A project manager joins an ongoing project for which the client's project manager supported a competitor for the contract's award. The client's project manager is a key stakeholder during delivery.
What should the project manager do to manage this situation?

You are interviewing new project managers for your company. One of the candidates claims to be a PMP-certified project manager, but you discover that she has never taken the PMP exam. What is the BEST way to handle this situation?

What is a deliverable-oriented, hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables?

In which plan do you define the processes that will be used to keep people informed throughout the project?

During a software development project, one team member fails to complete assigned tasks, which prevents integration with other components and causes a milestone to be missed The team member did not inform the project manager about any problems with their tasks.
What should the project manager do first to communicate this to the sponsor?