...Iniciação ao Projeto II Assignment #2 “The Blue Spider Project” 1. If you were Gary Anderson, would you have accepted this position after the director stated that this project would be his baby all the way? Na posição de Gary Anderson teríamos aceitado a proposta de Henry Gable. PRÓS: A ambição de Gary Anderson de querer subir na Empresa, melhorar a sua carreira e passar a ter um papel mais importante era correspondida com a promoção ao cargo oferecido por parte do seu superior; O conhecimento necessário para exercer esta função era comprovado com o MBA que Gary tinha no seu currículo; Vasta experiência e papel de relevo, por parte de Gary, no Departamento de I&D. CONTRAS: Falta de experiência de Gary em gestão de projetos. Esta promoção ao cargo de Gestor de Projetos seria o seu primeiro contributo para a empresa nesta função; Projeto demasiado importante para a Empresa e para o seu superior Gable. Gable teria uma palavra a dizer sobre as acções de Gary resultando numa perda de autonomia e controlo sobre a gestão de projetos. Este projeto era encarado como o “bebé” de Gable; 2. Was Gary qualified to be a project manager? Gary era qualificado para cumprir a função de gestor de projetos, porque tinha uma vasta experiência na empresa, na qual se destaca a sua excelência na produção consequente promoção a cientista sénior, responsável pelos projetos de I&D ligados à área da engenharia mecânica. Além disso, como é referido no caso de estudo, Gary tinha realizado...
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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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...ESTUDO DE CASO: O PROJETO DE BLUE SPIDER "Isso é impossível! Não dá para acreditar! Dez meses atrás, que eu estava sentado no topo do mundo. A alta administração considerava-me um dos melhores, se não o melhor engenheiro desta fábrica. Agora olhe para mim! Eu estou cheio de olheiras, depois de seis meses sem uma noite de sono decente, e não consigo acreditar que só me resta limpar a minha mesa e ir-me embora. Congratulo-me, com certeza, por voltar para o meu antigo emprego em engenharia. O problema é que nada disso teria aconteciddo se não fosse a promoção a gerente de projeto." História Gary Anderson tinha aceitado trabalhar na Park Corporation recémsaído da faculdade. Com um PhD em engenharia mecânica, Gary estava pronto e decidido para enfrentar e resolver todos os problemas do mundo. Em primeiro lugar, a Park Corporation não ofereceu a Gary muitas oportunidades para fazer pesquisa pura, que este queria, ansiosamente, desenvolver. No entanto, as coisas mudaram rapidamente. A Parks cresceu e tornou-se uma das principais empresas em um projetos estruturais e electrónicos durante o grande "Boom" do final da década de 50 e início da década de 60 quando os contratos do departamento de defesa (DoD) eram abundantes. A Parks cresceu de pouco mais de meia dúzia de engenheiros para se transformar num dos maiores provedores do DoD, empregando cerca de 6.500 pessoas. Entretanto, durante a recessão que marcou o final dos anos sessenta, o dinheiro tornou-se escasso e houve demissões...
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...has to implement a strategic plan for mature project management system. For the new plan the cultural issues in the company are to be resolved and the president of Como appointed a task force for this purpose. Each cultural issue in the company are identified and proper solutions are provided by the task force. The president also listed the advantages of an excellent project management. The time frame determined by the president to attain a project management system was thirty-six months. 1. Ford, to achieve its goal of creating decentralized vehicle development system, gave 24 months of time to the Como Tool and Die Company to improve its processes. Thus, the Como has the only option of accepting project management as a culture rather than relying only on quality. 2. In the case of Como Tool and Die, the pressure and limited time frame given by the Ford influenced the Company in changing its sixty-year culture and made it to implement a project management system. This shows the influence a customer should exert on the contract management. 3. Yes, correcting the cultural issues existing in the company would provide a room to implement project management program. 4. The time frame could be less than thirty-six months. Because the Tool and die company has already got a good reputation in producing quality products. So the only thing the company has to concentrate is to improve the processes by implementing a mature project management...
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...Analiza PEST është një mjet i dobishëm për të kuptuar “pasqyrën e përgjithshme” të mjedisit në të cilin vepron organizata si dhe mundësitë dhe rreziqet që gjenden përbrenda atij mjedisi. Duke e kuptuar mjedisin në të cilin vepron organizata, mund të nxirren avantazhet dhe mundësitë si dhe të minimizohen rreziqet. Në veçanti, analiza PEST është mjet i dobishëm për të kuptuar rreziqet që lidhen me ndryshimin e mjedisit të organizatës, dhe me të, duke marrë parasysh pozitën që organizata e ka në mjedis, mund të identifikohen potencialet dhe kahet e organizatës për të përmirësuar atë. Ky mjet është i dobishëm sidomos për grupet e vendimmarrëseve në organizata e që janë të orientuar ,kryesisht, në punët e brendshme të organizatës. Vendimmarrësit e këtillë gjithnjë rrezikojnë të harrojnë fuqinë dhe efektin e presioneve të jashtme për ndryshime sepse janë të përqendruar në presionet e brendshme. Ekonomike • taksat e tatimet e përgjithshme- rritja e taksave ne nje ekonomi qe ulet perben nje kercenim per fakultetin sepse shume student nuk do te jene te afte ti paguajne taksen e shkollimit. • trendet ekonomike - ulja ekonomike me 0.8% ; rritja e papunesise ne 13.3% con ne uljen e te ardhurave duke perbere keshtu nje kercenim per arsimin universitar dhe kete fakultet. • tregu ndërkombëtar dhe çështjet monetare Politike • politikat qeveritare- shkurtimi i buxhetit con ne uljen e shpenzimeve per arsimin publik dhe kjo perben nje kercenim, pasi kjo ul invenstimet ne mjediset...
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... 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 the deliverables. To be effective as a project manager, an individual...
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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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...doing projects for the Department of Defense. Parks Corporation has changed it’s focus over the years from predominantely 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...
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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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...Blue Spider OM761 Zhiyun(Kevin) Kuang Problem: Gary was given the opportunity to be the Project Manager because of his R&D background, but he doesn’t have the experience or skills to manage a project. Technical background itself will not make an efficient project manager. Major Issues: 1. Gary focused too much on R&D works or administrative paper works without a balance. 2. Error on financial planning. 3. No standby schedule when the formal one was interrupted by predictably possible changes. 4. Lack of communication with the Lord since the beginning which leaded to cost more than double time on communication after that. 5. Gary can not find Gable when he needed support. And Gable intervene the project several times without noticing Gary, which makes the project management works more 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 take responsibility for additional administrative paper works. Gary can spend most of his time 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 with the formal schedules. Standby schedule can be made based on slack time or different time for specific task. 4. Meet with Lord at every stage of the project. Can use electronic detailed schedule and task sheets...
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...THE BLUE SPIDER PROJECT Q1. If you were Gary Anderson, would you have accepted this position after the director stated that this would be his baby all the way? Ans. I was Gary Anderson, I would have also accepted the position of project manager. Although the director mentioned that the project would be his baby all the way, but the success of the project, which was no doubt very challenging, would have given the boost to my career for which I have pursued MBA. Q2. Do engineers with MBA degrees aspire to high position in management? Ans. Yes, engineers with MBA degrees do aspire for higher position in management. The reason for this is * MBA provides you with a bigger picture of business. * MBA is considered to be an expensive education so students try to maximise their return on investment. * MBA is very much theoretical and it is important to work in a bigger role to put those theories to practice. * The basic need for an MBA is learning and sometimes the desire to rise up the management ladder. Q3. Was Gary qualified to be a project manager? Ans. Gary was well educated with an MBA degree in is portfolio. He was one of the best engineers that his company had but he didn’t had any experience of working in projects. He was technically very good at his work but his skills in managing people and performing under pressure was not tested. Some previous experience of working in small roles in projects or important roles in smaller projects may have helped...
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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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... According to the conventional project management approach, projects are successful if they meet time, budget, and performance goals . Yet studies show that most projects are late, over budget, and do not deliver their expected objectives. Furthermore, even after completion, many projects do not contribute to their company’s business success. After the initiation stage, the project is planned to an appropriate level of detail. The main purpose is to plan time, cost and resources adequately to estimate the work needed and to effectively manage risk during project execution. As with the Initiation process group, a failure to adequately plan greatly reduces the project's chances of successfully accomplishing its goals. Strategic Management by Neil Ritson,2006 Strategic Project planning generally consists of : * determining how to plan (e.g. by level of detail or rolling wave); * developing the scope statement; * selecting the planning team; * identifying deliverables and creating the work breakdown structure; * identifying the activities needed to complete those deliverables and networking the activities in their logical sequence; * estimating the resource requirements for the activities; * estimating time and cost for activities; * developing the schedule; * developing the budget; * risk planning; * gaining formal approval to begin work. Michael Stanleigh , “2010 PMO Global Study: How a Project Management Office Can Improve Organizational...
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...HUM/150 Team B Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Color-vs-Black and White Study Spider-Man 2 and The Maltese Falcon Introduction Our assignment this week was to compare the effects of color versus black-and-white in films. Learning Team B selected Spider-Man 2 as the color film, and The Maltese Falcon as the black-and-white film. While referencing the influence of color and black-and-white imagery, we will examine the following topics: How color or black-and-white… • Contributed to the expression of each film • Influenced the atmosphere of the films • Affected characterization • Provided transitional changes • Helped mirror the director’s intent Expression Maltese Falcon Shot in black and white this film depends on the use of multiple elements to attain the desired emotional response and reaction to the characters and the plot of the story. The use of lighting to obtain physical shadow, create depth, and establish area and time are very important but lighting is also used to indicate darker or lighter moods and situations. Black & white is a great contribution to the expression of this story, it has layers and shades of grey that add to the overall enjoyment of watching this movie. Spider-Man 2 This movie portrays a comic book superhero and is shot in bright, bold, sometimes exaggerated colors to obtain this effect. It has moments of lightness with cooler coloring and lighting for a few romantic and comical scenes but for the most part...
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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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