question : Examine the plan should be developed for achieving excellence in project management ? (25 marks)

(Source Project management case studies / Harold Kerzner - 2nd ed. p. cm.) Macon was a fifty-year-old company in the business of developing test equipment for the tire industry. The company had a history of segregated departments with much focused functional line managers. The company had two major technical departments: mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Both departments reported to a vice president for engineering, whose background was always mechanical engineering. For this reason, the company focused all projects from a mechanical engineering perspective. The significance of the test equipment's electrical control system was often minimized when, in reality, the electrical control systems were what made Macon's equipment outperform that of the competition. Because of the strong autonomy of the departments, internal competition existed. Line managers were frequently competing with one another rather than focusing on the best interest of Macon. Each would hope the other would be the cause for project delays instead of working together to avoid project delays altogether. Once dates slipped, fingers were pointed and the problem would worsen over time