Your company's IT department experiences a great deal of conflict in connection with its projects. There is a constant tension between finding new resources for important new projects and maintaining support resources to meet the operational needs of the existing systems.

• How can your company meet the challenge of organizing projects within such an environment?
• What can your company tell its project teams about the nature of conflict, including how to avoid it, how to recognize it, and how to resolve it?
• Discuss how resistance to change impacts project success and provide recommendations on ways to manage this type of conflict.
• Explain the concept of project risk planning and the types of project conflict that can be reduced during the project risk-planning phase.
• Discuss 3 causes of project failure and provide your recommendations on how they can be avoided or properly managed.