Audit Report

PJM 6140 Midterm and Final Exam

Supporting Info – Notes from Instructor

To minimize confusion, when working on the project schedule, assume it is November 2, 2015 and you have just been hired as the new project manager on the Health Systems case. For the midterm: Once you have read all the files, I am sure you’d have discovered a number of problems with the case. My recommendation is to take some notes down as you go through the files a second time. Ask yourself: What seems out of place, what is not accurate, what is out of order? Once you are done with the notes, you can group them in order of the different requirements for the assignment. You can expand on each of your notes by synthesizing some of references from the weekly lectures and assigned material. This should help you put together a good audit report that addresses the necessary points. For the final: For assistance, recall each lesson from weeks 4-6. What did we cover in week 4? Any of the factors we discussed that apply to this case? What did we talk about in terms of re-scoping a troubled project? What about the re-estimation? What about the baseline? As you recall each of the lectures and the assigned reading material that you read, you will find that many of these apply to this case. Next, keep in mind that as with many troubled projects, available information is poor and somewhat unclear. The final exam case is designed purposefully with such unclear information. It is up to you, the project manager, to make reasonable assumptions, and to address the requirements of the assignment based on these stated assumptions. As a result, I expect that you will build from your specific recommendations in the midterm, and layout a course of action, based on these recommendations. Do you need to determine the correct date? Yes, there is a discrepancy in the information as to the final date, so you will need to make a determination which is correct and layout a plan that will meet the recommended date. The plan should be logical and based on improvements to the project schedule. For this work, you do not need to create new requirements. Though this would need to be done, this is not a business analysis course, or a system design course. This is a course on recovering troubled projects and your role is that of the recovering project manager. You can reuse the existing requirements, but indicate in your paper if some requirements are missing and how you plan to address such gap.

Same with the requirements traceability matrix, but you will need to indicate the issues that you uncovered with the requirements and how you plan to address these based on the lessons we covered in the course. Should the project be terminated? No. I expect that you will make a recommendation for recovery and explain how you will recover the project. Hope this information helps. If you still have additional questions, please post them in the Q/A forum so that all of your classmates can benefit from any further clarifications.