Week 6 Discussions\tFirst, consider the following case study background:\tIn this modern economic era of tight budgets, cutbacks, and shortfalls in both budgets and staffs, most organizations are pressured to “do more with less”.\u00a0 Customers and executive sponsors push projects\u00a0 tocomplete earlier and cheaper, with less budget funding, but with the same scope and quality.\u00a0 Rapid Application Development (RAD) and Agile and Extreme development methods are pushed.\u00a0 The problem, as always, is with the balance of the triple constraint (this time, with the added factor of quality).\tThere is also a trade-off between the short-term benefits of quality (and of projects themselves, for that matter), and their long-term strategic benefits to the corporation.\u00a0\tThese economic and strategic forces often result in executives pressuring PMs to take shortcuts in IT projects.\u00a0 While such shortcuts may seem attractive, they usually have highly adverse consequences to the company in both the short term and the long term.\u00a0 One example, of many, is that poor quality could be publicized and have adverse consequences for the company.\tThese pressures from executives, and the related economic pressures, are project risks, and the risks often manifest themselves as quality issues.\u00a0\tNow answer these questions:\ta)\u00a0 \u00a0 If faced with increasing pressure to get a project done ahead of time, what steps should a project manager take if he feels this will jeopardize project quality?\tb)\u00a0 \u00a0 Suppose that rather than time, the pressure is to do more with less, that is to accomplish the same scope with staff cuts and budget cuts.\u00a0 Does that change your answer?\u00a0 That is, what steps should a PM take if he feels this will jeopardize project quality?\tc)\u00a0 \u00a0 In addition to the effects that a rushed project might have on project quality, what kind of short-term and long-term effects might it have on project team members?\td)\u00a0 \u00a0 What kind of short-term and long-term effects might it have on the organization or corporation itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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