CRANEFIELD COLLEGE OF PROJECT AND PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT INDIVIDUAL EXAMINATION FOR MODULE M1: Project Management: Leading‚ Creating‚ Implementing and Improving CASE: The Blue Spider Project I hereby declare that this assignment is entirely my own work‚ and that it has not previously been submitted to any other Higher Education Institution. I also declare that all published and unpublished sources have been fully acknowledged and properly referenced. This includes figures‚ tables and exhibits
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Contents Project Overview: The project at hand involves constructing a fifth hostel at T. A. Pai Management Institute‚ Manipal. For the same‚ all the major timelines have been decided and special emphasis has been made to make sure there is least amount of wastage of resources (human‚ capital) and to ensure their maximum utilization. Keeping in view the increasing number of student intake at TAPMI‚ there has been a situation in campus wherein the male students are living
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The Blue Brain Project by Serge Achildi The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. An effort to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain‚ right down to the molecular level‚ was launched on June of 2005. The hope is that the virtual brain will help shed light on some aspects of human cognition‚ such as perception‚ memory and perhaps even consciousness. The "Blue Brain" project‚ a collaboration
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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)
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The Blue Spider Project 6. Is it true when you enter project management‚ you either go up the organization or out the door? Yes that is the truth‚ because there are only two places you can go from program management‚ namely up to the organization or out the door. There are only very few engineers who failed in program management and permitted to return to the project. In real life‚ failing managing a project means you will get fired in most cases. In this case the project manager should count
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Parks Corporation is a company that concentrated mainly on R&D business‚ doing projects for the Department of Defense. Parks Corporation has changed it’s focus over the years from predominantely R&D business to a low-cost production facility. The recession resulted in the company retrenching a number of employees‚ the staff compliment going from 6700 to 2200. In 1975‚ the corporate strategy changed again with the upturn of DoD spending. Parks began to beef up it’s R&D engineering
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RECOMMENDATIONS …...….6-21 I. The Roll of the Project Office II. Project Manager Skills III. Team Selection Process IV. Communication Break Down V. Budget Control VI. Risk Management VII. Measurement 4. CONCLUSION ……………………………………….................20 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY …………………………………….............….21 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Blue Spider Project is an example of how a project manager incorrectly balanced the staff and work‚
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2 Strategic Management and Project Selection More and more‚ the accomplishment of important tasks and goals in organizations today is being achieved through the use of projects. The phrases we hear and read about daily at our work and in conversations with our colleagues‚ such as “management by projects” and “project management maturity‚” reflect this increasing trend in our society. The almost explosively rapid adoption of such a powerful tool as project management to help organizations
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decision. Then I would proceed on explaining the benefits of retaining him. I would start by pointing out that even though staff opinion is important‚ in this case the Mr. Ahmet Green needs to look at the output of this project. Even after a few initial hiccups overall the project was a success. Because he decided to choose OpenRange over cloud computing giants like Microsoft and VMWARE they saved up on a lot of money and also got people to train the staff‚ thus saving more money and time. Choosing
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as evidence that the aliens must be very intelligent and much more advanced than we are. Air Force Regulation 200-2‚ issued in 1953 and 1954‚ the regulation also said UFOBs were to be investigated." As to what the public was to be told‚ "‚" but” Project Sign There is reliable testimony that in August‚ 1948‚ the Technical Intelligence Division at
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