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, there is need to be flexible, seek the contribution of both the sponsor and the clients as was applicable at MTD. There’s equally the need to be flexible and receptive to suggestions when It comes to implement a workable approach that will maximize an upsurgement of the project. As was applicable at MTD, the iterative approach was implemented which was a success. There are various challenges that may affect any perceived approach, but the solution is to be flexible and receptive to opinions and suggestions of other stakeholders
As a PM at MTD I must always have the VUCA method at my reach because that’s makes room for flexibility and ease the project. I will also adopt the linear and itinerary approaches to deliver a timely and excellent project.
As a project manager handling the MTD project, my advice to the company is to use a hybrid method where both iterative and agile approaches will be adopted. The tasks will be broken down into milestones(smaller manageable tasks) where tasks are completed within 2 – 4 weeks, the right approach for each milestone will be used and the tasks reviewed at the end of the 2 weeks to understand if the adopted method is meeting the overall needs of the project.
Milestone A may be best to adopt an iterative approach while milestone B may be best to adopt an agile approach. The most important thing is that the project is completed within scope, budget, and timeline using the right resources.
As a project manager for MTD, I will study the project and adopt the best practices from both the linear and iterative approaches that suits how we want to work to achieve the project objectives.
The consequences of iterative approaches is increased budget size.
The implications of agile approach are:
1. Risk mitigation, acting intuitively allows us to be aware of the risk and also monitoring them as we go and take actions on the as quickly as possible,
2. workers collaboration, the team get to work together daily which in turn leads to information transparency and speed in making decisions.
As an advice to the MTD challenge, it will be good not to stick on only one method. The combination of the linear and iterative methods will be needful to have at the end a suitable lifecycle for MTD’s project.
As a PM at MTD,i will be flexible in my approaches used , bearing in mine that different event projects comes with different challenges and how the project will turn out will depend on the approach used.
the iterative approach will help minimize risk, better management of resources , conflict that may from limited resources that may arise will be avoided.
we live in a world where VUCA is a common seen , an agile approach will help accomodate the environment.
i will advice them to be flexible and adopt approach works best giving the situations that surrounds the event project
As a project manager for MTD, I will both adopt the linear and iterative approach in the same project. I have learnt to know that the two approaches are not opposite of each other and when used well, it can complement each other. I will use the VUCA method to solve problems that will arise.
If i am the pm of MTDI will use both the linear and iterative approach.I would have ti integrate both for better perfomances and better workplace frame work.
One of the advantages if applying both approaches is early detection of faults and challenges that can cause a delay in the project or in the development stage.
As a PM in MTD, I will be very flexible as to know what approach to take using the VUCA environment to decide if it would be Iterative, Linear or Hybrid.
The iterative approach would reduce the risk of the project, enable feedback from users and stakeholders. Agile approach in the case of volatility is working on short mini project iterations, or sprints and limit amount of work in progress. In the case of uncertainty, they respond through continuous dynamic planning. Tasks are mostly prioritized based on their value.
As a project manager at MTD, having learnt that managing a project needn’t be a choice between either a linear or iterative approach, I will combine the two where necessary and that may mean switching from linear to iterative approach…. The environment we live in is not stable due to constant changes in Government policies, so when faced with uncertainty, a change of approach may be necessary to meet target….. Another challenge is that changes in approach may require extra funding and this may b a problem for my clients but if my clients are constantly briefed on the success of the project and also on the challenges that pose threats to completion and as such a client who is also interested in completion will cooperate with project mangers to achieve success….. So the hybrid approach is very key….. The agile method can come in to place at anytime we see the need to do so.
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