In Unit II,
you have learned about the organizational structures and cultures that projects must operate in. To prepare for this assignment, review Table 2.1 on page 23 of the textbook. MGT 6302, Project Management Strategy and Tactics 2
Your first task is to choose one of the three major organizational structures to associate with Lucky Me Animal Rescue. The structure you choose to associate with the rescue is up to you, but keep in mind that it will continue to be the environment for your project as you complete the additional assignments in this course.
Next, you will write a proposal you can deliver to the rescue’s leadership and stakeholders to help them understand how the adoption event will be managed within the identified organizational structure. The goal is to help them understand how their organizational structure will affect the project.
Your proposal should start with a very brief identification and description of Lucky Me Animal Rescue’s organizational structure. You must then address how that structure will affect project characteristics. Refer to Table 2.1 in the textbook for a list of specific characteristics. Finally, at a minimum, your proposal must also: examine the project manager’s role in the structure, explore how project communication will be conducted within the structure, and assess how project personnel and resources are affected by the organizational structure and how this can impact project progress and completion.
Your proposal must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. You must use at least two sources to support your proposal, one of which may be the textbook. All sources used must be peer-reviewed or academic in nature. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including the title page and in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. note that no abstract is needed.
Consider a personal project that you have worked on in the past. What steps did you take to begin the project? How did the initiation phase help to provide more information for the planning phase? Based on your project outcome, would you, in hindsight, do anything differently in the initiation phase? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Two of the most important elements of the project are the project team and the project stakeholders. The stakeholders will state their expectations and their critical success factors for what a successful project will look like during the project’s initiation phase. The project team will be responsible for completing the tasks in order to meet the critical success factors. In this course, you will use a sample project for the local nonprofit animal rescue. The animal rescue team has asked you to prepare for an outdoor adoption event. For this assignment, you will write a paper in which you consider the 5Ws and 1H of project management and apply them to your sample project. Consider the project team you will need to create for the Lucky Me Animal Rescue adoption event.
Begin your paper with a summary of the initiation phase, and elaborate on why team formation is critical in this phase.
Next, assess each of the team considerations listed below. Who should be on the team? Be sure to consider necessary skills and expertise.
What are your expectations of the team? In what ways can you prepare the team and promote unity and cohesion? When should the project team be formed? Where will your team operate (e.g., group, individual, virtual)? Why is each member of the team important? Finally, how will the team continue to manage the stakeholders’ expectations and keep them informed of the project’s progress? Answer the questions above and provide your rationale for each. Your submission must be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title and reference pages. You must use at least three sources that are either peer-reviewed or academic in nature to support your submission.
One of these may be the textbook. Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, including the title page and in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.
What are some of the tools, (i.e., work breakdown structure, project scheduling, Gantt charts, and critical path), that you have previously used in a project?
Which tool did you find to be most beneficial? Were there tools that you found to be cumbersome? Identify one tool that was not used that could have benefitted the project team.
Explain the rationale for your answers. Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
