How would you convince or \"sell\" the notion of project management to senior ma

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How would you convince or "sell" the notion of project management to senior management as an effective tool to use in a large, multinational organization? Please be prepared to defend you response. How would you run a "Kick-off" meeting to gain the maximum (buy-in) from the "reluctant dragons" in the organization? Please be prepared to defend your response. "Damn the torpedoes: full-speed ahead." Is it possible that this military philosophy can be applied to project management and lead to the project's success? How? Why? Please be prepared to defend your response. What are the benefits and pitfalls of having multiple bosses in a matrix organization? Please be prepared to defend your response. What are the benefits and pitfalls of cross training several assistant-project management functions. Please be prepared to defend your response.

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Any project to be convinced to the top management, it needs to have the direct impact on the profit of the business. By working a route map showing how it directly impacts the profit of the organization, the top management will definitely the proposal for the new project. Top gets impressed only by profit.

First you need to analyse what the reluctant dragons are upto. You first need to analyse their weaknesses. In the kick off meeting you need to prepare arguments that directly attacks their weaknesses. But doing so the reluctant dragons to safeguard their positions in the organization, and they dont want you to touch their weakness, they will surely allow you to sail through the kick off show without any hazzles.

A military's approach cannot be applied to the project management. In a project management you need to accommodate everybody. You cannot be perfect all the time. A military rule requires to be perfect all the time. You will have weaknesses, your team member will have weaknesses, and that will get exposed in the military rule. So a military rule is definitely not on in a project management.

The benefit of having multiple bossed s in a organization is that if one of the bosses is not available to make critical decisions, the other person is available to take the necessary decisions. One of the major pitfalls of having multiple bosses are that there are too much of orders flowing from the top to the subordinates and the peers are in a dilemma to follow which of the instructions.

The benefits of cross training several assistant management functions, people get the knowledge about the cross functions in the project. One of the major pitfalls of the cross functions are that the major functions has the possibility to get affected by the cross training measures.

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