| Solution for the Following: | MGT 437 Week 4
Individual Assignment: Team Creation Paper
Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explain team development techniques. In your paper, include the following items:
Identify how project team members are selected.
Identify team-building strategies.
Identify potential areas of conflict within a diverse project team.
Identify techniques for reducing the probability of dysfunctional conflict.
Identify conflict resolution techniques used when conflict arises.
Format your paper according to APA standards.
Learning Team Assignment: Project Planning – Human Capital Paper
Resource: Week One Project
Use the same project you selected in Week One to prepare a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you demonstrate how you use communication to maintain effective team work at the following key points in a project:
Communication Management: Explain how the project manager communicates performance evaluation results to both the management and the customer.
Team selection: Identify the project organization structure selected and why it was selected. Explain how approval for this organization structure is obtained.
Project revisions: Projects must be revised to eliminate any resource conflicts over allocations. Generate a task responsibility matrix, and resource availability matrix to identify resource conflicts. Next, update your project plan with necessary revisions. Your paper must identify how the resource conflicts are identified, what method is used to eliminate these conflicts, and how these project revisions are communicated both internally to your team and externally to the organization as a whole.
Performance monitoring: Discuss how team members report activities. Explain how the team’s performance is reported to the project stakeholders.
In your paper, include the following:
Risk management items
Project status information
Cost and schedule variance analysis
Formulating cost, schedule, and performance alternatives
Forecasting budget and schedule completion
Methods of corrective action taken
Managing expectations
Format your paper according to APA standards.
Discussion Questions
What types of risks are inherent in a project? Where do they originate? Can they be mitigated? Can you provide an example of how?
What is the concept of earned value? What real life examples would illustrate the earned value concept? How does this approach to performance measurement differ from simply tracking cost or schedule? |
