Project manager

Project managing being the profession I aspire to go into in the near future, communication is the key factor to completing every project assigned. Project managers have the job description to oversee an assignment and create a clear goal while their main responsibility is to plan, execute and close out a project. Anyone within this profession must have those responsibilities and full authority to complete a project. The meaning of the word “management” is to bring together the efforts of…

describes Project Management are teamwork and communication. As I read the case study the one constant theme that from this Social Security Number Expansion project was the lack of teamwork and communication that was showed by the various departments involved. For this case it would be easy to put the blame on the Project Manager for not managing the various Functional Business Analysts the way he or she should have but I do not think that was the case. The boss who appointed the Project Manager…

Multi Projects has a matrix organizational structure, but it is not applied effectively. They are instead using Balanced Matrix Organizational structure hence there are below listed problems due to nonexistence of direct reporting for project managers. • Lack of customer focus  Julie’s project has tight schedule, Jeff tells her about reassigning her key resource Tyler to his project. She opts to discuss with Jennifer a week later.  Jeff is gunning at securing a key resource for his project.…

When developing a project there is a logical sequence that it must go through before it becomes an end product. Discussions amongst senior leadership and team members are held at various stages to ensure the project is including established requirements. Furthermore, identifying requirements of a project leads to minimizing risk of project failure. In this assignment I will discuss the project scope, risk factors, system boundaries, and actors. The project scope is determined in the initial…

capitalize the outside opportunities, one sales manager left the organization in January 2003. As the sales manager was a real performer, he was able to convince all the good performers at XYZ Moon Life Insurance to join the new company. As a result of this, the organizational structure got disturbed and the development officers, who were earlier reporting to the SM had started reporting directly to the branch manager. Now, nepotism crept in and the branch manager began reallocating good agents…

I am going to compare my college baseball coach to the National Standards for Athletic Coaches. Through my freshman year and also through my first semester of my sophomore I have a good idea of how my coach compares to the national standards. My coach meet a majority of the standards, but he definitely did not meet them all. First, I’m going to talk about the standards that he did meet. The first domain that he did meet was domain three. This is the domain that included physical conditioning.…

In the US our management culture tends to be to drive our employees, even micromanage them. But what we really see here a lot is managers that lead by example by being at work as much as possible, working long hours, and never taking time off. In other countries, there may be similar or even different management culture. The culture may be more aggressive, or more lax. But you as…

their task. Managements and manger should always keep their eyes open. Business world is very competitive manager will need to play different tactic and effective strategy to keep business running. Businesses and companies are built with different people with same goal. There will be different position given to employ…

Describe the difference between efficiency and effectiveness and identify real organizations you think are, or are not, efficient and/or effective. Efficiency is an indicator of productivity for the company. The concept measured how well a company uses its resources to accomplish a goal. Efficiency is associated with the capacity of the company to optimize the use of its resources. Efficiency reduces production cost and time invested in produce a good or service. Efficiency means doing the thing…

so I sit in the food court and patiently wait for my time to clock in. I look up from my phone and see my district manager walking towards my direction. I start to wonder what I did wrong. Am I late and I accidently looked at my schedule wrong? I gently smile to hide my anxiety. She returns the smile before saying “good morning”. She cuts to the chase and says, “the general manager and I have talked about it and would like to know what you think about becoming a shift leader?”. All that went…