Project Management:
The CIO of your organization walks into your office one Friday afternoon. As he closes the door behind him he says that “If you say anything to anyone concerning what I am about to tell you, you are fired.” He then explains that the team of programmers that you supervise will be “released to seek other options” and that all of your project’s programming tasks will be outsourced to a country in Eastern Europe. Your job is to coordinate with this new outsource provider so that all programming work can be scheduled and transferred over in less than 3 months. In addition, you are not to let on to any of the company’s programmers that they will soon be replaced. He instructs you to carry on as nothing has changed. In fact, the company will give them a bonus if they can complete their current work assignment in three months rather than the scheduled four months.
As the project manager of this team, you have gotten to know each of the programmers fairly well. One of the programmers has just signed a mortgage to purchase her first house. Another is a single mother with her oldest child just entering college, and another has confided in you that he has been experiencing some health problems lately.
All work must be cited.