Posner (in Meredith and Mantel), Table 2 describes six Project Management skills.  Pick one of these and provide an example from your own experience where this skill was either present or missing.  Limit your response to 100-150 words.

 

1d.  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.

 

1e   Give an example of a project where:

The project schedule might be the most important constraint.

The project cost might be the most important constraint.