For anyone working in San Francisco or Palo Alto area in a company, start-up, or NGO, I need help with my final project for the class Managing Global and Complex Projects. The letter below explains the amount of assistance I need. Please contact me if you have a project similar to the description and youre willing to help. Thankss!!!! Dear Sir/Madam: I am a student in the class Managing Complex and Global Projects, taught by professor Raymond Levitt at Stanford University this quarter. Our term project requires us to model the work process and organization for a modest sized project, or a manageable part of a larger project, that involves multiple concurrent tasks performed by separate disciplines or separate companies, for which technical requirements are demanding, schedule is tight, and which, therefore, might be of some concern to you or your colleagues in terms of its high coordination requirements. Our assignment is to model and simulate the organization executing the work process, identify schedule, cost and/or quality risks associated with the current baseline plan, explore alternative management interventions to address those risks, and present a report to your project team summarizing our recommendations. Total impact on your organization: • Initial meeting of about one hour to develop the baseline model. • Some intermediate communication by telephone, e-mail or face-to-face, for a total of up to two more hours, to verify that we have correctly understood and captured the work process and organization for this project or project element. • A final presentation of one hour, to present our recommendations to the contact person with whom we have worked on the project. • Totaling no more than about four contact hours over a period of about four weeks. I would like to clarify the level and amount of access we would require to do this term project, so you understand the potential impact on your project team. First, our student team needs to develop the baseline, as planned, model of the project. This requires the following tasks: • We first need to understand the goals of the project — the relative importance of technical scope and reliability, vs. schedule, vs. budget, and the trade-offs between them. • We will need to understand the tasks involved. • We will also need to understand the assignment of these tasks to different individuals, teams or contractors within the project organization, and reporting structure between members of the project team. • If you have a Primavera schedule and project organization chart, or similar materials, to share with us before the meeting, that would give us a very quick jumpstart on doing this. Once we have the baseline plan calibrated for the project, we will use the SimVision software developed at Stanford University to model and simulate the project team executing this work process, and will identify potential schedule, cost and quality risks. We will then develop and test a number of potential management interventions aimed at reducing these risks. We will develop a report that analyzes the part of the project we have studied, identifies the risks, and explains the effect of alternative management interventions to reduce these risks. Our final report to the instructor will include a description of the reactions of your project team members to our analysis and recommendations. Professor Levitt has told us that companies with whom student teams in this class have worked in the past typically volunteer new projects year after year, because they often gain unique kinds of insights from the organizational simulation, and because it gives them the chance to check out some potential hires. Nevertheless, please feel free to turn us down if this is not a good time for this kind of exercise, given the current situation of your project. We appreciate you considering this request. MELISA TOKMAK Stanford University ‘17 [email protected] Phone: +1(650) 804 3944
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:34:41 +0000
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