What qualities might Jim possess that would make him a successful project manager?
The following skills are the skills necessary to make Jim a successful project manager. Some of the skills are more important than the others, but all are needed more or less:
• Technical skills
• Management skills
• Communication skills
• Social skills (customer relationship skills)
• Leadership skills
• Intuitive skills (problem solving)
• Enthusiastic
• Flexible
• Competence
• Ability to delegate task
• Be able to work under pressure
How do you think Jim should respond to Ella’s implied pressure about the importance of the project to her?
Jim should be calm when Ella implied pressure about the importance of the project to her. What Jim needs to think about is the success of the project. When you are in a project team, every member of the team is an individual and have different response to a situation. Jim should do is to take the most out of each of the team’s members in achieving the …show more content…
This will give Ella the sense of being important with regards to the project.
What strategies might Jim employ to deal with a very busy team member such as Carmen Sanchez?
There strategies that I may utilize with such a busy team member are to communicate to her via telephone, e-mail or video conferencing. This will minimize the amount of time wasted travelling from one place to another. Jim should talk to Carmen as well and let her know how important she is for the team and the project. Also, Jim should assign a separate time spent for the team members to work on this project from their regular job in the company as this will ensure work is being done as planned.
Look over the scope statement (PE Figure 4-1). If you were an employee at Petrie’s Electronics, would you want to work on this project? Why or why