Assignment #4- Termination Determination

OBJECTIVE- To use your knowledge of the closure and termination phase of a project and use the course materials and additional research to advise the organization’s leadership. Your answers will demonstrate your ability to apply the course concepts in practice in a real-world context. 

 DIRECTIONS- For this assignment there will be a series of depictions of real projects that have problems or may be a success. They have reached the closure and termination phase of the project, and you have been asked to review

Please provide written answers to each question/scenario. Your answers DO NOT have to be an APA formatted paper. You do however need double-spaced lines and indent the first lines of each paragraph. Make sure your name is on the assignment as well as the name of the assignment. You will also include a reference list in APA format. One in-text citation is required for each scenario, but you may repeat sources for multiple scenarios.

Use these steps to help you navigate the assignment.

1.     Read through each scenario and identify the delay involved and the type of termination that is likely to occur or that has happened. Make sure to tell me why you think that to be true. Develop your answer with at least one citation on your reference list and an in-text citation. NOTE: There may be more than one correct answer so explaining your reasoning will be critical. You can also point out what information is missing in the scenario to help you make that decision.

2.     Don’t use bullet point lists. Write your answers using complete sentences and in paragraph form with each question distinguished with the scenario number or other descriptor.

3.     Once completed, save the document (use your name in the file name) as either a Word Document or PDF.

4.     Do a spell check using Grammarly.com or MS Word’s editor function and review any grammar errors and make the changes prior to submission.

5.     Take the rubric quiz to self-evaluate your submission. Make any changes needed and then upload the final document in the assignment dropbox in the online classroom.

GRADING RUBRIC

THE SCENARIOS

1.     Your organization’s leadership has come to you to help them do a third-party project evaluation because they let the project manager go based on his quality of work on this project, and they know the project is way behind schedule and the project spending is not within the plan. The first thing you need to investigate is the type of delay this is and what kind of termination is warranted based on the circumstances. Based on the type of project termination, tell them what things they need to consider before they make their final decision.

2.     You are the executive director of a nonprofit organization. You have a project that has been successfully completed in terms of the project deliverables, but now the question is what should we do with the project in terms of its closure? Here are the details from the project manager’s evaluation. The project was successful in identifying a new service the organization can offer its clients and there are new funding streams that you can access through your existing relationships with some of the government organizations you already work with in your program services department. As you think about your staff, you realize that the program director is a “drama queen”. She complains frequently about how much work is on her plate and how understaffed she is. This will weigh heavily in your decision because you anticipate that there will be a delay in closing the project until some decisions are made.

3.     You are the project manager for this new product the company is planning to launch next year. Over the last six months, you have been diligently keeping the team on schedule and there’s been little use of the contingency funds. You expect that at this point in the project everything is on target for a successful completion in a few months. This morning you got an internal memo that says the CEO of the company was asked to resign by the board of directors and they have named one of the board members as the interim CEO. Apparently, there has been some financial mismanagement that has been traced to the C-suite. Now, a week later, you get a call from the interim CEO’s assistant who says she’d like to meet with you this morning about the project’s future. A member of your team sees you sitting in your cube with your head in your hands and says, what’s up friend? You tell them what you think is going to happen with the project and why.

4.     You work as a contract project manager for a company that is building a new warehouse for them to store and ship the new product line they have been developing in a separate project. A few of your project management colleagues in Europe and Asia start texting you frantically early in the morning today. It seems that the new US President has imposed huge tariffs on Canada, the European Union, and China. You haven’t received all the lumber and steel for the warehouse. Furthermore, the new product line that is also in jeopardy of project delay because the primary customer for the new products will be people in Canada and Europe. At this week’s project team meeting, which encompasses both US based and international team members, you need to address these developments with some description of what you believe is likely to happen. There are a lot of variables but tell them what you think about the type of delay(s) you anticipate in completing the project and what type of project termination may result.