Case study: Motivation Alice is a software project manager working in a company that develops alarm systems. This company wishes to enter the growing market of assistive technology to help elderly and disabled people live independently. Alice has been asked to lead a team of 6 developers than can develop new products based around the company's alarm technology Alice's assistive technology project starts well . Good working relationships develop within the team and creative new ideas are developed. The team decides to develop a peer-to-peer messaging system using digital televisions linked to the alarm network for communications. However, some months into the project, Alice notices that Dorothy, a hardware design expert, starts coming into work late, the quality of her work deteriorates and increasingly, that she does not appear to be communicating with other members of the team. Alice talks about the problem informally with other team members to try to find out if Dorothy's personal circumstances have changed, and if this might be affecting her work. They don't know of anything, so Alice decides to talk with Dorothy to try to understand the problem. After some initial denials that there is a problem, Dorothy admits that she has ! ost interest in the job. She expected that she would be able to develop and use her hardware interfacing skills. However, because of the product direction that has been chosen, she has little opportunity for this. Basically, she is working as a C programmer with other team members. Although she admits that the work is challenging, she is concerned that she is not developing her interfacing skills. She is worried that finding a job that involves hardware interfacing will be difficult after this project. Because she does not want to upset the team by revealing that she is thinking about the next project, she has decided that it is best to minimize conversation with them. Refer to the textbook, page 605, read the case study carefully and answer the questions. 1. Alice as a project manager managed to get creative new ideas from her team. The main reason behind that is: [0.5 Mark] a. Entering the growing market of assistive technology b. Good working relationships develop within the team. c. Developing a peer-to-peer messaging system d. Informing her team with every progress on the project 2. Briefly, explain Dorothy's problem. [1 Mark] members 3. When Alice noticed Dorothy's problem, first she talked about the problem informally with other team [0.5 Mark] a. True b. False 4. The main concem of Alice while managing Dorothy's problem was? [0.5 Mark] a. Changing the technology that they decided to fit Dorothy's skills b. Terminate Dorothy from the project c. Is Dorothy's personal circumstances might be affecting her work? d. Did give the matter any concem 5. Considering Dorothy issue as a risk for the project, it can be considered as a technology risk: [0.5 Mark] a. True 6. False 6. The probability of this risk is: [0.5 Mark] a. High b. Very high d. Moderate 7. The effect level of this risk is? [0.5 Mark] a. Serious b. Catastrophic c. Insignificant d. Tolerable 8. What else you could do if you were the project manager? [1 Mark] c. Low