The Post-Project Review of the Alpha Supplement Project Is Complete

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Multiple Choice

The post-project review of the Alpha Supplement project is complete.It found failures in planning.Too much time was budgeted for market research,leaving not enough time for product development and quality assurance.As a result,the project could not have succeeded even if it had been run perfectly.But there were other problems as well.Constant conflicts between team members demonstrated a failure of leadership.Finally,there were failures in the control function.When component providers failed to deliver,project leaders did not locate and train new providers in time. Which of the following,if true,would most strongly suggest that the failures attributed to leadership were also caused by failures in organizing?

• A)Most of the conflicts between team members concerned questions of roles and determining who had the authority to make decisions.
• B)The market research was delayed because the firms hired to conduct customer interviews backed out of the project after the market research began.
• C)The reports of conflicts among team members were exaggerated in order to make the project leaders seem less competent.
• D)The failure to locate an alternative component provider is very similar to other failures that have appeared in past projects.
• E)Even the most successful projects encounter some problems related to each of the main management functions.

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