Project Mercury

Planning and project management is an important business skill. Projects have become a commonplace occurrence and important component to the modern organization. It is important that these projects are run in the best way possible to avoid wasting time and money. However, there are mistakes that can cause a waste of time and money as well as a failed project. Here are some common ones. One common project mistake is selecting a bad project manager (Schiff, 2012). Project managers are a very…

of the overall budget, as well as the schedule. Essentially the project is now 15.05% behind the schedule, which means roughly 2.7 month delay in total if the problem lasts. And he failed to take the project phases effect into consideration because these are very important for project managers. By thinking in each term of stages, we can make sure that the deliverables made at the finish of each phase meet their purpose, and that project team members or sub-teams are properly organized for the…

foreseeable factors that may lead to a project not proceeding as planned, and should be part of the project planning process (CSU-Global, 2013e). Risk management is generally analyzed in the planning phases, executed throughout the project, and continually addressed during monitoring and controlling phases, therefore, risk management is an essential component to reaching satisfactory project results. Weaknesses in a risk management system can affect project organization, implementation, strategy…

leadership skills to deliver a complex military project. Leadership is simply defined as having followers who believe in your vision and goals. In this report, we see how Lieutenant Colonel Yaron and Lieutenant Colonel Daniel exhibited their leadership skill and see the Pros and Cons of their leadership styles. I will also talk about how their leadership styles would have faired if the projects were to be executed in today’s Israel. In reality, this kind of projects that involve human beings and…

Communication, Metrics, and Project Updates Communication in project management is necessary to ensure that the management team - project managers, functional managers, and in this situation, the PMO - are in sync to clearly identify and communicate the project requirements. The communication metrics is an integral part of the monitoring and controlling process used to communicate updates, to include status of the project milestones and deliverables. The communication process or protocol is…

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…