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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?