You are a new project manager who has never managed a project before. You have been asked to plan a new project. It would be BEST in this situation to rely on _______ during planning to improve your…

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Options

• AYour intuition and training
• BStakeholder analysis
• CHistorical information
• DConfiguration management

• A
  7% (3)
• B
  5% (2)
• C
  77% (33)
• D
  12% (5)

Explanation

Historical information (C) is correct because a new PM lacking experience can compensate by leveraging past project data - previous plans, lessons learned, estimates, and outcomes - which provides proven, real-world guidance rather than guesswork. Intuition and training (A) are insufficient alone when you have no personal experience to draw on; training gives frameworks, but intuition requires lived experience to be reliable. Stakeholder analysis (B) is a valuable planning tool but doesn't directly compensate for a lack of experience - it identifies who to engage, not how to plan effectively. Configuration management (D) is a change control discipline, not a planning input, and is unrelated to improving planning success for a novice PM. Memory tip: Think of historical information as "borrowing experience" - when you have none of your own, you borrow it from the past.

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