The Blue Spider Project
7.1.1 Group Assignment 1 Due date: 20 /05/2012
Complete the assignment below after reading attentively through the case study The Blue Spider Project (which appears after the assignment questions):
After the final testing and the programme report were completed, Henry Gable decided to look back with introspection and identified a number of challenges along the “Blue Spider Project” life-cycle which were not clear but in need of solutions (for example: project manager qualification; authority of a project manager; functional employees of the customer and contractor communication set-up; project management system). He realised that Parks Corporation (PC) was in need of professional help if it wanted to face future projects like “Blue Spider” and even bigger ones with certainty and balanced approach towards success. He managed to convince the vice-president, Ms Esther Mokonyane, to push the idea of approaching Luthando, Prinsloo & Gopal (Pty) Ltd, an executive project management company, and request professional help using PC’s current experience in the ongoing “Blue Spider Project” to re-organise for the future and turn PC into a modern, fully fledged project-oriented organisation (POO).
As a senior partner of Luthando, Prinsloo & Gopal (Pty) Ltd, you have been formally approached by PC to work closely with Henry Gable and present the following to PC senior executives within 40 working days:
(i) How “Project Blue Spider” could have been approached at strategic level (40%)
(ii) What PC should do to become a modern POO (60%)
Please read the case study “The Blue Spider Project” below very carefully and make sure that the two assignments (above) are presented with sufficient substantiation on issues of “Why?” and “How?” in order to help PC senior management to make an informed decision on the way forward and positioning PC as fully fledged POO.
Credit will be given for clear demonstration of good understanding of executive
Complete the assignment below after reading attentively through the case study The Blue Spider Project (which appears after the assignment questions):
After the final testing and the programme report were completed, Henry Gable decided to look back with introspection and identified a number of challenges along the “Blue Spider Project” life-cycle which were not clear but in need of solutions (for example: project manager qualification; authority of a project manager; functional employees of the customer and contractor communication set-up; project management system). He realised that Parks Corporation (PC) was in need of professional help if it wanted to face future projects like “Blue Spider” and even bigger ones with certainty and balanced approach towards success. He managed to convince the vice-president, Ms Esther Mokonyane, to push the idea of approaching Luthando, Prinsloo & Gopal (Pty) Ltd, an executive project management company, and request professional help using PC’s current experience in the ongoing “Blue Spider Project” to re-organise for the future and turn PC into a modern, fully fledged project-oriented organisation (POO).
As a senior partner of Luthando, Prinsloo & Gopal (Pty) Ltd, you have been formally approached by PC to work closely with Henry Gable and present the following to PC senior executives within 40 working days:
(i) How “Project Blue Spider” could have been approached at strategic level (40%)
(ii) What PC should do to become a modern POO (60%)
Please read the case study “The Blue Spider Project” below very carefully and make sure that the two assignments (above) are presented with sufficient substantiation on issues of “Why?” and “How?” in order to help PC senior management to make an informed decision on the way forward and positioning PC as fully fledged POO.
Credit will be given for clear demonstration of good understanding of executive