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Discussion

"Essential Skills for a Project Manager." Please respond to the following:

• Choose a famous leader in history (for example, Winston Churchill, George Washington, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther King, Chairman Mao).
• Identify the projects this person led.
• Identify the attributes and skills they brought to their project management roles.
• Evaluate those attributes and skills.

Assignment: Controlling Project Performance and Project Closure

Develop a three to five page paper that addresses the following:

• Illustrate two advantages and two challenges associated with fast tracking and provide examples based on your own experience (not examples from the text).

• Discuss both what it means and possible causes for a project with a CPI of 1.2 and an SPI of 0.8 (include hypothetical figures for PV, AC, and EV in your discussion).

• Discuss the benefit of effective project closure using examples to support your answer.

• Recommend two best practices concerning project closure that would apply to almost any project.

The format of the paper is to be as follows:

• Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides (APA format).

• Use headers for each of the subjects being covered, followed by your response.

• In addition to the three to five pages required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain the title of the assignment, your name, the instructor's name, the course title, and the date.

Note: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.