Please answer the following 2 questions with one half page for each, the topic of study is advanced program management. APA format please.
- Review the PMP Code of Ethics and Professional. Then address the scenario below.
You are managing an internal R & D project. The initial test results are very poor. You are afraid your management might cancel the project, and this could reflect poorly upon you. Verification testing could be done quickly and inexpensively. What should you do?
The four main values of project managers are: respect, responsibility, honesty and fairness. In order to uphold these four values, I would verify the test. This is one of the best ways, as a project manager, which I will be able to uphold honesty. As a project manager, I am required to be honest with whatever I do, in order to make sure I achieve nothing but the best within the right means (Whitaker, 2016). In addition, as a team leader, I need to foster respect, of the position which I hold and I must make sure that I encourage the team members to exercise honesty, respect responsibility and fairness.
Applying honesty to work enables one to be able to maintain a high level of respect, since it creates room for accountability, hence leading to creativity (Whitaker, 2016). Furthermore, fairness and responsibility allows one to be able to focus on achieving what is right. In this case, I would therefore verify the tests thus ensuring that I come up with good results on time.
- Chapter 7 of our PMI Standard Portfolio text looks at the communication management knowledge area and the processes to develop the plans required to align the company with the strategic, governance, performance, and risk management processes.
What are the components required to complete a communications plan?
The following are the components of completing a communication plan:
Corresponding Work Style to Work Flow
Communication plans should provide team members with ways of communicating with each other, at the same time focusing on the significance of centralized documentation and more solemn processes for reaching out to the leaders and stakeholders of the company (Project Management Institute, 2013).
Creating momentum as an alternative of Response Loops
Allowing the employees to get access to too much information may otherwise affect the performance of the company. It is therefore required by the managers to control the type of information reaching the employees, to make sure they do not get information which might affect their performance at the company (Project Management Institute, 2013). In order to deal with this, the management of the company therefore provides information inform of threads to the employees, making sure that the provided information is useful to them.
Directing Ideas into Information
In order to foster effective communication, information should be filtered in the right way, thus making sure that the key information is not lost, and it is therefore passed to the employees in the right form (Project Management Institute, 2013). The management should pass the information regularly to the employees, to make sure they stay informed. In case of any issues arising, the employees should be alerted in the right way. Furthermore, the requests of the audience should also be met, through passing the right information to them in the right form. Finally, before passing an information to the public, it should be edited to make sure it is passed in the right way.
Reference
Whitaker, S. (2016). Pass the PMP® Exam: Tools, Tips and Tricks to Succeed.
Project Management Institute. (2013). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide).
