...SAINT MARRY SCHOOL OF GRADUATES Department of project management TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGES 1. INTRODUCTION 1 2. AS-IS ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT 1 3. SWOT ANALYSIS 3 4. EVALUATION OF BLUE SPIDER PROJECT MANAGEMENT 7 4.1. BLUE SPIDER PROJECT 7 4.1.1. Project with strategic emphasis 7 4.1.2. Project management without strategic emphasis 9 4.1.3. Approach of blue spider project 10 4.2. PC AS POO 13 4.2.1. Concept of POO 13 4.2.2. Processes of the Project-Oriented Organization (POO) 15 4.2.3. What Parks Corporation (PC) should do to become a modern POO? 17 5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 20 5.1. CONCLUSION 20 5.2. RECOMMENDATION 23 6. REFERENCE 27 1. INTRODUCTION Project Management deals with the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of company resources for short-term objective which is established to complete specific goals and objectives. It is cross functional teams that are assembled to achieve a specific purpose are the bases of project management. Projects are accomplished usually in specific time and within limited budget. The aim of projects is to produce deliverables. These deliverables which are measurable, tangible outputs come either at the completion or end of life-cycle phase of the project. A person who is assigned as the project manager may very well be assigned based upon the size, nature and scope of...
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...TCM 750: Advanced Project Management Case Review I: The Blue Spider Project By Sona Ngoh Missouri State University Department of Technology & Construction Management College of Business Administration Spring 2014 Contents 1. Summary of Findings 3 2. Background Information 4 3. Problem Statement 5 4. Analysis of Issues and Alternatives 5 5. Detailed Recommendations 8 6. Implementation and Evaluation 9 I. Bibliography 11 II. Works Cited 12 Summary of Findings The Blue Spider Project is an example of a situation where the project manager show lack of understanding of the life-cycle for project management and the inability to leverage the application of the key skills of integrated cost, schedule and technical performance management to achieve project success. Gray has engineering degree with an MBA, an outstanding record as a production engineer but fails as a project manager because he was unable to get a clear vision of all aspects of his project or capable of focusing on a specific aspect of the project while keeping tab of other aspects as required. Gray’s inability to leverage his newly acquired decision making responsibilities as a project manager with his technical expertise helped to escalate the drawbacks of a potentially valuable project into a near catastrophe, almost losing his job in the process. Background Information Parks Corporation is a Department of Defense...
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...R&D business to a low-cost production facility. The recession resulted in the company retrenching a number of employees, the staff compliment going from 6700 to 2200. In 1975, the corporate strategy changed again with the upturn of DoD spending. Parks began to beef up it’s R&D engineering staff. Owing to the salaries that Parks was offering their access to experienced engineers was limited so they opted to employing mainly young inexperienced engineers, straight out of college, like Gary Anderson. Gary was an outstanding production engineer and was promoted to senior scientist responsible for all R&D acitivities performed in the Mechanical Engineering department. In January 1978, Parks Corporation decided to bid for Phase I on the Blue Spider Project, with Lord Industries as the prime contractor for the Army’s Spartan Program. The project was to improve structural capabilities and the age life of the short range tactical missile, which was exhibiting fatigue failure after 6 years in the field. The criteria for a subcontractor was not only a low bid, but technical expertise and management performance. Parks Corporation felt that they had a distinct advantage over most competitors, as they had worked on other successful projects for Lord Industries. From the beginning of the project the following problems were evident. • • • • • Project Kickoff, this was done informally and without specific guidelines. The Proposal was unethically won, by not disclosing the truth. Parks...
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...In poetry, something as simple and small as a spider sitting on a flower can bring about the deepest life questions. This is exactly the case in “Design,” one of Robert Frost’s most renowned poems that he wrote in 1922. In Robert Frost’s “Design,” Frost utilizes juxtaposition though natural similes and rhetorical questions to parallel the poem’s structure of comparing the white spider on the heal-all to evil and corruption in the world. Just as Robert Frost’s “Design” evolves in comparing the white spider on the heal-all flower to deep philosophical questions, similes throughout the first eight stanzas create a major contrast between the flower and the spider. Throughout the poem, Frost utilizes similes such as “like a white piece of rigid satin cloth” (Frost 3) and “like the ingredients of a witch’s broth” (Frost 6) to completely contradict the destruction and hate of the killer spider to the goodness of the healing flower. In effect, Frost...
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...Blue Spider Problem: Gary was given the opportunity to be the Project Manager because of his R&Dbackground, but he doesn’t have the experience or skills to manage a project. Technicalbackground itself will not make an efficient project manager. Major Issues: 1. Gary focused too much on R&D works or administrative paper works without abalance.2. Error on financial planning.3. No standby schedule when the formal one was interrupted by predictably possiblechanges.4. Lack of communication with the Lord since the beginning which leaded to cost morethan double time on communication after that.5. Gary can not find Gable when he needed support. And Gable intervene the projectseveral times without noticing Gary, which makes the project management worksmore chaos, it leaded to reschedule or re-do works at the last minute. Recommendations: 1. Paul’s job is to take most responsibility for the R&D works. Additional staff can takeresponsibility for additional administrative paper works. Gary can spend most of histime on managing the whole project through managing other people.2. Discussion with Elliot will be useful before submitting any plan to top managers.3. Make a standby schedule for different stages and hand out to every department withthe formal schedules. Standby schedule can be made based on slack time or differenttime for specific task.4. Meet with Lord at every stage of the project. Can use electronic detailed schedule andtask sheets and...
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...years, a small number of international students have experienced some harassment on public transport, got sick with Redback Spiders and also they have a problem with sun in Australia. It is necessary to know about some dangers if they want to live or study in Australia. This information can be useful for international students to make their stay in Australia more comfortable and successful. 1.2 Aims The purpose of this report is to introduce three types of dangers which could happen to International students who live in the Australia. The Redback spider is one the dangerous animals in Australia which can bite people. It can cause serious illness and in some cases it might lead to death of a person. The second type is an environmental danger. People have a serious problem with the sun in Australia. It can cause a skin cancer. The last type is a personal danger. Public transport is usually safe during the day but it may become less safe at night. This is a big issue for people who traveling alone at night. 2.0 Three Types of Dangerous For International Students 2.1 Dangerous Animal 2.1.1 Redback Spider The Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti) belongs to the Family Theridiidae, which is found worldwide. Other kinds of Redback Spiders are in Africa, New Zealand, The Pacific Islands, Europe and North and South America. Female Redback Spiders are black with a red or orange stripe on the upper abdomen, sometimes being broken and they have a body about the size of...
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...draw:frame} Blue Spider Project Compiled By: Dirk Bottinger Student Number: 6907025308081 Dirk Bottinger DOCUMENT INDEX Executive Summary This document examines the following case: An organization called Parks Corporation for the purpose of this document they are a sub contractor to a larger firm called Lord Industries Current Organizational situation Parks Corporation is in low cost production facility that had to retrench 4300 employees when the defense contract market that they had penetrated went through a bad financial patch. This forced the company to return to low cost production as this is where they made their money and as a survival tack tike. As markets improved the company grew again and they landed a sub contract deal through Lord Industry for redesign of the Spartan missile through research and development that could ultimately be worth $500 million to Parks Corporation Current Organizational Problems Parks Corporation’s top management has neglected to secure highly skilled personnel as they are not willing to pay for them and has thus used a method of promoting from within the company but neglected to provide sufficient training. They also hired engineer’s strait out of college to save on wage costs. Parks Corporation management has no company policies or procedures that are followed and make decision on matters without discussions with project leaders. This miss management is leading to employee dissatisfaction. Their attitude towards training or...
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...waist * open sandals would be on her ankles * made a bracelet, dangling earrings and a necklace of large metallic blue beads to complement the smock color With improper dress Code: * Block smock with colorful braided rope belt and tucked in her smock at the waist * open sandals would be on her ankles * made a bracelet, dangling earrings and a necklace of large metallic blue beads to complement the smock color Reflection: CASE 4.1 Is a "Jazzed-Up" Out professional? Chelsea completed a program of study as a physical therapy assistant at a technical institute and accepted a position at a local hospital where she would support several physical therapists. The reaquired attire for everyone working in the physical therapy unit is a blue smock and matching slacks. Chesea received information about the required attire. While in school, she enjoyed buying clothes in vintage shops and accessorizing with wild-print handbags and lots of jewelry to achieve her own individual look. Needless to say, Chelsea found the required smock and slacks pretty dull clothing. After purchasing the required clothes, she began to think about how she could "jazz up" the outfit. She excahanged the drawstring in the slacks for a colorful braided rope belt and tucked in her smock at the waist. She made a bracelet, dangling earringsand a necklace of large metallic blue beads to complement the smock color. Chelsea knew she would be on her feet most the day but opted to wear open sandals...
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...Blue Spider Case 1) If you were Gary Anderson would you have accepted this project after the director stated that it would be his baby all the way? Despite Henry Gable’s very apparent shadiness I would probably have taken the project too due to the backing that the project has. Even though the project had issues, based on all we have learned in project management, it is rare that a project has the amount of attention and backing from top executives, as well as, strong resources from the functional team. Many of the cases we studied are problematic because they did not have this type of backing and priority which in the end, created other conflicts. Do engineers with MBA’s aspire to high positions in management? I think the ones who have the unique ability and skillset of both a PM and Engineer probably do aspire to have high positions in management. However, in my limited experience, I think that most engineers would gravitate towards being a project engineer where they are experts in their field and are most comfortable with technical details as opposed to the administrative ones. Gary Anderson was a perfect example of this. I feel that many engineers lack the essential administrative and soft skills of a PM to motivate and manage a team to a successful outcome. Was Gary qualified to be project manager? I do not think that Gary was qualified to be a project manager. Just because ‘we can’ does not often mean ‘we should do.’ It was probably very easy for Gary to complete...
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...due November 8, 2010 Avatar Written/Directed by James Cameron Director, screenwriter, and producer - James Cameron – has created another blockbuster movie, Avatar, to add to his incredible list of phenomenal top-grossing films. Avatar is in the company of movies such as Terminator, Titanic, Aliens, and Spider-Man: all crowd-pleasing, award-winning, top-selling films written, produced, or directed by James Cameron. Avatar is based on a script Cameron first wrote in 1994 and is the first big budget action film to be shot in 3D, using revolutionary camera technology Cameron developed. This film earned over $1 billion in its first three weekends. The story-line is simple and timely. In the year 2154, the fictional RDA Corporation (from earth) attempts to move the Na’vi, an alien race on the distant planet Pandora, off of their land to mine for a valuable mineral called unobtanium. RDA Corporation partners with earth mercenaries. These mercenaries are a back-up, in case the RDA Corporation science project - using avatars (Na’vi-human hybrids developed and managed by Grace Augustine/Sigourney Weaver) - fails to accomplish the task peacefully. Na’vi are colorful blue-skinned humanoids, who live in harmony with nature and worship their mother earth goddess Eywa, embodied in huge, luscious trees. This action/science fiction/thriller narrative features Jake sully/Sam Worthington and Neytiri/Zoe Saldana. Jake, in his avatar body and with help from Neytiri, is eventually...
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...Suddenly the flames became a bright blue color and the flames were impossible to tame, inside the flames were skulls. Then came a crash, Rita found Floyd’s body on the ground. Floyd was dead. Rita called the doctor but there was nothing that he could do. Rita prepared for Floyd’s funeral. The next day Rita took a look at the vase and it had creole-like writings on it. She went back to the pawnshop and looked for the salesman but he was on vacation. That very night Rita cried harder than she had ever cried before thinking on how she could be so selfish in the first place. Later in the afternoon Rita found the salesman walking in on First-Street and Melbourne. She ran to him quickly and said, “Sir… please help me my husband had died yesterday”, she spoke frantically,”the vase you...
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...Anxiety disorders are the most common of all mental health problems, affecting approximately one in 10 people, both children and adults (CMHA, 2010). Various factors have been implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders including biological (e.g., genetics, psychophysiology, temperament), personality (e.g., anxiety sensitivity or fear of arousal-related sensations), interpersonal (e.g., attachment), cognitive (e.g., information processing), preparedness, and behavioural (learning). Research indicates that environmental factors, such as learning, contribute more to the etiology and maintenance of anxiety than do genes (Eley, 2001). The principles of operant conditioning have taught us to recognize how certain coping techniques can reward, and therefore continue anxiety disorders. Two similar coping strategies for dealing with anxiety symptoms are called avoidance and escape. For more information about coping strategies, please review this section. As the name implies, avoidance refers to behaviors that attempt to prevent exposure to a fear-provoking stimulus. Escape means to quickly exit a fear-provoking situation. These coping strategies are considered maladaptive because they ultimately serve to maintain the disorder and decrease functioning. Operant conditioning enables us to understand the powerful impact of these two coping strategies. Both coping strategies are highly reinforcing because they remove or diminish the unpleasant symptoms...
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...PHILIPPINE FLORA AND FAUNA Flora and fauna refer to plant and wildlife, respectively. The indigenous plant and wildlife of a geographical region is often referred to as that region’s flora and fauna. Both are collective terms, referring to groups of plant or wildlife specific to a region or a time period. For example, the flora and fauna of a warm region may consist of tropical to warm-temperate vegetation and exotic species of birds. By definition, flora is a word of Latin origin referring to Flora, the goddess of flowers. Flora can refer to a group of plants, a disquisition of a group of plants, as well as to bacteria. Flora is the root of the word floral, which means pertaining to flowers. Fauna can refer to the animal life or classification of animals of a certain region, time period, or environment. Fauna is also of Latin origin. In Roman Mythology Fauna was the sister of Faunus, a good spirit of the forest and plains. The flora and fauna of any given region is usually explained in biological terms to include the genus and species of plant and animal life, their preferred growing or breeding habits, and their connection to one another in the environment as well. In addition to geographical groupings, environment also helps further classifications of flora and fauna. For example, aquatic flora andfauna of a region refers to the plant and animal life found in the waters in or surrounding a geographic region. FLORA Garden Plants and Flowers By Johnamendall (see also Flowers...
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...A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" is a short story that has a fairy tale like quality. Throughout the story, the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses magic realism, giving it a dreamy effect. The characters reaction and interpretation to the old angel are very different to what we would have expected. Marquez shows us, in several different ways, how people unwillingness to accept things may affect our and other people lives. Marquez's story makes us as the readers to look closer at situations in our lives to see how we are reacting to the normal and non-normal things we are faced in our everyday life. The tone of the story in the beginning is presented with the most natural but yet unwelcome events: a sick child in the midst of poor weather. Marquez’ writing style in the first few sentence instantly grabs the reader when he express, “The world had been sad since Tuesday,” representing the gray and cold weather in detail. He continues in the first paragraph, to bring in the surreal character of an old man with enormous wings that was found ashore. Marquez immediately crushes any mindsets we have of powerful and holy angels by describing him as "a very old man lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn't get up, impeded by his enormous wings". To the reader surprise, the couple soon states that the old man with wings seems "familiar." The couple wasn't scared of him;...
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