Question 1: Explain how you would execute your roles as project manager of this project?

The chapter identifies a number of roles that a PM can play:

o Facilitator … as opposed to a supervisor. o Systems approach … as opposed to micromanager. o Communicator, and o Convener and chair of meetings.

Given the expertise of the prospective team members (ten Green Belts and two Black Belts), your role as project manager should be one of facilitation rather than supervision. You should aim to employ a system’s approach rather than falling into the trap of micromanagement. Further, you must provide the critical role as a communicator between both (a) the team members and (b) between the team and senior management. Finally, you need to act as the convener and chair of meetings (when essential to the progress of the project).

Question 2: As the project manager, how would you handle trade-offs?

As project manager, you are the key figure in making trade-offs between project cost, schedule, and performance. How you handle these trade-offs will depend on many factors having to with the project, the client, and the parent organization.

Of the three project goals, performance (specification and client satisfaction) is usually the most important so you are likely to emphasize these factors. However, in many projects, the schedule is critically important to the client and thus trade-offs (in terms of project costs and performance) may have to be made. In those situations where funding is strictly constrained, the client may place primary emphasis on the costs and thus trade-offs will have to be made in terms of both the schedule and performance.

Question 3: How would you recommend this project be organized? Functional project? Pure project? Matrix? Why?

Given that the proposed team members represent three different departments (radiology,