NURS 6441 Week 5 Assignment: Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk

NURS 6441 Week 5 Assignment: Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk

NURS 6441 Week 5 Assignment: Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk

Management, and Team Building

Part 2 of the Individual Project focuses on the scope of a project, budgeting issues, risk
management, and team building. If conducting an interview, the interviewee may be
from the same organization as your last interview and should have managed a project
for the organization. Alternatively, you may examine a minimum of three organizations
that have published descriptions about a health care information technology project’s
scope, budget, risk management, and team building activities.

Interview

To prepare:

? Locate a professional who manages or works on special projects in health care and is willing to speak about his or her experience regarding scope of a project, budget, risk management, and team building.

? If such a person is not readily available to you, find someone in your community
who has managed a project for an organization and can speak to those topics.

The organization can be a volunteer service group, a faith-based group, a business, or another that meets your needs. The goal is to find an individual who has been in charge of a project important to the organization.

? Review the topics and questions below that should be addressed in your interview.

? Think about other related questions you might have for the interviewee and solidify your goals for speaking to and learning from this person.

Topics and Questions:

Remember that you will need to adapt your questions to the individual, setting, and
projects. You are not required to ask these specific questions, but you are required to
address the topics listed below (Note: If the interviewee cannot address a topic, conduct
a literature search to find scholarly information or research on that topic).

Scope

? How does a project manager limit the scope of a project?

? How do you deal with stress, pressure, and unreasonable demands?

Budget

? How are costs managed during a project?

? If all resources are not available to a project when needed, how do you handle resource problems?

Risk Management

? How are potential risks to the project determined?

? How are these risks mitigated?

? Think of a major crisis you’ve faced in project management. How did you handle it?

? What is one example of a tough decision you had to make in a project management role?

Team Building

? How do you obtain the members of a project team? How do you “sell” the project
to a team?

? Explain how you operate within this organization to facilitate project success.

? Can you give me an example of your project management leadership activities
regarding a project team problem?

? If you have a team member who is not meeting agreed-to commitments, what do
you do? How do you handle unproductive team members? How do you motivate
team members who are burned out or bored?

Additional questions and insights are encouraged.

To complete:

In a 2- to 4-page paper, reflect on your experience and address the following:

? Describe the context of your interview—where and how the interview took place, why you selected this individual, and how you believe this individual meets the requirements for this Assignment.

? Describe the role and functions of the individual within the context of the individual’s organizational structure and for project management.

? Synthesize insights on how project scope, budget, risk management, and team
building are addressed in the interviewee’s organization.

? Compare the insights you synthesized from your interview with information from
project management literature about project scope, budget, risk management, and team building. Be sure that the comparisons you make are clear to the reader.

? Explain how your insights into these aspects of project management will impact your ability to successfully manage health care information technology projects.

Include any tips the individual described for managing a successful project.

NURS 6441 Week 5 Assignment: Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk

OR:

Scholarly Paper

To prepare:

? Examine a minimum of three organizations that have published descriptions about a health care information technology project.

? Analyze the reports of these organizations’ experiences with HIT project management in order to draw out insights on real-world project management. You may need to examine trade publications in addition to scholarly journals.

? Consider the following questions as you analyze the articles:

Scope

o How was the scope of the project limited?

o How did the project manager address any unreasonable demands?

Budget

o How were costs managed during the project?

o How were resource allocation problems addressed?

Risk Management

o How were potential risks to the project determined?

o How were these risks mitigated?
o Explain any major crisis faced in the management of a project implementation and explain how it was handled.

Team Building

o How were members of the project team selected? How did the project manager “sell” the project to a team?

o How did the team operate within the organization to facilitate project success?

o What project management leadership activities were utilized to mitigate project team problems?

o What strategies did project management leaders use if a team member was not meeting agreed-to commitments, was unproductive, or was unmotivated?

NURS 6441 – Individual Project Overview

To complete:

In a 2- to 4-page paper, address the following:

? Synthesize insights on how project scope, budget, risk management, and team building are addressed in the projects implemented in your selected health care
organizations.

? Compare your insights from the articles with information from project management literature about project scope, budget, risk management, and team building. Be sure that the comparisons you make are clear to the reader.

? Explain how your insights into these aspects of project management will impact
your ability to successfully manage of health care information technology projects.

This Assignment is due on or before Day 7 of Week 7.