BUSN 5610 Issues in Project Management
Week 3 Assignment

Chapter 4

0. 1. A disadvantage of the pure project organization has to do with the tendency of project professionals to fall behind in areas of technical expertise not used on the project. Name several ways that a project manager might avoid this problem. The project manager can address the technical expertise issues by staying abreast of training schedules and ensure that each of the project professionals have an opportunity to participate there will be times where the project manager will have to put the needs of the professional ahead of themselves and allow them that time to seek and attend trainings. Project managers should rotate their professionals out so that they can have some down time to focus on trainings they may need to stay on top of technology changes and trends. Project managers could find innovative ways to bring needed trainings to the professionals like webcasts, teleconferences, contract with a vendor to provide training onsite. 0. 0. 0. 2. Why was the Project Team so successful in the Benfield facility of Sasol (page 204)? 0. The Benfield facility of Sasol project team was so successful because it eliminated the major sources of conflict that could happen during various phases of the project life cycle. The project team had a clear scope to fix the broken column, identified the time as the priority objective, set ground rules for the project, set forth an amazing communication mechanism that kept everyone abreast of the what was happening with the project, placed a great emphasis on teamwork so it eliminated the conflict that could occur due to competition among the project team members, and created a culture of enthusiasm and cultivated ideas for the team to be creative and find ways to reduce the already compacted schedule. 0. 3.