Cis5107 Week 2 Assignment 1
Week 2 Assignment 1: IT Project Management Assessment
CIS5107– IT Project Management
Instructor: Dr. Darcel Ford
April 22, 2014
Abstract The Nemours Children Hospital project was a finalist in the 2013 PMI Project of the Year awards. The Project management team was Stanley Beaman and Sears and it had a budget of $260 million dollars. The project management team kept their ethical guideline to build a hospital for children and their parents and remained within their stated budget. They kept in mind the fact that end it was a children’s hospital and kept that fact (beside the budget) uppermost in their mind. The result was a well thought out, beautiful, and functional hospital that has the health of children, both …show more content…
Two years later, when the team was ready to order the 9,000 plus items from the list, the changing nature of medical technology meant some of the desired pieces no longer fit into the spaces they were designed for. The management team held an equipment summit, and Project leaders called together stakeholders from across the team, from the construction manager to purchasing experts, each and every stakeholder weighed in. The materials management department knew what items they could get from vendors below list price and the construction team showed them where we could modify interior walls and where we could not. From that summit, the project team created a tightly controlled change-control process to vet requested equipment changes. The project team’s change management practices not only stopped equipment needs from breaking the budget ($260 million) but also prevented stakeholder feedback from creating scope creep. Ms. Susan Voltz, PMP, senior director, strategy and project management, from Nemours said “We were designing a hospital, creating all the operational processes, starting to procure equipment, procure and install IT systems, go through regulatory processes, designing space and creating space—all without the input of the key physicians and clinicians who would actually be using the space.” (La Plant, L.,
CIS5107– IT Project Management
Instructor: Dr. Darcel Ford
April 22, 2014
Abstract The Nemours Children Hospital project was a finalist in the 2013 PMI Project of the Year awards. The Project management team was Stanley Beaman and Sears and it had a budget of $260 million dollars. The project management team kept their ethical guideline to build a hospital for children and their parents and remained within their stated budget. They kept in mind the fact that end it was a children’s hospital and kept that fact (beside the budget) uppermost in their mind. The result was a well thought out, beautiful, and functional hospital that has the health of children, both …show more content…
Two years later, when the team was ready to order the 9,000 plus items from the list, the changing nature of medical technology meant some of the desired pieces no longer fit into the spaces they were designed for. The management team held an equipment summit, and Project leaders called together stakeholders from across the team, from the construction manager to purchasing experts, each and every stakeholder weighed in. The materials management department knew what items they could get from vendors below list price and the construction team showed them where we could modify interior walls and where we could not. From that summit, the project team created a tightly controlled change-control process to vet requested equipment changes. The project team’s change management practices not only stopped equipment needs from breaking the budget ($260 million) but also prevented stakeholder feedback from creating scope creep. Ms. Susan Voltz, PMP, senior director, strategy and project management, from Nemours said “We were designing a hospital, creating all the operational processes, starting to procure equipment, procure and install IT systems, go through regulatory processes, designing space and creating space—all without the input of the key physicians and clinicians who would actually be using the space.” (La Plant, L.,