You have just been assigned as the project manager for a research project that your company has been awarded. As part of the execution of this project for your customer, you will be carrying out major statistical research in all of the major cities in your country. Your project sponsor, who is also the CEO of your company, has asked you to prepare the Project Charter and get it signed by him. However, you discover that the project Statement of Work (SOW) does not exist in a formal, documented form. This is a very important input to the Develop Project Charter process.

Where can you get the formal, documented project Statement of Work?

A) You should create the project Statement of Work yourself since you are the project manager    
B) You should look for the project Statement of Work in your organizational process assets    
C) You should ask your project sponsor to provide you the project Statement of Work    
D) You should ask your customer to provide you the project Statement of Work

Hint: Who provides the project Statement of Work for an external project?

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This week's featured lessons learned comes to us courtesy of Dawn Upperman.

In this lesson learned Dawn Upperman shares with us the following tip that made him passed the PMP exam:

1- Practiced creating a brain dump everyday for two weeks before my exam. That included the knowledge areas, process groups as well as formulas. (really helped). At exam time I used 5 minutes of the tutorial time they give prior to the exam starting to view the tutorial and used the other 10 minutes to create my brain dump (they give you paper and pencils).

2- Created my own outline of the Rita Mulcahy Prep book to give myself a better understanding of how the information and terms flowed.

3- Referred to the PMBOK guide quite often. It was particularly helpful to review the Data flow diagrams for each knowledge area. Really helped me to understand the flow of the inputs and outputs...

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