week 1 bu 329 managing project teams
As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and your peers, please post the following:
- Your name and a description of your current position (If not employed, what are your expectations when you complete your program?)
- How do you see yourself applying knowledge from this course?
- Post a photo of yourself (self-portrait, family, or action photo)
Answer the following questions:
Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.
Dennis is a newly assigned project manager at ABC Corporation. While reviewing some project documentation, he came across some best practices for how to use human factors to align a project team to better meet the goals of a project. His main project is revising the operating instructions for how the accounts payable department manages their payment processing activity.
Considering this please address the following prompts in your discussion:
- How you would use the human factors of project management to motivate your project team in order to achieve the goal of streamlining the payment process?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 20 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 Hours
Peer Response: Unit 1, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT
Instructions:
- Please respond to a minimum of two peers.
- In your response please consider the following:
- Are these human factors, or project factors?
- Is it possible he will see any pushback?
- Do you have other ideas on how to motivate the team?
- Include at least one open-ended question in your response to which you would like your peer(s) to respond.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Estimated time to complete: 1 Hour