The Trophy Project - Business Case

 No. The first most important this for the Trophy project is no business plan was formulated.

Reichart was newly appointed to The Trophy project, before that he had experience as assistant project manager. No business case was present. The Trophy project didn't have any planning principles as lack of planning and control. Instead of maintaining the project line management, Reichart was figuring out how to bring the project back on the schedule as planned. Slippage of schedule caused major harms to project with increasing expenditures right from the start of the project.

 Reichart had no control on functional managers and project lacked serious work breakdown structure. No prototype was completed as after one and half year plus project was nine months behind schedule.

 To track the progress of project a computer program was initialized but due to failure of handling objectives that was also terminated. Plus It took Budget overrun and more programming and additional storage capacity. Baseline plan did not cover the aspects of project plan.

 Involvement of customer representative created many changes in program and continuous changes in the scope. Customer relationship problems arose as Reichart criticized the changes verbally. Hence The Trophy project hampered by main impacts Time, Cost management and communication as it was not planned correctly.

Situation Analysis:

 Situation 1:

Answer: Option B.

Motivate the employees by showing them how they will benefit: esteem, pride, self-actualization. Minimize discussions on specifics.

- Motivation is the strategy to keep on people inspiring for the things to work on. And building a team is one basic factor so that coordination between different people with different perceptions. For long term building team and motivating them by realizing about self benefits and security. Technically skilled people get motivated and inspired about their own role and so helping to building their self esteem and pride. Self actualization gives different views to solve the problem that is very necessary in IT work culture. Hence motivation is the key to success always.

 Situation 5:

Answer: Option C.

Assess the potential risk with the team; ask for their inputs and suggestions. Try to develop contingency plans if the problem is as serious as the team indicates.

- If the team member is indicating the future risk, it's the best act to indentify and analyze the upcoming risk and factors giving rise to it. It's the duty of Project Manager to take consideration of potential team members. Project Manager can take systematic approach of contingency planning of evaluating arising risk