A two-year project with a budget of US$2 million has completed about 60% of the work at the end of the first year. The actual cost incurred to complete the remaining 40% of work is about USS1.5 million. As a part of performing a specialized risk analysis, the calculated schedule performance index (SPI) is 1.2 and cost performance index (CPI) is 0.53.
How should the risk manager interpret such a low CPI value?
You are the project manager of the GGK project for your company. The GGK project has a budget of
$1,265,100 and is currently 40 percent complete. In this project, you elected to add labor to the project to increase the likelihood of completing the project early as the project was only scheduled to be 35 percent complete at this time. This positive risk response, while keeping the project ahead of schedule, has added significant costs to the project. You have already spent $575,000 to reach this point in the project.
Management would like to know what your cost performance index and the schedule performance index is for this project. What are these values?
You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You want to create a visual diagram, which can depict the resources that will be used within the project. Which of the following diagrams will you create to accomplish the task?
A risk manager is facilitating a risk identification workshop on a new product with technical experts. There is no consensus among the technical experts on most of the identified risks and their characteristics. The risk manager decides to resolve this difference using another technique.
Which technique should the risk manager use in this situation?
Joyce is the project manager for her company. Joyce and her project team are working through the quantitative analysis for certain risk events within her project. According to the enterprise environmental factors the project manager is to perform sensitivity analysis on any risk with an impact greater than $5,000 in the project. What is the sensitivity analysis?
