You have been hired by a contractor, who wants you to manage a construction project for one of their clients. The project team has been working for two months, and is 35% done with the job. Two of your team members come to you with a conflict about how to handle the ongoing maintenance for a piece of equipment. You know that they can safely ignore the problem for a while, and you’re concerned that if your project falls behind schedule before next week’s stakeholder meeting, it will cause problems in the future. You tell the two team members that the problem really isn’t as bad as they think it is, and if they take a few days to cool off about it you’ll help them with a solution. This approach to conflict resolution is known as ______. A. Withdrawal B. Compromise C. Smoothing D. Forcing   You are a project manager for a software project. As you are defining the scope of the work you need to do, you sit down with all of the project’s stakeholders and record all of the requirements you can get from them. Which of the following is NOT a valid requirement from stakeholder analysis? A. There can be no more than 5% schedule variance on the project B. The quality of the product must fit within organizational metrics for software quality C. The budget must be within 10% of our projected cost D. The work the team does must be better than they did on their last project

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You have been hired by a contractor, who wants you to manage a construction
project for one of their clients. The project team has been working for two
months, and is 35% done with the job. Two of your team members come to
you with a conflict about how to handle the ongoing maintenance for a piece
of equipment. You know that they can safely ignore the problem for a while,
and you’re concerned that if your project falls behind schedule before next
week’s stakeholder meeting, it will cause problems in the future. You tell the
two team members that the problem really isn’t as bad as they think it is, and
if they take a few days to cool off about it you’ll help them with a solution.
This approach to conflict resolution is known as ______.
A. Withdrawal
B. Compromise
C. Smoothing
D. Forcing

 

You are a project manager for a software project. As you are defining the
scope of the work you need to do, you sit down with all of the project’s
stakeholders and record all of the requirements you can get from them.
Which of the following is NOT a valid requirement from stakeholder
analysis?
A. There can be no more than 5% schedule variance on the project
B. The quality of the product must fit within organizational metrics for software
quality
C. The budget must be within 10% of our projected cost
D. The work the team does must be better than they did on their last project

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