Sunday, September 27, 2009

Internal politics

Internal politics effect the project all the time. There many ways to get a job and tons of diferent ways to view problems in the world. take farming for example. every farm milks a cow differently. someone poeple in my home town still milk the same as what they did back when they were 12 or 13 years old. some people have upgraded the way how they milked. quickly think of away to get to 100 using two or more numbers. will it be the same way as one of your classmates probably not. That is why leadership is needed for a project to help solve the internal politics factors when deciding the goal of the project, how the project is going to get done, what is required for the project to done, and make sure the project is done correctly. You have to remember that everyone is going to have a different view point on what is the correct path to go to get the project done correctly. Every farmer has different ways of getting the milk out of the cow you just have to ask your self what you think is the most effect and correct way. internal politics also just help with raising question that ask are we doing this project correctly?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Why Projects Fail

I think the main reasons why projects fail are: The team is unable to work togethere, poor management of the team, and underskills or was not trained in the correct activities and requirements need to be appart of the team. A team working able to work together is a big part to being able to get projects done. Think of being in a car where there are 5 stiring wheels. the driver wants to LaCross. The front seat passenger want to go Green Bay. The people in the back seat just want to go in their own direction. how far is this car going to go and will the drive ever make it to LaCross. probably not because because everyone will be fight to go in their own direction. this expamle can mold both poor management because the drive is suppost be in charge of the car and direct it where to go and a team that is unwilling to work togetheir. If one of those five drivers were not trained corectly they would probably crash the car. All of these problems also fall under the leaders responisibility also to make sure that the team is able to work togethere, that the team is being manage correctly, and that everyone was trained correctly/ the leader had the correct skills. So as long as their is one leader in the car and he has everyone doing what they are suppost to be doing like being a navigator, insteated of trying drive the car in a different direction of the leader, and the people in the back seats are managing the food and keeping the drive and other entertianted. the project "car" should get to where it was ment to go, from drives view point.