2017-11-18

Question 1

Describe the 4-D model!

Answer 1

1. Define it
2. Stakeholders
3. Strategy
4. Success
5. Initial Planning
6. Design it
7. Time planning
8. Rethink time planning: critical chain approach
9. Cost and benefit planning
10. Stakeholders and quality
11. Risk and opportunities management
12. Do it
13. Project organisations: structures and teams
14. Management and leadership in projects
15. Control
16. Supply chain issues
17. Problem-solving and decision-making
18. Develop it
19. Project completion and review
20. Improving project performance

Question 2

Which 4-D phase include risk and opportunities?

Answer 2

The design it phase

Question 3

Describe the team life cycle!

Answer 3

1. Collection
   - curiosity
   - rely on authority and hierarchy
   - establish relationships within the group
2. Entrenchment
   - disagreements within the group
   - unproductive phase
   - different views on project goals
   - want to make this phase as short as possible
3. Resolution/accomondation
   - disagreements begin to resolve
   - mutal trust
   - more productive
4. Synergy
   - Peak of effectiveness
   - output greater than individual work
   - leadership is shared
   - new motivation to complete the task
5. Decline
   - effectiveness is declining
   - move toward social group
6. Break up
   - Problems in getting a the team to take over the work

Question 4

Strategy deployment table?

Answer 4

OBJECTIVE LEVEL 1
- Reduce new product lead-time by 20%

ACTIVITIES LEVEL 1:

1. Establish managed portfolio of projects
2. Re-engineer project processes
3. Implement new design technology

OBJECTIVES LEVEL 2:

1. Ashive balanced work allocations
2. Close down 80% of projects that are over 2 year old
3. Understand current processes
4. Increase level of concurrency in processes
5. Reduce prototyping time by 80%
6. Reduce product engineering time by 38%

ACTIVITIES LEVEL 2:

1. Determine workload due to current projects
2. Examine potential of all projects over 2 years old
3. Map current processes
4. Co-locate staff for major projects
5. Train project facilitators
6. Install rapid-prototyping equipment
7. Install new versions of design software

OBJECTIVES LEVEL 3
1. Identify strengths and weaknesses in processes

ACTIVITIES LEVEL 3:
1. Conduct review of all major projects over the past 3 years

Question 5

conformance and performance?

Answer 5

CONFORMANCE

• minimum standards are maintained
• use of project manual for planning for achieving in terms of quality

PERFORMANCE:

• Responsiveness
• Communication
• competence
• courtisy
• Accessibility

Question 6

Project manual?

Answer 6

1. Introduction
2. Planning
3. Execution details
4. Records
5. Miscellaneous information

Question 7

Responsibility allocation?

Answer 7

Through responsibility matrix e.g.