You’re managing a construction project to install several hundred air conditioner panels in a new office building. Every floor has identical panels. The customer, a construction contracting company, has provided specifications for the installations. The team is using a process to install and verify each panel. As the team completes each panel, your team’s quality control inspector measures it and adds the data point to a control chart. You examine the control chart, and discover that the process is out of control and you need to take close look at it immediately. Which of the following BEST describes what you found on the control chart? A. At least seven consecutive measurements are either above or below the mean but within the control limits B. At least one point is inside of the control limits C. At least seven consecutive measurements are inside of the control limits D. At least one point is above or below the mean   Your project files need to be sent via overnight mail to your company’s central office. If the files do not arrive tomorrow, your company will not be able to deliver the project on time and you will lose an important client. The deadline cannot be negotiated. The team worked right up to the last minute in order to give you the files. Due to a traffic jam, you are running late and the overnight delivery company will close in five minutes. You can only make it if you drive over the speed limit. Which of the following is correct? A. You must stay within the speed limit, even if you lose the client B. You must drive over the speed limit so that you can save the client relationship C. You must negotiate a new deadline D. “You can use the earned value metrics to show that the SPI is over 1, meaning the project is not late”

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You’re managing a construction project to install several hundred air
conditioner panels in a new office building. Every floor has identical
panels. The customer, a construction contracting company, has provided
specifications for the installations. The team is using a process to install and
verify each panel. As the team completes each panel, your team’s quality
control inspector measures it and adds the data point to a control chart. You
examine the control chart, and discover that the process is out of control and
you need to take close look at it immediately. Which of the following BEST
describes what you found on the control chart?
A. At least seven consecutive measurements are either above or below the mean but
within the control limits
B. At least one point is inside of the control limits
C. At least seven consecutive measurements are inside of the control limits
D. At least one point is above or below the mean

 

Your project files need to be sent via overnight mail to your company’s central
office. If the files do not arrive tomorrow, your company will not be able to
deliver the project on time and you will lose an important client. The deadline
cannot be negotiated. The team worked right up to the last minute in order to
give you the files. Due to a traffic jam, you are running late and the overnight
delivery company will close in five minutes. You can only make it if you drive
over the speed limit. Which of the following is correct?
A. You must stay within the speed limit, even if you lose the client
B. You must drive over the speed limit so that you can save the client relationship
C. You must negotiate a new deadline
D. “You can use the earned value metrics to show that the SPI is over 1, meaning the
project is not late”

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