What a Heart Surgeon Could Learn from a Project Manager”. You are a Project Manager with some years of experience in a Project Management role. A friend who works in a hospital has seen this case study, liaised with the Head of Cardiology and they have requested that you prepare a report for the surgical team on project management techniques considering how and why these could be beneficial for them to adopt. You have been asked to prepare a report which considers.

Question 1 a) What project management is and how the project management process aligns with planning and implementing a cardiac surgical procedure including the relevance of determining and agreeing on scope, deliverables, and constraints?

b) The relevance of stakeholder analysis. This should consider the needs and interests of the cardiac surgical team from understanding project management principles. You should include the identification of those who can participate in the planning of surgery and its delivery to optimize its success. Evaluate the importance of stakeholder analysis to the likely success of the surgery. 

c) A critical analysis of the relevance and applicability to surgery of • Planning. • Project lifecycles and use of methodologies. • Building and leading teams. • Tools and techniques which the cardiac surgical team may find useful to plan and monitor project implementation in a surgical setting. (30 marks)

d) A draft project plan which highlights the work breakdown structure and resource breakdown structure for a typical cardiac surgical procedure along with how a draft budget would be developed. 

Reflect on your learning from the PMT module. From the perspective of a future project manager, what do you perceive to be the key personal skills and competencies of a project manager? What might be the key challenges with regard to project management practices and what skills and competencies might you need to effectively manage these? Once you have identified your range of skills and competencies, undertake an objective self-assessment and determine areas for future personal development incorporating these into a personal development plan to be submitted as an appendix to the assignment.