Blue Spider Project

Running head: BLUE SPIDER PROJECT
BLUE SPIDER PROJECT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Answer to question number 5:
a) The term project stake holder in an organization is referred to as a group of
individuals who are involved in the overall outcome of a project (Eskerod &
Jepsen, 2016). Project stakeholders in a project have the ability of getting affected
by the way of decision that is made within the overall project management.
b) The stakeholders included in the case study of Blue Spider includes, the prime
contractor of the program of Army’s Spartan program, lord industries, parks,
corporation, subcontractors of the project and the customers from the Department
of Defense.
c) In project management, communication management is defined as a process of
handling the communication within an organization while channeling between
organizations to organization. The process of communication management
includes process of systematic planning, distribution, creation, distribution
monitoring and finally implementation.
d) The issues that are identified from the project include:
i) Error in financial planning
ii) Inadequate or improper communication with the Lord industries from the
initiation of the project which led to heavy budgeting of the project as well as a lot
of time for in initiating the required communication.
iii) Gary did not receive Gable’s support during his need.

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Answer to question number 6
a) The project manager is a person who in charge for leading a project for its
establishment till execution based on planning, managing resources and
identifying the scope of the project.
b) A project manager must hold a bachelor’s degree in management or any
correlated field associate with the business application. However, the professional
certification and extensive related experience (Higgins, 2018). Along with the
academic skills a project manager must possess the skills to communicate both in
terms of oral and written perspective, have the ability to motivate people and must
express the dedication and commitment towards the project.
c) The project manager, in the Blue Spider project lacks the experience to manage a
project. He spent excessive time in testing for analyzing the quality result of the
project materials rather than supervising the project. The decision made by him to
reduce the cost of the materials on the bill indicates the lack of managing skills
and plans over a project. In terms of demonstrating the project he lacks the
involvement over team effectiveness which shows that a person with good
technical knowledge might not be an efficient project manager.
Answer to question number 7
a) In context of project management, the term mistrust is defined as the way of not
trusting an individual in a formal way within an organization during the emerging
risk or doubt within a project.
b) The most common cause of mistrust in project management occurs due to some of
the existing barriers in terms of communication within an organization or having
inadequate experience in the field of managing the project efficiently.