{"id":2557,"date":"2023-02-18T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/class-book-chapter-8-how-to-launch-a-tpm-project-class-book-chapter-9-how-to-execute-a-tpm-project\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T19:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T19:13:29","slug":"class-book-chapter-eight-how-to-launch-a-tpm-project-class-book-chapter-nine-how-to-execute-a-tpm-project","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/class-book-chapter-eight-how-to-launch-a-tpm-project-class-book-chapter-nine-how-to-execute-a-tpm-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Book:  Chapter eight:  How to Launch a TPM Project Class Book: Chapter nine:  How to Execute a TPM Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucumberlands.blackboard.com\/webapps\/assignment\/uploadAssignment?content_id=_4823497_1&amp;course_id=_153995_1&amp;group_id=&amp;mode=view\"><u><strong>Activity 6A<\/strong><\/u><\/a><strong>Part 1&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ol>\n<li>Create a team agreement that outlines the team operating rules for the construction project you are managing.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>What is the impact on a project schedule when you level your resources?&nbsp; Why is resource leveling necessary and what is the impact on your resources when you do not level?&nbsp; Review the Agile manifesto and describe how Agile views resource leveling?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part&nbsp; 2:<\/strong><br \/>\nDescribe the purpose of a status report to the project sponsor?&nbsp; What key information do you feel is important for the status report to include and why?&nbsp; What is the optimum reporting cadence and why? What factors do Project Managers need to think about when creating a status report template? Do you feel that status reports are only needed when managing waterfall projects, and why?&nbsp; How can project status be shared in an Agile or Hybrid project?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Assignment\" src=\"https:\/\/ucumberlands.blackboard.com\/images\/ci\/sets\/set12\/assignment_on.svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucumberlands.blackboard.com\/webapps\/assignment\/uploadAssignment?content_id=_4823498_1&amp;course_id=_153995_1&amp;group_id=&amp;mode=view\"><u><strong>Activity 6B<\/strong><\/u><\/a><strong>Part 1:<\/strong>Answer the following questions:&nbsp;\n<ol>\n<li>Why it is important to close out a project even if the project was closed early by management?<\/li>\n<li>Why should Project Managers capture lessons learned?<\/li>\n<li>What are some ways that the project team members, project managers, and the organization can use lessons learned?<\/li>\n<li>What benefits come from celebrating project accomplishments? Do you believe that rewards and recognition can serve as motivators for staff?<\/li>\n<li>If you are running an Agile project when are lessons learned captured?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Part II<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Planning for Agile, Extreme, and Hybrid projects happens just in time, rather than at the beginning of the project as in Traditional projects.&nbsp; Because of this do you feel that traditional projects take longer?<\/li>\n<li>Using the lens of planning, what are some benefits of planning using a traditional project management approach?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Assignment Guidelines<\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Assignment\" src=\"https:\/\/ucumberlands.blackboard.com\/images\/ci\/sets\/set12\/assignment_on.svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucumberlands.blackboard.com\/webapps\/assignment\/uploadAssignment?content_id=_4823499_1&amp;course_id=_153995_1&amp;group_id=&amp;mode=view\"><u><strong>Activity 6C<\/strong><\/u><\/a><strong>Activity 1:&nbsp;<\/strong>Both Waterfall (Predictive) and Agile(Adaptive) methdologies are built based upon core tenets.&nbsp; Describe one core tenet for Waterfall and one core tenet for an Agile methdology of your choice and explain why you feel it is necessary for the methdology.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Activity 2:<\/strong> <strong>Case Study Overview:<\/strong>In conventional business and government megaprojects&#8211;such as hydroelectric dams, chemical-processing plants, or big-bang enterprise-resource-planning systems&#8211;the standard approach is to build something monolithic and customized. Such projects must be 100% complete before they can deliver benefits: Even when it&#8217;s 95% complete, a nuclear reactor is of no use. On the basis of 30 years of research and consulting on megaprojects, the author has found two factors that play a critical role in determining success or failure: replicable modularity in design and speed in iteration. The article examines those factors by looking at well-known megaprojects, both successful ones, and cautionary tales.<strong>Case Study Link<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the following link to access the assigned cases: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hbsp.harvard.edu\/import\/1010405\"><u>https:\/\/hbsp.harvard.edu\/import\/1010405<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you encounter any issues, please contact <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:plasterbusiness@ucumberlands.edu\"><u>plasterbusiness@ucumberlands.edu<\/u><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paper Requirements:&nbsp;Question 1:&nbsp; In the article Agility Hacks, they talk about processes that can be used to &#8220;tackle immediate challenges quickly&#8221;.&nbsp; Using your knowledge of Project Management Processes, what is the impact to the organizaton by not using a &#8220;formalized process&#8221; and what do you feel is the different between an &#8220;agility hack&#8221; and a hybrid methdology&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Activity 6APart 1&nbsp;&nbsp; Create a team agreement that outlines the team operating rules for the construction project you are managing.&nbsp;&nbsp; What is the impact on a project schedule when you level your resources?&nbsp; Why is resource leveling necessary and what is the impact on your resources when you do not level?&nbsp; Review the Agile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[239],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/2557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/2557\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}