Project Management: Blue Spider Project Executive Summary Report

This report presents an executive summary of a project management case study focusing on the Blue Spider (BS) project. It examines the importance of clearly defined project scope, particularly in relation to corporate strategy changes and stakeholder involvement. The report analyzes the decision to undertake the BS project, the critical role of stakeholders, and the qualifications of Gary Anderson as a project manager. Key aspects covered include risk management, effective communication, teamwork, and lessons learned. The study emphasizes the significance of early stakeholder engagement, time management, and ethical considerations in project execution, providing a detailed overview of the project's challenges and successes within the context of project management principles.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
From this study it has been examined that, the company had to changes their corporate
strategy according to the changes in the companies structure. In this case study it is negotiated at
$2.2 million at the firm fixed price. I have evaluated that, Stakeholder is important in every
projects. It has been examined that, the major risk is time management. Effective
communication breakdown structure coordinate the work performed in the organization. Project
organization can be further classified into: functional, matrix, divisional, administrative and
projectized. Teamwork is an effective approach which helps in bringing together various team
members and employees of the organization.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................5
1. The project scope defined clearly at early stage while entering in the performance..............5
2. The decision to start BS projects a strategically sound decision ...........................................6
3. Early involvement of stakeholders are critical in projects. ....................................................6
4) Was Gary qualified to be a project managers ........................................................................7
5) Discussing the BS projects Handel major risk in the projects. ..............................................8
6. Functional employees of the customer and contractor for communication. ..........................9
7. Critically reflect on teamwork..............................................................................................10
8. Lessons learnt from BS project.............................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Present reports is based on the project which is related to Blue spider. The whole story
rounds around the Gary Anderson and his promotion to project management to performance
management. Gary Anderson is the PH.D. holder in mechanical engineering and he is expertise
in his work which he is committed and assigned at the work place. Due to his hard and
dedication he gets the business opportunities and usually awarded with the new ideas which he
brings in his work which is to be completed within the stipulated time (Nicholas and Steyn,
2017). The reports also examined the part of contractor and also some agreement in their
contracting which is related to communication with the people either written and oral or motivate
people in the premises and also the agreement is related to commitment and dedication towards
the work but no time boundation.
Report includes the project scope which is used at early stage of the project and the
impacts of scope change on project performance. It also includes the strategically decision and
the opinion in BS projects. It also includes the various risk which is adapted by the Gary
Anderson at the time of attending the work and handling projects. Lastly the lesson which is
learnt while appearing in the BS projects.
MAIN BODY
1. The project scope defined clearly at early stage while entering in the performance.
The project scopes is not decided at the early stage, the company had to changes their
corporate strategy according to the changes in the companies structure. As before recession the
number of employees working in the company is 6500 but after recession it reduces to 2200
which results in lacks of planning proper strategy and techniques (Uhl and Gollenia, 2016).
Employees bring new and innovative ideas in their work places which results in brining success
in the projects but to lack of retention of employees company had to changed their corporate
strategy to deal in project. To enter into the projects, costs and time are the important aspects and
it's the duty of the project managers to manage both. And for person working as post of assistant
project managers they had to manage their technical performance. The main project scope is time
and cost which is an important aspect of company as well. The scope which is reflecting the test
matrix which is to be accurate (Kerzner, 2019).
This is prepared at the early stage as company had to submit in their report or if they
signed any contract than they have to mentioned in that agreement that there project is to be

completed in such time period and the cost incurred is this. In this case study the contract is
completed for ten months of efforts and it is negotiated at $2.2 million at the firm fixed price
(Meredith, Mantel Jr and Shafer, 2017). But the impact of time and cost is that they had to work
accordingly and if the results are not accurate or according to their set metric than their the other
company had rights to cancel the project and they had to suffer the loss which they incurred at
the time of managing the projects.
2. The decision to start BS projects a strategically sound decision
To start BS projects is not at all the sound decision of the company as they can have to go
beyond their ethical norms to complete the projects. The results which they are getting are not
accurate such as the temperature which is to be ranged between -65°F to 145°F but they getting
the results of 130°F. They had to use various technical helps to get that results which is
demanded in the projects but they use unethical way to present their projects and by their
proposal which they reflect, they get the projects of Blue Spider (Lock, 2018). They always use
such tag line which respects that the trust doesn't always win the proposal and they didn't get the
proposal by reflecting the fair image. To sympathise the procedure they use the fraud values in
their proposal and then present to the companies by this strategy they get the award of
completing the proposal in better way. This added in their list of completing such projects and
also Gray Anderson gets promotion as a programme managers which align with various duties
and responsibility they have to coordinate their work and time with other department (Maylor,
Blackmon and Huemann, 2016).
3. Early involvement of stakeholders are critical in projects.
Projects are run by effective involvement of every team and if the company is taking any
projects that it requires the proper and authentic work of every department so that they can
minutely examine the factors and performance of the company and the project which are handed
to them. In this case, the stakeholder involvement are important as investors invest their money
in the project and they are liable to check the working of the project (Kerzner and Kerzner,
2017). If the project is working according to their expectation or they are achieving the targets
within the stipulated time and efforts. Stakeholder is important in every projects as they invested
their huge amount in giving contract to their project to other company. Various teams are
imposed to inspect such project and they are to be awarded for their best performance and quality
work. In case of Park cooperation, Gary Anderson is working as project managers bus they have

to report and manage the work of their department and the employees working under that
projects. They have to communicate properly with their team mates so that they can discuss
various factors and issue which are important and helpful in achieving goals and targets
(Sánchez, 2015). Usually the involvement of stakeholder are not so eagerly but if the stakeholder
demand the working of the project, that it is the duty of the companies to provide the full details
of the project to their stakeholder and also provide the rights to communicate through certainly
with such special rights.
Mainly the customers and the technical managers are the special stakeholder in this case
study. The powers of customers are the base of the company and through their interference in the
project regarding the company success they implement new strategies and ideas to promote the
company structure (Lientz and Rea, 2016). Customer invest their funds in the project for earning
more profits, this helps companies to enhance their integrity in the market and they can balance
their productivity and earning through such funds. Customers provides profits to the company
and also maintaining some trust that there investment not results in loss to them. That's the
reason they demand the company is to reflect the working strategy and techniques in their
projects. So that they can fix up their mind that their money are not resulting in loss (Larson and
Gray, 2017).
The another stakeholder are resulting in technical managers which is also important for
checking the availability in the projects and if any issue arise than they can immediately rectify
such problems. There interest in such projects is that usually company implement them in the
projects so that they can check the availability of the data and there security in such projects
which resulting in bringing more accuracy in the projects (Rosemann and vom Brocke, 2015). In
this case study, technical managers are demanded to check the working of the other technical
engineers in case that where they bring data and resource to complete the projects and is such
information are accurate or not.
4) Was Gary qualified to be a project managers
Gary Anderson is qualified to be the project managers as the condition which are required
to be followed while attaining the project managers all such qualification are carried by Gary. He
is ready to solve all the problems which are attaining at the time of completing the project and
the problems are in more traumatic way and they had to conduct the pure research to complete

such projects by doing the deep research in their labs (Nohria, 2017). Gary manage all the
department such as production, technical and functional to make their projects successful and
also spend more of their time in getting the proper results. The promotion is judged by the nature
and behaviour of the employees and it clearly reflects by their attitude that he is not comfortable
in committing any such fraud activities which results in reflecting their false behaviour.
The Henry Gable offer the Gary Anderson the post of project managers which he really
feels that he is the most appropriate person which can commit such project is more accurate
manners. As they feel that Gary had performed an outstanding performance in R&D phases and
also considerer to be the most qualifies person in the plant which head up all the duties to be
performed in the accurate manners (Kerzner, 2018). Thus, Gary carry all the liabilities which a
project managers had to carry such as communication with the team members and then
approving it either through oral or written work, motivating their employees so that they can give
more proper results, dedication and commitment towards work are more. This helps them to get
their promotion in their jobs and also their time management and other skills to solve the matters
and disputers if any raised in the work should be solve in better manner.
Gary strongly Handel all such matter and also manage all such functional activities in
more accurate way. They can settle the matters if any fraud in their work premises and also avoid
to present the false results. This enhance queries of their results and also stakeholders can
demand the plan and procedure for implementing in achieving such project (Stark, 2015). Thus,
Gary always take the positive action to complete such work and are more dedicated towards their
targets which is to be completed.
5) Discussing the BS projects Handel major risk in the projects.
During the BS projects the major risk arises at the time of attending the meeting in which
various queries are raised regarding their work completion or from where they bring the results.
The risk is regarding representing not accurate results and not provide the agenda about the
discussion in the meeting. This reflecting the image of the company regarding the procedure
which they are filing to commit such plans (Fewings and Henjewele, 2019). They have to discuss
the proper topics and matters which they are raised in their meeting to avoid confusion and also
the risk arises that they didn't discuss the proper planning before. The main risk arises by the
company regarding the project is that they complain that in the matters which are the agenda to

be discussed are not known by the other people and they are sitting blank without any
information.
They previewed that they had to get the copies of the agenda before 3 days of the meeting
so that they can prepare the matters and discussion in the meeting and raise any queries regarding
that topic which are the agenda (Chang, 2016). To avoid major risk they use various method to
communicate with the people and also Gary had good command on technology which reflect that
they camn avid this risk by innovation new ideas and technologies which he can update the
minutes on day to day bases and can attract the customers and other technical managers through
their services which they are offering or conducting in their projects.
6. Functional employees of the customer and contractor for communication.
The communication breakdown of the structure must focus on effective communication
breakdown structure top enhance and coordinate the work performed in the organization
(Harrison and Lock, 2017). The project manager of the company must focus unbuilding an
effective hierarchical structure to achieve the desired goals and objectives in an effective and
efficient manner. An effective functional manger focuses on motivating an employee to achieve
the set target which leads to long term sustainable growth and development of the BS project
(Hornstein, 2015). Integration of advanced digital, communication and informational technology
must be integrated like email, social media platforms, chatbots, artificial intelligence,
information communication technology, etc. to improve the communication and transmit of
information from one person to another. Communication using both verbal and non- verbal
method i.e. written and oral which leads to long term sustainable growth and effective
communication without actually going to the project office.
Project organization is an effective structure which helps in facilitating and coordinating
the activities of project on a timely and accurate manner. Project organization helps in
maintaining an effective positive environment which helps in minimizing the risk, overlaps,
conflicts and disruptions. An effective interaction between the organization helps in better
communication and transmission of data ion an effective and efficient manner without any delay.
An effective project organization structure helps in better decision making by considering
viewpoints and ideas of employees and customers in an effective and efficient manner which
leads to long term sustainability growth and success of the BS project (Walker and Lloyd-
Walker, 2016).

Project organization can be further classified into: functional, matrix, divisional,
administrative and projectized. Functional organizational structure helps in effectively managing
the hierarchical structure of the company by assigning task and responsibilities to each
department in an efficient manner. Projectized organizational structure helps in managing the
independent project team (Penn and Pennix, 2017). The projectized organization helps in in
structuring activities of the project. Project organization structure helps employees to be
accountable to one boss which leads to higher sustainable growth.
7. Critically reflect on teamwork.
Teamwork is an effective approach which helps in bringing together various team
members and employees of the organization. An effective communication skills helps in building
various interpersonal and communication skills to achieve desired goals and objectives in an
effective and efficient manner (Martens and Carvalho, 2017). Working in a coordinated and
collaboratively manner helps in achieving the set BS project on a timely manner. The project
management of the organization focuses on building positive workforce environment and giving
them proper training and building skills to accomplish the task and achieve desired project in a
systematic order.
The teamwork of the BS project is good. The team members work in a coordinated and
synchronized manner by transmitting information using various communication channels
through different hierarchical structure (Carroll, 2016). They focus on accomplishing task on
time without any chaos and overlapping of the work. The team members of the the BS project
has an effective communication and interpersonal skills which helps in making effective
decision. The team members of the the BS project also has effective technical skills to carry out
the project in an organized and systematic manner, which in turn leads to long term growth and
sustainability (Bucero and Englund, 2015). They have proper meeting and set desired plans to
actively contribute in the growth of the organization. An effective commitment towards company
helps in future success for the employees as well as the company. Proper training and
development helps in higher operational efficiency, performance and standards (Pollack and
Adler, 2015). Development of various training and education to the employees helps in future
growth of the organization. Constructive feedback and encouraging each other to develop ideas
for future growth and enhancement.

8. Lessons learnt from BS project.
From the above conducted study, it has been evaluated that, the main project scope is
time and cost which is an important aspect of company as well. The scope which is reflecting the
test matrix which is to be accurate. This study also helps in effectively analysing the the
stakeholder involvement. It has been summarized that, Stakeholder are important in every
projects which mainly comprises of customers, employees, managers, etc. They are interested in
this project as they will get higher returns and profits in an effective manner. I have analysed the
fact that, promotion of an individual is based on its capabilities, skills and knowledge which
enhance their overall performance in the BS project. The manager of the organization mainly
performs functional structure to avoid confusion. I have also learnt that, the major risk in the
project mainly comprises of work deadline, resources, technicality, etc. I have established the
fact that, communication is an effective process in the organization which helps in effectively
transmitting the information into various departmental structure. Project organization is further
classified into: functional, matrix, divisional, administrative and projectized. It helps in helps in
maintaining an effective positive environment which helps in minimizing the risk, overlaps,
conflicts and disruptions. I have also learnt and examined that, Teamwork is an effective
approach which helps in bringing together various team members and employees of the
organization who focus on accomplishing task on time without any chaos and overlapping of the
work. The team member of the BS project has effective communication skills, technical skills
and interpersonal skills to achieve desired goals and objectives.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it can be concluded that in this case study the whole story round up
between the Gary Anderson and Henry Gable which handles or are responsible to take care of
the Blue Spider project which is specially designed for the army purpose. To engages in some
projects various formulates are requires and if the project is related to army than technologies are
to be update, so that no leakage of information are to be occupied. Thus, honesty and trust are the
major aspect in the project which Gary carriers while committing his work. He is not addicted
with his job profile as project managers but rather he chooses to be ethical be his behaviours and
activity which he commits. In such cases it results in losing his post and continue to be working
as the same post that is of engineer.

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