...Creating a Methodology: Chad Valentine Strayer University BUS-375 Project Management Professor James E. Wise II April 21, 2015 The culture in Corporate America is highly competitive and often results driven. In most cases the success of the entire company is often credited to the executive staff and upper management. They endure both the weight of success and the weight of failure. The term “business is war” is much more a commonality than just a saying in most of the top corporations. The struggle to stay on top and maintain it is a struggle that most deal with on a daily basis. This struggle not only pertains to the threat of competitive businesses, but also the internal competition of climbing the ladder. Once you reach a certain level or position within a company, the only way to reach the next plateau is to be better than the person above you, play the politics game, or weight for them to retire or move on. Those three options aren’t always the case in every situation, but they apply to most. After reading the “Creating Methodology” case study I came to the same conclusion the CEO Mr. John Compton did which was his executive staff was hesitant due to the fact that this new process he requested to be implemented would introduce the possibility of the executive staff to lose a portion of their power or influence. There are multiple types of PM Methodologies used in project management. Just to name a few; Agile, Waterfall, Scum, NPI, RAD, Kanban. The structure...
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...Creating a Methodology July 20, 2015 Lanika Jones Project Management Dr. Christopher Hase John Compton, the president of the company could not understand why his executive team waited so long to develop an enterprise project management methodology (EPM) for their company. Being that they knew about what steps, how to go about it the start up and the time frame are was going to take to execute this plan. But first when you think about a methodology what it is? A methodology a set of methods, rules, or ideas that are important in a science or art: a particular procedure or set of procedures. When Compton’s executive team was presented with this idea of creating a methodology for his company his team was stagnant with following through because they had to go through the change process. The change process is “when the employees’ initially refuse to admit to the need of change”(Kerzner 98). When a change process come into play when a employees refuse to admit or adapt to the need of change different corporate culture factors need to be put in to play in order for the Compton’s team EPM could be successful. Being that the team had to create a methodology the two cultures that I see fit for the beginning is cooperative cultures and competitive cultures. But in order for the team to understand these cultures is that “good cultures are teamwork, trust, communication and cooperation (Kerzner 99) from all member of the staff. Cooperative culture are base upon trust and...
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...Creating a Methodology Nicole Barrett Professor C. Lodge BUS 375 October 18, 2014 Creating a Methodology In the 1900s Methodology was a system to help streamline projects to eliminate redundancies and make processes more efficient. The system included project management, total quality management, concurrent engineering, and scope change control and risk management. In the twenty century, methodology has the same results; to make processes more efficient however some of the processes have changed. The twenty-century processes are supply chain management, business processes, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses (ROI) and capital budgeting. Regardless of the changes in the processes, the end result is to streamline the process, reduce paperwork and eliminate duplications. Methodology has been known to lower cost and improve customer satisfaction. Based on the case study titled “Creating a Methodology”, the executive staff had many concerns about implementing an enterprise project management methodology (EPM). The executive staff knew it was necessary to continue to compete in the request for proposal (RFP) process. In addition this was a requirement from corporate to implement a methodology. The employees of the company had a routine way of doing things and they did not like a change. This was a clear indication of a company with employees whose vision is low whose believes were based on their powers and not the goals of the organization. The company headed by the John...
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...1n the 1900s Methodology was a system to help streamline projects to eliminate redundancies and make processes more efficient. The system included project management, total quality management, concurrent engineering, scope change control and risk management. In the twenty century, methodology has the same results; to make processes more efficient however some of the processes have changed. The twenty-century processes are supply chain management, business processes, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analyses (ROI) and capital budgeting. Regardless of the changes in the processes, the end result is to streamline the process, reduce paperwork and eliminate duplications. Methodology has been known to lower cost and improve customer satisfaction. Based on the case study titled “Creating a Methodology”, the executive staff had many concerns about implementing an enterprise project management methodology (EPM). The executive staff knew it was necessary to continue to compete in the request for proposal (RFP) process. In addition this was a requirement from corporate to implement a methodology. The reasoning for the executive staff hesitation is that they felt such efficiencies could result in a reduction in authority and workforce. In addition to learning a new process, there were concerns of them being to strict and not allowing enough flexibility. This would change the manor of doing business and additional time would be needed to create the methodology. Although some...
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...Creating a Methodology Sonya Moore Professor Kimble Project Management January 18, 2015 Critical issues that were at play in this case were the executives were asked to develop a methodology for more than a year ago. The business is no longer competitive in the marketplace. Some were afraid of losing power and authority once the methodology was up and running but, obviously was not important than losing their job. The president has gave the executives six months to propose a methodology in use of all projects. Bringing in a company consultant to conduct a three hour session on benefits of project management and value of an enterprise project management methodology. First the company should determine the number of life-cycle phases. The decision was made to have no more than six. So training should be held for all the executives to implement the life-cycle phases. The second step there should be guidelines that are set in place using checklist or templates. Third the company had previous templates and checklist but, not all project managers used them. Executives would need to make sure everyone is using the updated information and following all procedures. Making a standardized set of documents was chosen. This could give the managers the choice to use specific forms, guidelines, templates and checklists that were appropriate. The fourth step develop best practices for using the EPM system. Clients could use this information during the debriefing stage. The fifth step...
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...Creating a Methodology Name Institution Affiliation The employees of the company had a routine way of doing things and they did not like a change. This was a clear indication of a company with employees whose vision is low whose believes were based on their powers and not the goals of the organization. The company headed by the John Compton has members of staff whose working system is corrupted. They all feared that they could lose their powers and responsibility if they implement the enterprise project management methodology (Berkun, 2008). This made the executive staffs even after being assigned the work of designing a project management methodology they feel their work threatened by the change since they knew there was a requirement of a project manager office to be established and that would translate to the project manager taking some of their responsibilities. Therefore the reason that made the executive staffs wait for so long to implement the enterprise project management methodology was because of the culture of the company (Tonnquist, 2009). The first thing is that the project manager’s office should be in a centralized place for easier accessibility to and by the other offices. This will again reduce the overlapping of functions in the company. The project manager should report to the chief Information officer because the chief information officer understands the organization clearly and will be in a position to assess...
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...The main reason why the executive staff waited so long to consider the development of an enterprise project management methodology (EPM) is that they did not believe in the security of their position in the company and did not trust that their co-workers were going to have anyone’s best interest but their own. The is a reflection of a non- cooperative culture were mistrust is prevelent. “Employees worry more about themselves and their personal interests than what is good for the team, company or customer.” (Kerzner, 2013) The staff did not want the status quo to change and they knew that implementing an EPM would not only change the structure of the office but would alter the balance of power and although each employee would have supported the change if they were to be the one in control, they were not secure in knowing that another staff member may gain control to the detriment of their own position. Because of the current corporate culture, it would be in the best interest of the company to have the Project Management Office (PMO) and the Chief Information Office (CIO) report directly to the President, John Compton. There is too much distrust within the company and change always starts from the top down. The president would be able to disseminate information to the company in a non-threatening manner and foster a change in the culture of the company from mistrust to acceptance of the new EPM and hopefully to cooperative. A good communication plan that includes providing...
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...group phenomena known as cultural norms, which develop over time. The norms include established approaches to initiating and planning projects, the means considered acceptable for getting the work done, and recognized authorities who make or influence decisions.” Kerzner states, “Achieving project management excellence, or maturity, is more likely with a repetitive process that can be used on each and every project. This repetitive process is referred to as the project management methodology.” Claudiu-Marian describes many of the factors that influence the success of modern companies. Of the factors that he lists, the one that stands out to me is organizational culture. For a company to succeed it must have solid teamwork, unwavering trust, effective communications, and unbiased cooperation. John Compton sought to develop a culture of cooperation within his organization to replace the non-cooperative/competitive culture that existed. It appears that the executive staff delayed the change in methodology for several reasons to include job security, fear of upsetting other employees, resistance to change, and unwillingness to shift authority to whoever acts as the PMO Lead. They created a PMO with out providing tools and authority for the new venture to succeed. Using the Handbook of Project Management and PMBOK as a guide, I would inform the company president and senior executives that the Program Management Office should report directly to the same entity as the other executives...
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...Creating a Methodology Stephanie Birth Professor George Dollar BUS 375 Project Management October 19, 2014 A project management methodology is a framework designed specifically for a project or client, as described in Kerzner (2013). The portions for each specific project are as needed from the templates, forms, guidelines, and checklists of the already established framework. Corporate culture is the organizations visions, values, norms, systems, beliefs, and habits. From the case study, Creating a Methodology, it was clear that the idea of losing power and authority was an obstacle stopping the executive staff from creating a project management methodology. Factors in corporate culture that may have led to this resistance of a PMO and a methodology were the aversion to change within the corporate structure due to the fear involved of losing power and authority. However, as stated in the case study, it would be better to lose a little authority than to lose your job. Kerzner (2013), states that people will be less resistant to change if they believe change is possible and that they will benefit from that change. Also according to Kerzner, the change management process follows a pattern of denial, resistance, exploration, resistance, and then support. He believed that a good culture included teamwork, trust communications, cooperation; thus leading to benefits that stretch from employees out to clients. Yazici (2011), states that “if an organization is inclined to have...
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...P. Faroleiro | Creating a Methodology | Case Report (Q&A) | Binetti Marco Nicola #2235 Brachet Léa #2199 Navarra Martina #2231 Rabassini Iole #2320 Tsui Janice #209317/02/2015 | 1) What can you determine about the corporate culture from the fact that they waited this long to consider the development of an EPM system? Analysing the case, it is noticeable that the corporate culture is characterized by individualism in spite of cooperation, regarding both departments and their executives. Indeed, for the latters, the prospect of losing authority and power overcomes the benefits originated by the introduction of Project Management. This can be seen as a clear evidence of the lack of correlation between the true essence of the corporate culture concept and the executives’ behaviour. Moreover, the significance of this issue is confirmed by the President’s bewilderment regarding his staff’s reluctance towards an EPM development. Indeed, executives showed more concerns about the changes in hierarchy status rather than the likelihood of losing their jobs. In fact, the President has proved that the company is losing marketplace, therefore the introduction of an EPM approach could help the company to recover its position. However, employees rely on routines and are afraid of challenging them, stating a strong resistance towards organization’s change. Moreover, enforcing a new methodology would imply to invest...
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...Creating a Methodology Week 2 Assignment 1 John Kagley BUS 375- Pamela Payne 10/19/14 John Compton’s executive team waits until compelled by threat of losing their jobs to devise and implement a uniform project management methodology for their company, and understandably so. In adapting their company to this new style, they fear any change might diminish their roles, responsibilities, and their very positions. Project managers could be imagined to take over areas of control through their projects such as sales, marketing, accounting, HR, and manufacturing among others and simply leave them hanging (Kerzner, p. 95). Once an enterprise project management methodology (EPM) were put into place, then one of them could feasibly garner more power and control for themselves and upset the existing balance by controlling valuable intellectual property over the processes of the company. All of this adds up to severe competition and a sure cutback on some of them who may be shown to have outlived their usefulness or unfit to continue growing with the organization in its new iteration as a company that devotes the right kind of energy and effort to project management. My recommendation to Mr. Compton would be that, now that the executive team has gotten the groundwork for the EPM from their initial iteration of a PMO, it should not report to the CIO of the company. If they have a Chief Operating Officer (COO) or someone whose title and role essentially means general manager/similar...
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...another process at a different time, may be with different people, all trained in Six Sigma. Selection for training should ensure picking up highly motivated employees that will result in creating a high performance team. Another important point is to give them a project right after training without allowing any time gaps. Generally, IT people do not go ahead with untried methodologies until they have tried out tools with which they are familiar. Experts sound a note of caution against this and say that throwing technology at a business problem results in a bad process with new technology. If the process is free from defects, then technology can be used to take it to greater heights. Focus On Defect Removal And Improvement While Six Sigma tenets are supposed to be religiously followed, they should not be treated as the be-all, end-all. The aim should be to reduce defects and to continuously streamline and improve the process conducting regular evaluations. Six Sigma is a structured approach to problem-solving within a disciplined, fact-based methodology. The Six Sigma approach focuses on understanding the problem, collecting and analyzing data about the problem, identifying root causes of problems or opportunities, and implementing appropriate solutions. It is a data-driven methodology, i.e., decisions are based on facts and data, not intuition. The need for Six Sigma often becomes clear when a business fails to meet customer needs, and begins to lose customers and internal...
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...The improvement of superblocks is an unfortunate problem [7]. It should be noted that our methodology manages the emulation of replication. Given the current status of real-time modalities, systems engineers daringly desire the simulation of courseware. The deployment of B-trees would profoundly improve voice-over-IP. We demonstrate not only that the foremost homogeneous algorithm for the simulation of superblocks is in Co-NP, but that the same is true for hierarchical databases. We emphasize that Weak should be analyzed to store e-business. It should be noted that our application observes the unproven unification of the partition table and massive multiplayer online role-playing games [6,13]. Contrarily, this approach is often considered private. Combined with compilers, this technique develops new linear-time technology. Our main contributions are as follows. Primarily, we concentrate our efforts on disconfirming that the acclaimed homogeneous algorithm for the understanding of interrupts by L. Maruyama et al. is recursively enumerable. Second, we introduce a system for the synthesis of the Ethernet (Weak), validating that digital-to-analog converters can be made constant-time, autonomous, and knowledge-based. Furthermore, we demonstrate that 802.11 mesh networks and virtual machines can interact to realize this intent. In the end, we argue that although simulated annealing and A* search are always incompatible, expert systems and redundancy [14] can agree to accomplish...
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...that are worn may include, jackets, boots and shoes, cravats, ties, hats, sunglasses, belts, gloves, muffs, jewellery, watches, shawls, scarves, socks, bonnets and stockings. Objective of our Research Two main objectives: 1. List most profitable accessories in India. 2. List most popular accessories in India. What is Most Profitable Accessory? Most Profitable Accessory is one which generates more revenues compared to input cost. The Market Price of such accessory will be high compared to the actual cost to the producer. What is Most Popular Accessory? Most Popular Accessory is one which has quality of being well-liked and which is common amongst people. Listing Most Popular Accessory Formal Method Research Methodology: The methodology for the research work will constitute both secondary and primary research. The details of the research work should be as shown below: Data Sources: Secondary Data Sources- The secondary data will consist of information like the Macro-economic scenario of Indian economy, Present status, growth trends, and the future outlook for the sector, Sector specific details and relevant information. The main sources of the information shall be (a) the Government of...
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...------------------------------------------------- Archived Voice ------------------------------------------------- A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Computer Studies Philippine Christian University – Manila City Campus ------------------------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of ASSOCIATE IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Martin Joseph D. Abao October 2012 THESIS ABSTRACT ------------------------------------------------- Title : Archived Voice Proponent : Martin Joseph D. Abao Year : October 2012 Course : Associate in Computer Technology ------------------------------------------------- Adviser : ------------------------------------------------- The study answers the demographic profile of the students, disabled people, programmers, professionals, computer-literate and foreigners/linguistic in terms of year level, company, course, position, language spoken and their age; the problems encountered by the respondents in terms of: Making documents and paper works, Understanding the application’s environment; the benefits and opportunities of the respondents by using the Archived Voice like changing of the application’s environment into different languages, making documents, and paper works in an easy way, time and speed constraints in using the application; and the evaluation of the respondents about the...
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