Individual Assignment

Individual Assignment: Characterizing Projects and Measuring Project Success

Read: “What makes a project successful?”

“The Diamond Framework”

2013 PMI Project of the Year Finalist Nemours Childrens Hospital & Video

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5UYshxGjVs

Prepare the answers to these questions.

1) Describe the project in a short paragraph. Be sure to include 5W2H – who, what, why, where, when, how, how much. Others may not have read about this project so set the stage for them.

2) If you were the project manager for this project, pick one or two measures of success that you would select to be your primary focus. Use the 5 dimensions of success in Shen & Dvir’s “What makes a project successful”. Be specific and describe them in the context of the project.

3) Using the Shen & Dvir’s Diamond Framework (described in “The Diamond Framework”), classify the project. Be sure your classification is consistent with the answer to the next question.

Novelty:

Technology:

Complexity:

Pace:

Required:

Introduction and conclusion

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