Healthcare -- Project Management Draw

Healthcare -- Project Management

Draw on your own business experience and reading (including here) and discuss how various organizational structures, cultures, and management impact the PM process.

The optimal organizational structure for efficient and productive project management in this scenario would be centralized rather than decentralized. That is largely because the latter would complicate efforts to achieve meaningful operational supervision and control over all of the individual organizational components involved in the project. Likewise, an organizational culture that emphasized a shared mutual commitment toward achieving organizational objectives and that promoted intra-unit cooperation and support would be the ideal organizational culture for the success of this project. Finally, strong operational management at the organizational component and business unit level would be necessary, preferably in conjunction with a management hierarchy that provided for regular communication and coordination between and among all of the individual organizational components.

QUESTION 2: Begin working on the project management plan by creating the outline of the document. Identify each of the sections and write a paragraph describing the contents of each section. Describe the level of formality for review and approvals of the project plan.

Objective

This section of the plan will describe the ultimate purpose of the project. It will also outline the strategic plan for specific responsibilities of the various teams involved, their expected manner of coordination and communication, as well as the entire rough schedule of the major intermediate goals along the overall timeline for project completion. While this section will not include any specific scheduling, it will lay out the manner and degree to which individual departments must coordinate specific goals for project element completion to optimize the progress of the multi-department project team collaboration.

Intra-department Coordination and Assignment of Responsibility

This section of the plan will describe the expected respective operational responsibilities of each organizational component as well as the tasks and objectives assigned to each business unit. I will also outline the communications map along which the representative heads of individual business units and organizational components will coordinate their respective efforts and progress with respect to the overall project schedule.

Scheduling

This section of the plan will lay out the schedule set out for expected completion of the individual milestones necessary for the timely completion of the overall project. It will provide expected completion dates for each major stage delegated to its respective organizational component or business unit or team. In principle, this is intended to ensure that tasks performed by different teams are completed in time for the incorporation of different tasks, especially where the individual tasks assigned to respective teams must be completed in order to test the other tasks assigned to different teams at that stage of the project. If it is necessary to revise any aspect of the timeline outlined in advance, periodic review along specific timeline stages will allow project managers to mitigate the long-term delays associated with unexpected delays of any individual elements.

Ideally, this section will also provide alternate routes leading to the most efficacious possible coordinated multi-department progress in the event that individual departments fail to achieve specific completion goals. In essence, it provides the routes to the least possible delay of the overall project capable of being achieved in relation to anticipated scheduling delays of individual departmental tasks.