A CRITICAL REVIEW ON APPLICATIONS OF NATURAL JUTE FIBRES A CASE STUDYIAEME Publication
Soil reinforcement technique is one of the most popular techniques used for improvement of poor soils. Metal strips, synthetic geotextiles, geogrid sheets, natural geotextiles, randomly distributed, synthetic and natural fibres are being used as reinforcing materials to soil. Further, the soil reinforcement causes significant improvement in tensile strength, shear strength, other properties, bearing capacity as well as economy. Use of natural fibre in civil engineering for improving soil properties is advantageous because they are cheap, locally available, biodegradable and environmental friendly. India has large tracks resting on expansive soil covering an area of 0.8million square meters which is about 20% of total area of India .These expansive soils undergo causes volumetric changes with change in moisture contents, swelling and shrinkage of these soil causes severe damage to the foundations, buildings, roads, retaining structures etc.In this project an attempt is made to study the influence of jute fibre reinforcement on cbr properties of expansive soil with increasing percentages 1%, 2% &3%.
A CRITICAL REVIEW ON APPLICATIONS OF NATURAL JUTE FIBRES A CASE STUDYIAEME Publication
Soil reinforcement technique is one of the most popular techniques used for improvement of poor soils. Metal strips, synthetic geotextiles, geogrid sheets, natural geotextiles, randomly distributed, synthetic and natural fibres are being used as reinforcing materials to soil. Further, the soil reinforcement causes significant improvement in tensile strength, shear strength, other properties, bearing capacity as well as economy. Use of natural fibre in civil engineering for improving soil properties is advantageous because they are cheap, locally available, biodegradable and environmental friendly. India has large tracks resting on expansive soil covering an area of 0.8million square meters which is about 20% of total area of India .These expansive soils undergo causes volumetric changes with change in moisture contents, swelling and shrinkage of these soil causes severe damage to the foundations, buildings, roads, retaining structures etc.In this project an attempt is made to study the influence of jute fibre reinforcement on cbr properties of expansive soil with increasing percentages 1%, 2% &3%.
NewcastleGateshead Initiative Business Leaders' Briefing 21 April 2016newcastlegateshead
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Final Exam
By
1) You have a manager who informs you that the year long project (linear spend plan) they are executing currently (use today’s date) has spent half their budget of $500K, and they show a CPI of 1.16 and an SPI of 0.82. What is your prediction for the project? (On what date will this project finish and what is your ETC?) Why do you believe this to be true? What do you intend to do with the project team tomorrow?
Prediction for the project can be calculated by the following equations:
CPI = EV (earned value) / AC (Actual Cost)
1.16= EV/ $250,000
Therefore, the Earned Value (EV) = $290,000
----------------------------------------------------------
SPI= Earned Value (EV) / Planned Value (PV)
0.82= $290,000/ PV
Therefore, The planned value (PV) =$353,658
----------------------------------------------------------
We can expected the total project cost by using the following formula:
Estimate at completion (EAC) = Budget at completion (BAC)/ CPI
EAC= $500,000/1.16
EAC= $431,034.48
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Calculating the variance at completion (VAC) to determine how much the project over and under the budget
VAC= BAC-EAC
$500,000 - $431,034.48 = $68,965
Therefore we expect the project to be about $69K under budget.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Estimate to complete (ETC) how much more will it cost to finish this project.
ETC= EAC-AC
ETC= $446,428.5-$250,000 = $181,034
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Determine the project is under or over budget.
Cost of Variance (CV) = EV- AC
CV= $290,000-$250,000 = $40,000
Therefore, the project is under budget by $40,000
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The schedule variance (SV) = EV- PV
$290,000-$353,658 = -63,658
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The total duration to complete this project 5/10/2015 = Baseline duration / SPI
12 month /0.82 = 14.6 months
Approximately 2 month and 16 days behind schedule
Therefore, from today’s date 5/10/2015 the project will be completed on 7/26/2016
-I strongly believe it is correct because CPI plays fundamental role in measuring the efficiency of the project. If the CPI of a project is one, this means that the actual project costs have not exceeded the budget costs. On the other hand, if the SPI less than one indicates the project is behind schedule. Earned value analysis (EVM) is a valuable technique because it provides important forecasting information that is going to help project managers control the project in terms of cost and schedule in order to meet the project goals and deadlines.
-I intend to bring back the project on the track, when the project behind the schedule I need to hold a meeting with all the stakeholder of the project to determine the possible causes of this ...
Design sprints can accelerate decision-making and development of your product or service. Remote design sprints are largely untried but we have found that it is still possible to conduct one virtually, using the right tools.
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Slides that helps you to know the major skills of Project Manager, and it describes the fundamentals of Project Management which is a very important part of Software Engineering.
La Roche CollegeSenior SeminarWeb Design for the Busines.docxsmile790243
La Roche College
Senior Seminar
Web Design for the Business (Individual Project)
Student
03/15/2014
PROJECT CHARTER
Project Authorization
This Charter formally authorizes the website project to develop a new business restaurant website for customer use. A project plan will be developed and submitted to the Project Sponsor for approval. The project plan will include: scope statement; schedule; cost estimate; budget; and provisions for scope, resource, schedule, communications, quality, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management as well as project control. The Project Manager, Natalia Kondekova, will assign all resources.
Project Scope
The purpose of this assignment and PowerPoint presentation is to provide the class a project description that demonstrates what I have learned during my studies here at the La Roche College. One of the things that I have learned is how to code in HTML and create a simple website. I have decided to design a website for my uncle’s business. The main goal is to create a fully functioning, updateable website for customers. 700 Pizza & Gyro House do not have currently a website, so the need for one is very high. The project deliverables shall include a fully built website, help guides to update and further build the website, and all project documents. There is variety of tools to be used. I have decided to use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Notepad editor, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), own Images & computer. Hyper Text Markup Language is the main markup language for creating web pages written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets. The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible or audible web pages.
Project Manager Role
A project manager is the person responsible for the planning, execution and coordination of whole project. He or she is required to think outside of the box and present innovative and realistic solutions to any problems that might prevent the project achieving its objectives on time and on budget. As a project manager it would be up the person to initiate, supervise and ensure the completion of a project. There are many others, who are included in the web project management such as a database developed, a HTML coder, usability lead or others. In this project, I was the one responsible for all duties to deliver the project to completion. The project sponsor or stakeholder is the person or group responsible for initiating the web site project. In most instances the sponsor is the client or customer for the web site development work, but in smaller in-house department projects such as this, the sponsoring manager and the web project manager may be the same person.
Summary Milestone Schedule
The “700 Pizza & Gyro House Website Project” will be submitted and approved in accordance with the milestone schedule below. Upon approval of the project plan resources will be assigned to the project and work will commence within 3 ...
NewcastleGateshead Initiative Business Leaders' Briefing 21 April 2016newcastlegateshead
Slides from NewcastleGateshead Initiative's Business Leaders' Briefing at Laing Art Gallery on 21 April 2016, which focused on skills, talent and entrepreneurial leadership and included presentations from NRG, Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University and UNW.
Final Exam
By
1) You have a manager who informs you that the year long project (linear spend plan) they are executing currently (use today’s date) has spent half their budget of $500K, and they show a CPI of 1.16 and an SPI of 0.82. What is your prediction for the project? (On what date will this project finish and what is your ETC?) Why do you believe this to be true? What do you intend to do with the project team tomorrow?
Prediction for the project can be calculated by the following equations:
CPI = EV (earned value) / AC (Actual Cost)
1.16= EV/ $250,000
Therefore, the Earned Value (EV) = $290,000
----------------------------------------------------------
SPI= Earned Value (EV) / Planned Value (PV)
0.82= $290,000/ PV
Therefore, The planned value (PV) =$353,658
----------------------------------------------------------
We can expected the total project cost by using the following formula:
Estimate at completion (EAC) = Budget at completion (BAC)/ CPI
EAC= $500,000/1.16
EAC= $431,034.48
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Calculating the variance at completion (VAC) to determine how much the project over and under the budget
VAC= BAC-EAC
$500,000 - $431,034.48 = $68,965
Therefore we expect the project to be about $69K under budget.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Estimate to complete (ETC) how much more will it cost to finish this project.
ETC= EAC-AC
ETC= $446,428.5-$250,000 = $181,034
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Determine the project is under or over budget.
Cost of Variance (CV) = EV- AC
CV= $290,000-$250,000 = $40,000
Therefore, the project is under budget by $40,000
-----------------------------------------------------------------
The schedule variance (SV) = EV- PV
$290,000-$353,658 = -63,658
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The total duration to complete this project 5/10/2015 = Baseline duration / SPI
12 month /0.82 = 14.6 months
Approximately 2 month and 16 days behind schedule
Therefore, from today’s date 5/10/2015 the project will be completed on 7/26/2016
-I strongly believe it is correct because CPI plays fundamental role in measuring the efficiency of the project. If the CPI of a project is one, this means that the actual project costs have not exceeded the budget costs. On the other hand, if the SPI less than one indicates the project is behind schedule. Earned value analysis (EVM) is a valuable technique because it provides important forecasting information that is going to help project managers control the project in terms of cost and schedule in order to meet the project goals and deadlines.
-I intend to bring back the project on the track, when the project behind the schedule I need to hold a meeting with all the stakeholder of the project to determine the possible causes of this ...
Design sprints can accelerate decision-making and development of your product or service. Remote design sprints are largely untried but we have found that it is still possible to conduct one virtually, using the right tools.
This guide outlines all of the steps involved in setting up and running a remote design sprint, detailing what is involved or required for each step as well as tips for optimising your sprint.
Slides that helps you to know the major skills of Project Manager, and it describes the fundamentals of Project Management which is a very important part of Software Engineering.
La Roche CollegeSenior SeminarWeb Design for the Busines.docxsmile790243
La Roche College
Senior Seminar
Web Design for the Business (Individual Project)
Student
03/15/2014
PROJECT CHARTER
Project Authorization
This Charter formally authorizes the website project to develop a new business restaurant website for customer use. A project plan will be developed and submitted to the Project Sponsor for approval. The project plan will include: scope statement; schedule; cost estimate; budget; and provisions for scope, resource, schedule, communications, quality, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management as well as project control. The Project Manager, Natalia Kondekova, will assign all resources.
Project Scope
The purpose of this assignment and PowerPoint presentation is to provide the class a project description that demonstrates what I have learned during my studies here at the La Roche College. One of the things that I have learned is how to code in HTML and create a simple website. I have decided to design a website for my uncle’s business. The main goal is to create a fully functioning, updateable website for customers. 700 Pizza & Gyro House do not have currently a website, so the need for one is very high. The project deliverables shall include a fully built website, help guides to update and further build the website, and all project documents. There is variety of tools to be used. I have decided to use Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Notepad editor, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), own Images & computer. Hyper Text Markup Language is the main markup language for creating web pages written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets. The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible or audible web pages.
Project Manager Role
A project manager is the person responsible for the planning, execution and coordination of whole project. He or she is required to think outside of the box and present innovative and realistic solutions to any problems that might prevent the project achieving its objectives on time and on budget. As a project manager it would be up the person to initiate, supervise and ensure the completion of a project. There are many others, who are included in the web project management such as a database developed, a HTML coder, usability lead or others. In this project, I was the one responsible for all duties to deliver the project to completion. The project sponsor or stakeholder is the person or group responsible for initiating the web site project. In most instances the sponsor is the client or customer for the web site development work, but in smaller in-house department projects such as this, the sponsoring manager and the web project manager may be the same person.
Summary Milestone Schedule
The “700 Pizza & Gyro House Website Project” will be submitted and approved in accordance with the milestone schedule below. Upon approval of the project plan resources will be assigned to the project and work will commence within 3 ...
Running head ASSIGNMENT 2 PROJECT MOTORCYCLES1ASSI.docxjoellemurphey
Running head: ASSIGNMENT 2: PROJECT MOTORCYCLES
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ASSIGNMENT 2: PROJECT MOTORCYCLES
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Assignment 2: Project Motorcycles
M. Owens
Strayer University
Project Management BUS 375
Professor Puckett
October 31, 2013
Select one (1) of the types of project organization that would suit the development of the larger touring class motorcycles.
The project management organization I would use for this instance is pure project management organization. This helps to separate this project from the home company. It will be an independent segment. It will have its own technical staff and administration, which would be linked to the home company's administration. However, these links will not be strong, and it will enjoy some autonomy. This segment will be able to prepare its own reports on how the project is advancing, make minor purchases, and deliveries without consulting the home company. This will be in order to quicken the development of the motorcycles. The project manager is the head of this segment he will bear full responsibility for the project, although he will report to the senior staff at the home company. This decentralization will also lead to better communication in this segment as the project manager will be able to make some decisions without consulting senior staff in the home company.
Outline the process steps that your company would take in order to develop the motorcycle. Provide a rationale for the response.
1. Team Assembly
The team tasked with assembling the motorcycles has already been assembled. This team could be selected from within the home company, or in this case of the skilled labour, experts from outside could be included. The team should have representatives from the clients, vendors, subcontractors, and suppliers to give their opinions and views on the development of the motorcycles (Archbold).
2. Definition of Project Objective
Once the team is together, it should come up with a clear purpose and objectives to carry out the project. A phase-exit review should also be conducted to determine whether the project should continue to the next phase (Archbold).
3. Definition of Project Scope
The team should develop an appropriate Work Breakdown Structure. This will ensure that all the stakeholders in the project understand what's expected to be done throughout the span of the project (Kerzner, 2013, p.529). Ensuring the project's divided into small manageable sub-projects will assist with an easier completion of the project.
4. Initial Plan
The tasks in the Work Breakdown Structure should be organized into logical network diagrams. Estimated durations should also be attached to the individual activities in the network diagrams. These include the earliest start times and latest finish times. This information will help the project manager to estimate the completion times of the projects and assess the feasibility of the targeted days (Kerzner, 2013, p. 537). With this information, he will also b ...
An overview of the Agile Manifesto and why Agile SDLC is super important to excellent project management practices. Agile Software development is dominating the game these days. Whether you're going responsive, managing ecommerce, magento, or iphone apps Agile practices will help your efforts succeed.
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Applied Research
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STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Obtain approval by submitting a detailed project proposal to the Program Director
prior to registering for this course. This proposal may be submitted anytime after
the first session of the first semester of enrollment.
2. Follow procedures as detailed in the course syllabus.
3. Document weekly progress once the project begins. Submit copies of updated plans,
reports, and project management documentation weekly to the instructor once the project
begins.
4. Attend and participate in all administrative, professional, or fact-finding meetings as
required by the organizational mentor and/or faculty.
5. Fully comply with appropriate institutional policies and procedures while at the
organization, during the project, including confidentiality issues.
Student Responsibilities – continue
6. Utilize appropriate professional behavior, dress, and communication.
7. Maintain ongoing weekly contact with the faculty advisor once the project begins in order to
review the required project management documentation.
8. Present a verbal presentation of the project’s outcomes to the faculty advisor/instructor and
Program Director at the end of semester prior to grade submission deadlines.
9. Present a final written project report to the faculty advisor/instructor prior to grade
submission deadlines. Since this report must be finally submitted to the Program Director, a
second copy may be requested by the faculty advisor/instructor.
Contents of the written report for industry project.
Initiating
Kickoff Meeting Plan
Business Case
Business Case Financial Analysis
Project Charter
Planning
Team Contract
Scope Statement
Statement of Work
Stakeholder Analysis
Software Project Management Plan
Work Breakdown Structures
Gant Chart
Network Chart
Project Costs Overview
Risk assessment
Pareto Diagram
Quality Assurance Plan
Project Organizational Chart
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Resource Histogram
Stakeholder Analysis for Project Communications
Executing and Controlling
Gant Charts
Network Charts with written analysis
Project Costs Reports and Budget Reports
Earned Value Analysis and supportive charts
Weekly Status Reports
Milestones Report
Closing
Lessons Learned Report
Final Project Documentation
Appendices
Systems Documentation as needed.
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Onboarding is a key part of a team’s success and productivity as well as the new joiners’. However, as technologists we sometimes fail to pay enough attention to it, not having a clear approach to it. In this talk, we share different techniques on how to improve the onboarding process. From effectively sharing the vision to improving the time it takes a new engineer to contribute to the team.
Observable microservices (O'Reilly SACon NY 2018)Maria Gomez
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2. Explore the sustainability implementation model, focusing on effective measures and reporting strategies to track and communicate sustainability efforts.
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2. Principles and Practices of Sustainability
3. Measures and Reporting in Sustainability
4. Sustainability Implementation & Best Practices
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New Media Management - Report
1. Report
by Maria Gomez
Student Id: 10003413
CMP001N New Media Management
MA Digital Media
London Metropolitan University
April 2010
2. Maria Gomez | 1
Contents
Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 2
Strategy.................................................................................................................................................2
Team communication ......................................................................................................................2
Team Management...........................................................................................................................4
Client Management..........................................................................................................................5
Conclusion............................................................................................................................................ 6
Bibliography......................................................................................................................................... 7
3. Maria Gomez | 2
Introduction
SuperNewMedia Ltd has been commissioned the development of a web-based application for
DigitalFashionForYou. The brief for this project explains that the application would be accessible
from the general public via internet and for the costumers in shops via kiosks installed in there.
Signed off project plan estimates 4 months for the completion of the project, including planning,
development, quality control and testing as well as specific milestones through the project cycle.
However, the project is now 2 months into the development and no deliverable has been presented.
This delay in the project, along with other issues like lack of team communication and organization
and loose of confidence the client has on us, has make the Board appoints me as new Project
Manager in order to have this project back on track.
If things keep going on the way they are now, not just the project but the company can suffer some
consequences that include losing the client (and all projects they have commissioned us). Also, our
reputation as a company can suffer as the client is an important fashion firm and we have already a
marketing plan going with the project. In conclusion, the failure of this project could risk future
opportunities and projects in the fashion industry and we need to do all we can to avoid the
situation.
The following is the strategy I suggest to identify and find a solution to these issues.
Strategy
Team communication
Clearly, one of the reasons of the failure of the project so far is the lack of a clear and specific
communication plan that the team can rely on. I have come out with a plan that follows:
First of all, I am aware of the differences between team members, starting with languages, but for
the sake of the project, I have decided to assign English as the official language of this project,
which means that all communication and documents related to the project will have to be written in
English.
All day by day communication between team members will be made by email or by collaboration
tool we will be using. In case of an emergency telephone communication will be used.
In terms of email communication, we will apply the internal SuperNewMedia email etiquette (that
includes not using the service to personal matters, using a conversational but courteous and not
4. Maria Gomez | 3
offensive tone and not attaching large files). Apart of this, the specific policy for this project
consists of:
• Using the subject line to indicate key information
• Choosing the right recipients (only the people interested in the matter)
• Limiting the message to one screen of text.
• When receiving a message, replying to it in a maximum of two working days.
[5]
In order to choose a collaboration tool we need take into account the different infrastructure of all
team members. One of the most popular tools used for this is BaseCamp [3]. However I would like
to project.net [4], an open source web-based project portfolio management that offers us all the
features we need for the project (calendar, messaging system, time management, version controlled
document management, task logs and a extended list of reports). The reason for choosing
project.net is based mainly in an open-source philosophy that I want to implement in this project.
In parallel of that I will implement a meeting’s strategy that will allow the team to work better and
more organised.
First of all, I will meet all the team members and explain them the situation of the crisis as well as
the measures I am planning to implement. To do so, i want to schedule a team-orientation session as
soon as possible in our offices in London [1]. The reason why the meeting will be in London is
because most of the team is actually in there. I will ask the three team members in Paris to come
down here and we will have the specialist in Hong Kong in the meeting via TokBox (an web based
video conference tool that allows to have up to 20 people at the same time) [2], as this person is
already engaged with other projects in the company and those will be affected if he came. Taking
into account the different time zones between, the meeting will be held at 8:00 GMT, what means
9:00 in Paris and 16:00 in Hong Kong. This rule will apply to all the meetings we will have with the
member in Hong Kong.
The meeting will be also helpful to make the team members know me, know each other and each
one task and to be sure they understand the new working plan. The Production Assistant and I will
be in charge of preparing the agenda and to make sure everyone receive a copy by email with
enough time to prepare themselves for the meeting.
Secondly I would like to present how the communications are going to be made during the rest of
the project cycle.
Monthly, we will celebrate a meeting including all the members, to review the general status of the
project Ideally this meeting will follow the same structure that the introductory one (describe
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before), having the Paris team coming to London for the day and the Hong Kong based specialist
attending via TokBox. If this is not possible, we are prepared to have a 3 conference.
Weekly, I will hold a production meeting with sub teams’ responsible (the Creative Director, the
Technical Director and the Content Specialist). We will discuss how the week has gone and set the
goals for the following one. As the two directors are based in London and the content specialist in
Paris, the meeting will be via video conference with the directors and me in London and the
specialist in Paris. Production Assistant will prepare the agenda for all the meetings and distribute it
in advance to the parts.
To finalise with the meeting’s strategy, daily every team will have a catch-up meeting where they
will discuss the task that needs to be done during the day. These meeting will be done in person
when possible or by phone. In the special case of our member in Hong Kong, he/she will send an
email to the Content Specialist at the end of each working day indicating the progress done and
he/she will receive another daily email with the task for the day from the Content Specialist.
Reports of these meetings will be sent to me and the production assistant.
I believe all these measures will lead us to a successful project.
Team Management
As the current situation of the project does not let much space to be able to reach a solution with the
rest of the team (which would be my normal approach), I have decided to lead the team using a
more authoritarian approach, that is, presenting the decision I have made and the strategy to follow
to reach successfully the end of project to all team member in the first meeting we will have. This,
however, will not prevent the team to ask me questions regarding the plan, which I will be more
than happy to answer (Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt define this leadership behaviour
as “Manager presents his ideas, invite questions” [7]).
Although I understand that this situation is not ideal for the team members and their creativity
(because of the stress injected with the crisis), I want to let them know that I am part of the team by
using an “empathetic approach to motivate them”.[8] To implement this I would like to have one to
one session with each one of them every two week. These sessions does not need be extend in time,
half an hour would be enough. Team members would be able to ask me any doubt they have about
the project and explain their personal feeling about it, as well as suggest new ways of improve their
work environment and give constructive feedback on their job. In a management point of view these
sessions will help to create an atmosphere of trust, which would improve the well being of the
project.
Other ways that I am intended to implement of help creativity and to build a better team are:
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• Team building sessions: to be held every month, coinciding with the monthly project
meeting explained previously.
• Making the whole team visible to everyone, by creating a map with every member in their
location and distribute it to all members. [6]
• Inspiring them to start conversation non-related to the project, by using the collaboration
tool (project.net) and creating a discussion group where all team members can post anything
they want, as long as it is not directly related to the project. To keep alive the participation I
will post every day a list of news that hopefully will create some conversation between the
members.
• Reward strategy: every month and if the team has reach the goals for that period, they will
be reward with different things like extra days off to be taken after the conclusion of the
project, shopping vouchers, etc. Also, at the end of the project, we will celebrate the success
of it by having a team building weekend in a location to be confirmed, where we can analyse
the project as a whole, celebrate the good decisions and learn from the bad ones.
Client Management
The client has pointed out that is not happy with our level of expertise in e-commerce (an important
part of the project) and is definitely losing the trust on us. To solve this I will propose them a
solution for the e-commerce module that I am sure they will like.
As SuperNewMedia has not enough experience and knowledge in the sector, outsourcing the
development and integration of the e-commerce module will be the best soution. I suggest two
different ecommerce solutions providers and I will let the client to choose. Those are: Actinic
Business Plus [9] and SiteWizard [10]. Both of them are based on the UK, which makes
communication easier and have all the features we need, like easy to install and use, customised
templates, wish lists, voucher and coupons support, etc. Also they are two of the most used and
leading ecommerce solutions providers in the UK and have more than 10 years experience and a
large list of clients in the fashion industry that includes The Dance Locker
(www.thedancelocker.com) and Plain Lazy (www.plainlazy.com).
I will have a meeting with the client where I will explain our new strategy and the steps to fully
success in the completion of the project, which includes a tailored solution proposal provided for
the two ecommerce providers named previously. Once the client decides which one to go for, I will
organize a three part meeting with both the client and the ecommerce provider company.
In order to recover the trust and the good relation with the client, in the meeting I will have with
them, I will present a communication plan which includes: weekly reports in the project status (see
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Apendix A for a status report template), demos and milestones to be delivered every month and a
specific plan to handle change requests (as the time left is really tight, we really need the client to
have a clear mind of what the way from the beginning and have them realize that any change at
towards the end of the project will have a huge impact in terms of meeting the deadline).
Conclusion
I believe that in moments like this, when you have a project in risk and a close deadline to meet, the
project manager needs to take responsibility and apply all measures in his hands to lead the project
towards a success. Based on this a more authoritarian leadership approach like the one I intent
implementing is essential.
It is fair to say that all the amount of stress going into the team members and the nature of a virtual
team itself can affect negatively in the team and cut the creativity. That is the reason why I want to
help the team to have a better relationship between each other and to improve the work
environment, so their environment will be as good as it can and the creativity will flow.
When client is losing the trust on you, you need to reassured them that you are doing everything in
you are hand to get over the situation. I will gain the trust back by exposing them the action plan
and by having a constant communication and report routine. However, client might not like the new
plan, in which case I will need to have a better understanding of what their desire is or I will try to
convince them of the benefits of the plan.
In conclusion, I believe in this project, its members and in the new direction I want to implement.
As a project manager I am ready to lead them forward and by the end of the process, have a
successful team and a happy client!
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