IENG300 – Engineering Project Management Page 1 Lebanese Internatio nal Uni versity School of Engineering Department of Electrical EngineeringSpring 2012IENG300 – Engineering Project Management Assignment 4 Solution Instructor:Dr. Bassam Hussein Due Date: Week 11Exercise 10.2: Codes of ethics are pretty instrumental in providing guidance to the members of particular professional soc iety. PMI is o ne o f those societies a nd its members are professional project managers. Codes of ethi cs play the f ollowing roles in general: oServe & protect the public. oProvide guidance. oOffer inspiration. oEstablish shared standards. oSupport responsible professionals. oContribute to education. oDeter wrongdoing. oStrengthen the image of the engineering profession Adhering to the guidelines provided will constitute a behavior that is most probably ethical and not doing so would be considered as unethical. Based on those guidelines, appropriate and inappropriate behavior may be correlated accordingly. Exercise 10.5 This exercise is designed to illustrate the notion of relationship building through exchange. Many scenarios are possible h ere. The key here is to assess y our current bank account in that relationship and what kind of influence currencies would be appropriate for building a stronger rel ationship. You may vi ew rel ationships in terms of transactions. You should be encouraged to experiment with this concept and see how useful it is.
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Codes of ethics are pretty instrumental in providing guidance to the members of particular professional society. PMI is one of those societies and its members are professional projectmanagers. Codes of ethics play the following roles in general:
o Serve & protect the public.o Provide guidance.o Offer inspiration.o
Establish shared standards.o Support responsible professionals.o Contribute to education.o
Deter wrongdoing.o
Strengthen the image of the engineering profession
Adhering to the guidelines provided will constitute a behavior that is most probably ethicaland not doing so would be considered as unethical. Based on those guidelines, appropriateand inappropriate behavior may be correlated accordingly.
Exercise 10.5
This exercise is designed to illustrate the notion of relationship building through exchange.Many scenarios are possible here. The key here is to assess your current bank account in thatrelationship and what kind of influence currencies would be appropriate for building astronger relationship. You may view relationships in terms of transactions. You should beencouraged to experiment with this concept and see how useful it is.
This exercise is designed to choose a decision making method to fit the situation. Youshould first privately select what you consider the appropriate decision-making method thatshould be used. Different approaches may be used and there may always be a debateregarding differences in opinion.
Casino Night: Make decision on your own. You have sufficient information and anticipateno disagreement over the choice.
Trysting Tree Golf Club: Consult with others. While you have sufficient information tomake a decision to insure support for the decision it is wise to share ideas with relevant
stakeholders before making the decision.
New Product Development: Call a meeting a reach a consensus. You do not havesufficient information to make a decision and it is critical that the team support the decision.
At the end of the exercise, it is useful to review the conditions in which group consensusshould and should not be used.
Exercise 13.3
The project appears to be doing nicely. In both periods 4 and 8 the cost variance is positive — +$300 and +$400, respectively. This suggests a pattern of good cost variance that isunder budget.
The schedule variance is also positive — +$300 and +$400 for period 4 and period 8. SinceTask D is already 25% complete, Task B must have been completed at least one period early.
After 6 time periods the project is roughly 66% complete and so far work on the project hastaken 1,600 hours less work than planned. There is 400 hours worth of work on Activity 4which was suppose to have been done that has not done. Since Activity 4 is on the critical path, the project is behind schedule. If schedule is the number priority, the project managermay want to consider investing some of the savings on accelerating critical activities.