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Section 1, Project Management: Select a specific industry context that will then be used in your analysis below. Examples might include an IT deployment in a large hospital setting, physically moving a large auto dealership, major systems change in a financial services organization, or a major office remodeling project. Pick a project context of interest to you and one with which you have at least some familiarity. This case context could be a project you have experienced yourself or you can sketch out a hypothetical project context.

(1) State your specific industry context. What key project documents would be required? Briefly describe how you would specifically use these documents to produce an effective and well managed project.

(2) State your specific industry context. What tactics would you use to make sure that costs were controlled in the project and the project was implemented on schedule?

Section 2, Project Organization & Integration:

(1) What are typical problems that exist in the working relationships between Senior Executive Management and Project Managers? What practices can be applied to prevent such problems?

Section 3, Project Control:

(1) Describe 3 best managerial practices useful in project control.

(2) What are some of the human issues in relation to the behavioral impact of project metrics? Where do we find that people may ignore project metrics and why might they do so? What could be done to improve the performance of project metrics?