Pete works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. The Management has told him that he must implement an agreed-upon contingency response if the cost performance index in his project is less than 0.90. Consider that Pete's project has a budget at completion of $275,000. His project is 65 percent complete and he has spent
$175,000 to date. However, Pete is scheduled to be 78 percent complete. What is the cost performance index for this project to determine if the contingency response should happen?

For the last several months, a project manager for a global technology program is focused on improving the project outsourcing process and analyzing the vendor supply chain as key pieces of the cost containment strategy. Early in the project, these two areas were identified as key risks to the final delivery of the project.
Since that initial risk identification, the risk manager works to identify additional risks, as well as analyze the potential impact to the project cost baseline. After performing a cost-risk sensitivity analysis, the risk manager produces this chart.

Based on this analysis, which two risk areas should the project manager focus on to control project cost?

What are critical success factors for the Plan Risk Responses process?

A well established project begins to experience cost overruns and falls behind schedule. The project risk register identifies many risks and risk response plans in place, yet many risks are transitioning into issues. As the risks occur and become issues, many of the response plans are in progress, but not complete. The data from this graph represents the status of the project risks.

Based on this information, what improvement to the risk management process is required?

You are the project manager of the BJA Project for your company. Management is worried about one of the identified risks in your project. The risk event has a probability of 90 percent and a cost impact of $85,000.
Management and you discuss possible solutions to address the risk. You share with them that for $75,000 you can reduce the probability of the risk event to 15 percent and the impact to $25,000. This solution will add three weeks to the project schedule. Management thinks this is a good idea and they would like you to add the time and cost additions to your project plan. What type of risk response is used?