PMI-SP · Question #72
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project is falling behind though the project team reports that the actual durations of their work is what they estimated. You investigate the…
The correct answer is D. Corrective actions. Corrective actions should be taken to move the results of the project work back into alignment with the project scope. The project team must start their activities on time and finish on time. A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a…
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You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project is falling behind though the project team reports that the actual durations of their work is what they estimated. You investigate the cause and determine that the project team is not starting their assignments early enough to finish their work on time. While the duration of the assignments may be in synchronization with the duration estimates, the completion time is causing the project schedule to slip from the baseline. What can you do to rectify this problem?
Options
- AIncrease the duration estimates for each activity.
- BDiscipline the project team.
- CIt is method of identifying and eliminating the causes of a problem, thus preventing their
- DCorrective actions.
How the community answered
(50 responses)- A8% (4)
- B4% (2)
- C4% (2)
- D84% (42)
Explanation
Corrective actions should be taken to move the results of the project work back into alignment with the project scope. The project team must start their activities on time and finish on time. A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are implemented in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels of internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or adverse or unstable trends in product and process monitoring such as would be identified by SP reappearance. Examples of a corrective action are :Improvements to maintenance schedulesImprovements to material handling or storage Answer option C is incorrect. Management reserve is time and funds allotted for unforeseen issues and risks within the project. Answer option A is incorrect. Padding each estimate may cause the project to succumb to Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it. In addition, the project team may still delay the start time of their project assignments. Answer option B is incorrect. Disciplining the project team may be a good option if the problem continues. The best option is to first apply corrective actions.
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