1. Read the following scenario and answer the
   corresponding questions upon your completion. Your response should be at least
   two pages in length in standard essay form following APA style guidelines.

CTO Scenario:

You are working on a project to install 200 new computers
for your department. Your sponsor is the CTO (Chief Technology Officer).
Although the CTO is your key stakeholder, you know that many other individuals
will affect the success or failure of your project. This is the first time you
have worked with this CTO, and you have heard that he often changes his mind
about the requirements and due date. In fact, you heard that a PM who failed to
meet the project deadline was fired by the CTO.

On your way to the weekly status meeting with the CTO, you
run into a colleague who tells you that the best way to handle the CTO is to
avoid confronting him. If the CTO tells you to do 10 push-ups, you do 10
push-ups. If he asks for coffee, do not forget the cream and sugar. In other
words, the “Yes-Man” approach works best. You may not like what you hear from
the CTO, but at least you will keep your job. In fact, your colleague tells you
that the CTO often promotes people who agree with him. Of course, you know what
happens to those who fail to follow his recommendations.

Provide your response to the following questions:

1. Who are your stakeholders?

2. How do you plan to communicate with your
   stakeholders?

3. You schedule a meeting with managers from the
   impacted departments, and only seven of the 13 you invited show up to discuss
   the project. What does this tell you about the potential success of the
   project?

4. Because
   of your failure to coordinate with a vendor, the equipment will arrive 42 days
   late. How will you notify the sponsor of your serious error?

5. Your CTO informs you that the deliverable date
   is now two months earlier. You know what happened to the last PM. How do you
   handle that new requirement?

1. Read the following scenario and answer the
   corresponding questions upon your completion. Your response should be at least
   one page in length in standard essay form following APA style guidelines.

Deerborn Electronics Scenario:

You work for Deerborn Electronics, a multinational firm
providing parts for mobile devices. As the project manager for the tablet
division, you have been kept extremely busy. In fact, you are putting in 60
hours per week, and it is taking a toll on you and your family. You have
thought about quitting, but the $140K annual salary is far too good.

You have been here at Deerborn only 14 months, and you have
determined an anti-project culture. You recently confided in a team member the
following: “No one is accountable around here.” In fact, you think most people
here are flat lazy.

As the project manager, how do you change the culture? How
do you ensure that your project is completed? What type of leadership style
might work in this organizational setting? How will you measure success? Why?

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