Saturday, August 4, 2012

Week 6 Blog Assignment The project I worked on was when I was working on my Master’s at Troy University. It was our capstone class and we had to do a SWOT analysis on a company. SWOT stands for strength, weakness, opportunities and threats. The company we chose was Dell. The project team consisted of 5 of us. We decided to make someone project manager because he did SWOT analysis in the Army and was very familiar with the process. Our schedule was to meet every week at the library and go over our particular portion of the project. There was a timelines of when things had to be turned in. The project managers would be absent more than present towards the end of the project. Honestly, we depended on him a little too much because he did most of the work in the beginning. In the end, some of us had to step up to make decision and make changes to our project. One area we had to change but didn’t was the scope of the project. The project manager had the wrong information and everyone was scared to say something. I knew it was wrong based on my notes but was scared as well. We presented our presentation to the professor and he said we did a good job but our scope was wrong. WOW!!!! Looking back at that situation, I would surely speak up now and not second guess myself. I learned there are no bad questions when it comes to working on a project. Also, I would have stepped up more in the absence of the project manager.