November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
5h 32m
English
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2Understanding the Project Environment and the Impact on Problem Solving
2.0 Understanding the Project Environment1
There are several activities that project teams must perform. Two key activities carried out in the management of a team include: deciding what needs to be done and then doing it. In this chapter we deal with the decision-making process when managing within a project environment.
A decision is the act or process of selecting a course of action after consideration of the alternative ways that resources can be used to attain organization objectives. In the process of making a decision on traditional projects, the decision-maker—usually a team member or a subject matter expert assigned to the team—carries out certain activities:
- Evaluation of the current environment and situation
- Assessment of what the situation and environment will be when the decision will be implemented
- Analysis of how the decision will affect the “stakeholders” who have an interest in the outcome of the decision
- Selection of a strategy on how the decision will be implemented.
Decision-making is the process through which alternatives are evaluated and a course of action is selected as the solution to a problem, opportunity, or issue.
Team decisions are inseparable from the team and the organizational planning elements: mission, objectives, goals, and strategies. Every principal decision made in the context of a project team's activities should help the team members to decide
- What is to be done? ...
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