A project feasibility study determined what product should be created. Now, a change request has been approved to develop another product that contradicts the original requirements. Data analysis was conducted before the change request was approved. What should the project manager do?
a) Request a feasibility study of the new product
b) Request a detailed report the data analysis
c) Reject the change.
d) Implement the change request. Saving Changes...
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Peter RapinSubject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent ConsultantOntario, Canada
The Project Manager's mandate was to deliver the first project within the initially defined deliverable and constraints. He has no authority to make decisions related to the second project. Options a, b, and c are all related to the second project for which he has no standing.
The only response is c.
Of course he can be reassigned to the second project but that is not his choice to make. Management needs to cancel project 1 and initiate project 2. Saving Changes...
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Assuming the CR is supported by appropriate evidence and has approval by the sponsor / owner then the best answer seems to be d. The question isn't specific but perhaps some part of the original scope has already been delivered and the change in direction could be understood as something that will optimise the value of future work. Saving Changes...
I'd interpret the question in a different manner than Peter. It sounds like there is a single project and its requirements have changed and the change has been formally approved. If so, the PM should be implementing the change request.
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
I agree with Kiron on that one and would also choose "d". The question is phrased in a complicated manner, but at the end of the day is asking what to do next once a change control has been approved (assuming that it has followed the approved change control route and that due dilligence to justify the changes exist, which seems to be the case). Saving Changes...
Peter RapinSubject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent ConsultantOntario, Canada
"...develop another product that contradicts the original requirements"
You are the PM and have been authorized by the Project Charter to deliver a bridge over the St Lawrence River in Montreal. You now receive a change request to deliver a commercial plaza in Vancouver instead.
I question the PM's authority (under the Charter) to accept that change. If the Project Charter is considered an agreement of sorts, this is a 'fundamental change' thus voids the initial agreement.
I'll stick with option 'c'
New project, new Project Charter Saving Changes...
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