You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. You are carrying out activities relating to procurement planning. Grapevine wants you to head up a project to design a new visitor center, tasting room, and gift shop. They also want to double the number of fermenting tanks and increase the size of the warehouse (which requires extensive temperature and environmental controls). Grapevine would like to have the bar in the tasting room constructed out of specialty marble that is available from only two places in the world. Grapevine management estimates this project will take three years. You are concerned about the availability of the specialty marble and know that the following are true.

Alyssa is a project manager tasked with managing an infrastructure project that will consolidate five data centers into one. She is using a waterfall approach to carry out initial planning activities and will execute the work using an Agile-based approach. Currently, she is facilitating the estimating process to calculate the duration of the project’s activities. When she gets to the “run cable” activity, one team member tells her that in a past similar project, they ran a similar length of cable in 13 hours; another team member tells her that they can run 110 meters of cable per hour. The team will need to run a total of 1,320 meters of cable. Using the analogous estimating technique, how many hours will it take the team to run the cable?

What is the role of a servant leader?

Astral Bank is known for providing its customers with superior online services through its use of cutting-edge technology. The latest project includes the ability for customers to electronically sign for loans. Currently, the project is in its third week of executing the project work, and the project manager noticed that a key resource has been over-allocated. What technique is the project manager likely to use to resolve this issue?