It Project Management

Week 2 Assignment 1

IT Project Management Assessment

By

Alemu Ketema

Presented to

Dr. Albert D

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for

CIS 511 – IT Project Management

May 12, 2011, 2012

INTRODUCTION: PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS BEHIND PRAIRIE’S WATERS PROJECT IN AURORA, COLORADO

Prairie Waters Project in Aurora, Colorado, USA was the recipient of the highly anticipated award offered every year by the Project Management Institute’s Project of the Year Award.

It’s an acknowledged fact that both the project managers and team members should abide by the ethical project management practices so as to unveil the project as scheduled and in an efficient manner. Especially, the project managers should incorporate ethical business practices and integrate them into project planning and execution.

In the case of Prairie Waters Project, project managers and team alike exhibited exceptional project management skills which was quite exemplary. One of the basic exceptional ethical practices which the managers exerted in the Prairie’s water-purification and recycling system was that they completed the project ahead of time due to savings to good planning and trimming nonessential features from the plant, which really denotes exception and ethical project management skills.

With this regard, we shouldn’t forget the role of the project manager's as it will destroy or triumph every IT Project. Differently expressed, one of the major or top, if you will, responsibility of the project manager is to successfully plan, execute, monitor, control and close any given project which the firm or organization is working on.

By the same token, among the skills required by a project manager, the ability to ask searching questions and persevere until a clear answer is obtained is quite important. Many of the failures in today’s IT Projects could be avoided if questions were articulated fully and if the answers were given clearly and in detail. In...