Project Planning

Read “Will Project Creep Cost You--or Create Value?” How can the methods described in the article be used to more effectively manage project scope?

The Eye Diagram: A New Perspective on the Project Life Cycle

What is the project manager’s role throughout the project life cycle? Do you think that the framework introduced in the article “The Eye Diagram: A New Perspective on the Project Life Cycle” will help the project manager better focus his or her energies and/or resources? Why or why not?

What negative can you see about buying Microsoft?

It used to be said “No one was ever fired for buying IBM.” In the 1990s that phrase changed to “No one was ever fired for buying Microsoft.” The sysadmins for your new web project are recommending using Linux servers running Apache web server, both open source software packages. Your company has had some difficulty with new applications over the past year. Will you agree with the sysadmins or will you buy Microsoft? What negative can you see about buying Microsoft?

What risks do you think accrue to using a new software package...

What risks do you think accrue to using a new software package that has just been released?

Software developers are fickle individuals, always wanting to try new languages, to “take them for a spin” so to speak. As a project manager, you are approached by a developer who is requesting to complete his current project using the newly-released Belchfire 500. What will your answer be, and why?

Software developers are fickle individuals, always wanting to try new languages, to “take them for a spin” so to speak. As a project manager, you are approached by a developer who is requesting to complete his current project using the newly-released Belchfire 500. What will your answer be, and why?