Project Administration: Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Proposed Structure of Teaming Arrangement by Arrian Prime and CUTA

This article discusses the proposed structure of teaming arrangement by Arrian Prime and CUTA related to the project management programme. It identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed structure, key stakeholders, ambiguity in roles, responsibilities, ownership, conflicts between stakeholder management and decision making, and an alternative structure of project governance. It also proposes a governance structure for stakeholders, management, and requirements of achievement.

PROJECT ADMINISTRATION

Table of Contents
Question 1: Part A: Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Proposed Structure of Teaming
Arrangement by Arrian Prime and CUTA.......................................................................................3
1. Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Proposed Structure.................................................3
2. Identifying the Key Stakeholders.............................................................................................4
3. Identifying Ambiguity in Roles, Responsibilities, Ownership................................................5
4. Reasons behind Conflicts between Stakeholder Management and Decision Making.............6
5. Inextricable Link between Governance Structures and Decision Making...............................6
Question 1: Part B: Description of an Alternative Structure of Project Governance in
Implementation of that Successfully...............................................................................................6
1. Identifying and Alternative Structure and its Strengths and Weaknesses in New Alternative
Structure.......................................................................................................................................6
2. Identification of the Senior Responsible Owners and their Specific Appointment for Making
Decisions......................................................................................................................................8
3. Supports of Project Managers in Balancing Experience Level of the Senior Responsible
Owners.........................................................................................................................................9
4. Proposed Governance for Stakeholders, Management, and Requirements of Achievement...9
5. Proposed Monitor for Progressing the Project.........................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................11
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Question 1: Part A: Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Proposed Structure of
Teaming Arrangement by Arrian Prime and CUTA
1. Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Proposed Structure
Strengths Weaknesses
● CUTA has innovative and specific
understanding with respect to the
technology
● CUTA has the ability in developing
the relationship between technology
and manufacturing INMs
● CUTA has the capability in resolving
the issues related to technologies
integrated in project management
● Arrian Prime is able in managing a
project
● CUTA has possessed intellectual
assets in order to maintain the safety
● Arrian Prime has the ability of finding
the key resources for project
management team
● APMS Pty Ltd can implement this in
production of anklet or wristlet
devices in Sydney
● APMs Pty Ltd may provide additional
guidance and advice related to
● CUTA has lack of experiences related
to industrial operations
● Arrian Prime has lack of experiences
in handling higher level of complex
project
● Arrian Prime, commonly operates
similar kinds of projects
● Arrian Project Management Services
Pty Ltd may have the needs of
investing more financial resources
● Soldering machine and other
electronic accumulations are required
for the project management
programme
● APMS Pty Ltd may not use the
facilities of the proposed structure for
the other manufacturing sectors of the
respective company
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engineering to set up safe production
process
Table 1: Strengths and Weaknesses in Proposed Structure of Teaming Arrangement
(Source: Created by the Learner)
In the proposed structure of teaming arrangement by CUTA and Arrian Prime related to the
project management programme, it has been seen that ISO/ IEC/ IEEE 15288: 2015 has been
implemented. In order to manage to the production process and the relative team in Arrian
Project Management Services Pty Ltd. There have found that ISO/ IEC/ IEEE 15288: 2015 has
helped Arrian Group of Companies and CUTA in establishing a general framework related to the
process of decision making. In accordance with the comments of Morris et al. (2016, p. 271), it
has been known that ISO/ IEC/ IEEE 15288: 2015 has the ability in developing and maintaining
the relationship between the human resources and the lifecycle of the system softwares. As per
this reason, it helps the respective project management consultant in determining the set of
relative processes and the associated terminology with respect to engineering standpoints. Apart
from that, as per the statements of Rao and Tilt (2016, p. 328), it has been found that ISO/ IEC/
IEEE 15288: 2015 can further help the concerned organisation to use the chosen group of
processes through appropriate performance stages and management of the relative teams.
Furthermore, ISO/ IEC/ IEEE 15288: 2015 have the ability in delivering proper services with
respect to the systems made by human resources (Epstein, 2018, p. 67). With assistance of that
the respective organisation gain the ability in maintaining the supply systems related to project
management programme. The supplies are related to software, hardware, humans, data, as well
as processes regarding service users. In addition to that, ISO/ IEC/ IEEE 15288: 2015 is helpful
in instructing the operators, materials, deriving facilities, and the naturally appearing entities.
2. Identifying the Key Stakeholders
In accordance with the proposed teaming structure of CUTA and the Arrian Group of
Companies, it has been found that the Government, creditors, acquirers, directors, owners, and
suppliers are the key stakeholders. Some other stakeholders that can also be considered as the
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major stakeholders have been encountered as resource government, shareholders, unions,
community, and the agencies related to the employee government. Moreover, project managers,
function managers, operation managers, project team, investors, and the customers are some
significant stakeholders too. In that context, from the words of Guo et al. (2014, p. 817), it has
been observed that due to existence of numerous stakeholders there may have different interests
and several conflicts from different dimensions of the processes related to the services of project
management. Specific interests of the key stakeholders have been encountered as follows:
● Interest towards the system and possessing the system related to the characteristics that
have the ability in meeting demands and expectations of the stakeholders
● Supporting the project managers and the owners in accordance with progressing the
project as per the requirements (Too and Weaver, 2014, p. 1385)
● Improving the processes related to production of the company with the help of training to
the existing human resources and integrating higher level of technology
● Fulfilling individual as well as collective requirements
● Providing positive impacts on the achievement of the respective company
3. Identifying Ambiguity in Roles, Responsibilities, Ownership
Managing team, providing training as per the requirements to the human resources, and
managing the finance are the main roles of the Senior Responsible Owners (SRO) that are related
to the services of project management. Chih and Zwikael (2015, p. 353) have stated that the
SROs may face ambiguities related to their following responsibilities:
1. Designing and implementing a proper project plan
2. Planning, organising, and monitoring the project work
3. Managing the entire processes and the resources related to the project
4. Implementing and delegating required strategies related to project management services
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4. Reasons behind Conflicts between Stakeholder Management and Decision Making
As there has existing numerous stakeholders, it can be said that there may appear huge number
of conflicts between the stakeholders and the process of making decisions. This appears due the
inextricable link between the process of decision-making and various stakeholders related to the
services of project management.
The conflicts of the stakeholders may be related to the following aspects:
● Creditor may resists in investing huge financial resources in small business (DeFillippi
and Sydow, 2016,p. 8)
● Lack of experiences of CUTA in operations related to industrial functions
● Arrian Prime has been handling similar kind of project management programmes
5. Inextricable Link between Governance Structures and Decision Making
The governance structure with respect to the services of project management and the process of
making decision are linked with with each other in an inextricable manner. As per the statements
of Joslin, R. and Müller (2016, p. 615), it has been derive that the inextricable relation of the
aforementioned stakeholders and the decision-making process may leads to appear different
levels of conflict between their operations. Due to the existence of conflicts, it can be said that
the inextricable link between the project governance and the framework of decision-making.
Question 1: Part B: Description of an Alternative Structure of Project Governance in
Implementation of that Successfully
1. Identifying and Alternative Structure and its Strengths and Weaknesses in New
Alternative Structure
An alternative structure related to teaming arrangement for the Arrian Project Management
Services Pty Ltd can be ISO/ IEC/ IEEE 12207: 2017 (Morris et al. 2016, p. 275). This will
generate more opportunities to reach the achievement point of the respective organisation. In
accordance with the statements of Bertone et al. (2018, p. 1067), it has been known that ISO/
IEC/ IEEE 12207: 2017 is updated from the structure of ISO/ IEC/ IEEE 15288: 2015.
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Therefore, it can be said that this structure may have posed as opportunity for the respective
company.
Strengths Weaknesses
● Managing information effectively
● Designing and developing information
as per the needs
● Enhancing the process of production
and the management related to the
production (Zou et al. 2017, p. 94)
● Testing and verifying the accuracy as
well as reliability of the information
● Enhancing the implication of the
processes and the associated services
related to the project management
● Updating the system of coordination
with respect to the enhancement of the
services and the performance of the
resources (Lovan et al. 2017, p. 45)
● Implementation of the information in
order to develop the supporting system
and the tools
● It has inability in delivering computer-
based training (Farmaki et al. 2015, p
181)
● Maintenance of the documentation and
the describing them
● It cannot generate the collaborative
documentation in the services of
project management (Bennett and
Raab, 2017, p. 28)
● This structure is unable to incorporate
the interface of the users and the
information
● In implementing multimedia systems,
this structure is not helpful (Guo et al.
2014, p. 822)
Table 2: Strengths and Weaknesses in New Alternative Structure
(Source: Created by the Learner)
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2. Identification of the Senior Responsible Owners and their Specific Appointment for
Making Decisions
With respect to the services related to project management, it has been seen that the Government,
creditors, acquirers, directors, owners, and suppliers are the key stakeholders. Some other
stakeholders that can also be considered as the major stakeholders have been encountered as
resource government, shareholders, unions, community, and the agencies related to the employee
government. Moreover, project managers, function managers, operation managers, project team,
investors, and the customers are some significant stakeholders. As per the comments of
Moschovitis (2018, p. 56), it has been found that the interests of the stakeholders are different as
per their field of operations and these are related to the achievements of the organisation with
respect to the services provided through the project management. These interests can be
categorised as follows:
● Enhancing the processes related to production of the company with the help of training to
the existing human resources and integrating higher level of technology
● Improving the supply related to the systems as well as services of the project
management
● Fulfilling individual as well as collective requirements
● Providing positive impacts on the achievement of the respective company
Responsibilities of the SROs have been known as follows:
● Managing team and associated performance of the resources
● Updating the skill sets of the resources with the help of training and development
programmes
● Enhancing the sustainability in the success and the accuracy of the services provided to
the customers
● Preparing the plans of services in a cost-effective manner
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3. Supports of Project Managers in Balancing Experience Level of the Senior Responsible
Owners
Project managers can play the significant roles in accordance with maintaining the balance with
respect to the experience level of the Senior Responsible Owners. In that context, the responsible
project managers may have to maintain the following duties:
● Managing time for providing services
● Understanding the requirements of the skills and the education for he SROs
● Identifying the link between requirements of the job and skills of the SROs
● Leading, monitoring, and rectifying the services of the SROs as per the requirements of
the respective project management systems
● Analysing the performance and the financial resources as per the needs of the relative
project
4. Proposed Governance for Stakeholders, Management, and Requirements of
Achievement
Due to the existence of various stakeholders, it has been seen that in the services of a project
management there may appear different levels of requirements as per the perspectives of the
resources and the stakeholders. These can be developed as follows:
● Investing more in the small business in accordance with gearing up the growth of the
respective organisation as well as the relative project management
● Developing the skill sets of the resources as per the needs and updating them through
different levels of education and training programmes
● Appraising the performance of the resources in order to achieve sustainability with
respect to the services provided with the help of respective project management systems
5. Proposed Monitor for Progressing the Project
Key Performance Indicators related to the services of a project management are the measures of
effectiveness of the services derived from the project management. In accordance with the
comments provided by Bennett and Raab (2017, p. 98), it has been known that the Return on
Investments (ROI), level of profit margin, satisfaction level of the customers, and the market
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demand of the services are the major Key Performance Indicators. Increasing level of the Key
Performance Indicators of the services related to a project management of the respective
company are the indicators that measure the success level of the company and the relative project
management.
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