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Improving Focus, Predictability, and Team Morale on ProjectsJoe Cooper
Improving focus and predictability on projects with critical chain project management (CCPM). PMI Global Congress 2013 - New Orleans, LA. This paper addresses three project problems of low team morale, excessive project durations, and missed project delivery commitments.
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Making the leap from project manager to program
manager requires not just different skills but a different
mindset. We asked seven experienced program
managers, “What should project managers
know and do when taking on broader, more
strategic roles?”
Mind the Gap in Project Execution - Strong Teams Deliver Effective ProjectsEndeavor Management
Great leaders recognize that team integration is intrinsic to doing the work. This means that an interface manager is needed to focus on communications, conflict resolution, behaviors, and accountability. This person helps meet basic people needs of being, belonging, and becoming. Learn how to help your Project Leaders meet the challenge of complex projects with geographically dispersed team members by downloading our white paper: Mind the Gap in Project Execution.
Conversations play a critical role in projects. Intentionally Improving the method and timing of conversations can greatly improve the performance of projects.
Communication Strategy - Workshop to Obtain Stakeholder InputJohn Mauremootoo
Generic version of a PowerPoint presentation used in a workshop to obtain stakeholder inputs into a project communication strategy. This presentation can be used as a template when formulating a project or programme communication strategy and work plan.
Making the leap from project manager to program
manager requires not just different skills but a different
mindset. We asked seven experienced program
managers, “What should project managers
know and do when taking on broader, more
strategic roles?”
Mind the Gap in Project Execution - Strong Teams Deliver Effective ProjectsEndeavor Management
Great leaders recognize that team integration is intrinsic to doing the work. This means that an interface manager is needed to focus on communications, conflict resolution, behaviors, and accountability. This person helps meet basic people needs of being, belonging, and becoming. Learn how to help your Project Leaders meet the challenge of complex projects with geographically dispersed team members by downloading our white paper: Mind the Gap in Project Execution.
Conversations play a critical role in projects. Intentionally Improving the method and timing of conversations can greatly improve the performance of projects.
Communication Strategy - Workshop to Obtain Stakeholder InputJohn Mauremootoo
Generic version of a PowerPoint presentation used in a workshop to obtain stakeholder inputs into a project communication strategy. This presentation can be used as a template when formulating a project or programme communication strategy and work plan.
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Running Head: Leading and Managing HR Project
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Leading and Managing HR Project
Leading and Managing HR Project
Introduction
Effective leadership is all about communicating effectively. While hiring a manager, good communication skill is a primary component to put into consideration. Helping a manager to make sure that persuasion, responsibility, creativity, and management of value system as well as providing support and motivation to teams. They should have the power to inspire and convince teams to work extra hard to achieve the targeted goals of the organization. Made possible by effective leading. Sound planning, monitoring and communicating. Effective communication acts as an added advantage for a leader to lead effectively (Armstrong & Michael, 2016). The question, what are the key points managers must keep vividly in their minds while communicating with their teams and suggestions to improve communication to make leadership more effective is a topic of discussion in every organization. Thus, forms the basis of our discussion.
Effective and accurate communication act as an essential factor to grow an efficient and successful leader or manager. To accomplish professional success, managers must be active and convincing communicators. It is very vital for managers and his team to learn how to communicate effectively and to aid in successfully completing projects and enable the organization to achieve success and grow. As if that is not enough, communication allows every employee to share what they have and give their opinions. Good communication yields better understanding and trust among people, empower them to follow core principles and values that their leaders want to inculcate in them (Armstrong & Michael, 2016). Lack or absence of excellent communication leads to failure to reach goals and the overall decline of the organization. Interacting with the team freely, a manager will increase the potential of having the work done in time. Good leaders are always aware that effective communication is obtained through just a single process. It is through listening and speaking that managers are said to have good communication. Managers should hence set aside objective that they must achieve after communicating.
Review and understand the types of project manager power listed and defined in the textbook and select and define any two you feel would be relevant to your current project and explain why. Be specific
There are five types of project power manager; formal or legitimate power, reward power, punishment power, expert power, and relational power. One can have all these powers, but to complete the project, I will need to have at least four of them (Heldman & Kim, 2018). Since am doing my final project on leading and managing the Human Resource project, I will consider expert and reward powers. Formal power will help me to establish my own authority as the lead of the project, while expert power will help me gain .
These slides highlights the importance of positive leadership in project management. It covers the definition of leadership, impact of leadership on the organization, leaders vs. managers and the role of leadership during the project life cycle.
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P r i n t
PROJECT MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS AT KEYSTONE
MANAGEMENT
INTRODUCTION
As the new Project O�ce Director for Keystone Management, Aaron has been asked to participate in the
corporate Continuous Process Improvement initiatives by identifying recommendations for speci�c aspects of
Keystone's project management methodology.
To meet this requirement, Aaron began by talking with project managers about their experience and insights,
which he then translated into strategies aimed at improving the process, environment, and quality of project
management at Keystone Management.
Your goal is to review the information Aaron gathered and his recommendations for each of the six topics in
this simulation. You will then clarify how improvements in each area can contribute to improvements at
Keystone. Each topic corresponds with a unit in the course. Although you may choose to complete each topic
in conjunction with the course unit, you may also want to follow the simulation from beginning to end to see
how the concepts in each topic relate. Along the way, we will provide you with the following:
Project Manager re�ections.
Aaron's recommendations.
Opportunities to clarify improvement opportunities.
Feedback on improvement opportunities.
Topic summaries.
INSTRUCTIONS
In this simulation, you will work through a total of six topics related to project management improvements for
Keystone Management. For each topic, you will be presented with project manager re�ections and Aaron's
recommendations. You will use this information to clarify how improvements in each area can contribute to
improvements for Keystone Management. Feedback will be provided on your responses.
Since each topic corresponds with a unit in the course, you can either complete each topic in conjunction with
the course unit, or follow the simulation from beginning to end to see how the concepts in each topic relate.
TOPIC 1: DEFINING REQUIREMENTS
What role do project requirements play in project management quality and success?
Figure of Requirements De�nition
C r e d i t s
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This �gure illustrates how di�erent types of requirements are connected and de�ned.
Business requirements are de�ned by the project sponsor.
Size and complexity information is de�ned by the project management team.
Functional and non-functional requirements are de�ned by both the development and testing teams.
Expectations and constraints are de�ned by other stakeholders.
User requirements are de�ned by user representatives.
Aaron began his discussions with project managers by stating that from his experience, well-de�ned
requirements are the cornerstone for project success and quality results.
Review the project manager responses and Aaron's recom ...
oneIf I was a Project Manager, what three qualities would I want.docxhopeaustin33688
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If I was a Project Manager, what three qualities would I want? First and foremost, I would want to have the fortitude to accept my failures and the strength to drive forward despite of the failures. What made someone like Colonel Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken) successful? President Abraham Lincoln? Walt Disney? Vera Wang? All of these people were very successful people, but they also had many failures. So why were they successful? The answer is that they were not weak and crumbled at the first sign of failure. They were focused on their goal and they pushed forward to their success. That is the type of Project Manager I would like to be.
The second quality would be to communicate effectively. Have you ever had one of those bosses that you were always trying to figure out what he/she wants you to do? I have, and it came from lack of communication. As a Project Manager, I need to speak effectively so that there is absolutely no misunderstanding on what needs to be done.
Finally, I would want to have great people skills. A Project Manager needs to be able to listen actively to what others are saying, help develop new approaches for solving problems, and then persuade others to work toward achieving project goals (Schwalbe, K., 2013, p23). As a Project Manager, I would be working with people of different cultures. Understanding people will increase the chances of the project succeeding.
Any of the three characteristics above, either by themselves or in combination with each other, can also lead to project failure. So how do you become a great communicator, a great people person, and thick skinned? You work on it. Take a college course on communications or on people skills. Talk to your current employees and friends to get feedback from them on how you can improve. Then you devise a plan to start implementing their advice into your everyday life.
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The three keys to Project Success seem to have the three factors that all successful projects have in common. Each of these factors is key to any project’s success. Each project can be viewed as a tripod. The three legs must be in place for the tripod to stand sturdily. In a systems project, these legs are critical success factors consisting of the following:
Top management support
A sound methodology
Solid technical leadership by someone who has successfully completed a similar project.
Additional characteristic in IT Project Management are, cost, quality, speed and risk. However it is not possible to have the best of all four factors. Specifically, you cannot have a system built inexpensively, of high quality, built quickly and with little or no risk. Most discussion of these factors only include the first three. It is possible to build a high-quality system quickly, at a relatively low cost by cutting corner and doing little or no testing.
Base on a research carried out by the Coverdale Organization (Cushing, 2002), the respondents identified estimation mistakes, uncle.
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Student 1 Hi,Project is a temporary goal that a team or an .docxcpatriciarpatricia
Student 1:
Hi,
Project is a temporary goal that a team or an organization undertakes in order to create a unique product or service. A project different from a day-to-day activity, this is because project(s) are temporary, it will have a start, a goal, a defined objective, and a scope that must be achieved by the defined end time (Project Management Institute, n.d.). On top of the above-mentioned, projects heavily rely on the effective management of triple-constants, time, quality & cost. The key attributes of a project are that,
1. A project will always have a start and end dates
2. Requires resources from multiple teams or areas in an organization to achieve one common goal
3. Involves uncertainty and changes to scope
4. Has budget limitation that impacts utilization of resources and supplies
5. Will always need a stakeholder or a sponsor
In my experience, I learnt that he role of top management / business leadership commitment is key for a project to yield fruitful results as many projects aren’t completed due to lack of leadership support & commitment. Involvement of top management in our project helped us team in getting key decisions and changes related to infrastructure, architecture, network & operations quickly. Leadership involvement during initiation/kick-off ensured that the impacted teams that are on the other side of the organization co-operated more readily than usual. Having the top management involved in the project helped our team in getting additional resources and support when required that otherwise could have resulted in delay or even termination of the project. IT projects are filled with unique challenges in every step, some of them are,
1. Scope change in the middle of the project
2. Delivery delays due to miscommunication of scope between impacted teams (Ramachandran, 2017)
3. Remote stakeholders that make output delivery and decision-making difficult (Ramachandran, 2017)
Absence of pre-defined project management practices that jeopardizes the delivery when blockers appear (Ramachandran, 2017)
Thanks,
Vamshi
References
Project Management Institute. (n.d.). What is Project Management? Retrieved from Project Management Institute: https://www.pmi.org/about/learn-about-pmi/what-is-project-management
Ramachandran, K. (2017, September 18). 5 IT Project Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them. Retrieved from Capterra: https://blog.capterra.com/it-project-management-challenges-and-how-to-overcome-them/
Student 2:
IT Management
What is a project, and what are its main attributes? How is a project different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs?
A project is a venture towards developing a certain product or services which is unique, is a mostly a collaborative practice which is planned and organized to follow particular order so as to achieve. For an activity to be referred to as a project, there are some attributes that must be displayed. This includes; projects are unique and mostly temporary because .
Student 1 Hi,Project is a temporary goal that a team or an .docxdeanmtaylor1545
Student 1:
Hi,
Project is a temporary goal that a team or an organization undertakes in order to create a unique product or service. A project different from a day-to-day activity, this is because project(s) are temporary, it will have a start, a goal, a defined objective, and a scope that must be achieved by the defined end time (Project Management Institute, n.d.). On top of the above-mentioned, projects heavily rely on the effective management of triple-constants, time, quality & cost. The key attributes of a project are that,
1. A project will always have a start and end dates
2. Requires resources from multiple teams or areas in an organization to achieve one common goal
3. Involves uncertainty and changes to scope
4. Has budget limitation that impacts utilization of resources and supplies
5. Will always need a stakeholder or a sponsor
In my experience, I learnt that he role of top management / business leadership commitment is key for a project to yield fruitful results as many projects aren’t completed due to lack of leadership support & commitment. Involvement of top management in our project helped us team in getting key decisions and changes related to infrastructure, architecture, network & operations quickly. Leadership involvement during initiation/kick-off ensured that the impacted teams that are on the other side of the organization co-operated more readily than usual. Having the top management involved in the project helped our team in getting additional resources and support when required that otherwise could have resulted in delay or even termination of the project. IT projects are filled with unique challenges in every step, some of them are,
1. Scope change in the middle of the project
2. Delivery delays due to miscommunication of scope between impacted teams (Ramachandran, 2017)
3. Remote stakeholders that make output delivery and decision-making difficult (Ramachandran, 2017)
Absence of pre-defined project management practices that jeopardizes the delivery when blockers appear (Ramachandran, 2017)
Thanks,
Vamshi
References
Project Management Institute. (n.d.). What is Project Management? Retrieved from Project Management Institute: https://www.pmi.org/about/learn-about-pmi/what-is-project-management
Ramachandran, K. (2017, September 18). 5 IT Project Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them. Retrieved from Capterra: https://blog.capterra.com/it-project-management-challenges-and-how-to-overcome-them/
Student 2:
IT Management
What is a project, and what are its main attributes? How is a project different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs?
A project is a venture towards developing a certain product or services which is unique, is a mostly a collaborative practice which is planned and organized to follow particular order so as to achieve. For an activity to be referred to as a project, there are some attributes that must be displayed. This includes; projects are unique and mostly temporary because .
Question 11. A term for continuous improvement in an organizat.docxmakdul
Question 1
1. A term for continuous improvement in an organization is?
Total Quality Management.
Kaizen.
Empowerment.
Honne.
5 points
Question 2
1. When a group of workers who meet on a regular basis to discuss ways of improving the quality of work, it is called:
All hands meeting.
Division meeting.
Quality control circle.
Board of Directors.
5 points
Question 3
1. There has been an emergence of new beliefs about quality, quality is everyone's job, not just a special department and training in quality ___________.
Saves money.
Is very costly.
Is unnecessary for any employees.
Is too special for most employees to be trained.
5 points
Question 4
1. The term for doing the right thing according to the societal norm is called?
The Status Quo.
Political correctness.
Social Politics.
Tatemae.
5 points
Question 5
1. The process of evaluating results in relation to plans or objectives and deciding what action, if any to take is __________ and it is combined with __________?
Global strategy and quality.
Control and quality.
Controlling and decision making.
Decision making and quality.
5 points
Question 6
1. Ways to recognize a neutral culture from an affective culture include all but which one of the following items?
Physical contact, gesturing, and/or strong facial expressions are not used.
Emotions are dammed up, although occasional explosions occur.
Do not reveal what they are thinking or feeling.
People express goodwill and respond warmly to all comments and ideas.
5 points
Question 7
1. The process of influencing people to direct their efforts toward the achievement of some particular goal or goals, is called?
Leadership.
Management.
Charismatic.
Socially responsible management.
5 points
Question 8
1. Efficiency in operations results from arranging conditions of work in such a way that human elements interface to a minimum degree is considered what on the Managerial Grid?
High Concern for people and relationships; Low concern for production and task.
Low Concern for people and relationships; High concern for production and task.
High Concern for people and relationships; High concern for production and task.
Low Concern for people and relationships; Low concern for production and task.
5 points
Question 9
1. Transformational leaders that can get their followers to question old paradigms and to accept new views of the world and how things should be done now and for the future are known as?
Idealized influential leaders;
Inspirational motivational leaders;
Intellectually stimulating leaders;
Idealized Influential leaders.
5 points
Question 10
1. Different countries have different managerial beliefs about work different than the U.S. When thinking about Russian managerial beliefs about work with regard to Marxist related beliefs, free enterprise has been embraced by some, but not all because?
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2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: VIEWS, BENEFITS, AND BARRIERS
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Abstract
This paper is a record of an unclassified conversation between several members of a local Project
Management Institute (PMI) meeting and discusses the views benefits and barriers facing project
management.
3. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: VIEWS, BENEFITS, AND BARRIERS
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Project Management: Views, Benefits, and Barriers
Introduction: Loren from Colorado Springs
Fellow project managers, once again I am privileged to join you here today for this
marvelous occasion. It is great to see the growing number of project managers that have joined
our small PMI chapter.
Before we begin today’s meeting I was hoping to begin a small discussion that has been
influenced by the growing lack of buy-in and support and general negativity toward project
management that I have been receiving from employees and company executives.
In this room of intelligent project managers with diverse backgrounds and seasoned
veterans, I would like to propose a few questions. Please
Question one. How do organizations view the necessity for project management?
Question two. How do executives perceive the project manager position?
Question three. How have these views affected your ability to effectively manage
projects?
Question four. What barriers do believe exist in the world of project management?
Question five. What benefits to you believe project management brings to organizations?
Response to Question 1: Julie from California
4. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: VIEWS, BENEFITS, AND BARRIERS
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No problem handsome. I think I have a good response to your first question. How
organizations view the necessity for project management.
The way project management is viewed various from organization to organization.
Corporations that have successfully incorporated standard and consistent project
management techniques have done very well and thus perceive its importance.
Corporations that have not tend to view project management as unnecessary and time
consuming practice.
The key to reaching the later companies is though open communication and education.
Response to Question 2: Marge from Tennessee
Honey! I can tell you some things about how executives tend to perceive the position of
project manager.
When an organization is in the initial development phase of a project and when the role
of a project manager is initially developed there is a lot of negativity towards project
management and the role of the project manager.
However if the project manager knows what he / she is doing and uses solid project
management principles and practices good communication skills the negative energy tends to
evaporate. Sometimes it takes the results to really sell project management to an organization.
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Response to Question 3: Data from Las Vegas
Loren. I believe I can offer a logical solution to your third question. How these views
have affected my ability to effectively manage projects.
I learned in my early creation as project manager the necessity of not letting things get to
me. In the introduction phase of project management it is critical the project manager always
maintains one eye on the goal (the projects end), while allowing the other eye to observe project
stakeholders and team members.
A good project manager knows how to influence and focus a project team and will work
hard toward maintain a positive relationship with organizational leaders.
A project manager should be a motivator, good communicator, able to talk the talk,
understand and follow standard project management methodology, be able to coach the project
team, and have an active, wide and diverse grasp of technological understanding. (Wourms,
2002)
Response to Question 4: Cindy from New Mexico
Loren is it? I’ll tackle the next question regarding those barriers that exist in our world of
project management.
As planner, communicator, implementer, integrator, evaluator, manager, and leader we
are confronted with many hats. And above all these roles our communication skills can be our
greatest strength for overcoming barriers or our worst handicap.
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The role of a good communicator is essential for any project manager and demands that
the project manager maintain an interpersonal role, informational role, and decisional role.
Most of the barriers confronted by project managers (mis-understandings, resource wars,
personality conflicts, and conflicts of interest) are due to poor interpersonal skills.
Interpersonal skills require that the project manager be an honest, capable, dependable,
personable and effective leader. The project manager is responsible for dealing successfully with
people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, developing an environment of team unity,
resolving team disagreements, focusing team members towards milestones, motivating team
members toward reaching goals, and constructing positive relationships with stakeholders and
the project team members.
The project manager’s informational role requires that the project manager be able to
coordinate and lead team meetings, provide critical feedback on project results, phases, problems
encountered, and quality of deliverables.
It further requires that project managers make sound judgments without alienating others
by the decisions made. This is a difficult barrier for many project managers to overcome.
I believe the greatest way to defeat many of our barriers is through education, training,
and excellent communication.
Response to Question 5: Omar from Hawaii
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Aloha Loren. I can answer the last question about what benefits project management
brings to organizations. In fact it is still pretty fresh in my mind since I recently developed a
PowerPoint presentation that included this topic.
It has been repeatedly proven that there are many clear-cut benefits when applying
project management techniques to a company’s overall business strategy.
Project management creates the capability for an organization to supply products and
services with reduced delivery costs through the use of well thought-out project management
methodology by preventing excessive costs without thorough consideration. (Egeland, 2010,
para. 4)
Project management typically allows businesses to deliver products or services more
efficiently to the market than competitors due to the continuous process monitoring and resource
efficiency it creates. (Egeland, 2010, para. 5)
Project management provides a focus advantage streamlining products or services to the
client’s needs provided through the constant information updates. (Egeland, 2010, para. 6)
Project management allows for increased production of quality deliverables by including
structured testing phases and quality control measures. (Egeland, 2010, para. 7)
Project management gains the advantage of incorporating customer participation and
communication and allows for businesses to better accommodate and understand customer
requirements. (Egeland, 2010, para. 8)
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Project management allows for improved methodologies and increased capability in
predicting future project needs and concerns. (Kerzner, 2009, pg. 4) It also allows for improved
risk management and enables managers to make more informed decisions and cost predictions.
(Mulcahy, 2002, pg. 3, para. 4)
Project management allows for early problem identification (Kerzner, 2009, pg. 4)
Finally, project management is a promoter of teamwork and increased communication
across departments in an organization.
With all of these benefits it is hard to imagine why anyone would ever choose not to
practice strategic project management.
Concluding Remarks: Loren from Colorado Springs
These are all great and honest answers. However, I have been given the signal that we
are out of time. I would like to say thank you to Julie, Marge, Data, Cindy, and Omar for
providing some light to these questions. So far this meeting has proven to be very effective and I
am sure we are just warming up. Hopefully I can relay some of the feedback I received today.
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