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 collaborating with the MTD, with what have leaned through the cost of this week, the best approach for me will be the hybrid[linear and iterative]. Fact is the either of the two can’t solve situation face by pm in this current dispensation.
As a project manager working with MTD, I would go for an iterative and agile approach.
in Iterative approaches, feedback is gotten to make sure they have built the right solution for the right people and have gone off in the right direction.
Agile will work very well with MTD because customers need to understand what features they need. Teams can also build prototypes, a series of minimum viable products to start building features and ask customers/stakeholders to review them particularly, just to check and validates them. when acting in an iterative way in the project we are discovering risks as it goes, monitoring them as soon as possible and thereby taking action on those risks asap. iterative approaches are very positive because they got to see the impact their work is having on their customers.
Agile projects are less risky, as the team works daily together face to face and has good transparency and makes decisions quickly.
MTD could apply both linear and iterative approaches to their project management style to help them deal with the volatility and uncertainty that they will encounter in their business.They can iteratively work on challenges like getting the right pipe fittings and flow rate , get the best out of their slack, schedule regular report/review for stakeholders etc. Also linear approaches an ne used for the financing aspects since they have fairly accurate estimates for the costing, which will also include a little more for unplanned contingencies.
The implication of taking an iterative approach is that ,it can handle the issues that come up decisively and in a timely manner, as the experimentation involved in the sprints will let them know.sooner than later, the benefits and non-merits of any solutions they will come up with.
The implication of using an agile approach is pretty similar to the above paragraph, being that flexibility and adaptability that it offers to projects.
My advice to the company would be for them to engage stakeholders in an open transparent way , and to apply hybrid approaches to their project management methodology. Finally I would ask them to hire my services as a consultant.
I will adopt the hybrid method in managing the project.
event project has a bulk of instability and volatility in its scope however, there some part of the project that is definite and predefined when presenting the business case. In this case, a linear method will be considered.
Gift from group 7, cohort 7.
I’d simple use the hybrid method in managing the project because applying the linear method alone will not give me the desired results due to the nature of the project I’m managing. It is best to combined all project management methods.
As a project manager working with MTD, I will apply both iterative and agile method in handling the project, stakeholders, team and sponsors.
Okem ThankGod Joseph, of cohort 7 team 8,
As a project manager collaborating with the MTD
With what have leaned through the cost of this week
It will be good enough for the MTD to go with the both approach, linear & iterative, reason been that linear will help the organisation in knowing the various steps of the project as it assumed very good information and understanding of the project goal, solution and expected outputs and outcomes right from the start., The scope of the project will not change significantly., Have good information about the required output., Can be sure u understand what users and stakeholders need and want., Have expertise in the domain, When u know all this then u can bring it iterative Approach
Iterative or agile Approach is intuitive in nature, that means short repeatable best of energy to build solutions, and that means we r getting feedback each time to make sure that we are building the right solution for the right people and haven’t gone off to different direction, iterative project approach helps in managing time. As iterative/agile always sorts feedback from the stakeholders and users and working as fast as possible to resolve these challenges frequently.
I will also advise MTD organisation to reduce risk, keep communication alive with the stakeholders, and be flexible.
With these they can be able to achieve their project successfully.
As a project manager, I will work on finding the perfect blend of processes to adopt. Adopting the Iterative process and Scrum analysis.
As a project Manager working with MTD, i will explore the iterative approach because of the unique and complicated characteristics of such project, VUCA framework will also help in tackling some of the challenges that will be encountered during the course of the project.
Due to the volatilty and uncertainty attached to managing an event, it will be right to employ both the iterative and agile approach to tackle the changes that might come up in the course of the event.
As a project manager, I will implement the use of VUCA framework tools to develop the best response for the issues and challenges of the event project in other to bring about a successful project. Flexibility and Adaptability is key.