1. Contrast the two situations in terms of the project managers’ prior experience with functional and project management. What career path was each manager on? Which of the two projects would have been your preference as a PM? Which would you have found more difficult? Why?

2. Considering the attributes of the two PMs, which attributes from Section 3.3 were most important to each of the two situations? Which were least important?

3. Of the “special demands” listed in Section 3.2, which were critical to each of the two situations? Which were not particularly relevant to each situation?

4. Rank the five characteristics desired for team members in Section 3.2 for each of the project teams in the two projects. What are the similarities, what are the differences, and why?

5. Considering the iron triangle of goal trade-offs, what would take priority at the beginning of each project? What towards the end of each project? Explain your thinking.

6. Describe how these two projects would have been handled in a culture that was slower paced, such as Latin America. Or one that was more topdown, respect for elders, oriented, like Japan. Or one that was more relationship based and less litigious than the United States.