Project Management

This document discusses the expertise required from sponsors, stakeholders, and core team members to create a milestone schedule with acceptance criteria in project management. It also explores the importance of a team charter and the types of decisions that need to be made in a development project.

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Question 1: If you were the project manager, what expertise would you like from sponsor,
stakeholders, or core team members to create a milestone schedule with acceptance criteria?
The project manager plays a significant role and a high stake in advancing key
responsibilities. Therefore, if I were a project manager what I would anticipate from the
sponsors is the provision of the initial work statement or the objectives that define the goals
and tasks of the organization. I would also expect the sponsor to have selected their
interesting proposal from different proposals which would help to realize their requirements.
Therefore, sponsors are supposed to have enough knowledge related to the process of pre-
chartering. It is the responsibility of the sponsor to be in possession and share their vision
about the project. Consequently, the sponsor of the project are supposed to act in favour of:
the project and make attempts to deliver what is expected; should encourage the project team
and support all members of the project and they should act in favour of other stakeholders to
ensure that they can achieve the initial sets goals and objectives of the project.
The success of the project calls for the corporation of all project teams that is
sponsors, stakeholders and other team members who should work in unison in chartering the
project, providing help to the project manager and reviewing the project’s progress
throughout the entire project life cycle and making critical decisions as well as supporting
members of the project (Kerzner, & Kerzner, 2017). Therefore, as the project manager, the
first thing to do is to brainstorm all the projects requirements such as planning, project
deliverables, project risks, risk management, scheduling and budgeting with sponsors,
stakeholders and project team members. I do not expect the stakeholder to have conflict
interest to allow for effective communication throughout the project lifecycle. Lastly but not
least, I will expect that the project team should be conversant with the project objectives and
their specific roles for the successful accomplishment of the project.

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References
Kerzner, H., & Kerzner, H. R. (2017). Project management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Question 2: What would you want to see in a team charter (i.e.,/ rules of engagement) for this
development project? Is this different (Agile environment) that other (Traditional- Suburban
Homes) environment? If so, how is it different?
A team charter acts as a guide which aids the project members to comprehend the
objectives of the project, goals, expectations, norms and each member’s responsibility. The
charter should outline a structure regarding how the team should operate. For example, it
describes the project team members, their duties toward the project, to one another and the
team. Indeed, a charter outlines how the team should run by guiding it through conflict,
decision-making and at the time when things have gone astray. Some of the things to consider
in developing a team charter include:
Cesa de Paz is a determined project which is supposed to project its requirements
transparently by describing its cause through different communication portals.
It should explain how the children and women in the Latin region are supposed to benefit
from the project and how it is likely to impact their lives.
The team shouldplainly represent the purpose of the organization; how children and women
are undergoing domestic violence back in Latin and what arrangements should be put in place
to ensure that their small consideration is brought to light.
Make use of all communication portals to solicit for money through assigning of volunteer
groups the responsibility to raise finances in making arrangements to construct buildings.

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A team charter is distinct from the traditional suborn homes because this is not a profit
making organization. Therefore, there is no budget which can be set aside for constructing
houses and resource allocation in addition to team members (Sverdrup, & Schei, 2015). It is
more of a contemporary agile approach whereby every sprint organization can conduct a
meeting with various volunteer groups based on the raised money and realized progress to
move forward.
References
Sverdrup, T. E., & Schei, V. (2015). “Cut Me Some Slack” The Psychological Contracts as a
Foundation for Understanding Team Charters. The Journal of Applied Behavioral
Science, 51(4), 451-478.
Question 3: List types of decisions that would need to be made and the appropriate person,
group, or method for each, for example, individual team member, the collective team, scrum
master, and/or product owner.
The process of decision making entails the following:
 The definition of the problem that is likely to take place
 Identification of limiting aspects
 Looking for possible alternatives
 Picking the best options
 Executing the right decision
 Developing an evaluation and control system.
When it comes to defining the problem, the project manager is supposed to, first of all,
identify the actual problem and provide a concise definition of the problem and the place

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that it affects. It is expected that the project manager should have a clear understanding of
the required resources, time that will be taken, human resources and necessary equipment
needed, supplies, risk management and identify possible limiting factors.
Scrum master has to make appropriate considerations by exploring all possible
alternatives to the problem prior to making any decision. Nonetheless, to solve the
problem of successful implementation demands for a thorough investigation of the
requirements, and the way it should be executed. Through recurrent scrum-meetings with
different volunteer groups, scrum master help to bind up the collected information
together with the goals which should be reached and then implement the solution
accordingly. It is essential to pay attention to the needs to be accomplished and how it
should be performed by keeping the discussion to the specific requirements to avoid the
tendency of the groups to stray and focusing on the work to be accomplished (Morden,
2016). Members are supposed to be encouraged by the scrum master to act creatively in
implementing things to improve on the progress of the work. The scrum master should
assess every alternative based on feasibility, effectiveness and the outcome. Once the
scrum master has completed analyzing the alternatives, the team should decide on the
most suitable approach to use by considering an alternative with the most advantages and
least disadvantages.
References
Morden, T. (2016). Principles of strategic management. Routledge.

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