1. How do you build and sustain project ownership among the team members assigned from other resource departments?

2. How do you build and sustain project ownership among the team members assigned from other resource departments?

3. How can these leaders "earn" the authority they need to function effectively in a matrix environment?

4. The "unknowns" or factors that must be addressed in planning and executing an international project can be put into four main categories.?

5. Why are cost estimates so important, yet so difficult, in project planning? What are the implications and consequences of overestimating costs, and of underestimating costs? For each of the following estimating methods, briefly describe the method, when it is used and the estimate accuracy it provides: expert opinion, analogy, parametric, and cost engineering?

6. explain what Project Portfolio Management is.

7. What are the four or five main features of Project Portfolio Management?

8. What is the project manager's primary role? 9. How does the authority of the typical project manager differ from the authority of other managers? 10. What is "legal authority"? How is it different from "charismatic authority"?

11. What is a stakeholder? 12. What influence do they have on a project, and why is it important to consider them?