Fatima Abdulla Acct430- Project Management Final Project 1. The state and its OSC failed to provide strategic guidance to agencies as they confronted decisions on how to fulfill functionality lacking in CAS. What problems did this impose upon the agencies? Did the agencies contribute to their own conundrum? If so, how? (10 points) The lack of strategic guidance caused agencies to make their own decisions creating and purchasing different FMS as solutions for the lack of functionality in CAS. This resulted in having various independence systems, from small commercial components, in-house programs to ERP, (discrete solutions) across agencies which imposed many problems including: • Many agencies failed to provide OSC with their legally required financial reports after adopting the new FMS solution. Therefore, the officials were prevented from overseeing the financial activities of each agency. • High costs FMS solutions and poor quality interface with CAS • Ad hoc and nonintegrated software intensified information management problems • Lack of cost-effective integration capabilities • Cost and time inefficiencies; time to extract data and manually enter it into multiple systems • CAS has to support multiple interfaces and bear ultimate burden of data entry • Inconsistent standard and overlooked process reengineering needs All these issues made it even harder for OSC to control and manage its agency and the data flow or to establish a new central system that meet the needs of the stakeholders. Yes, agencies contributed to their own conundrum when they disapproved the idea of a statewide FMS solution and procured their own solution spending a lot of time and high expenses to establish a unique FMS with unguaranteed quality and lack ... ... middle of paper ... ...of the constraint triangle to this project? Be specific. (10 points) The scope, time and cost of any project are fully interrelated. Any adjustment to any of those items will affect the others. To illustrate: If OSC wants an early the finish date for the project, we are required to could spend more resources to finish faster or we will have to cut the scope of the project which will compromise the outcome of it. If OSC wants to finish the project with lesser cost, we can stretch the time schedule decreasing the number of employees and the amount of overtime to finish the project later or to cut the scope. If OSC wanted to add more features meaning to expand the scope, we will need more time or more people (cost). If OSC chose to reengineer the processes of the current CAS instead of establishing a whole new system, this smaller scope will require less cost.
HHSC requires its MCOs to continuously monitor compliance as well as investigate possible non-compliance, and has given the SIUs wide latitude to carry out those responsibilities. Specifically, an MCO must implement the following on-going procedures to detect possible FWA: (1) audits to monitor compliance and to assist in detecting and identifying program violations and possible FWA overpayments; (2) monitoring of service patterns; (3) hotline or other reporting mechanism; (4) random payment review of providers’ claims; (5) edits or other evaluation techniques; (6) routine validation of MCO data; and (7) verification that members actually received the services. (1 TAC
The second issue arising is their inability to have a standardize form of collecting and presenting data. One example is that both the Vice President of Marketing and the Director of Advanced Systems, collect and utilize the similar data for marketing purposes. Because both managers are collecting data for the relatively same purpose, there redundancy and a...
This will then add on more pressure for the professionals as funding is an essential to provide a service to people and will also affect the quality of service given. However in contrast to this there has been evidence to show that agencies joining up and working together had a higher chance to get funded, through joint funding arrangements rather than getting funded alone.
"For the first time since the plantation days artists began to touch new material, to understand new tools and to accept eagerly the challenge of Black poetry, Black song and Black scholarship."1
...oard and the support teams, need to collaborate and not only think about their personal gain in order to achieve the goal of completing the project in time.
The Service Center’s relationship between departments and their respective managers were strained and lacked successful communication. All the departments have drastically different issues and were unable to come together to make joint decisions for the greater good of the organization.
Compare and Contrast the National Defense Strategy (NDS) of the United States of America with the Nation...
The failure could have happened since the beginning of planning phase. The team that did this project might have not done the feasibility analysis appropriately, especially for the technical feasibility analysis. The whole team did not have the sufficient technical support, and this mistake underlied the whole system failure. Moreover, the mistake happening in the planning phase could have triggered the mistakes in further phases. The hospitals, furthermore, probably did not tend to rely on this service to generate profits.
The project manager should also consider backup plans for the project to ensure the projectit will end within the budget limitation. There are four ways to keep budget planning from becoming a game. The first is the sSteer clear of too-precise estimates, which can imply the total time taken to finish the project is a reality and not an estimation. Stakeholders could deal with business choices by considering these evaluations. The second way is considering leverage cost-estimating experts.
Divisions were very inconsistent in project tracking with some using detailed project planning, phase gate model and conduction after-action, while the rest did not use any.
The projects in today’s world are given a lot of importance and it will continue to grow in the coming years. There are a lot of companies which do not have production, but all of them do have projects. There are a lot of books which have been published on which related to planning and managing the projects. The one of the most important one was published by the author Eli Goldratt in his book ‘Critical chain’. This book basically talks and shows how the application of theory of constraints in the field of project management. The novel is basically based on one of the MBA classes in America where a number of ideas are developed in discussions among the students and the lecturers. The lecturer is basically fighting for a tenure with the president of the university who expects a downturn in the executive MBA. The lecturer who teaches project management has a word with one the senior colleagues and project management was the right topic to teach. There were three students who were placed in the project management team of their company which manufactures electronic products. The students are enrolled in this MBA class along with other students, here they discover a new approach to project management which is known as the
The resources that can affect the project schedule we look at Meredith and Mantel (2012) description of resources. “The fixed resources might include labor-hours of various types of special professional or technical services, machine-hours of various types of machinery or instrumentation, hours of computing time, specialized locations, and similar scarce resources needed for accomplishing project tasks” (p. 387). All of the resources can cause delays in the schedule, however a few of the examples sound very familiar. Machine hours can always cause problems, in most cases the machine that is needed is also a machine used in the day-to-day schedule. Working out the schedule of the machine with the functional group can cause delays. The hours of
The topic of my group (group 4) was “How to totally float through your project for free” and the presentation was held by Roger Goodman who works for PMI NZ and Ernst & Young supply chain management with many years of working experience in many different countries such as Saudi Arabia and China.
The team implementing the new system were required to do both functional and systematic requirements thus affecting the implementation of the new system
Most of these problems would be by the information system to help to increase efficiency.