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Development of a Common Quality Management Plan for Global Teams

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................2PROJECT MANAGEMENT PHASES...................................................................................................2Project Conception and Initiation........................................................................................................3Project Planning....................................................................................................................................3Project Execution...................................................................................................................................3Monitoring and Controlling..................................................................................................................3Project Closing.......................................................................................................................................4PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN AND ITS STANDARDS FOR MANAGING GLOBAL TEAMS.....................................................................................................................................4Quality Management Approach...........................................................................................................5Quality Assurance.................................................................................................................................5Quality Control......................................................................................................................................6Quality Control Measurements............................................................................................................6Solutions to Global Teams’ Challenges Affecting Project Quality Management Plan.....................7Cultural awareness...............................................................................................................................7Generating of team laws and rules.......................................................................................................7Derivation of common management structure.....................................................................................8Training of team members...................................................................................................................8CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................10
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT CRITICAL REVIEWINTRODUCTIONProject management is the process of applying skills, knowledge, tools and techniques to be able to control, organize, plan and direct project activities to achieve project objectives. In doing all ofthese, project managers have to ensure that the project is successful. A project is a contractual activity or performance that is designed to produce a specific end product or service within a certain period of time, scope, resources and cost or budget (Edkins et al, 2013). However, this project product has to achieve the intended change, objective or goal that it was expected to achieve. Therefore, project management basically involves the initiation, planning and executing of all the activities and procedure involved in completing a project. Project management has always been one of the best tools that help in making sure that a project is successful. Project management is managed by project managers. They are people who organize and ensure that project procedures are executed and successful. They are the change agents of a project that use their skills to ensure that the project is complete and successful (Ika, 2009). These managers are in charge of a team of project members who are responsible for different roles and responsibilities. Also, these members are usually experts, professionals, skilled and experienced in some of the project fields. Therefore, project management is a very crucial aspect and part of completing a project successfully. In addition to that, it is an aspect that requires a wide range of skills (e.g. technical skills and team management skills) and an excellent business knowledge and awareness.PROJECT MANAGEMENT PHASESThis process is composed of five phases, which are:
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Project Conception and InitiationIn this phase, the business owners and stakeholders come up with a project idea and it is analyzed in details. They later get permission from the required authorities to officially start the project. To add to that, the business needs/requirements are analyzed, project needs and requirements, business’s financial status among other things. After analyzing the business and project’s needs, the decision-making team has to prove whether the project will be beneficial to the business or not (Howsawi et al, 2011). This means that the project objectives, aims, project manager identification and change expectations have to be set.Project PlanningThis includes the writing down of the project scope and all activities that are to be performed for the completion of the project. These activities include the actual project schedule, resource list, team members and their roles and responsibilities, project budget estimation, project’s time period among other things.Project ExecutionThis phase involves the carrying out of the project’s plan or rather implementation of the project plan, i.e. performing the activities that have been listed in the project plan. This means that everyperson/team member has to have all the details of their role and responsibility for them to carry out a certain duty.Monitoring and ControllingIn this phase, the project performance is compared with the actual project plan to ensure that everything is carried out and complete. In that case, the team members have to ensure that they maintain their schedules. The project managers must ensure that the project is still adhered to, reports presented to the people responsible, project scope is achieved, project quality is
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