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You are a project manager for a software project. Your team buys a component for a web page but they run into defects when they use it. ?

Those defects slow your progress down considerably. Fixing the bugs in the component will double your development schedule and building your own component will take even longer. You work with your team to evaluate the cost and impact of all of your options and recommend hiring developers at the company that built the component to help you address problems in it. That will cost more but it will reduce your delay by a month. What is your next step? A. Change the Scope Baseline to include your recommendation B. Start Procurement Planning so you can get the contract ready for the vendor. C. Fix the component D. Write up the change request and take it to the change control board

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Question added by Muhammad Farooq , QA-QC MANAGER , AL Bawani contracting co.
Date Posted: 2018/07/18
Ruslan Nurmanov
by Ruslan Nurmanov , Various Business development / Continuous improvement projects , Various projects

As the process owner, I would definitely deal with с component since as follows from the question the problem appears constantly. The constancy of problems is not the best issue when the project schedule time is lost and the delivery of the product to the Customer is at stake.

Personally, I prefer - ROWE (Result Oriented Work Environment) approach. 

Sorry for not following the ABCD way. 

Muhammad Farooq
by Muhammad Farooq , QA-QC MANAGER , AL Bawani contracting co.

Answer: DExplanation: Once you've figured out the impact of the change to your schedule, budget, and scope, the next step is to take the change request to the Change Control Board. If they approve your recommendation, then the request will be approved and you can update your baseline and implement the change.