Unit II Assignment 1
Read the following scenario and answer the
corresponding questions upon your completion. Your response should be at least
two pages in length in standard essay form following APA style guidelines.
CTO Scenario:
You are working on a project to install 200
new computers for your department. Your sponsor is the CTO (Chief Technology
Officer). Although the CTO is your key stakeholder, you know that many other
individuals will affect the success or failure of your project. This is the
first time you have worked with this CTO, and you have heard that he often
changes his mind about the requirements and due date. In fact, you heard that a
PM who failed to meet the project deadline was fired by the CTO. On your way to
the weekly status meeting with the CTO, you run into a colleague who tells you
that the best way to handle the CTO is to avoid confronting him. If the CTO
tells you to do 10 push-ups, you do 10 push-ups. If he asks for coffee, do not
forget the cream and sugar. In other words, the “Yes-Man” approach works best.
You may not like what you hear from the CTO, but at least you will keep your
job. In fact, your colleague tells you that the CTO often promotes people who
agree with him. Of course, you know what happens to those who fail to follow
his recommendations.
Provide your response to the following
questions:
• Who are your stakeholders?
• How do you plan to communicate with your
stakeholders?
• You schedule a meeting with managers from
the impacted departments, and only seven of the 13 you invited show up to
discuss the project. What does this tell you about the potential success of the
project?
• Because of your failure to coordinate
with a vendor, the equipment will arrive 42 days late. How will you notify the
sponsor of your serious error?
• Your CTO informs you that the deliverable
date is now two months earlier. You know what happened to the last PM. How do
you handle that new requirement?
