Bart (Project Sponsor) has requested a status report on your project from Part 2

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Bart (Project Sponsor) has requested a status report on your project from Part 2, Situation 1.

Situation 1: Business disruption has become a serious concern of the company president who wants to see a detailed plan before the work begins. She explains that current work must be completed in the old hangar and all new work is to being in the new hangar.

1. As the project manager, how will you satisfy these requirements for continuity of business?

2. The president is concerned about the 10-day window. What can you do to reassure her that you can do the job on time?

Explanation / Answer

Part 1:

Major factors which will be taken care of are:

1) To analyze the current position of the project.

2) Create new timlines of the tasks to be finished at handed.

3) Working a backward timlines deciding approach, each task to be completed by working overtime on it.

4) All the critical task to be identified and to be completed on priority .

5) Identification of bottlenecks at the early stage of the project and rectifying them at early stages.

6) Getting project sponsor on board for increasing the team size inturn bandwidth to complete the task on time without effecting the buiness continutity

7) New project gantt chart will be prepared from backward approach consiering the 10 day window in considering and identifying the bottlenecks during early phases or during the kickoff meeting for the project.

8)Bringing the president on board by taking the buy in for his/her responsiblity to get the necessary approval on time to complete the tasks in hand on time. Any delay in approvals will create a delay in delivery of the project.

Kindly note: The response is based the on the generic question placed on the board, without giving much background about the case.

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