Project Management: New music festival in Marysville

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Project Management: New music festival in Marysville
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Working on team conflicts and negotiations
Jed smith, Paul Jones and Georgina have recently completed their graduation degree
from Deakin University and among three of them Paul Jones was assigned to a music festival
arrangement project. Due to a recent natural bushfire the Marysville is devastated and
destroyed. The local music festival has been arranged and planned to be organize with local
sponsorships. A group of local business have all come together and they would like to
support and sponsor for the local festival. The MLBG is interested to offer some funding for
the successful delivery and arrangement of the local music concert. During the development
and planning of the program various team conflict and negotiation can be occurred those
required to be managed successfully. If the team members belong to different location then
the main reason for which problems occur are communication gap and cultural gaps.
In order to resolve the issue of team conflict and negotiation the project manager
requires setting a standard or benchmark. That shared norms and regulations needs to be
followed by all the project team members. Apart from this, the other thing that has to be
followed by the project team members is use of open communication. The open
communication provides the project team members a common platform to share individual’s
ideas and creativities. Even of any negotiation occurred then those can also be resolved with
the help of open communication approach. The other thing which helps to resolve the conflict
team work includes lack of skills and knowledge among the project team members.
Management style that has to be followed
Different types of management styles are there which requires to be followed by the
project manager and project team members. In order to plan and implement the music concert
show the management style needs to be followed is persuasive management style. This style

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shares characteristic associated to autocratic management. The assigned persuasive manager
should take the responsibility of appropriate decision making however they needs to share
much of the time with their working project team or employees. Before taking any
organizational decision proper discussion must be conducted among the project associates
and employees. Beside this the other management style that needs to be followed by the
project associates includes Laissez Fire management style. According to this style the
manager not only plays the role of a project manager but also take the responsibility of
becoming a mentor for the team members. In this approach the employees will be empowered
to take charges directly whereas; the managers play back roles. It helps the employees to
flourish new creativities.
Hierarchy for approaching the project
In order to prepare and deliver any project the project managers needs follow the
basic hierarchy. As soon as a project gets prepared it cannot be implemented or launched
before taking approval from the senior project manager. Using previous professional skills
and knowledge the project team members need to prepare the project scope statement and
outline first. Then the project ideas should be re examined and re evaluated by the project
developers, designer. As soon as the project outline is prepared it should be approved by the
project manager. As the project manager approves the final project draft it is handed over to
the project sponsors. The project sponsors and project manager both make sure that whether
the project will be accomplished within assigned deadline or not.
Matrix/synthesis required
In order to design and arrange this musical show the project manager needs to follow
some matrix and synthesis such as Risk Assessment matrix (RAM), RACI matrix, [project