fortunate to be involved in project management roles at the ministry. This gave me a fascinating insight into the challenges that confront project managers – risk management, contracts, project initiation, planning, financial management, socio-cultural effects on schedule control and environmental sustainability. In my experience, in almost all cases, the success or failure of most projects undertaken by the ministry depended largely on the personal involved in the project execution,…
high levels of discretionary effort towards the transition and ongoing success of enterprise-class services. Strategy #2: Align customer expectations with service delivery expectations and capabilities. No offense to sales reps, but the majority of project risks are borne during the sales cycle. Seemingly benign expectations during the sales process too often turn malignant during the implementation process. Common challenges include the inability to see eye-to-eye on discounting, pricing,…
The business case, plan and project plan sounds similar to some and interchangeably used wherever possible. The research paper clarifies the definitions of the business case, plan and project plan and describe how these are helpful in project design and analysis. The research paper also discusses how these three key functions work with each other, depend on each other and what are the differences between them. To give an idea to a reader about the business case, there will be two business case…
The Communication Plan in Action: Examples Although the process of building a communication plan produces a similarly impacting outcome, the actual communication plan can vary widely to align to organizational culture and project scope. In the case of government programs, the customer is the communities they serve and therefore must provide information in a consumable format appropriate for the greater audience. Three examples of government communications are described, including Seattle Parks…
Question : In your opinion what are the challenges in forming virtual teams? Virtual team is a group of individual working together across time, geography and organization structure barriers with the support of modern electronic communication technology to communicate, collaborate and perform the activities . It is also termed as geographical dispersed team or remote team. Team members Unlike tradition team, do not meet face to face but interact with each other in a virtual world. Virtual…
degree in Urban Planning concentrating on economic development from the UIUC. The reason I chose him as practitioner to interview is that he has inspired me to learn more about economic development and process of creating and building development projects which I really want to do in my life. Taking his class, I’ve discovered what I really want to study and do in my career. Therefore, I think he is one of the most influential teachers in my life and interviewing him was a great experience…
Schedule slippage: Delay in the project completion from its initial estimated date of completion. (Soni & Acharya, 2007) Every project will have some schedule before starting the project. The common dates included in every project are mentioned below. Non-Risk Adjusted (NRA) date (Soni & Acharya, 2007): NRA date is that completing the project without any risk in the schedule. Risk Adjusted (RA) date (Soni & Acharya, 2007): RA date is that while completing the project some risk may come so that…
information from every avenue available. Reading industry material has proven an intricate tool in my career by giving a clear understanding of how the credit card industry works, leading to job promotions, and offering opportunities to work on projects that have helped the company of Vantiv to grow. As a new call center representative, my understanding of the business processes was…
proper understanding of the project and the clients’ objectives. This is very important so that information required…
risks is a critical responsibility of project managers. Risk is defined as the probability of a specified threat and the subsequent impact that the event produces (Vaidyanathan, 2013). Risks can also bring about either positive or negative outcomes for a project or organization. A project manager must identify potential risks and evaluate each one to determine the severity and likelihood of each event. Only by completing the risk management process, a project manager can determine what approach…