Posted: March 7th, 2017

What specific performance measures would you use to judge success and why? Explain and justify your selection.

Question 1

Writing Guide – 1000 – 1500 words

As the Project Manager you are provided with a series of project management tools to assist your overall management and documentation of a project.

Part A – Are project management ‘tools’ a hindrance or a help? Explain your answer.

Part B – What project management tools, if any, are/would be useful to you in your current position or in your current organisation? Give reasons to support your decision/selection.

Part C – How would you, as the Polaris Project Manager, address the software issues that occurred in this the Polaris case?

Question 2

Writing Guide 1500 – 2000 words

Part A – How would you judge a ‘successful’ project?

Part B – What specific performance measures would you use to judge success and why? Explain and justify your selection.

Part C – What is the most important aspect of a successful project; the outcome, the processes or the people? Explain and justify.

Part D – Genesis Corporation knew of the Earned Value Performance Measurement approach but it seems somewhat neglected.

a) Could they (Genesis) have used the EVPM as a ‘management tool’? b) With reference to the graphics provided on page 45 of the case, how would you have applied this technique to this project as the project manager?

Question 3