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Strayer University Project Management Best Practices Discussion

 

To successfully complete this week’s discussion you will need to:

  • Refer to the first three chapters in your Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence textbook:
    • Chapter 1, “Understanding Best Practices.”
    • Chapter 2, “From Best Practice to Migraine Headache.”
    • Chapter 3, “Journey to Excellence.”
  • Review this playlist of videos from LinkedIn Learning: Basecamp: Project Management Best Practices [total time 57:53].

For the purpose of this discussion, assume you are a newly minted Chief Information Officer (CIO) at an organization. The company you have joined does not have a history of adhering to project management best practices.

Please respond substantively to the following (3/4–1-page):

  • Recommend to your Chief Executive Officer (CEO) a strategy and process to develop project management standards for the organization even though it has been operating without these types of standards in the past.
  • Explain the main reasons that the strategy and process you are recommending will be effective.

Be sure to provide full citations and references, formatted according to Strayer Writing Standards.

  • For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.

Please respond substantively to at least one other post (1/4–1/2-page). Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses.

In your response to your classmate, consider questions such as the following:

  • What do you find particularly effective about your classmate’s recommended strategy and process?
  • What objections do you anticipate the CEO might have to your classmate’s recommendation?
  • What suggestions do you have for your classmate on how to address the CEO’s objections?