Igor is a software developer for a large IT consulting company. Mary, the team lead, has just informed him that the project manager has compressed the schedule by two weeks, and as a result, she is requiring the team to work weekends to accommodate the release. The team has a high degree of respect for the project manager, and they happily comply. Which of the following is a type of power that is based on the respect or admiration that others hold for an individual?

This earned value management calculation is the projected or estimated cost performance that the remaining work of the project must achieve to meet the BAC or EAC.

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. Alyssa is currently 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 parametric estimating technique, how many hours will it take the team to run the cable?

You are the project manager for Kitchens Plus Inc. The latest project involves the development of an automatic dicer with unique industry features. The project uses a predictive life cycle, and you are analyzing schedule performance. Based on the information provided by the scheduling team, the current schedule performance index (SPI) is at 1.10, while the cost performance index (CPI) is at 0.80. What might be a good strategy for balancing out performance between the schedule and budget?