enhance project skills
Part 1
Describe the primary time robbers that affect your
environment. Discuss methods for keeping these from adversely affecting your
project.
1. Discuss methods that you can use to improve the
productivity of your meetings
2. Where does your project fall on the Project Maturity
Model? What needs to be done to push the project to the next level of the
model?
Does the project manager have a responsibility for arranging
training for his/or her staff? What types of training should you arrange for
your staff?
Part 2
Describe how you can use the skills and expertise you
obtained in this course to effectively influence your organization. Provide a
simplified project plan for taking at least one concept presented in the course
and implementing it in your environment.
Where does your project fall on the Project Maturity Model?
What needs to be done to push the project to the next level of the model?
Discuss the ways that training and involvement in
professional groups can benefit you as a project manager. Explain how you can
use your project objectives, position description, and performance measures to
leverage participation in these kinds of activities.
1. Frank is the most knowledgeable piping engineer in the
company. For five years, the company has turned down his application for
transfer to project engineering and project management stating that he is too
valuable to the company in his current position. If you were a project manager,
would you want this individual as part of your team? How should an organization
cope with this situation?
2. Is it possible for a matrix to get out of control because
of too many small projects, each competing for the same shared resources? If
so, how many projects are too many? How can management control the number of
projects? Does your answer depend on whether the organization is project-driven
or non-project-driven?
3. Draft a course summary for a desired program to enhance
project management skills in your organization.
