Week 7 Course Project Assignments
Deliverable #1: Discuss the organizational structure and how this may have helped the project.
The Organizational structure for my project can be classified as a projectized-type organization. The team members in the project are picked from the outside world (like selecting from another team) and for all intensive purposes are hired for this project only and do not knowingly have duties outside this project. The project manager in this situation also has complete control over the team member as it relates to this project and they are only needed for this project.
The project was helped by this due to how things were streamlined and made directive. The project manager had control over all aspects of the project and the people working though them. Tasks that needed to be crashed could be with planning aspects available to the project manager as well. Deliverable #2: Discuss how you did on this project and any lessons learned for you. Self reflection – What did you learn? This was my first true class on project management and I found that there are so many aspects to a project that need to be accounted for. There were aspects to both the software and the actual project manager duties that I needed to get more in tune with and feel I was able to make some great strides but there is more to review. I will likely read the class book again and continue to repeat the lectures as I learn from repetition and actual working though things. I was able to relate a lot of what I learned to my current job and hopefully able to bring aspects like proper budgeting, crashing of tasks, and resource management to the team. It was a great first introduction to this level of project management and I’m looking forward to what is next. I am an analyst in my job, but finding I enjoy the project management process quite a