Description

Primary Response is due by Thursday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Saturday (11:59:59pm Central).

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Thus far, you have explored project management process groups and procurement management activities. This week, you will examine project roles and how they are assigned, as well as evaluate and use team member characteristics in specific project roles.

Using what you have learn from the intellipath lessons in Unit 1, review these personnel and assignment guidelines, and address the following:

• What team building exercises would you use to create a cohesive and high-performance project team? Share your experiences with successful and less than successful leadership practices.
• Explain resource planning differences and similaritiesin Waterfall versus Agile environments.
• As a project manager, how would you go about selecting the necessaryproject team members?

PJM610 Project Management Principles - Teams and Tailoring DB 1 You are managing the online ordering and billing system upgrade project. Tailoring engagement of team members is a delicate and critical task. When done correctly, the team members will be excited about their role on the project, feel empowered and integrated and they can successfully complete the tasks assigned, and know they will have some conquerable challenges as they move through the project. To effectively tailor engagement, empower and integrate project team, the project manager must perform the following:

Identify the roles needing to be filled.

Determine the skills and capabilities required for each role.

Evaluate skills and capabilities of the team members and identify potential gaps

Tailor engagement of team members

The following roles need to be filled:

Business analyst

Technical architect

Programmer/tester

Team leader

The following personnel are available:

Pat is available for 24 hours a week at $135 per hour. Pat was involved in similar upgrade projects and can act as business analyst, developer, or tester. Pat is very comfortable with the legacy system and does not see the benefit of another system upgrade. He feels that the end users do not fully utilize the functionality they already have and will not use this new functionality effectively. Pat is an agile expert. Terry is available for 24 hours a week at $130 per hour.

Terry was involved in the original installation and every upgrade since then. She tends to be in developer or tester roles for this system but acts as business analyst for other systems. She is very excited about the upgrade project and the functionality it provides. She is concerned, however, that the end users may not have the skills to use it. Terry is a waterfall expert.

Robin is available for 30 hours per week at $130 per hour. She was involved in the last two upgrades as a business analyst and has been trying to become involved in other systems and business areas. She was actively involved in a few projects as a programmer. This was considered a skills development opportunity because her programming skills are not strong. Robin is an agile expert. PJM610 Project Management Principles - Teams and Tailoring DB 2

Chris is available for 24 hours per week at $100 per hour. He is new to the company; he was previously a customer service representative. He just completed his undergraduate degree in computer science and has experience with programming and software testing techniques. Jan is available for 16 hours per week at $135 per hour.

Jan is also new to the company. She was previously a consultant and was on process reengineering projects, including several for billing functions. She previously worked with the Web version product of the vendor's competitor. Jan is a waterfall expert.