Assignment:
1) Look around your organization. What are teams? Consider what are the similarities/differences between ongoing work teams and project teams? How does a team move from a group to a project team? Answer in your own words; do not simply post a quote. However, support your assertions with a short quote from the class readings or other outside source.
2)There are four types of team governance listed in the text. Pick one and discuss its pros and cons. Is it one of the types you would consider for a project in your organization? Have you seen it be successful? Answer in your own words; do not simply post a quote. However, support your assertions with a short quote from the class readings or other outside source.
3) Stakeholders are an important component of successful projects and they will be unique to the project at hand. Consider some project you have seen or been involved in. Define the concept of stakeholder and list some of the internal and external stakeholders you have seen. Why are they important? Answer in your own words; do not simply post a quote. However, support your assertions with a short quote from the class readings or other outside source.
4) Here's an excerpt from an article I read that concerns stakeholders. Projects can run aground for any number of reasons. Even where the culture is well understood by those in charge of a project, problems can arise. By the way stakeholders can come from out of nowhere: "For the new India and its booming economy, the idea seemed eminently sensible: dredge a shipping channel between India and the nearby island of Sri Lanka, cutting voyages between the subcontinent's coasts by up to 30 hours. What could religion possibly have to do with it? Everything, it turns out. The project has set off a blistering debate about who created the shoals and sand to be dredged: Mother Nature or the Hindu god Rama....The issue highlights the fine line Indian government's walk in a country that is 81 percent Hindu but also has millions of Muslims and many smaller religions. Governments are apt to use religion to gain votes, while studiously avoiding offending any particular faith, especially Hinduism." (Naqvi, 2007)
So what could they have done to avoid this problem with stakeholders? Answer in your own words, do not simply post a quote. However, support your assertions with a short quote from the class readings or other outside source.
5)Pick an external or internal role requirement from the text. Flesh it out a bit more and explain how benefits a project. Have you seen this in projects you have been on? Answer in your own words; do not simply post a quote. However, support your assertions with a short quote from the class readings or other outside source.
6) Many projects require outside vendors in order to execute the project. That might require a request for proposal (RFP). What steps need to be taken in writing and posting RFPs, and evaluating the resulting bids? Choose one of the contracting methods you might list in an RFP and discuss its pros and cons. Answer in your own words, do not simply post a quote. However, support your assertions with a short quote from the class readings or other outside source.
7) What is meant by social capital?
a. What role do strong ties and weak links play in social capital?
8 )Six factors were identified as fundamentals of team structure that play key roles in the building, development, and leading of teams.
a. Identify and discuss the effects of each factor.
b. With regard to ideology, discuss the effects of team norms, roles, and goals and some of the problems encountered with each of them. With each, present how a project leader might address those problems.