Project Planning, Risk, Control and Closure
Scope, schedules, resources, risk, quality, change control, monitoring, handover and post-project review.
How to study CIMA Management Level
Secure E2, P2 and F2 knowledge before practising integrated medium-term judgement. These single-best-answer study questions do not reproduce or claim to simulate the pre-seen, unseen information, timed written sections, professional formats and human marking of the Management Case Study.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Plan scope, time, resources, quality and communication.
Exam cue: Establish a baseline before comparing actual performance.
Concept 2
Assess project risk and control approved change.
Exam cue: Evaluate a change's benefit, cost, risk and schedule effect together.
Concept 3
Monitor delivery, hand over outputs and review benefits and lessons.
Exam cue: Close ownership gaps between project completion and benefit realisation.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating an optimistic schedule as a baseline.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, timing, evidence provenance, stakeholders and whether the conclusion follows.
Allowing scope change without impact assessment.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, timing, evidence provenance, stakeholders and whether the conclusion follows.
Closing the project before handover and lessons are secured.
Guardrail: Check the applicable blueprint, task verb, assumptions, units, timing, evidence provenance, stakeholders and whether the conclusion follows.
Memory anchors
Critical path
The longest-duration path through the network; delay on it delays project completion.
Change control
A governed process for assessing, approving and recording changes to the baseline.
Post-project review
A review of delivery, outcomes, benefits and lessons after implementation.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
An activity has earliest start 4 and duration 6. What is its earliest finish?
An activity's latest start is 12 and earliest start is 9. What is total float?
Answer all questions to submit.
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