You’re managing an industrial design project. Your project is currently in the Initiating phase. The project charter has been created, and you are working on developing the preliminary scope statement. Which of the following is NOT something that you should do? A. Create the change control system B. Document initial project risks C. Identify internal and external constraints D. Write down any assumptions that you have made   Alberto is the project manager of a software implementation project. His company has made an organization wide decision to move to a new accounting and human resources software package. He has read that some projects to implement the same package have resulted in the loss of personnel data when they tried to import it into the new system. He backs up the data so that it could be restored in the event of such a problem but also buys insurance to cover the cost of keying in the data manually if the implementation doesn’t work. Which response strategies are Alberto using? A. Mitigating and Accepting B. Mitigating and Avoiding C. Mitigating and Sharing D. Mitigating and Transferring

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You’re managing an industrial design project. Your project is currently in the
Initiating phase. The project charter has been created, and you are working
on developing the preliminary scope statement. Which of the following is
NOT something that you should do?
A. Create the change control system
B. Document initial project risks
C. Identify internal and external constraints
D. Write down any assumptions that you have made

 

Alberto is the project manager of a software implementation project.
His company has made an organization wide decision to move to a new
accounting and human resources software package. He has read that
some projects to implement the same package have resulted in the loss of
personnel data when they tried to import it into the new system. He backs
up the data so that it could be restored in the event of such a problem but
also buys insurance to cover the cost of keying in the data manually if the
implementation doesn’t work. Which response strategies are Alberto
using?
A. Mitigating and Accepting
B. Mitigating and Avoiding
C. Mitigating and Sharing
D. Mitigating and Transferring

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