The Trophy Project (Chapter 5, pp 264 - 266)

1. Provide a synopsis of the Trophy Project case study. Highlight your observations about the project.

Answer - The Trophy Project was project that was contracted out by a customer to a company. There was a project manager assigned to the project, with resources assigned to work on the project. However the project was always behind schedule due to work not being completed as assigned, due to project resources working on other projects. Even though the project manager had ownership and was responsible for the Trophy Project he did not have sufficient authority of control over people assigned to the project who were reporting to and hence worked as per directions of the functional manager. Six months into the project, the customer realized that...