Harrisburg University of Science and Technology - PMGT -540-50 Forum -2 : 1)What if the project sponsor refuses to make any critical decisions, always "passing the buck" back to you? What should I do? 2

Project Management Apr 07, 2021

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology - PMGT -540-50

Forum -2 :

1)What if the project sponsor refuses to make any critical decisions, always "passing the buck" back to you? What should I do?

2. What should you do?

Forum -1

How important are communication skills in project management?
Was Herb the right person to be assigned as the project manager?

3. There were communications issues with Alice, Bob, Betty, and Frank. For each communication issue, where was the breakdown in communications: encoding, decoding, feedback, and so on?

How many different estimating techniques were discussed in the case?

If each estimate is different, how does a project manager decide that one estimate is better than another?
If you were the project manager, which estimate would you use?

Forums -4 :

Do cost overruns just happen or are they caused?

Alpha Company has implemented a plan whereby functional managers will be held totally responsible for all cost overruns against their (the functional managers’) original estimates. Furthermore, all cost

overruns must come out of the functional managers’ budgets, whether they be overhead or otherwise, not the project budget. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

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