NURS 6441 Week 7 Assignment: Individual Project Part 3 – Project Evaluation

NURS 6441 Week 7 Assignment: Individual Project Part 3 – Project Evaluation

NURS 6441 Week 7 Assignment: Individual Project Part 3 – Project Evaluation

Lessons Learned, and Synthesis of Insights

Though project managers often gain a great deal of experiential knowledge through the
project management process, project evaluation offers them a chance to formalize the lessons they have learned. Part 3 of the Individual Project focuses on issues related to
evaluating the success of a project and the debriefing process for capturing lessons learned. If conducting an interview, your interviewee must be able to speak to these  topics. Alternatively, you may examine a minimum of three organizations that have published descriptions about the evaluation and debriefing process of a health care
information technology project.

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.

? If such a person is not readily available to you, find someone in your community who has managed a project for an organization. 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 your interviewee and solidify your goals for speaking to and learning from this person.

Topics and Questions:

As in the other interviews, 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).

Evaluation

? What tools or strategies do you use to evaluate the success of a project?

? Can you give an example of a project that failed (or was not successful)?

Lessons Learned

? Describe the project outcomes

o What were some successful outcomes of the project? Were the project goals met?

o How do you conduct a debriefing of the project with the project team?

o What happens to the information gained from the debriefing?

o How do the project team and the organization support project debriefing?

? Companies have historically looked at technical skills, but more and more business managers are realizing that the absence of good “people” skills tends to cripple projects. What are three critically important things a project manager (or project team member) must do well to help a project succeed?

Please add questions of your own, including asking for advice for the future from your interviewee.

NURS 6441 Week 7 Assignment: Individual Project Part 3 – Project Evaluation

To complete:

In a 4- to 6-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 Application.

? 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 evaluation and debriefing are addressed in the interviewee’s organization.

? Compare the insights from your interview with information from project management literature about evaluation and debriefing. 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.

? Synthesize insights and conclusions gained from your interviews about project
management and how project management is conducted in the interviewee’s organization.

? Summarize how evaluations and debriefings in the real-world setting of the
interviewee and compare to the project management literature.

? Address how the use or non-use of formal project management could impact the
success of health care information technology projects. Use literature sources to
support your perspectives on this topic.

Do not cut and paste all of the content from the first two parts of the Assignment. You
have to synthesize the key concepts, insights, principles, etc. from each part of the
Assignment into a cohesive, understandable whole.

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:

Evaluation

? What tools or strategies were used for evaluating the success of the project?

? What examples are there of the project being unsuccessful?

Lessons Learned

? Describe the project outcomes: