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It was now March 15, just a month and a half before the new online registration system was supposed to go live. The project was in total chaos. Sue Johnson thought she could handle all of the conflicts that kept occurring on the project, and she was too proud and scared to admit to her top management or the college president that things were not going well. She spent a lot of time preparing a detailed schedule for the project, and she thought she was using the project management software well enough to keep up with project status. However, the five main programmers on the project all figured out a way to generate automatic updates for their tasks every week, saying that everything was completed as planned. They paid very little attention to the actual plan and hated filling out status information. Sue did not check most of their work to verify that it was completed. In addition, the head of the Registrar's Office was uninterested in the project and delegated sign-off responsibility to one of his clerks, who did not completely understand the registration process. When Sue and her team started testing the new system, she learned they were using last year's course data, which caused additional problems because the college was moving from quarters to semesters in the new term. How could they have missed that requirement? Sue hung her head in shame and anguish as she walked into a meeting with her manager to ask for help. She learned the hard way how difficult it was to keep a project on track. She wished she had spent more time talking face-to-face with key project stakeholders, especially her programmers and the Registrar's Office representatives, to verify that the project was on schedule and that the schedule was updated accurately. Source: Schwalbe, K. (2019), Information Technology Project Management. 9th edition, Cengage Leaming Question 5 (15 Marks) 5.1 Based on the scenario, critique Sue Johnson's project management skills. 5.2 The college president has approached you and asked for your advice on how he can ensure that the online registration system is a success. (10 Marks) It was now March 15, just a month and a half before the new online registration system was supposed to go live. The project was in total chaos. Sue Johnson thought she could handle all of the conflicts that kept occurring on the project, and she was too proud and scared to admit to her top management or the college president that things were not going well. She spent a lot of time preparing a detailed schedule for the project, and she thought she was using the project management software well enough to keep up with project status. However, the five main programmers on the project all figured out a way to generate automatic updates for their tasks every week, saying that everything was completed as planned. They paid very little attention to the actual plan and hated filling out status information. Sue did not check most of their work to verify that it was completed. In addition, the head of the Registrar's Office was uninterested in the project and delegated sign-off responsibility to one of his clerks, who did not completely understand the registration process. When Sue and her team started testing the new system, she learned they were using last year's course data, which caused additional problems because the college was moving from quarters to semesters in the new term. How could they have missed that requirement? Sue hung her head in shame and anguish as she walked into a meeting with her manager to ask for help. She learned the hard way how difficult it was to keep a project on track. She wished she had spent more time talking face-to-face with key project stakeholders, especially her programmers and the Registrar's Office representatives, to verify that the project was on schedule and that the schedule was updated accurately. Source: Schwalbe, K. (2019), Information Technology Project Management. 9th edition, Cengage Leaming Question 5 (15 Marks) 5.1 Based on the scenario, critique Sue Johnson's project management skills. 5.2 The college president has approached you and asked for your advice on how he can ensure that the online registration system is a success. (10 Marks)

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1 Based on the scenario it seems that Sue Johnson could improve her project management skills by spending more time communicating with key project stakeholders verifying that tasks are completed as pl... View the full answer