A Plan For A University Facilities Project Manager

Teams are very important aspects of business. If a team can perform well then the business will thrive and perform more efficiently. It is therefore important to know how to build cohesive teams that perform well.

Teams are formed when individuals with a common taste, preference, liking, and attitude come and work together for a common goal. Teams play a very important role in organizations as well as our personal lives.

Teams are more than just groups of people assembled in the same area, they are a collection of individuals dedicated to a common purpose and with a series of detailed performance targets, working together with complementary skills. Teams of people are encountered in various scenarios, not just in the workplace, but also throughout life, such as sports, associations, charities and voluntary services.

Team building is the process of turning a group of individual employees into a cohesive team, a group of people organized to work together interdependently and cooperatively to meet the needs of their customers by accomplishing their purpose and goals. (Heathfiled, 2016)

As it is being stated earlier that this paper will be discussing about team development and it will then explain the theories of teamwork and team development. Team development is defined as the improvement of the efficacy of working in teams or groups by advancing goal progressions (Eyre, 2015). Bruce Tuckman firstly identified the four stages of team development in the mid 60s (Eyre, 2015). These stages are; Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing. In the 1970s Dr Bruce Tuckman added the fifth stage, which is Adjourning (Businessballs.com, 2015). Dr Bruce also mentioned that this theory is a helpful and beneficial description of team development (Businessballs.com, 2015).

Project management (PM) is the vocation of seeing that projects are completed on time, within budget, and perform to the standard that the stakeholders are expecting. There are PM degrees available at the Associate, Bachelor, Graduate, and Ph.D. levels of study; degrees are available on campus and online from many well-known and highly rated institutes. However, many employers view the Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate as even more important than a degree. Project managers earn far about the average wage, the average salary for project managers worldwide was $81,000 in 2015, and there is a large demand for project managers, employers need an additional 15.7 million new project managers by 2020. A project manager must be able to work with many different people: project stakeholders, members of the project team, vendors, contractors, engineers. A project manager must have good communicate skills, have the courage to make hard decisions, and do whatever is necessary to see to it a project stays on track, on schedule, and on budget. Before becoming senior project managers and leading project teams, project managers hold a variety of project related positions; they receive on-the-job training, gain experience, and advance through the ranks as project team members, project coordinators, project schedulers; assistant project manages, project managers, before becoming senior project managers.

The science of team building is an art. The uncontrollable variables are people. Just putting a group of talented individuals together for the sole purpose of goal achievement can be met with disastrous results. It can leave individuals left feeling unfulfilled and lead to costly mistakes in the long run. While team building can be considered an art, there are some methods and approaches that can assist with successful builds. While no approach is full proof, taking time to acclimate oneself with human

Scenario D was a challenging assignment to complete within the project objective goals set by the executives. Even though I was able to complete the project on time, I was unable to keep my budget on track and keep the morale of my team between eighty-five through ninety-five percent. This week’s lesson has taught me how valuable a project manager is to the success of the organization’s project. Not only it is our responsibility to be a problem solver, it is the project manager’s job to be the collective voice of the stakeholders to outline the practicality of the project demands. This week’s readings helped me gain insight of what a project manager needs to do and bring to the table when a project’s demands will overall jeopardize the success of the project. The overall theme of this paper outlines how important it is to have transparent top-down and bottom-up communication. I also will express how vital it is to create strategic alignment throughout the lifecycle of the project.

To fully discuss this topic, we must start with a simple definition of a team. Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith define a team in their best-selling book The Wisdom of Teams (Harper Business Essentials 1994), as

The first thing I think of when I hear “Interconnected World” I think of a man with an idea. This man is an architect, who wants to build an enormous building. To start the “building process” (no pun intended) he would need to draw out a plan of what this building is going to look like. Using his art skills he would draw out a diagram of what the building would look like inside and out to make sure it is pleasing to the eye. Then he and an engineer would have to use math to scale out the drawing into real life to make sure the building is structurally sound. He would also need to hire a project manager to watch over the project, and he has the responsibility of making sure the project is running smoothly. To begin the actual assembling of the building he would need to get it approved by the city or county the building would be built in. He would also need a lawyer to sort out the legal and political issues. The engineer has to approve the structure and make sure it’s safe for people to be in. Their would also need to be an accountant to use his math skills for budgeting. Once the county approves all of the legal, structural, and money details, it can start being built. Now we can start the building process. In the building process there will need to be a contractor who specializes in construction management, as well as an engineer to plan and make sure it is perfect before assembled. Once the major structural parts of the building are set, they can begin with

Team building is known as systematic process towards achieving team bonding and cohesiveness towards accomplish desired objectives. In brief, some of the common types of such programs are:

The managing director of the company asked to plan a project that will assist the relocation of the company. Therefore, as a project manager, I have to prepare an initial report including the list of the projects, timescales when the project should be done, and prepare the budget as well. Firstly, I will make a project proposal and if managing director agrees, I will proceed further. After accepting my proposal I will make a proper project plan with a proper structure, plan schedule of the project, roles and responsibilities of the staff by using PRINCE2 model of project management.

A project will undergo changes during some point in the projects lifecycle. The Project Changes Request will be used to monitor and report on changes throughout the course of the project lifecycle. The key is controlling the changes to manage the impact to the project plan, budget, and schedule.

In today’s workplace, terms like “team building,” “work as a team,” and “team mentality” are as common as “stepping up to the plate” and “hitting a home run.” But what is teambuilding, really? Most of us think it is a group of people trying to get along in order to accomplish some complex task or a multi-layered project. Not quite.

Recent economic liberalisation of the construction market has placed private contractors in a stronger position to compete for work. At the same time, to be successful requires more sophisticated project management to enhance competitiveness (Fang, et al, 2004; Lim, et al., 2010). It is useful to identify the