Textbook:
Project Management, 5th Edition.
Edition by: Cleveland and Ireland.
ISBN 0-13: 978-0-07-147160-2, ISBN-10: 0-07 147160-X
2.20 STUDENT/READER ASSIGNMENT
The reader/student should select an organization with which he or she is familiar and accomplish
the following:
1. Identify the internal and external projects that are underway in the organization.
2. Determine the strategic or operational changes that each of the projects will likely impact.
3. Assess the effectiveness with which each project is being managed. Are there differences in how
such projects are being managed?
4. Identify some probable forthcoming changes likely to impact the organization for which project
management concepts and process can be applied.
5. Give thought to what project management principles might be applied in the management of
these projects.
3.13 STUDENT/READER ASSIGNMENT
The reader should do a “self-test” by seeking the answers to the following questions as well as
following the instructions indicated for a fuller appreciation of the processes involved in tracking,
monitoring, and controlling the design and execution of strategic management done in the context
of projects.
1. Why does it make sense to review the status of the projects in an enterprise when evaluating the
performance of strategic management within the enterprise?
2. Select an organization with which the reader is familiar and identify the “stream of projects” in
that organization that should be reviewed to ascertain how well the organization is being pre-
pared for its future.
3. What does a “failing” project in an enterprise do to the development and execution of future strate-
gies for the organization? Identify some “failing” projects in an organization with which you are
familiar. Relate these “failures” to difficulties on the organization’s part in the design and execution
of future changes expected in the organization’s environments.
4. Based on your current understanding of project management, what alternative strategies might
be available to use in managing change in the enterprise?
5. What information should the project team have to make a strategic management control system
operable?
