...Uncertainty on Project Planning Process Project across most industries face huge uncertainty as regard to complex, ambiguous and dynamic environment (external environment) which can have impact on the project planning process. Similarly, projects are becoming larger and more ambiguous which make the execution and realisation of project complexity to be on the increase therefore increase our internal complexity. (Azim, 2010) established that project are increasingly being characterized as complex across most industries and sectors. (Vidal et al. 2011, p. 719) define project complexity as the property of a project which make it difficult to understand, foresee and keep under control, even when given reasonably complete information about the project system. Besner and Hobbs project (2012) established that size, complexity and together with risk (known unknown) and uncertainty (unknown unknown) are path of project characteristics to be considered in selection of project management toolsets to be adopted in their management approach. Each of the project classification approaches attempt to address interaction between complexity and uncertainty and the impact this interaction has on project planning process. The key principles for addressing complexity in the planning process. The complexity of project has always been there which make the need to execute and bring realisation of project complexity on the increase. Therefor the key principles of project complexity in the...
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...Project Management Jo Anne Bishop Ashford University Project Planning and Management BUS611 Dr. Caroline Howard October 14, 2012 Project Management Effective project management is crucial to the success of any project regardless of the size or complexity. Project management experts Karen Tate and Paula Martin said, “Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play football without a game plan” (Martin & Tate, 2001, pg 9). Project managers have a difficult job. Their jobs are often times made more difficult by the dynamic environment in which they must work. Project managers must take a project through the entire project management life-cycle, from an idea to a fully developed deliverable. While the job is difficult, there are many tools and processes that have been developed to assist in project management. While they are responsible for the leadership of the project, they have many, such as the project sponsor and project team members, who are there to assist them in ensuring the job gets done. In addition to the personnel who will help him, there are many different project management tools as well. Project scope, work breakdown structures, contingency plans and project management software are all tools that, if used properly, can ensure that a project can be completed within time and budget. Project management is not an easy job but if a project manager understands his project and his roles and responsibilities along with the...
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...1. Project success is determined by a set of various conditions including proper planning, and execution of the project. Usually project’s success is determined by the SMART criteria which stand for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely. In other words for the project to become a success, it has to be well defined, with set deadlines, and done by people who can actually get the job done (achievable). Whenever the project does not meet the SMART criteria, there is a great chance that the project will be of no use to the company that initiates it. The reason why a large number of projects fail to meet their stated objectives, i.e. schedule, cost, scope and performance objectives is because it is rather hard for the project managers to precisely predict the future to which a given project relates. Although, everyone understands that project should meet the SMART criteria, in practice it is rather hard to achieve especially when the corporate resources are scarce (Martin, 232). 2. Effective project manager possesses the attributes applicable to a regular manager (ability to plan, organize, direct and control) as well as specific knowledge/skills related to the projects of a certain industry. The project manager must be able to define the project well and have enough skills to motivate the employees to commit to the project and get it done. 3. There exist a difference between management and leadership. Leadership is the ability to organize and lead people,...
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...1: (E) 1. In today’s market, which of the following industries appears to have a need for project management? A. Aerospace & defense B. Construction C. Information systems D. All industries have a need for project management (M) 2. Which of the following is not one of the PMBOKâ Guide’s five process groups? A. Feasibility studies B. Planning C. Execution D. Closure (E) 3. Which of the following is normally not one of the traditional components of the triple constraint? A. Within time B. Within cost C. Within performance (Scope, technology or quality) D. Accepted by the customer (M) 4. Which of the following is a potential benefit of using project management? A. Maximization of continuous reporting B. No need for identification of functional responsibilities C. Identification of time limits for scheduling D. No need for a project management methodology (E) 5. Which of the following functions of classical management is generally not performed by the project manager? A. Planning B. Organizing C. Staffing D. Controlling (M) 6. Which of the following three types of deliverables discussed in the book would be used to classify the final report that must be presented to the customer at the end of the project? A. Hardware deliverables B. Software deliverables C. Interim deliverables D. Validation...
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...1: (E) 1. In today’s market, which of the following industries appears to have a need for project management? A. Aerospace & defense B. Construction C. Information systems D. All industries have a need for project management (M) 2. Which of the following is not one of the PMBOKâ Guide’s five process groups? A. Feasibility studies B. Planning C. Execution D. Closure (E) 3. Which of the following is normally not one of the traditional components of the triple constraint? A. Within time B. Within cost C. Within performance (Scope, technology or quality) D. Accepted by the customer (M) 4. Which of the following is a potential benefit of using project management? A. Maximization of continuous reporting B. No need for identification of functional responsibilities C. Identification of time limits for scheduling D. No need for a project management methodology (E) 5. Which of the following functions of classical management is generally not performed by the project manager? A. Planning B. Organizing C. Staffing D. Controlling (M) 6. Which of the following three types of deliverables discussed in the book would be used to classify the final report that must be presented to the customer at the end of the project? A. Hardware deliverables B. Software deliverables C. Interim deliverables D. Validation...
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...about Project Portfolio Management is NOT true? | | Your Answer: | | | The PPM process will force organizations to abandon the preparation of traditional business plans and analyses. | | | | | To keep from falling into the error of accepting faulty assumptions and data, everyone involved in PPM needs to ask hard questions before deciding. | | | | | PPM is still evolving. | | | | | PPM begins with a rational prioritization and selection procedure. | | | | 2. | Question: | (TCO A) Which of the following groups of people are not involved in the implementation of the PPM process? | | Your Answer: | | | Senior management | | | | | Functional managers of the IT department | | | | | Members of the PPM governance council | | | | | The project management office | | | | 3. | Question: | (TCO E) Which of the following is a step in the controlling process? | | Your Answer: | | | Motivating | | | | | Delegating | | | | | Evaluating | | | | | Staffing | | | | 4. | Question: | (TCO E) State the five effective group fundamentals that any team should follow. Taking TWO of the five fundamentals, briefly explain how the single-leader discipline manages that fundamental in comparison with the team discipline. | | Your Answer: | The five group fundamentals are: • Planning • Organizing...
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...is a framework that is used to structure, plan, and control the process of developing an information system. There are the following methodologies: • Agile Software Development • Crystal Methods • Dynamic Systems Development Model (DSDM) • Extreme Programming (XP) • Feature Driven Development (FDD) • Joint Application Development (JAD) • Lean Development (LD) • Rapid Application Development (RAD) • Rational Unified Process (RUP) • Scrum • Spiral • Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) • Waterfall (a.k.a. Traditional) Agile Software Development Methodology Agile software development is a conceptual framework for undertaking software engineering...
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...Qualification | Unit number and title | Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND Diploma in Business (QCF) | Unit 47: Employability Skills Level 5 | Student name and ID number | Assessor name | | | Date issued | Completion date | Submitted on | 25thJanuary 2016 | | | Internal Verifier | | Assignment title | Training and Development- GE | InstructionsAbbreviation | * An electronic copy of your assessment must be fully uploaded by the deadline date and time. * You must submit one single PDF or MS Office Word document. Any relevant images or screenshots must be included within the same MS Office Word or PDF document. * The last version you upload will be the one that is marked. Your paper will be marked if you have indicated this as your final submission. * Review the mitigating circumstances policy for information relating to extensions. * The file size must not exceed 20MB. * Answer the criteria in order, clearly indicating the pass criteria number. * Ensure that all work has been proof-read and checked prior to submission. * Ensure that the layout of your documents are in a professional format with font style Arial, font size 12 for the text, font 14 for sub heading and font 16 for main heading, line spacing 1.5 and justified. * Use the Harvard referencing system; otherwise it will be considered as plagiarised work. * Ensure that you back-up your work regularly and apply version control to your documents. * Ensure that any file you upload is virus-free...
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...Team B Video Analysis Report of CanGo Innovative Financial Management & Consulting Services BUSN 460 Based on the first two week of observation, Innovative Financial Management & Consulting Services (IFM) has noted the following issues and our recommendation for your review. ISSUE #1: No Mission Statement or Company Vision RECOMMENDATION: It is the recommendation of IFM that a formal mission statement and company vision be defined. A mission statement defines why the organization exists and what it does, and is also a way of ensuring that everyone in the organization is on the same page. A mission statement also serves as a base line for effective business planning. A vision statement focuses on the organization's future; it can also robustly communicate the company’s purposes and inspire your team or organization. IFM consultants will meet with the Board of Directors to help define the company’s mission statement and vision. ISSUE #2: No Strategic Plan RECOMMENDATION: Once the CanGo mission and vision have been finalized and approved by the board, IFM consultants will develop a strategic plan through the following process: • Conduct a SWOT analysis • Review SWOT analysis and outline CanGo’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats • Define objectives, key strategies and short and long term goals • Define operational plan Once the strategic plan has been fully developed and approved by the CanGo Board of Directors, IFM will...
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...Introduction Page 3 Project PlanningPage 3 Risk Assessment Page 4 Creative ThinkingPage 5 Working Together / ConflictPage 6 Political BehaviourPage 7 RecommendationsPage 9 ConclusionPage 9 Reference ListPage 10 BibliographyPage 10 AppendicesPage 11 Introduction Within the confines of this report we will investigate the 6 keys headline statements in delivering the finding. These are the project plan, risk assessment, creative thinking, and team working and conflict, political behaviour, ending with formal recommendations. The principal argument will look at the functionality of project management and the delicate balancing act of the different element that would bring a successful outcome or possibly result in failure. 1. Project Planning Definition: What is a project? A project is a programme of activities that have a beginning and end. Projects are generally used to instigate change, improvements or developments. This statement is underpinned by PMI ‘a project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to produces a product, service or result. (Project Management Institute 2008). What is Project Management? Project management is defined by, ‘initiating processes - clarifying the business need; planning processes - detailing the project scope; executing processes - establishing and managing the project team; monitoring and controlling processes - tracking performance and taking actions; closing processes - ending all project activity’ (Portny...
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...and Performance Objectives 3 1.2 Effectiveness in Meeting the Performance Objectives 4 1.3 Recommendation for Improvement of Performance Objectives 4 1.4 Motivational Techniques to Improve Quality of Staff Performance 5 2.1 MEMO Writing to All Colleagues Outlining the Solutions to Work Problems 6 2.2 Types and Levels of Communication 7 2.3 Effective Time Management Strategies 8 3.1 Different Roles People Play in Team and Their Effectiveness 8 3.2 Analysis of Team Dynamics 10 3.3 Forwarding Alternatives Ways of Achieving the Assigned Task Set by Line Manager 11 4.1 Methods to Solve Work Based Problems 11 4.2 Appropriate Strategy for Solving Problems 12 4.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Compromise and Collaboration 12 Conclusion 13 References 14 Introduction Before entering the job market it is required to sharpen employability skill. To develop employability skills, identifying and improving the understanding of the responsibilities and performance in the workplace. Interpersonal and transferable skills are inevitable in working with dynamic team. The manager shall also hone leadership and communication skills. Identification, analysis of problem, formulating appropriate strategy, executing the plan perfectly and evaluating the result with desired result through reflective practices are also inevitable element of employability skills. 1.1 Own Responsibilities and Performance Objectives As a duty manager the personnel should have specific responsibilities and performance...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Salfordia is a family run construction company, with four (4) of out of six (6) members of the board, and the chief executive, being family members. Salfordia construction is based in Salford, Manchester and working on both private and public sector market projects such as offices & industrial facilities, using the traditional form of procurement with lead down procedures going on about 10-15 years which is resistant to organisational and cultural change. The purpose of this report is to provide the analysis of Salfordia’s current organizational culture ,team dynamic ,leadership ,status and make proposals that would help transform Salfordia current organizational culture, leader etc. to modern standard organization. The principal finding of this report as, adopted by Salfordia in there organizational structure Adhocracy which has the support staff as its key part, using informal communication (mutual adjustment) as it means of coordination. . Information and decision processes flow flexibly and informally and uses selective patterns of decentralization. . Using Adhocracy Salfordia have the tendency to hire and give power to professionals whose speciality is required to promote the company’s productivity thereby making profit unlike the professional Bureaucracy, the Adhocracy cannot rely on the standardized skills of experts in other to achieve coordination(Mintzberg 1983). Finally this report recommends that Salfordia should undergo Kolb’s organisation...
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...Science and Engineering (ICISE2009) Team Development Measurement by Dynamic Fuzzy Social Network Analysis Lixin Zhou School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, 102600 zhoulx@vip.sina.com Abstract—How to obtain a high performing team quickly and effectively is very important in a project management. Communication is most essential part in a project team. In this paper, a method of measuring team performance by dynamic social network analysis is put forward. With dynamic fuzzy social network analysis, we can find the organizational structure of a team, the pattern of communication in a team. Then, the performance of a team can be analyzed by the organizational structure and communication pattern of a team. Keywords- fuzzy social network analysis, team development, measurement team development are described in section 2, in section 3, we describe social network in a project, in section 4, we describe how to build relationships and networks in project management team development; in section 5, we put forward the approach of fuzzy social network analysis; in section 6, the conclusion has been presented. II. STAGES IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM DEVELOPMENT I. INTRODUCTION Team development includes developing individual and group competencies to enhance project performance. By coming together as a true team, the project will be more successful. Team development can be achieved a variety of different ways, such as : (1)Team building activities, (2)General management...
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... Positive Influence Plan Different personalities of team members influence team dynamics and performance. Varying levels of motivation can change team objectives, and work satisfaction can translate in how the team successfully or unsuccessfully accomplishes the intended purpose. A working knowledge of how these factors can influence a team’s performance is an immense asset for managers and team leaders to understand. This plan of positive influence emphasizes the prospect of increasing team performance by means of identifying how these factors are associated with individual personal attitudes, emotions, and values. This plan will summarize the way we plan to use these influences and provides conclusions related to positive influence in team performance. Planning to increase a team’s motivation, satisfaction, and performance requires an understanding of how motivation drives team performance. When working on extended projects this becomes even more important as the team progress through the different phases of project completion. When individual team members are not satisfied with his or her job they are usually not comfortable with the team concept. Using the attitudes, emotions, values, and personalities of employees to motivate their team performance creates a cohesive and efficient team that will grow as the project progress. Dictinary.com defines attitude as the manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc. with regard...
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...Assignment #2: “Project Motorcycles” Jesse Fontanez BUS 375 – Project Management Professor Lodge November 2, 2014 New, Improved, Faster, Motorcycle Project Plan The implementation stages of motorcycles larger than 1100 cc project is a true display of the defining moments that make a project a success or a failure. The implementation stage is defined as "motorcycle modifications being installed and made operational in a production environment. The phase is initiated after the motorcycles has been tested and accepted. This phase continues until the system is operating in production in accordance with the defined motorcycle requirements”. While all of the planning that takes place in preparation of the implementation phase is critical, I am of the opinion that the implementation itself is equally as important. When working through the process of defining the motorcycle and selecting the organizational personnel to create this motorcycle systems, the beginning stages become the most important part of the motorcycle project for this organization. A tremendous effort has to be exuded in planning and preparation for the motorcycle development and deployment. The start of the motorcycle implementation phase is indication that progress was being made and the motorcycles are well underway. Before analyzing the process of project planning in teams it is necessary to identify the differences between such terms as a group of people and a team. A group...
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