Executive Summary
The Trophy Project was fundamentally mismanaged from the start. The management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, controlling and directing personnel and resources were poorly executed by both senior and project level management. Customer expectations were not well defined and scope creep was allowed to take place without proper administration. There did not appear to be a corporate champion for this project who could mentor and resolve conflicts that were beyond the authority of the project manager. Plus, the project manager appeared to be inexperienced and was not very adept at negotiating with upper level and functional management to obtain the proper resources necessary to achieve the project
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They also didn’t appear to honor any form of schedule or business ethics because they were charging direct labor time to the project while working on other projects. Functional management appeared to lack leadership and direction across the whole unit.
3. Did senior management appear supportive and committed?
Senior management did not appear to be very supportive or committed to this project. They did not provide vested leadership to guide and enable the project manager and his team to succeed. When problems were identified early on, resources were dispatched to the project but they served to be a bigger detriment than an aide to achieve the project objectives. Informing the senior management of problems at an early stage should render support and encouragement that will serve all the interests of the project team. However, this senior management team provided threats and intimidating management methods. Resources are commonly shared by a number of projects and distributing of critical resources will usually be made by senior/upper management. This did not appear to happen in this case.
4. Can a singular methodology for project management be designed to “force” cooperation to occur between groups?
Some of the characteristics of the Singular Methodology are:
• Integrated Processes
• Cultural Support
• Management Support at All Levels
• Informal Project Management
• Return on Investment for Project Management
You get last place in your tournament. The coach walks up to you looking disappointed and hands you a trophy. You look down at the trophy confused on how you go it and notice that it reads “participation”, but why hand out a trophy if you didn’t really earn it? A popular issue today is whether or not participation trophies should be given out to young athletes. There isn’t a right or wrong answer to this debate, however I believe that it is wrong for these no good trophies to be handed out. Here are some of the reasons on why I believe this.
Imagine a world where youth athletes received a trophies for everything they do? According to the trophies for all policy youth athletes are being awarded with participation trophies. Participation trophies should not be giving to youth athletes are being awarded with participation trophies should not be giving to youth athletes because it's not reflective of real life. Also, the money spent on trophies could be better used on coaching staff. However, participation trophies may motivate youth athletes to try harder. Not everyone should get a trophy or they will expect for them to get one in every sports.
With the news of James Harrison, the outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who took his kids participation trophies ignited a national conservation over the idea of Participation trophies. While many say that the idea of a participation trophy is idealizes a non-competitive attitude , I however say it's a great idea. One of main reasons on why we have participation trophies is that we would rather have your kid feel good about themselves then bad bad. The thing is, we are not talking about NFL Superstar Athletes, we are talking about 6 to 12 year olds. The worst thing you can tell a kid is that they aren't good enough. Kids shouldn’t be held up to the hall of fame standards, they aren't being idolize in the Little League hall of fame
Usually the more and more participation trophies each kid gets then the less each one means to the kid. Also the more they have, shows them that all those trophies that they have ascribed are just from participating and never had to actually trying hard at a sport. But many real trophies should be given to the ones that show competitiveness, effort, hardwork, and dedication to the sport. If none was ever shown by anyone everyone then would just think all they have to do is show up and never have to do anything. A real trophy can help pull out their inner self and help get them out of their shells to show that they’re something to the team and that they can do great things for themselves and in their lives. Also a real trophy could show
The main goal of the project was to increase productivity by decreasing the time being wasted. The manager, who took all the responsibility of the project and five team members were part of the team. There was a project sponsor, who guided us and projected our ideas. This project started on August 9th, 2016. At the first meeting, we all sat in the conference room together. Not a sound came from any of us. Finally, after several minutes, what I felt like an hour, I simply had to say something. I asked, “Why do we need to change the process?” One member of the team, said, “We need to change it because I think we are wasting too much time on other things.” Another person, a senior woman, said, “I don’t think so we need to change the process. I am comfortable with the current one.” Others laughed. I thought to myself: I didn’t want to be in a group with people who didn’t take the project matter seriously. When the meeting ended, my
Once upon a time, there were five animals. One day the David the kangaroo invited his friends to come to his house for a sleep over. All the friends came over and they had lots of fun playing around, but one of the animals saw a trophy. One of his friends asked David
There would have been a budgeted amount for each phase of the project to go along with sufficient time to complete the project correctly the first time around. There also seemed to be a lack of teamwork throughout the project. I would have had a set plan in place throughout the entire project life cycle. The main problem I feel like contributed to the failure of the project is the lack of quality. Design specs should have been standard across the project regardless of what contractor was doing the work. The time and money spent redoing portions of the project was a major setback. Continuous improvement is also a key essential to any project. Last being ethical and honest about everything within the project should have been done from the
Neil Patel once said, “WInning provides happiness and losing provides wisdom. This is relevant because in today's age we focus too much on winning and not what you gain when you lose. Today participation trophies and prizes are almost given (Ashley Merryman.) Trophies can be a great way to help motivate kids, but giving trophies out after a loss will misconscrew a their thought process.
In order to be able to successfully complete a project the most important factor is having the required resources. This includes both funding and personnel. The lack of either is enough to being a project to a complete stop. Top management can help with the acquisition of funding and making sure that the right people are assigned to project. According to the spendmatters.com article on Senior Management Support this is the most common issue that can cause a project to fail.
Trophies have been handed out to children for their participation over the years.Children all fantasize of becoming the best athlete, but at a young age not all children are good at playing the sport, it takes time and practice. In recent discussion of amateur sports a controversial issue has been whether rewarding the child with a trophy for their participation is good or have trophies lost their actual meaning of success among the children. Not giving children participating award can cause the child to became less interested in the sport. Trophies don't always have to be about success they can also be more about the memories and the accomplishments as a child.
Do adolescents get too many trophies for coming in last place? Coaches in a youth organization give children participation trophies for trying. Sports at a youth level is all about learning the fundamentals. A award is a significant accomplishment for a child, also getting a ribbon for participating can brighten their day. Trophies should be handed out still at a young age until the child is old enough to understand; only how you get a trophy is if you come in first or second. Trophies for young children can be beneficial and have its pros it also has its cons to handing out trophies.
I agree that communication was one the major issues with the Vasa project. In my opinion, the communication problem aggravated after the changes in leadership. For this reason, I feel that documentation, procedures, and regulations are also important for an organization. From the project management standpoint, the Vasa builder would have had a more detailed scope to work from, plan, risk management, and configuration and change management, granted that PM practices were known. With this said, I feel that the large system successes from some organization can be credited to sound PM practices. On the other hand, we also see some failures from organizations that historically have been successful with large system’s projects. For example, the
The lack of support from top leadership on The Trophy project compounded Reinhart’s problems and made managing the project a complete nightmare. This was also mainly due to the fact that there was no business case formulated for this project. The baseline plan might have been formulated but it did not cover all aspects of the project plan. For instance there was no clear project objective outlined so the team members only realised that they had a role to play months after the project had started. Had the project
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4. Lack of information with regards to human resource management. There were no written policies and guidelines, which should have been the bible of the management and the employees.