Business EnvironmentPlan and manage project complianceeasy
A project manager is beginning compliance planning for a new project. What is the most effective first step?
- AApply the compliance checklist from the organization's most recent completed project of a similar type, adjusting it only where something seems obviously different about this project's jurisdiction or contract.
- BWait until the design is complete, then have legal review it for any compliance concerns.
- CFocus on the health and safety regulations first, since those tend to carry the most serious penalties.
- DIdentify the compliance requirements that apply from every relevant source, laws, regulations, industry standards, contracts, and internal policies, and build them into the plan.
Explanation
Correct answer: DCompliance management begins with deliberately identifying every applicable requirement across all relevant sources, so nothing is missed and each can be planned for.
- A
- A prior project's checklist may omit requirements specific to this project, its jurisdiction, or its contract, and it carries forward yesterday's gaps.
- B
- Leaving compliance to a late legal review finds problems after the design and cost are set, when fixing them is most expensive.
- C
- Safety rules matter, but narrowing to one category at the outset guarantees other applicable requirements go unidentified.
- D
- Correct. Compliance obligations come from many sources, statute, regulation, industry standards, the contract, and internal policy, so identifying all of them up front is what lets the project plan and budget for each.