The President Of A Company

The management of a consulting project calls on a variety of skills. This is an actuality that has been stressed throughout the course lectures, seminars and cases as well as throughout the course literature. The fact that consultants must integrate their skills when conducting a consulting project is as clear-cut as it is evident.

Procedural Modifications and Recommendations: The CER system was developed to outline specific requirements of a project and create rigorous documentation of the projects. As well, the process was put into place to enable a more structured review of these proposals between employees and management. The implemented a two week review timeframe to receive and review the documentation. These processes while good had several flaws:

We interview the site general manager for a company called Bombardier Transportation. His name is Jeff Gaffney. His official company title is MARC Operations General Manager. Bombardier Transportation is one of two subsidiaries of the company. The other half is Bombardier Aerospace. The parent company is called Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Inc. is headquartered in Montreal Canada. Jeff Gaffney is only involved in the transportation division of the company which is headquartered in Berlin Germany. Bombardier is the leading manufacturer of trains and the third leading manufacturer of planes. The company as a whole has roughly about 72,000 employees with a revenue averaging around $16.8 billion. These numbers are statistics split between the two divisions of the company. As stated before Mr. Gaffney is involved in the transportation division of the company so that is what the interview was primarily about.

* From the e-Activity, analyze the documentation requirements under Standard 3. Make at least two (2) recommendations to the documentation requirements that you believe would improve Standard 3. Support your recommendations with examples of such improvements.

Over the past few years, project managers and Project management has shown tremendous growth. Project management has evolved over the past several years from an activity in an organization to a discipline in its own right. Many professional bodies exist today to represent project management as a discipline, Some of which include, PMI, Prince2 Foundation, PM Bok.

Larson, E., & Gray, C. (2010). Project management, the managerial process. (5th ed., p. 158).

Project management (PM) system processes are essential for successful performance within an organization. ?Successful performance leads to customer delight, although insured, is totally possible through proper application and quantifiable control of project management processes?, (Akkiraju, n.d., p. 2). Project management involves components that PM mangers follow when preparing to enter into a venture. The PM use planning, hazard management, execution management, change

Question: (TCO A) You are the CEO for Skipper Products. The business has had a great year and you see that a PPM is needed to manage all the projects that are currently in progress, along with future projects. You must convince the board of directors to accept this change in order to implement it. You have decided to give a presentation at the next meeting that covers the information below.

Project Management Institute. (2000). _A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (4th ed.)._

As one of the largest global information technology (IT) company in the United States, Hewlett-Packard (HP) produces numerous of hardware and develops many software. Not only concentrated in hardware and software manufacturing and developments, external IT consulting is one of the highlighted services which is provided HP’s Services division. In order to increase competitive advantages, Ron Kempf, the direct of project management competency and certification at HP, brings together the firm’s various stakeholders to conduct a needs assessment to determine what type of training would be needed. 2,500 client-focused project managers and support staff around the world are the candidates in the needs assessment. Based on cost-benefits analysis, ESI International is chosen to conduct the needs assessment with the designation of “project management professional” (Lepak & Gowan, 2010).

Project management is managing the work to develop and innovate or even change within an existing operation. There are five steps in this management: Initiating the project, Planning and controlling all activities to keep the project on schedule, executing every phase of the projects process, monitoring/ controlling reviewing and regulating the progress and performance of all phases of the project, Closing process this is where all processes are finalized and completed to officially close the project out.

The case study, “Beijing EAPS Consulting, Inc.” in the Custom Book, (2011), examines the project management structure of the Beijing EAPS Consulting (BEC) company. This case study also addresses about project plan itself and how the co-workers are struggling with this communication between both mangers. This project plan has demonstrated many strengths and weakness. The one thing that the project plan needs put into action are safeguards to insure that the project is completed on time.

This document describes the proposal of creating a new EPMO organization within HTF (Hypothetical Financials) to oversee the standardization of its IT project management processes including those for software development. HTF 's (Hypothetical Financials) different LOBs currently follow various flavors of SDLC models for software development and project management processes and it is known the firm was too big to adopt quick process changes. The creation of an EMPO organization is not a trivial efforts and is estimated to cost about 6 million dollars spanning 3 years duration. The initiative will go through annual evaluation and budget planning process

This document is an annotated outline for a Project Management Plan, adapted from the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and IEEE Standard for Project Management Plans. The Project Management Plan is considered to be a “Best Practice” template by the ETS Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO).

In order to achieve their business objective, project management and the used methodology are key factor which will be responsible for the success or failure of this project.