MGT5PLS Project Leadership Assessment Task 2

Project 1

You are asked to lead a software development project in your capacity as the senior software developer at IBM. This project will create software that will be used by 1430 sales representatives within Hyundai Motor Company. Amin, your manager at IBM, is apprehensive about the project because you may have to deal with a bunch of different people with different positions in different organizations on the one hand. On the other hand, this is your Urst experience in leading an external project requiring you to prepare you and your team to undertake the project even in uncertain events or conditions that may impact the project’s objectives. Therefore, Amin wants you to keep him posted on all aspects of the project, while working with other stakeholders. This may require you to have a plan for your leadership and communication. So far, you know your sponsor, Charlie, agrees that he and Amin should have status reports every week to keep them abreast of the project. Many of the salespeople would also like to know what’s happening with the project, as the software will help them improve their sales and commissions. Your project will also work with six vendor-based contract developers that will help your team develop the code for the software. The six developers are not physically located in your building but are in Australia and in India. You’ve also hired a freelance writer to work with your ten-person project team to write the help system content for the application. All this requires adopting strategies to manage changes, improve communications and eventually accelerate the project.

3. Description of assessment:

During your presentation, please address the following questions:

1. What would be the key leadership challenges for your chosen project? What would be the key leadership challenges for your chosen project?
2. How do you intend to tackle these challenges during different phases of the project’s lifecycle? How do you intend to tackle these challenges during different phases of the project’s lifecycle?
3. After addressing the Urst two questions, would you call yourself a 'team of agile leaders'? why? After addressing the Urst two questions, would you call yourself a 'team of agile leaders'? why?

Make sure you target your presentation to an appropriately senior leadership group. Prepare your presentation as a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation, with roughly 5 minutes per student 5 minutes per student (to a maximum of 20 minutes for the whole presentation 20 minutes for the whole presentation).