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Carry out a situation analysis for the following situations:

a. As a PM, you discover, at month 8 in a ten-month project, that you are 8% over cost. Your Chief Systems Engineer tells you that you can meet budget if the entire project team works a 48-hour week. Your Project Controller estimates only a 50% chance of success with that strategy, but claims that 5% of the work done has been “out of scope.” You have a project status review planned with the customer in two days. What should you do, and in what sequence?

b. As a PM, it is Friday afternoon at 4 P.M. and you receive a call from your customer complaining about the quality of your company’s last report and a bad attitude on the part of your on-site lead engineer. Your customer wants to see you in his office at 9 A.M. next Monday. What should you do and in what sequence?