Tricky Question

[Prembalaji]

You are assigned as the PM for an Highy important [project in your organization. You have only been given 10 resources and there are no more resources available in the company, The Project should be completed in a period which is half the time that will take you to complete the project with the available resources. Due to the Projects high priority, management does not accept any change in the Projects required completion date. What will you do in this situation

1.Relax some Quality Requirements
2.Provide the available resources with some training to increase their performance
3.Look for any part of the scope that can be cut
4.Ask your available resources to work overtime

[shanthi priya]

May be its Option 4.

[rahul.kanugo]

1.Relax some Quality Requirements :- Highly important project Quality cant be compromised
2.Provide the available resources with some training to increase their performance .(Is not measurable )
3.Look for any part of the scope that can be cut (No scope for any change)
4.Ask your available resources to work overtime(Only option left)

Answer as D

[manishpn]

asking resources to work over time ( on a continuous basis) is against PMI ethics

now think what could be the option

[nazrulq]

Asking for overtime and work in the weekends( Not Mentioned) are against PMI Code of Ethics.
On job Training ( Not mentioned PMP exam should be clear that ) is the possible right choice!
Sometimes made up an answer just missed some information which can clear the right choice.
In that case, PMI should scrutinize the answer and questions with special attention.

[dmegha]

ANS: 3 (Cut the scope)

Time and Cost are constraints, hence, PM should priorities the requirements and deliver only the high priority requirements

[Prembalaji]

yes , the answer provided was to CUT the SCOPE .

But im not able to make peace with the answer .

[dmegha]

Use the process of elimination.

1.Relax some Quality Requirements - Quality cannot be compromised, hence eliminated
2.Provide the available resources with some training to increase their performance - Competancy is not the issue, hence eliminated
3.Look for any part of the scope that can be cut
4.Ask your available resources to work overtime - PMI doesn't promote overtime.

Hence, C

[sandeep.gulvadi]

From the above ans shall be 4.

May comes under PMBOK Schedule compression, crashing - to shorten the schedule duration, overtime can be approved when activities are on critical path.

Regards
Sandeep

[ankurece012]

I believe Option D will be the right choice.
I was also thinking about option B, but that again requires an additional budget for training and I didn't see any data that tells us about the reserve that project had planned for training.

[puja.pajan1984]

Could you please clarify the source of the question. I dont think when the option to train and work overtime are both available, cut scope cant be the right choice. Scope, Time, Cost and Quality are all constraints. Without sufficient information, you cant choice which one to reduce. I would go with Option 2(train to increase performance), Work overtime is a crashing option that is acceptable, but that might not be the first thing to do. Well, it really depends where the question came from?