Implementation Plan Concept Worksheet
Establish project priorities

Any project requires establishing its priorities. Meg P. McGill, the CEO of Harrison-Keyes, Inc. failed to set a plan and include in it all necessary details to make the transfer to e-books more successful. The most important issue is the unaccomplished negotiations with the authors. They demand to fulfill all their requirements what affects the project time line and the budget. Now the company management has to find the best way to settle such issue. Establishing the project priorities could possibly prevent or reduce the risk from such problems. “One of the primary jobs of a project manager is to manage the trade-offs among time, cost, and performance” (Gray & Larson, 2006, p. 103).

Defining project scope

Harrison-Keyes, Inc and the project committee should have defined the project scope in advance and have possibly prevented different problems. The project priorities and right protection of the works, they were converting to digital, could have allowed the committee to allocate properly time and money to the plan. “The primary purpose is to define as clearly as possible the deliverable(s) for the end user and to focus project plans” (Gray & Larson, 2006, p. 100).

Responsibility matrices

Any project requires a set of team members who will and can contribute, implement and accomplish the project plan. Harrison-Keyes, Inc failed to set a good responsibility matrix in place as not everybody who occupies the leadership position can do the job. The CIO Mack Evans does not have proper qualification to accomplish his part of the project. Mack’s experience is not up to date and he has no formal education in the technology field but he is in charge of converting the books into e-books. As a result, Mack does not properly prepare for the project. This causes time constraints and the