Week 8 Discussion
Your stakeholders have asked the project team to recommend a solution to an unanticipated issue in the project. Describe how you plan to lead your group to make the best decision; address the four major steps. What project management tools would you use to prevent group think? How would you respond if a team member makes the following suggestion: “We should brainstorm and then critique each other’s ideas.”
Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.
Classmate response :
Hello All
In this week’s discussion were asked to identify the four major steps in making a decision. Next, we’re asked to consider
the following “We should brainstorm and then critique each other’s ideas” from another coworker.
First, let’s identify the steps according to the web text
1. Identifying problems.
2. Generating alternatives
3. Reaching a decision.
4. Following up.
In my experience, the more brains the better, sometimes you won’t have all the answers that’s where a team comes in. There has to
be a situation that a team member or another coworker has experienced before and they could provide a different solution. I’ll give you an
example of a situation at work where our team had a hard time with a problem and where we often “We should brainstorm and then critique
each other’s ideas” off each other in most situations. Before I came into the picture, a group of 5 diesel techs couldn’t figure out a fuel stage
issue with one of our test engines. I’ll keep it short but here was the problem before I came in, the engine started, ran, and shut down during
the second stage of warm-up. They identified the problem, generated alternatives, reached a decision, and followed up with the same result.
When I entered the situation, they filled me in with what was going on and what they had already done before I got there. In our line of work,
this is pretty standard and we all know the drill however, we rarely run into second-stage fuel issues. After evaluating everything that has been
done, the engine shouldn’t have any issues, but I had one more suggestion replace the fuel pump. They criticized me for considering this because
it wouldn’t have started if it was a bad fuel pump, much less go through the warm-up and stage 1. Since this was the last resort, we changed it,
and it completed the stage. This was my example of brainstorming and bouncing ideas off each other.
Christopher
Week 9 discussion
our project sponsor is not familiar with earned value management (EVM). You have been asked to provide him with a quick overview of EVM. Using the information covered in the readings, suggest the top three EVM performance measures (some may also be indexes) on which you would educate your project sponsor. Explain what each measure tells the project manager. Also, identify other performance factors beyond EVM that you would communicate to your sponsor. Provide a rationale for your selection of topics.
Be sure to respond to at least one of your classmates’ posts.
Classmate response
