Discussion 2

Reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Identify what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding. 
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

  1. The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct provides guidelines for ethical behavior by project management practitioners. It describes four main values that should guide a project managers actions. List these four values and give one example per value of why it should guide a project managers actions.
  2. Cultural patterns differ in various parts of the world, so project team members need to be more sensitive as to how their actions are interpreted. Project managers working with global and virtual project teams need to be especially mindful of the increased need for communications.  Discuss some of the extra communications challenges posed by virtual and global project teams, along with a few approaches to address these challenges.
  3. Imagine you are the project manager of a team tasked with building a new hotel.  When brainstorming project communication plan considerations, what would you list under purposes?