7/31/2019 Blue Spider Kevin) Kuang
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Blue Spider OM761 Zhiyun(Kevin) Kuang
Problem:
Gary was given the opportunity to be the Project Manager because
of his R&D
background, but he doesnt have the experience or skills to
manage a project. Technical
background itself will not make an efficient project
manager.
Major Issues:
1. Gary focused too much on R&D works or administrative
paper works without abalance.
2. Error on financial planning.3. No standby schedule when the
formal one was interrupted by predictably possible
changes.4. Lack of communication with the Lord since the
beginning which leaded to cost more
than double time on communication after that.
5. Gary can not find Gable when he needed support. And Gable
intervene the projectseveral times without noticing Gary, which
makes the project management works
more chaos, it leaded to reschedule or re-do works at the last
minute.
Recommendations:
1. Pauls job is to take most responsibility for the R&D
works. Additional staff can takeresponsibility for additional
administrative paper works. Gary can spend most of his
time on managing the whole project through managing other
people.2. Discussion with Elliot will be useful before submitting
any plan to top managers.3. Make a standby schedule for different
stages and hand out to every department with
the formal schedules. Standby schedule can be made based on
slack time or differenttime for specific task.
4. Meet with Lord at every stage of the project. Can use
electronic detailed schedule andtask sheets and update them daily,
this will help both parties know where they are andwhere they are
going.
5. Schedule of meeting with Gable is important. Gable, Gary and
Paul should work as ateam. Since they already knew there was
possibility to change material in the middle
of the project, they should make appropriate preparation in the
beginning, instead ofre-doing everything when changes did
happen.
Limitations:
1. If there was continue communication problems, Gary might do
not have updatedinformation from the R&D or from the
administrative works, or both.
2 Changes in the middle of the project are unavoidable standby
schedule can be not
