1. What are the four areas that PMI code of conduct covers?
2. What is the ethical culture of the company where you work or have worked? What would you change?
3. Chapter 7 of our PMI Standard Portfolio text looks at the communication management knowledge area and the processes to develop the plans required to align the company with the strategic, governance, performance, and risk management processes. What are the components required to complete a communications plan? How do you go about identifying the stakeholders for communications? Why is it important to align these processes with other portfolio processes?
4. What are the components required for a stakeholder matrix?
5. What is the best way to determine requirements for the communications matrix?
6. Earned value not only allows us to monitor and control a project but it also allows a method to predict certain project parameters. Forecasting in a project begins with four terms: estimate to completion (ETC), estimate at completion (EAC), budget at completion (BAC), and complete performance index (TCPI). In your own words, what does each of these mean? How is each used?
7. Calculating variances, indexes, and forecasts would seem to make the decisions easy, but we know that the numbers don't manage the project. We do. We accept that we have to make new projections based on how the project is performing and then decide what we will do to make it meet the requirements in the end. So how will you, as the project manager, use this information to ensure project success at completion? What might get in your way? Does it matter where you are in the project timeline?