The project to build a new middle school for the Baldwin Independent School Dist

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The project to build a new middle school for the Baldwin Independent School District (BISD) is near complete. In fact, you plan to do the final walk-through in about two weeks. On a Friday afternoon, you receive a call from the president of the school board, and he mentions that many of the teachers are adamant they need a separate facility where they can conduct in-service trainings. Unfortunately, the president and other school leaders failed to seek feedback from the teachers when creating the project charter. The president reminds you that this is the start of a long-term relationship, and wants you to overlook any change fees. Given the grand opening date is solidified, he would like for you to confirm that the additional training room can be built without increasing the project’s cost. How do you handle this situation? Do you tell the president to take a hike? Should you try to accommodate the president and other key stakeholders? What if the change fees are explicitly addressed in the contract? Do you have the unilateral power to waive them?

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Ans. Here according to the information, when the project was about to complete the school teachers have shown their aggression about making the changes in the facility, requiring a separate facility for conducting the trainings.

The issue was actually not framing the project charter correctly at the time of initiation of the project. And because of the things are going to be delayed. Not only delayed but also the extra fee is also going to incurred apart from the negotiated amount.

To handle such situation, one has to apply the tradeoff between cost & time. The concept of crashing is going to implemented here, so that those activities which are lying on the critical path are going to crashed first.

In any Project, one has to satisfy the each individual stakeholder. And one can not move all alone on any aspect. The fees should be explicitly addressed and known to concerned stakeholder. There is no such thing as the unilateral power to waive off.

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