Project Management
Essays

This paper discusses the additional roles or core competencies of an advanced nurse practitioner. These roles or competencies are as a researcher, collaborator, clinician, consumer advocate, manager of systems, consultant, change agent and leader-skills negotiator. It also discusses how she can improve healthcare delivery and outcomes and how she will implement these additiional roles in her professional development.

The "Dummies Series" book, Project Management for Dummies, by Stanley E. Portny (Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2001), is, in my opinion, a relatively easy-to-read (although also somewhat structurally fragmented in places),…

The company General Dynamics was founded 50 years back in order to generate value meant for shareholders through the use of industrial dynamics by harnessing technology which captures motion, energy, potential and…

Kenneth K. Humphreys' book, What Every Engineer should Know about Ethics, is a fairly useful and comprehensive guide to the ethics and ethical codes involved in modern engineering. He begins his book with a chapter…

Project management: Can project quality management help with project scope management, project time management, and project cost management? If it can, how does it help? If it cannot, why not?

Of the myriad of articles that could be potentially assigned to students, my selections would center on the most practical and pragmatic aspects of project management. I'd also orient the articles more to case studies and away from the highly theoretically based, equation-centric studies of product management constraint theory and modeling. I'd want to infuse a sense of enthusiasm and insight into how project management is transforming enterprise globally and making them more competitive in the process. With criterion in mind the first article would be a study of how project management was able to completely turn around a major telecommunications network project and get it back on track and achieved in the city of Los Angeles (Imam, Dhillon, 1989). This case study brings the very pragmatic aspects of how project management theories can transform the most complex and cost-constrained projects, taking what would surely be a failed initiative and making it successful. The successful completion of the telecommunications network throughout Los Angeles in this first article shows what's possible with project management techniques and strategies applied to very complex, potentially challenging situations. In keeping with this case-based approach to showing the value of project management, the second article centers on how European Aerospace plc was able to also transform its core operations and stay competitive in turbulent markets as a result of successful project management planning, execution and continual monitoring (Quayle, 1999). What makes this second article such an excellent study for anyone looking to teach project management is the coverage of concepts, frameworks and advanced scheduling techniques while also concentrating on customer-centered growth of the business (Quayle, 1999). Staying customer-centric is another factor or variable the company had to contend with while keeping a very complex project continually moving forward. The ability to intermediate across so many factors and still emerge successful and on schedule differentiates this article from many others that are otherwise comparable from a case study standpoint (Quayle, 1999). The third article or study I would recommend is one that deals with the toughest aspect of project management, which is change management. The article, Selling Project Management to Senior Executives: The Case for Avoiding Crisis Sales (Thomas, Delisle, Jugdev, Buckle, 2002), shows just how difficult it is to make change permanent in any complex project management scenario. This article provides useful insights into how best to overcome resistance to change and keep a project moving forward. The ability of a project manager to gain consensus and keep a project moving forward is also shown, which is a critical skill for anyone teaching others how to manage projects as well. Finally, this study touches on the most critical skills that any practitioner or professor needs to have a mastery of, both in theory and practice, and that is how to get projects done with people who may not always buy into the direction and concepts, schedules and costs, of the project. Change management is very critical in project management and must be covered in this set of three articles.

This paper required reading over ten new venture executive summaries in order to determine which two of the ten would be the best to invest in. Each executive summary gave a brief introduction to the new business startup, the financial cost for the investors, the marketing plan, the financial summary over a five year period as well as other information. The object was to choose the best new venture to invest in as well as a runner up.

The project has developed the LAN and WAN technology for Oak Creek Healthcare. To facilitate the timely completion of the project, the project owner assigned the project to Hostlinks Telecommunication which is IT service provider specialized in the IT project. The early project completion assists Oak Creek Corporation to enjoy several benefits. First, the project has assisted Oak Creek Healthcare to enjoy the benefits of latest and best technology which facilitates the company to achieve market competitive advantages. Moreover, the project has assisted Oak Creek to enjoy easy flow of communication between the two sites. The new technology has also made the company to deliver safe and quality healthcare because the company has been able to eliminate medical and drug errors within the clinical settings.

The final success of a project is pegged to a multitude of elements, including the qualifications and abilities of the team members, the resource capabilities and restrictions of the team developing the project, the…

What are the long-range effects of the generation gap in the workplace and how will organizational leaders deal with a possible solution?