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Project Management Case Study Report Executive Summary

   

Added on  2021-06-18

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY REPORT2Project Management Case Study ReportExecutive SummaryIn project management, all professionals are expected to carry out their duties and responsibilities according to PMI code of ethics and professional conduct. The code ensures the project managers commit to doing the right and honorable thing at all time (Kanabar, Hefley, Messikomer, & Thomas 2016). The code of ethics has a decision-making framework that guides the practitioners to make the right decision when they are faced with a different ethical dilemma in their day to day project management operation (Bredillet, Tywoniak & Dwivedula, 2015). This code ensures that practitioners operate as professionals with high personal expectations as well as expectations we have for others in the project management sector. The main purpose of PMI code of ethics and code of professional conduct is to ensure high professional standards in the project management sector.IntroductionThe case study given is about a project manager who was enquiring about the risk assessment plan of aproject but his superior wanted him not to look into the issue. The Altex Corporation had been given acontract by the USA military to work on the Advanced Tactical Missile Program (ATMP). The companyhad made a proposal that they knew they can only achieve 6o-70 percent of the specifications althoughin the proposal they assured to deliver 100%. This is against project management ethics and code ofprofessional conduct. The purpose of this research is to analyze and discuss the ethical and professionalissues from the case study. This report is going to use the PMI code of ethics and professional conduct tosee how the standards were violated in the given case study. This report is also going to giverecommendations of what should have been done according to the professional expectations in projectmanagement. Ethical IssuesThere are several ethical issues in that come out in this case study. The ethical issues coming up in this case study include honesty, responsibility, and fairness issue. In the case study, the company honesty is in question since they gave misleading information concerning the project proposal and they deliberately did this knowing the implications. The sponsor also tells the project manager not to disclosethe risk assessment documents to both the engineers and the clients against the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (Terouhid and Ries, 2016). The responsibility standards also forbid practitioners to use their position to influence the decisions of other people and the sponsor just does this to the projectmanager for personal gains (Bredillet & Dwivedula, 2015). The fairness issues come in where the company gives a misleading proposal to get the tender and this is being unfair to other bidders and the

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