Assignment: Planning Projects

Based on the knowledge you have gained through the readings in this module, answer the review questions listed below. These questions were chosen to demonstrate your understanding and help you assess your progress.

1. What is the purpose of a quality management plan identifying the importance of quality metrics? Give an example of two additional (not already mentioned in the text) quality metrics that might be used in the Just-In-Time training project.

2. Refer back to your home building project in Module 4 and identify at least 3 employees necessary to carry out the project. Create a RACI chart for at least 5 of the deliverables on your WBS. Explain the importance of a staffing management plan.

3. What strategies can any project team use to improve communications?

4. Why is it important to plan for stakeholder engagement? Give some examples of how you have planned in advance how to work with difficult stakeholders.

5. Risk management is often neglected in projects. Why is the preceding statement true? What is the importance of identifying and ranking risks throughout a project's life?

Use terminology from your readings and cite related references using current APA format, where applicable

Article: An Introduction to Project Managent, Fourth Edition by Kathy Schwalbe.