The project manager and sponsor need to act in the best interest of which three constituencies?
Describe how to use project documents to help a team progress through the stages of development.
Describe each method of decision making a project team may use. Using examples, tell when each is most appropriate.
Decision making is used in all aspects of project management. For example, approval of a business case, evaluating proposed solutions, choosing a vendor or resources to work on a project, mitigating risks and approval of change requests. There isn’t one single decision making technique that can be applied to all decisions made on a project, instead there are a variety of techniques that can be used. Top decision making techniques include: marginal analysis, SWOT diagram, decision matrix, Pareto analysis, and The Next Step: reviewing your decision and making adjustments. Choosing the correct technique is as important as the outcome of the decision-making process.
nd they act as the primary source of job motivation for individuals, therefore setting them accurately is essential (Pettinger 2007). Specific and clear goals are the most effective motivators, and will lead to optimum performance, therefore it becomes essential for a leader to understand what motivates each individual within a group (Pettinger, 2007). Motivation is highly personal, and can differ massively across a group, so the leader must adapt how they motivate to suit each individual, this highlights the need for an organisation to implement policies that allow leaders to be flexible in how they reward individuals. Issues arise when goals are not set well, if the goals are ambiguous, unachievable or too easy then the individual will lose motivation (Pettinger, 2007). Once goals have been set it becomes essential for leaders to regularly assess how individuals are progressing towards them, if well then goals should be made more challenging, if they are struggling then the goals should be made easier. Goals also allow for leader to assess how the team are performing, and how their leadership style is functioning with the group, if goals are not being met the leader must adapt how the team interact together or their leadership style to achieve them.
Conclusions
The theories discussed provide a framework for understanding teamwork, leadership and motivation, however often are only applicable to distinct situations so do not translate sufficiently into practice and should be used cautiously. Clear connections and codependency exist between the theories, and ultimately in practice becomes the responsibility of the leader to intertwine them to achieve maximum performance from a group. For organisational behaviour to be successful, leadership must aspire change in group members, ensure teams are functional and individual group members are motivated, and is underpinned by a leaders ability to adapt the theories to the situational factors around them. To do this, and successfully implement policies to gain maximum performance, there must be conditions that make the situation favourable for a leader, and is the responsibility of the group at the top of an organisations hierarchy. In summary, the theories discussed may not always directly provide the solution required to maximum performance from a gro