MGT-451: Quality and Project Decision Making for Managers

6 Getting Started Quality-change efforts require leaders to effectively manage projects. Fortunately, there is a great deal known about project management. Leaders can leverage project management to meet quality challenges and opportunities. One of the goals of this program is to increase the level of your criticalthinking ability. The best thinkers demonstrate some important characteristics, including: Evaluating their thinking by determining its strengths and weaknesses. Distinguishing their thoughts from their feelings and desires. Routinely dissecting their thinking through careful examination. Noticing, reflecting, and acting on their thinking. Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to: - Differentiate basic project management success and failure factors and the connection with quality management while using the PIP process. Resources - File: Accessing_Quality Progress Articles - Quality Progress Article: Subject to Review; Factors That Lead to Success or Failure in Healthcare Projects Background Information Knowing about basic projectmanagement phases is one thing; being able to apply them to an actual project is another. Leaders should be able to recognize basic project-management phases at work in the PIP process for the course. Instructions Leaders benet from using project-management techniques when improving quality. 1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade. 2. Read the Subject to Review article. Think about the success and failure factors described in the article, and whether these factors are at play with your PIP project. 3. Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to the following questions: a. How do project management success and failure factors line up against the PIP process slides in the template you are using for the course project? b. Which project management phase do you believe is most important and why? [I v..... :...:|.:_| .........._...-_ -L.....I.J L... 1 rn L '1an ..._._.4_ :. I_.._A.I.. TL... ........._..-- -L'..IA ..-- nnn F-L _...4 :.....I...J_ a\"..- _:a._a.:__- E