Week 8: Assignment 4

Assignment 4: Robust Mindedness – Team Management

Due Week 8 and worth 125 points

Refer to the project from your local community or state that you described in Week 8, Discussion 1. You have learned that the unk-unk mind-set necessitates team management and creates a culture of encouraging problem reporting, valuing diversity, and utilizing social cohesion.

Write a three to four (3-4)  page paper in which you:

1. Describe to your project sponsor how you intend to develop and implement an infrastructure of your project's management systems, focusing on at least two (2) significant unk-unks.
2. Prepare a communication on how your project team uses social cohesion as it implements an infrastructure of one (1) of the five (5) areas of management systems.
3. Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Evaluate the organizational infrastructure for managing high-uncertainty projects.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing project risk.
• Write clearly and concisely about managing project risk using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using this rubric.