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Comment on the pros and cons of the CEO, Dr. Splient, as the Project Manager. Dr.Splient has an advantage. Dr. Splient understands the strategic need to redesign the health canter. Unfortunately, the challenge is dealing with the operational task aligned with a project manager's skill set. Dr. Splient understands geriatric requirements due to his experience of having his elderly parents live with him. Dr. Splient has to juggle his day to lifestyle issues, impacting his ability to properly facilitate the project planning and lead responsibilities in the facility's construction. As the CEO, Dr. Splient can give strategic direction to the organization. However, he may not be best at dealing with tactical or operational issues. Dr. Splient, in the CEO's capacity, may not understand the customer needs from the organization's viewpoint to other stakeholders. Who is the founder of the project? Who is the sponsor? Who is the project owner? Every project should have a sponsor, someone who champions the project from a business perspective and helps to remove obstacles that might harm its overall success. Project sponsors typically are members of senior management who carry a respectable level of influence and authority and serve as proponents of projects. Project sponsors often are called by different names, such as product sponsor, project director, account manager or business unit manager [ CITATION Whi02 \l 1033 ]. However, for this project it would be Dr. Spleint, the CEO's capacity, and the board or executive team. List all the potential stakeholders in this project. Stakeholders can be anyone interested (positively or negatively) in completing or executing deliverables [ CITATION San09 \l 1033 ]. The elderly patients and their family members will use the facility. Other stakeholders include or agencies that will help patients directly and indirectly. (i.e., Physical Therapist, support staff. Vendors can also be stakeholders and the insurance companies and hospitals that will refer patients to the facility. This initiative consists of a variety of separate efforts from a lot of different groups and individuals. What are the advantages and disadvantages of structuring it as a program consisting of a set of separate projects? Would you recommend this, under the circumstances? If the remodel could be run as small projects, it would help define roles and responsibilities based on the expertise of the resource to execute their assigned task. Unfortunately, the project becomes challenging to sum up a master program level plan. The real challenge begins when the program's actual execution occurs and cannot be completed until all the small projects are completed and are well synchronized. However, at the program level, communication becomes transparent for the small projects; monitoring and controlling the projects is also not easy when everyone aims for the milestone and the same deadline. Unfortunately, there could still be one project failure, or the time a successor activity will be delayed, the other gets impacted [ CITATION San09 \l 1033 ]. Likewise, it gets influenced at the program level. In my view, it is acceptable to have the entire effort at the program level because of the intensity of the stakeholders required. References Sanghera, P. (2006). Project Managment Framework. In P. Sanghera, PMP In Depth: Project Managment Professional Certification Study Guide for PMP Exam (pp. 3-44). San Francisco, CA: APress. Whitten, N. (2002, December 1). Duties of the effective project sponsor. PM Network, 16 (12), 16. Retrieved from PM Network.
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