{"id":119693,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/only-for-ultimate-geek"},"modified":"2017-08-12T07:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T07:02:57","slug":"only-for-ultimate-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/only-for-ultimate-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"ONLY FOR ULTIMATE GEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winsome Manufacturing Company produces plastic storage containers and sells them to the home consumer through home sales events. At the company\u2019s quarterly meeting, the head of marketing described a new product to be introduced in the first quarter of the next fiscal year, approximately 9 months from now. The product will be a room-sized plastic storage unit suitable to the outside of the home; it is similar to a competitor\u2019s product but will have significantly more features. This product will open new markets for the sales channel, lay the foundation for add-on products, and generate new revenues. Management has only seen preliminary sketches of the potential product but are very excited by the new product.<\/p>\n<p>The project will require participation from the design, production, purchasing, shipping, sales, and marketing departments. Winsome Manufacturing owns a line of suitable injection molds, so all manufacturing will be done in-house. The project manager for this project has not yet been selected, but that decision is expected to be made in the next week.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary project initiation meeting will result in the identification of the project sponsor, selection of a project manager, and creation of the project charter. A manager in the production department who knows you are taking a college project management course asks you to prepare a brief report to help him prepare for the meeting by answering the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who are the project stakeholders? How will they be involved in the project?<\/li>\n<li>Who should be the project sponsor? Why?<\/li>\n<li>From which department should the project manager come? Why?<\/li>\n<li>What skills and experience are likely needed by the project manager for each phase in the project life cycle, and how do they differ between the various phases?<\/li>\n<li>What type of communication plan will likely be needed during the project?\n<ul>\n<li>What information should be shared with the project stakeholders?<\/li>\n<li>What is the mechanism that could be used for each type of information?<\/li>\n<li>What is the frequency with which information should be shared?<\/li>\n<li>What should be done if project communications are not proving to be effective?<\/li>\n<li>What technology could be used for&nbsp;project communications?<\/li>\n<li>At what point could communication about the project become an ethical or legal issue?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What information should be included in the following elements of the project charter:\n<ul>\n<li>What is the problem the project proposes to address?<\/li>\n<li>What business opportunity might project completion create?<\/li>\n<li>What is the business case for undertaking the project?<\/li>\n<li>What is the financial impact of the project?<\/li>\n<li>What are the expected results of the project?<\/li>\n<li>What value will the project add?<\/li>\n<li>What are risks that might be involved with undertaking the project?<\/li>\n<li>What is the potential impact to the company if the project is not undertaken?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winsome Manufacturing Company produces plastic storage containers and sells them to the home consumer through home sales events. At the company\u2019s quarterly meeting, the head of marketing described a new product to be introduced in the first quarter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/only-for-ultimate-geek\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}