PMP Exam Set B – Q18

A project manager is just finishing a project that has not gone well. Apart from cost overruns and schedule overruns, there have been a lot of quality defects and the project required a lot of senior management intervention to finally reach completion. The project manager should now:

A. Focus on closing the project and moving on to the next one. Lessons learned is not applicable to this project since it has done badly
B. Focus on presenting the data in positive light while ensuring that the reasons for the delays and problems are appropriately documented.
C. Mask bad data and only present good data since his performance appraisal will otherwise be impacted.
D. Document lessons learned from the project and update the lessons learned knowledge database.

D. Document lessons learned from the project and update the lessons learned knowledge database.