Why must the Validate Scope process be completed in a project?

While reviewing project procurement and accounting records for your project, you discover there is a pattern of unauthorized expenses by a specific resource. These expenses are not within the scope of the project and were somewhat camouflaged within a number of large and complicated expense reports. What do you do?

Your company is planning to bid on a project in an application area you have never worked before. You are aware your company does not have any resources with the necessary expertise, but you are confident of ramping up the necessary skills and delivering the project successfully. Further, the buyer has not specifically asked for prior experience of completed projects of similar size and scope. Your management is pressuring you to submit a bid. What should you do?

After conducting a bidder conference, you receive an email from one of the bidders requesting additional information. The information was neither included in your request for proposal, nor did anyone ask for it during the bidder conference. You realize the answer to this question is critical to understanding the scope of the project. If the answer is not communicated to bidders, they cannot size their teams accurately or estimate the total duration of the project. The answer also greatly affects cost. However, the answer contains some proprietary information that, if disclosed to a competitor, may reveal the future product strategy of your company. Such a disclosure could be disastrous for a major product launch you are planning next year. You decide to send the answer to all the bidders, but you realize one of the bidders is also working closely with one of your competitors on a similar project. What should you do?

A seller organization was executing work for a project under a contract. During the course of the project, a number of disputes arose over the scope and quality of the work. Which of the following is the preferred method of resolving these claims?

If you are working on a project with constantly changing scope, which type of contract would work best when hiring an outside vendor to complete a portion of the work?

Jared is in the execution phase of a residential housing construction project. He has been informed of major scope changes from stakeholders in the middle of the project. These changes involve regulatory requirements from local authorities that may affect not only the scope but also the cost and duration of the project. What is the first step that Jared should take in considering these changes?

You are working on an information technology project as a project manager to develop a shopping website for your customers. Some key stakeholders in the project suggested scope changes to improve the website’s look and feel. Your team has analyzed the impact of these changes and presented the analysis to the Change Control Board (CCB) for approval. What should be your next step if the CCB accepts all proposed changes?

In an underground highway construction project, the project stakeholders have suggested many changes to the project scope. You had already defined the cost baseline in your project, and you would like to revisit the baseline to see how these changes might affect the overall cost of the project. You start an impact analysis to determine the impact and inform the concerned stakeholders of all approved changes and the corresponding costs. You perform these activities in which process?

Nancy can bid on two projects. Project A has a 50 percent return on investment while Project B has a 20 percent return on investment. Project A’s scope of work is complex, and Nancy’s organization does not have the necessary skills and experience to do this project. However, Project B’s scope of work falls within the strengths of Nancy’s organization. Which project must Nancy bid on?