1. Why do plans sometimes fail? What actions can you take to safeguard the success of your plans?
2. It is often said that crisis management is a sign of poor planning. Do you agree? Explain why or why not, giving examples from your own experience. What advice would you offer a leader-manager who is caught up in dealing with crisis after crisis because of poor planning? ( WORD LIMIT - 1000
3. What monitoring tools do you and your work team use? short essay describing these tools and how they alert you to problems, and explaining how they conform to the characteristics of an effective monitoring system described in this chapter. How do these monitoring tools help in the job? ( WORD LIMIT- 800 )
4. What plans have you recently made? Which ones did you write down? How did these plans help you achieve your aims? ( WORD LIMIT - 600 )
5. Develop a detailed cost effective project for building a shed in the back garden. You can select you own specifications for the construction of the shed.( WORD LIMIT - 600 )
6. How do you monitor your workload? Keeping up with your studies? Your finances? How could you improve the way you monitor your results using lead indicators? ( WORD LIMIT - 800 )
7. Explain the uses of a project plan and list the information it should contain. At what point should the project manager stop adjusting it?