Project Management (MGMT627) Spring 2013
GDB no.01
Due Date: 15 May, 2013
Marks: 20
TOPIC: Project Management Methodologies and Organizational Structures
NOTE: There is no grace period in case of GDB
Objective of GDB
The prime objective of this activity is to get the students familiar with the basic concepts of Project Management Methodologies and Organizational Structures.
Learning outcome
After generating discussion on the said topic, the students will be able to:
1. Comprehend the concept of Project Management Methodologies.
2. Understand the role of different organizational structures in Project Management.
3. Can bring a good debate on the role of Project Manager and Functional Manager.
The case
You work for Mobilink Pakistan. The R&D department of your company is working on a project which will direct customer calls to an interactive voice response (IVR) system before being connected to a live agent. In this project, the Vice President Marketing and the Project Manager share their responsibility. All other employees are reporting these two key positions.
Point of discussion
Keeping in mind the above mentioned case generate a discussion on the following questions:
What kind of project management structure would you recommend for this project and why? Support your answer with appropriate reasoning.
Student's Guide
- Keep you discussion with the mentioned scenario and irrelevant answers and material will not be graded.
- Do not copy/paste the challenges or problems of SME sector in general.
- Be careful from those blogs who are promoting cheating culture among our students and killing their creativity and critical thinking. Answers copied from such blogs will be straightaway marked as zero. Similarly any relevant or irrelevant material copied from internet sources will get the same treatment. It can seriously damage your grades.
Note:
For acquiring the relevant knowledge, do not rely only on handouts but also watch the course video lectures and read additional material available online or in any other mode.
Important Instructions:
- Your discussion must be based on logical facts.
- The GDB will open and close on above specified date and time. Please note that no grace day or extra time will be given for posting comments on GDB.
- Use the font style "Times New Roman" and font size "12".
- Your answer should be relevant to the topic i.e. clear and concise.
- Do not copy or exchange your answer with other students. Two identical / copied comments will be marked Zero (0) and may damage your grade in the course.
- Books, websites and other reading material may be consulted before posting your comments; but copying or reproducing the text from books, websites and other reading materials is strictly prohibited. Such comments will be marked as Zero (0) even if you provide references.
- You should post your answer on the Graded Discussion Board (GDB), not on the Moderated Discussion Board (MDB). Both will run parallel to each other during the time specified above. Therefore, due care will be needed.
- Obnoxious or ignoble answer should be strictly avoided.
- You cannot participate in the discussion after the due date via email.
- Questions / queries related to the content of the GDB, which may be posted by the students on MDB or via e-mail, will not be replied till the due date of GDB is over.
- For planning your semester activities in an organized manner, you are advised to view schedule of upcoming Assignments, Quizzes and GDBs in the overview tab of the course website on VU-LMS.
Note related to load shedding: Please be proactive
Dear students!
As you know that Pre Mid-Term semester activities have started and load shedding problem is also prevailing in our country. Keeping in view the fact, you all are advised to post your activities as early as possible without waiting for the due date. For your convenience; activity schedule has already been uploaded on VULMS for the current semester, therefore no excuse will be entertained after due date of assignments, quizzes or GDBs.
Read more: MGMT 627 GDB - Virtual University of Pakistan http://vustudents.ning.com/group/mgmt627projectmanagement/forum/topics/mgmt-627-gdb#ixzz2TPpFT1dC
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