Project Management Essay -- Business, Team Development

1. Introduction In nowadays society, the using of project management is more and more common today. The entrepreneurs are more likely to employ staffs who have learnt project management. So that learning the skill of project management is more useful and also important now. Larson and Erik (2011) mention that good project manager are trained or come from experience, not born. For this reason, in this essay it will discuss the fit between some published theories on project management and personal practice as a result of my participation in the Fit as a Fiddle project. 2. Project human resource management 2.1 Team development A project team is a group of people who working together to accomplish the project objective. According to Larson and Erik (2006, p343), there are two way of synergy, positive synergy and negative synergy. â€Å"The essence of positive synergy can be found in the phrase, ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.’ Conversely, negative synergy occurs when the whole is less than the sum of the parts.† For this reason to have an effective project team is significant for the project to success. Clear and Khan (2010, p62) mention that there are four stages of team development has defined by B. W. Tuckman, which is forming, storming, norming, and performing. Forming is the first stage of the team development process. It requires the team member to know their selves’ roles and position. Moreover the project manager has to provide direction and structure (Ibid). At this stage, in the first meeting of our team the team leader has given out the scope of the Fit as a Fiddle project. Afterwards started an initial plan has given out and at the end of the meeting set the task for next meeting. These just show ou... ...en take a project it must consider the risk, and it is an uncertain factor. It only can minimise by using a various tools. For the risk assessment, first produces a list of potential risks, then using scenario analysis to assess it (Larson and Erik, 2006, p211). Using the method at the fit as a fiddle project, our team have list 5 risks, and discussed the likelihood, Potential Impact and solutions. 7. Conclusion On the basis of the above discussion, there are a number of project management theories used in the fit as a fiddle project, and compared to my personal experience most of the theories are fit. However this is a virtual work only focus on the design part, and some of the result may not accurate. Although this may be true, through the work, I have enhanced the understanding of project management and gain the technique and experience of project management.