PMP Exam Set C – Q12

Your company will receive a large bonus payment for completing a customer’s project by a certain date. However, as the project manager, you know the project will complete approximately 2 weeks after that date as it is currently scheduled. Your manager is insisting that you to do whatever it takes to finish the project by that date, even if it means “cutting corners here and there.” What do you do?

A. Make a formal scope change request.
B. Fast track the project.
C. Explain to both your manager and the project stakeholders the impact that this schedule change could have on the project.
D. Compress the schedule

C. Explain to both your manager and the project stakeholders the impact that this schedule change could have on the project.