1. Recommend a project portfolio management method for your selected project. Provide a rationale for your recommendation. Provide and outline of an executive summary.
The project that I have selected is Medical Billing. I am recommending Quality Management Method. This is based on the information that the quality management projects have three major processes. The first process is in setting quality standards which are applicable to the project and identify how they reach their fulfillment. A key part of quality planning is the integration of quality standards in the project proposal. The second process is assurance quality it describes how to use the planned and systematic activities concerned with quality, so as to ensure utilization
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Goals:
These are the goals of this medical billing project: to be able to establish a home based medical billing in the Volusia County area by the end of 2015. To be able to acquire at least four accounts at the beginning of 2016.
3. Identify and discuss the importance of each of any five (5) deliverables of the project.
The use of term deliverable views the main outputs of the project management as being the new products, services or changed state that the project was set up to deliver. An additional view is that project management is a service and that the quality of project management is based not only on what is delivered but also on how it is delivered. This leads to a distinction between project management success and project success. Project deliverables are linked to ensuring the project is successful. Deliverables are the end products of a project or the measurable results of the intermediate activities within the project organizations. (Bryde, D., & Joby, R, 2007, Product Based Planning, p.367)
The five (5) deliverables that I considered to ensure the success of this project: (1) SWOT Analysis is used extensively in both academics and commercial practice. The origin of SWOT Analysis appear to be lost, or at least in contention. No matter who is ultimately responsible for the first SWOT, its use as an analytical tool has proliferated over the last fifty years. According to
* Management of the portfolio by means of a set of selection criteria for proposed projects, as well as reallocating, reprioritizing, and/or rescheduling current projects at various phases of the pipeline, (thus the portfolio and project management processes become interconnected, and the portfolio is constantly reevaluated).
The list of deliverables from the Project Scope should be listed, as well as, whether or not they were met and any worthwhile notes about the process. The scope
Q1. Discuss the steps that Comau took to strengthen its project portfolio management process and its project management skills within Comau.
PM within organizations is gaining momentum and an indispensable component of the work flow procedure. Improving organization project management can effectively improve an organization use of resources. Nevertheless, if an an organization does not possess a clean target and does not follow project phases no one willing enters into the transformational journey. The issue is the bottom line in PM, whether it is to better the organization financially, ethically, or for standardization of procedures. Constitutions must be cognizant of the elements and competencies required to receive a successful PM outcome. In the closing, business should have an active strategy to revise and adapt to the shifting marketplace.
Quality management is essential to the success of the quality improvement of the health care industry. “Management uses management and planning tools to organize the decision making process and create a hierarchy when faced with competing priorities “( Ransom, et al., 2008). Quality measures should have these goals: effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely care (Quality Measures, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2011).
The deliverable for Part 1 is a written proposal for the project selection criteria and a high level description of a proposed portfolio management process. You may also be expected to make an informal presentation of the report in class.
3. Your project should be presented in report format and should contain an Executive Summary and a Bibliography. Use of Appendices would be appropriate.
Project quality is concerned with two ultimate goals i.e. efficiency of processes employed in the implementation of the project and ensuring the quality of the end-product, So that the product is “fit for use” and covers all the needs of user and its cost effectiveness. PMBOK recommends suggests employing quality planning, assurance and control for quality implementation of the project. In simple terms it is necessary to produce a quality product that the projects are being run with quality. That is why experts of the fields believe that quality of project guarantees the quality of end-product (Windmüller, 2013).
Healthcare providers strive to improve service quality by implementing various quality management programs. Customers tend to seek for higher quality of care when choosing treatments, providers, and health plans. For healthcare organizations that desire to provide high quality care and compete in the global market, choosing a quality management program to implement is critical for performance and efficiency. Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effectiveness of such programs. Lean, Six Sigma and Total Quality Management (TQM) are three programs that will reviewed by three different case studies in efforts to understand them and to compare and contrast their capabilities.
1. Discuss the principal reasons why project management has become such a popular business tool in recent years.
Portfolio management supports an organization’s mission and goals by ensuring the program is managed properly and the timing is on a set schedule. Portfolio management supports the accomplishments and the preferred outcomes. The tools and techniques involved assist with the efficiency and the effectiveness. The portfolio management supports in the organization utilizes the resources where they can be applied throughout the organization. Portfolio management assists with creating the operational needs throughout the period of the project. The portfolio management achieves with the vision, mission, and goals and even identify the risk. The time cost and all resources that would be required help identifying within the goals.
Question 1. The twelve guidelines are presented in no particular order. Order them by level of importance and explain your reasoning. Answer The twelve guidelines should be order as below, the reason also is stated at the behind of each title. 1) Understand the context of project management. Much of the difficulty in becoming an effective project manager lies in understanding the particular challenges project management. 2) Understand who the stakeholders are and what they want.
A project portfolio is a group of projects that share and compete for the same resources and are carried out under the sponsorship or management of an organization (Archer & Ghasemzadeh, 1999a, 1999b). Turner and Müller (2003, p. 7) defined a portfolio as “an organization (temporary or permanent) where projects are managed together to coordinate interfaces, prioritize resources between projects, and thereby
Project Quality Management – identifying and following quality requirements, and audit the results to ensure quality control measurements to provide a quality product/service.
1. Assume that at retirement you have accumulated $825,000 in a variable annuity contract. The assumed investment return is 5.5% and your life expectancy is 18 years. What is the hypothetical constant benefit payment?