1. Where and how does a PM get Authority and what are the pitfalls of a PM having no authority? (additional research beyond the book may be needed to answer this)

2. Describe the relationship between planning and control.  Include reflection in your own life where planning or lack of planning directly affected control of a situation.

3. Assume you have been given an 'Enterprise Workstation Upgrade' project that involves of updating the operating systems on all of the workstations in your company and you decide to create a project plan to manage this.  What might be in your:  problem statement, your work requirements & deliverables, and what might be some Milestones?

4. Based on question 3, write a basic WBS with at least 5 tasks that would need to be done.

5. Based on question 3, list at least 3 required resources.

6. Based on question 3, who might be some of the stakeholders for the workstation upgrade?

7. Based on question 3, what might be some project risks?