Project manager

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION 1: 1.1 The three most common problems associated with multi-project resource scheduling are related to a lack of supply. There is only so much that can be distributed in terms of either time or manpower even the largest businesses. Companies must pick and choose among their projects and decide which will get what kind of attention and when. This process is likely to cause competition within the organization as well as confusion and occasionally delays. Competition • This…

traits are the definition of a successful leader. When a manager cares for his or her employees, they will be motivated to work harder because they know that they will not be easily replaced and can concentrate on the task at hand rather than worrying about being replaced. I think that if a leader shows transparency then his or her employees will follow because the manager is not lying or keeping secrets from them. Lastly, I think that a manager should show that he or she is patient with the…

I was assigned as a Service Delivery Manager on a project to manage services related to QA Environment for one of the largest Retail Organization in Canada. I was very excited to get exposure to the Retail Industry. Soon after joining the project, as I started reviewing the financial, I recognized that there is huge backlog of Invoice payments from client due to the dispute. Some of the invoices were as old as 6 Months and total amount exceeded $2M. As the year was approaching to the end…

barriers to entry. This case is a very good example of a good project management with high risk management. This case talks about the importance of project management process and risk management. Their approach to project management is bottom up, executive teams don’t tell project teams what to do, it project managers and project teams who provide project plans and analyse the risk and decide whether to do the project or not. Project teams take at least 6 months to bid for a RFP, and when they…

Learning Activity #2 How does poor Project Communications Management impact Project Integration Management? Explain the relationship between the two using examples, and focusing on the stakeholders in a project. According to our text, Project Communication Management is the “systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all channels of communication within an organization.” (Project Management Institute, 2013) Additionally, “Project Integration Management is the processes and…

“Effectiveness varied somewhat across the projects, but all made satisfactory progress in building health system resilience to climate variability.” (TE, p.56). Concerning the Project Development Objective and the project’s 4 expected outcomes, none of them have been reached in a full degree. But various activities have been undertaken towards realizing these objective/outcomes based on relevant evidence presented by the TE as per follows: The Project Development Objective (PDO) was to increase…

Rambo) As mentioned previously, the Coast Guard encountered many setbacks and failures during the Deepwater Horizon project. How can they avoid these identified miscalculations? The Coast Guard did not follow their best practices and used unreliable life-cycle cost estimates. Using best practices, the foundation of any project, the Coast Guard would have managed the project within the agreed upon cost and guidelines. Additionally, the Coast Guard allowed the contractors to set the…

Plan Aptus Teaching Landscape Project Plan will provide a definition, goals and objectives of the project in addition to an agreement between the Project Sponsor, Steering Committee, Project Manager, Project Team, and other personnel associated with and/or affected by the project. Therefore, the Project Plan will step by step define the following chapters:  Project background information  Business and project goals and objectives  Scope and expectations  Project budget  Risk Assessment …

business issues. Captains are considered middle level managers and generals as senior level managers who have enterprise approach to implement analytics. Project managers should be able to follow agile methodology in implementing analytical projects. The same point is affirmed in the text 3(pg. 143) that the captains, middle level managers should have iterative project management skills to adapt the dynamic market trends and validate the pilot projects. So in overall, presence of analytical…

The Importance of the Triple Constraint In project management the primary objectives of any project should include Scope, Time, and Cost, and these three objectives are referred to as the Triple Constraint (Meredith, Mantel, and Shafer, 2014). In order for a project to be successful it is imperative that the project start off on the right footing and that the triple constraint be clearly defined. Defining the triple constraint would include spelling out the intended deliverables known as scope…