Put yourself in the role of a project manager collaborating with MTD, an events company.
Considering the difficulties and problems that MTD encounters in their projects, what insights have you gained this week that could offer assistance?
If an iterative approach were employed in organizing an event as a project, what would be the consequences? Similarly, what are the implications of adopting an agile approach? If the company sought your advice, what would you recommend?
Contribute your thoughts and ideas to the discussion.
As a project manager working with MTD, I’d recommend adopting an iterative approach to event setup, incorporating agile principles. This would allow for flexibility in responding to changing requirements, rapid delivery, and continuous improvement. Embracing agility would help MTD navigate event management complexities and ensure successful events. Key takeaways:
– Adopt iterative approach with agile principles
– Establish clear goals and priorities
– Foster collaboration and continuous improvement
Using the iterative approach in planning for an event will lead to being transparent, openness and honesty. If the stakeholders and sponsors can get feedback on how the event planning is going, it will be good , what if they have it in mind to make some changes or additions to the event. With the agile approach, feedback might not be regular and it can get the stakeholders and sponsors tense since they don’t know how the planning or project is going.
If an iterative approach was employed in organising an event, there would be short repeatable burst of energy as there would be consistent feedbacks to ascertain that managers have not moved off course. Risk would be mitigated because of daily transparency and speed from frequent meetings.
The implication of employing an agile approach would be that, the project would be in different mini projects which would be handled by experts willing to solve possible problems arising and sponsors would be in the know at all times and would be ready to assist in finances because such information would have been handled in a difficult conversation earlier. If the company sought my advice, I would advice that a hybrid approach should be employed in any project.
Depending on the kind of project at hand and the resources, environment and team. Looking at the VUCA methodology, volatile, uncertainty, complex and ambiguous hybrid will be the best approach to any project in order to prepare the mind of the stakeholders and the team at large.
Iteractive and linear method should all be combined and a regular feedback mechanism set in place
Project managers should always combine the iterative and linear method to get a positive result in managing a project. It will help in the correct analysis of every point accomplished during the project phases
Considering the problems that MTD encountered, I will advise them to focus on a particular demographic in the market particularly the youths who are the most impressionable in other to get the best of their products. Using an interactive approach helps with getting feedbacks anytime. It enables organisation’s to benefit from user and stakeholder feedback anytime
MTD project is responsible for providing water infrastructural for events or festival and using the Tommorrowland Project by MTD as a case study.
I will advise MTD to adopt an hybrid model (i.e. Iterative and Agile model) approach to handling the difficulties in the project
Likely Difficulties faced by MTD
1. Increasing number of users which cannot be determine at each day, daily users or crowds numbers are uncertain but continuous numbers expected
2. Various needs and involvement of many stakeholders
3. Unexpected changes during events and sudden deadlines to handle various scenarios
Benefits and Implications of the Iterative Model for MTD
1. Allows the projects to be broken down into smaller cyclical iterations which can be done in shorter time and allows for sprints to get desired outputs that will form part of the final larger results
2. It can be cost effective and also easily visible to stakeholders to see and give feedback that can be adjusted
3. Regular feedback and testing by users ensure the final service/products its usable
Benefits and Implications of the Agile Model For MTD
1. Its Customer Centric and helps MTD considering that projects are for users events
2. It enables teams to build fast, check/review/test what they have built and iterate their work based on regular feedback
3. Ease of predictability, breakdown of projects into phases for continuous improvement
4. Respond quickly to changing requirements and priorities
5. Improved team work, collaboration and team morale
6. Improved and Efficient Stake holder engagements
A combination of both Iterative and Agile approach will help MTD to deliver the projects faster in phases and simultaneously be able to adapt quickly to changes or challenges that may occur during the events in a cost effective manner and ensuring that its employee’s morale remains high and users satisfaction it’s guaranteed.
The linear of approach and the iterative approach are two processes that a project manager must always bear in mind and work with, whether the environment is stable, predictable, unstable and unpredictable.
In the case of MTD, it is possible to restructure the project in smaller understanding steps to be efficient and achieve the initial results.
With a few staff and an iterative approach, they will be able to focus on the (importance/urgency) pairing by continually adapting to the environment, not forgetting communication between team members
My name is Charles Ntanta and for me, iterative allows for a faster completion of projects in the sense that team members are organized in groups or boxes with specific task that can take two to three weeks. As a group, you’re allowed the freedom of decisions. However, adopting Agility makes you be ahead of solving your challenges and solving them because the software (Scrum) takes care of volatile and uncertainty moments in project management decisions. My honest decision will be to advise for the use of Agile approach.