CMGT 410 Week 5 Individual: Comparison of Project Management Models

Individual: Comparison of Project Management Models

Individual

Mar 28, 2016 11:59 PM

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Instructions:

Consider the following scenario:

Your company has been using Traditional Project Management (TPM)

methods for years, but is now looking into the possibility of adopting

agile practices. Your boss has asked you to prepare a paper comparing

TPM to agile practices and summarizing the benefits and limitations of

each.

Write a 5- to 7-page paper including, at a minimum, the following

information:

• Briefly describe the TPM waterfall method.

• Briefly describe one or more Agile project management approaches.

• Compare and contrast TPM and Agile methods, emphasizing the

strengths and weaknesses of each.

• Discuss what kind of projects would be more appropriate for TPM

approaches and what types would be more appropriate for Agile

approaches.

• Discuss how a project approach is selected for different types of

project. Provide an example by selecting an approach for one of the

following projects, and explaining your rationale for the selection.

Remember to focus on the project approach and not get involved in the

technical details of the project.

• Converting a large enterprise from using IPv4 to IPv6

• Managing a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project to

modernize and integrate a major company's business systems

(accounting, sales, logistics, manufacturing, etc.) into an enterprise-

wide unified architecture

• Building a new data center for an international business

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