14- Professional Ethics

Alfredo is a certified PMP and is working with Eugene, who is a project team member leading the project’s risk management activities. Eugene has just monitored a major project risk that did not occur and for which the risk timeline has passed. This risk had a contingency allowance attached to it and Eugene recommends that instead of eliminating the funds in the allowance from the project, Alfredo should distribute it to the project team as a bonus. What should Alfredo do?

Eliminate the contingency allowance so that other projects or the company, may have access to this available funding.

Commend Eugene for his great idea and use the contingency allowance as a bonus for the project team.

Discuss Eugene's idea with the project team.

Ask the project sponsor for his input.

One of your project team members has developed several alternative solutions to help get the project back on schedule and she recommends one of these solutions to you as the project manager. What should you do about the recommendations from the team member?

Listen to the project team member and gain an in-depth understanding of the recommendations.

Let the team member know that she is just a project team member and not the project manager, who is responsible for bringing the project back on schedule.

Report this situation to the project sponsor, as the project team member is being disruptive to the project.

Remove the project team member from the project team.

The project manager is considering hiring a business analyst as a contractor, and has narrowed it down to two final candidates. One candidate is very young and does not have much experience. The other candidate has a lot of experience and is well qualified for the position, but is also older than the first candidate. What should the project manager do?

If the older individual is the better candidate and has the qualifications, then he should be hired despite his age.

Hire the younger less qualified candidate.

Speak to the project sponsor and let the project sponsor make the decision.

Do not hire either and start the selection process over to find different candidates.

The project manager will meet with key stakeholder on the progress of this very critical corporate project, which must be delivered on schedule. However, just before the meeting, several key project team members inform the project manager that a number of deliverables are greatly behind schedule and will negatively impact the project end date. What should the project manager report to the key stakeholders?

The project manager should report to the key stakeholders that the project is behind schedule, and that he will investigate to see what is required to get the project back on track.

The project manager should report to the key stakeholders that the project is on schedule.

The project manager should report to the key stakeholders that the project is slightly behind schedule, but there is no cause for concern.

The project manager should report to the key stakeholders that the project team is performing great work and the that project end date will be reached.

Henderson has just obtained his PMP certification but he is not a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI). Does Henderson have to follow the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (Code) even though he is not a PMI member?

Yes, even non-members of PMI who hold a PMI certification must follow the Code.

No, only PMI certified members must follow the Code.

Yes, if Henderson is a member of a local PMI chapter.

No, as the Code is optional and offers only recommendations and suggestions.

Which of the following is true if a project manager follows the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (Code) on her project?

The Code will install confidence in the project management profession and will help an individual become a better practitioner.

The Code will provides answers to all project management questions and issues.

The Code offers great recommendations and suggestions, but they are all optional.

The Code will assist the project manager in navigating through the entire PMI website.

Three of the four values of the global project management community defined as the foundation of PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (Code) are: honesty, respect, and fairness. Which is the fourth value?

Responsibility

Integrity

Objectivity

Appreciation

The project sponsor has assigned Johnny as the project manager to develop a full robust web application. However, Johnny has no experience on web-based application projects. What should Johnny do?

Inform the project sponsor that he has no web application project experience and that he is willing to take whatever training is required to ensure he fills any gaps in his knowledge.

Accept the assignment since the project sponsor assigned him, and does not know that Johnny has no web application project experience.

Decline the project assignment and tell the project sponsor that he several other projects and cannot accept another project.

Have another project manager coach him without informing the project sponsor.

A project status meeting is about to start in one hour, when a key vendor informs the project manager that their status reports, which reported deliverables as on time, was a mistake, and these deliverables will be about four weeks late. What should the project manager do since the status reports have already been emailed to those stakeholders who will attend this project status meeting?

Conduct the meeting and advise the stakeholders that the vendor's deliverables will be late and more analysis is required, which will be done and communicated back to them as soon as possible.

Cancel the status meeting.

Report the situation about the vendor to the project sponsor and let him decide what to do.

Conduct the meeting and use the distributed status report and issue revisions at the next status meeting.

The project manager (a certified PMP) and the project team are looking at a number of vendors to perform certain project work. Jason, the project manager, has a brother that has a consulting company and feels that he will make sure that his brother is awarded the contract, regardless of what the other vendors offer. Is anything wrong with Jason awarding his brother the contract over the other vendors?

Jason should not participate in the decision-making process, due to his relationship with his brother.

Since Jason is the project manager, he can use his influence on other decision makers and ensure his brother's company is awarded the contract.

Jason should award his brother's company the contract, regardless of what other decision makers may say.

Jason should make sure that during the source selection criteria his brother's company gets the highest score.

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