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.
I would advice the MTD company to go with an hybrid approach, using a combination of both Linear and Iterative approach. This will help the project to progress with a well defined predetermined plan and also help combat any unforeseen changes that might come up during the project work
As a PM working with MTD, it is ideal to put into consideration, the Iterative approach simply because the Linear approach may not be adequate enough to combat the issue of VUCA.
I will create a team who can employ the Linear approach once the process, cost and conditions of risk surrounding the project is ascertained. I will also use the Iterative approach so that when circumstances change rapidly and unpredictably response to VUCA can be deployed as fast as the rate of change in the environment. I will ensure I have Agile teams who will be able to respond quickly by working on short mini-project iterations, or sprints, and by limiting the amount of work in progress, limiting the number of tasks being worked on at any given time so that they can finish what they start rather than working on many things for longer – they are able to reprioritise and change direction quickly.
Unachukwu Michelle is my name.
As a PM at MTD here’s what I would do, I would observe and understand the whole situation, then map out pragmatic solutions to this.
Which is, making use of both approach, the linear and the iterative, as a merger or collaboration.
This would enable or make it feasible enough to tackle any complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty and volatility of the project.
As a PM for MTD i will get to know the method that they have been using previously then adjust to my own skill of flexibity with VUCA framework tools
I would advice the MTD company to go with an hybrid approach, using a combination of both Linear and Iterative approach. This will help the project to progress with a well defined predetermined plan and also help combat any unforeseen changes that might come up during the project work. It will also allow for consideration of the clients or users feedback.
As a project manager in MTD I consider the use in collaboration of both linear and iterative approach,from getting the details and testing of the ideas plus the flexibility of iteration.The VUCA frame work which it will the approach to achieve a desired result.
To take of volatility and uncertainty agile approach is most suitable to encourage the team to be able to respond and move to a direction quickly.
As a project manager at MTD i will apply both linear and iterative approach, according to the project lifecycle video, the team were unable to deliver an expected output to the sponsor using linear approach, their inability to deliver does not necessarily mean their approach was totally wrong but it only means there is so much more to the project than the used approach, this is why the director suggested the iterative approach because it is open to changes, feedback and more, a good project manager should know how to combine both approaches to achieve favorable results
As a project manager working with the events company MTD this week, I would adopt the iterative approach since
1.The scope may change
2.I’d need to hear feedback from user
Being a project manager at MTD, I will prefer to adopt both frameworks. I will start with the linear framework and finish up with the agile approach to project management since adopting both will give room for flexible changes and corrections where need be.
As a PM 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 in collaboration with MTD in managing their events, I will use a comination of both the linear and iterative approach. The reason for using the two approaches is because Feedback from participants of the event maybe needed by the organizers of the event. And because the scope of the event is unlikely to change. Sponsors value the final outcome of the project than project plans. Accountability and transparency will increase using Iterative and linear approach. If the linear approach is used then there will be a problem of incomplete projects if the scope of event changes. If there are no skilled/experienced workers, the project will suffer immensely.
Disadvantages if iterative approach is used will be the iterative approach encourages regular feedback and involvement from all stakeholders. Iterative approaches allow for continuous improvement and learning.
ANENE AMARACHI SARAH
COHORT 8
TEAM 2
As a PM at mtd i will use more of the iterative approach than the linear
With the iterative i can work in sprints and with interative the budget for a project is not certain.