complete this project in three (3) months. Your business sponsors
are very interested in your approach to manage this project and they
are also demanding to see what the project team can deliver on a
weekly basis.
Due to the tight deadline, the project team was assembled quickly
with ten (10) team members of various backgrounds. There are
three (3) offshore developers in India and two (2) QA testers in San
Francisco, CA. The rest of the project team and the product owner
are in Herndon, VA. The team members were unfamiliar with each
other. Additionally, there are ethical issues. For example, a
developer has been consistently blaming an analyst for his accent
that has little to do with project development. Another QA tester
rarely spoke out in the meeting, but consistently went to her
management to complain about a couple project team members for
lacking of documentation for the delay on her QA plan and test
cases. When you started to run the project, you were told that the
project deadline was moved up two weeks. With such a pressure on
time, conflicts broke out and team morale is now down. You have to
help bring the project back on track by solving various conflicts and
improve the collaborative work effort.
Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:
Suggest an agile project management framework to your sponsors
and justify the agile framework best suited for this project.
Create a project plan for this project based on your proposed
framework through the use of MS Project or Excel. Note: List all
major milestones, resources, tasks and dependencies. Include tools
such as risk log to enhance your project plan.