Analyzing The Project Quality Management Plan: Strategies For Managing Global Projects

Analysis

Main scope of this project is analyse the project quality management plan and it provide the adequate standards and controls to manage the global teams in project. Also provide the adequate argument for the need of cultural awareness and legal issues. The Project quality management plan will be done by using the MS project. It manages the global projects by using the one or more strategies. These are will be analysed and discussed in detail. The legal issues and cultural difference will be analysed. The project management practices will be done. 

Many organizations are struggle to reach their goals, quality levels and effectiveness from the global projects. Because the global projects tools, practices and methods are not adapted to a global multicultural environment. It involves the various cultures and languages. So, to resolve these problems by using the project quality management plan. The Project Quality management plan and controls the global projects. It reviews the key framework concepts and knowledge to achieve a goal, high level of efficiency on global projects. The project quality management profession already has a best tools, methods and processes to resolve the global projects issues. The Project quality management plan managing the global project by using the below strategy (“10 Rules for Managing Global Innovation”, 2017). They are,

Deal with the global project sponsor to determine the high-level goals and scope. The project management team must identify the key functions and countries for the global projects that will be impacted by the project.

Once identify the global project goals and scope, after appoint the project managers.  The sub project managers are must be based on the country to enhance the local culture and practices for the global projects.

Assign the sub-project scope

The Sup project scope is managed by sub project managers. The Sub project managers are lead to control the projects and changes in the global scope. It sub-project managers are changing the project scope and you will review the scope document and approved by the management.

Review and approval

Now create the work break down structure for the project scope from a global, macro and micro level. The work breakdown structures must be reviewed and approved by a global project committee and sponsor (Clark, 2017).

Provide the project plan details to team members

After provide the project plan to the team members by using the matrix approach. It is used to captures the all of the functions identified in the project scope. The Team members are,

• Business team
• Project management team
• Quality team
• Organization team
• Finance team
• Global team
• Communication team

Strategies for Managing Global Projects

Assign people to jobs

In global project, the matrix approach is most recommended because it should be straight forward and the sub project managers are assigned by using the matrix approach because the managers are will do the most of the assignment. The matrix approach is used to auditing the plans and providing the feedback to the sub project managers. It prepares the consolidated global plan.

It ensures the project infrastructure is appropriate to the project size. It involves the setting up a project wit project communication teams, coordinators and finance staff. It generally crosses the various financial reporting line and should meet the finance management to ensure the financial report for the global project (“The Global Project Management Framework”, 2017).

The Project quality management plan should manage expectations. It should have the detailed and cost consolidated global project plan, consolidated the risk, consolidated the open issues and prepare the one or more implementation scenarios. The global team members are expected to the sub project managers are ability to reduce the high risk and address the cost concerns by using the matrix approach.

The Project quality management team also manage the margin error in the global project to sign off on the plan and use an appropriate leadership style.

Also, the project quality management team consider the key leadership issues such as communication, virtual meetings, broadcast communications, direct communication and time zones.

The project quality management team also provide the good practices for global project.  The Project quality management practices is used to increase the collaboration over the distance. It helps to manage the virtual and multi-cultural teams. These are grouped by the global management team (“Global projects : how to manage them successfully – Project Teams”, 2017). It basically meets the global project challenges. It considers the project plan and risk assessment. The Global management practices is used to solving the critical issues during the project execution, monitoring and controlling.

Also provide the performance bonus the team members. It provides the 100% successfully managed a global project. 

Legal Issues

The legal environment facing the many organization is becoming the more complex and it affecting the business directly. It is difficult for businesses to resolve without encountering the law and regulations. It operates the project planning, insurances, taxation laws, environment regulations and safety licensing. These are basically defining the project entire plan and it creating the reasonable accuracy. It mainly affects the client’s activity through factors like building regulations, planning law and safety. It makes the influences of the good relationship within the projects (Guerrera, 2017).

Managing Expectations and Margins

The Project teams are facing the number of challenges related to the cultural and global issues. Also, project team members facing the communication issues. these issues are requiring the various activities. The activities are carried out without permission from national authority. Once obtaining their approval and information is used to avoid the sensitive issues that can be affect the project progress. Key issues are listed below.

• Identifying the role of global project control and its benefit to the community.
• Legal and ethical issues consideration that arise during the project development.
• Involvement and attraction of political leaders, stakeholders and related projects team members.
• the Organization public lecture, seminaries and workshop about the project and its expected outcomes and objectives.
• Good relationship between the partners and sponsors.
• Participation of organization educational programmes and community leaders that inform the community about the project creates the behavioural changes needs to be reduce the population of vector.

Cultural difference

The cultural differences teams can provide a source of experience and creative thinking to enhance the organization positions. It interferes with the successful project completion in multicultural global business community. The project managers are should be culturally motivate, create the promote through the flexible leadership and it is used to achieve the project goals and avoid the cultural misunderstandings (“The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care”, 2017). To manage the global project, the project managers are should be use the cultural differences to succeed the projects through the culturally aware leadership, mutual respect and cross-cultural communication.

The project managers are need to be well versed in managing the global multi-cultural teams but it is critical for project managers to understand the communication difference. It focuses on three key areas for managing the multi-cultural global teams such as influences that culture and diversity have on project management efforts, project managers are using the specific technique and tools when managing the global teams and challenges related to the communication and cultural issues. Many organizations are managing the global projects with international team members. We think about the team members are only managing the project but the team members are think about the different time zones and distance. The project quality members are mainly focus on the importance of managing and also understanding the culture and diversity.

Also, many organization facing the cultural problems like power distance, individualism versus collectivism, long term versus short term orientation and masculinity versus femininity. So, to motivate the project team members may encounter the barriers in global projects. The global projects include the cultural diversity. The project managers are recognized the cultural aspect of project management. 

The Project Quality management manage the global project by using the Project management plan. It is shown below. The Global Project Task details is shown below.

Task Name

Project Quality Management

Cultural values

Global business environment

Legal and political issues

Integration management

Project organizational structure

Global procedure management

Planning, execution and control

Fast and reliable information systems

Global Communication

Stakeholders and communication channels

Rules and Templates

Global Communication Strategy

Global Communication Techniques

Global Creativity

Global Organizations

Global Project Structures

collection of international human resources

Global program ad project offices

Organizational support

Global collaborative networks

Collaborative Tools

Audio and video tools

Test and image tools

Knowledge sharing tools

Project management software

Collaborative Techniques

Audio and videio techniques

Online meetings

Knowledge sharing techniques

Collaborative Project management

 
The Resources are shown below.

Resource Name

Project management Team

Quality Team

Global Team

Business Team

Communication Team

Organizations Team

 
Gantt chart is shown in below. 

 

The Global Project Overall plan is shown in below.

The Project start date is 22-09-2017 and end date is 26-12-2017. 

Task Name	Duration	Start	Finish	Resource Names
Project Quality Management	68 days	Fri 22-09-17	Tue 26-12-17
Cultural values	1 day	Fri 22-09-17	Fri 22-09-17	Business Team
Global business environment	2 days	Mon 25-09-17	Tue 26-09-17	Communication Team
Legal and political issues	3 days	Wed 27-09-17	Fri 29-09-17	Organizations Team
Integration management	2 days	Mon 02-10-17	Tue 03-10-17	Organizations Team, Project management Team
Project organizational structure	2 days	Wed 04-10-17	Thu 05-10-17	Business Team, Global Team, Organizations Team
Global procedure management	2 days	Fri 06-10-17	Mon 09-10-17	Global Team
Planning, execution and control	10 days	Tue 10-10-17	Mon 23-10-17	Organizations Team, Project management Team, Quality Team
Fast and reliable information systems	6 days	Tue 24-10-17	Tue 31-10-17	Project management Team
Global Communication	15 days	Wed 01-11-17	Tue 21-11-17
Stakeholders and communication channels	3 days	Wed 01-11-17	Fri 03-11-17	Communication Team
Rules and Templates	3 days	Mon 06-11-17	Wed 08-11-17	Organizations Team
Global Communication Strategy	2 days	Thu 09-11-17	Fri 10-11-17	Communication Team, Organizations Team
Global Communication Techniques	3 days	Mon 13-11-17	Wed 15-11-17	Communication Team
Global Creativity	4 days	Thu 16-11-17	Tue 21-11-17	Business Team, Global Team
Global Organizations	12 days	Wed 22-11-17	Thu 07-12-17
Global Project Structures	3 days	Wed 22-11-17	Fri 24-11-17
collection of international human resources	3 days	Mon 27-11-17	Wed 29-11-17	Global Team, Project management Team
Global program ad project offices	2 days	Thu 30-11-17	Fri 01-12-17	Global Team, Organizations Team, Project management Team
Organizational support	2 days	Mon 04-12-17	Tue 05-12-17	Business Team, Global Team, Organizations Team
Global collaborative networks	2 days	Wed 06-12-17	Thu 07-12-17	Global Team, Organizations Team
Collaborative Tools	7 days	Fri 08-12-17	Mon 18-12-17
Audio and video tools	2 days	Fri 08-12-17	Mon 11-12-17	Communication Team,Quality Team
Test and image tools	2 days	Tue 12-12-17	Wed 13-12-17	Organizations Team,Project management Team,Quality Team
Knowledge sharing tools	1 day	Thu 14-12-17	Thu 14-12-17	Global Team,Organizations Team
Project management software	2 days	Fri 15-12-17	Mon 18-12-17	Project management Team
Collaborative Techniques	6 days	Tue 19-12-17	Tue 26-12-17
Audio and video techniques	1 day	Tue 19-12-17	Tue 19-12-17	Global Team,Quality Team
Online meetings	1 day	Wed 20-12-17	Wed 20-12-17	Global Team,Organizations Team,Project management Team
Knowledge sharing techniques	1 day	Thu 21-12-17	Thu 21-12-17	Global Team,Project management Team
Collaborative Project management	1 day	Fri 22-12-17	Fri 22-12-17	Project management Team
Project Progress Report	2 days	Mon 25-12-17	Tue 26-12-17	Organizations Team,Project management Team

Resource status is shown in below. 

Name	Start	Finish	Remaining Work
Project management Team	Mon 02-10-17	Tue 26-12-17	256 hrs
Quality Team	Tue 10-10-17	Tue 19-12-17	120 hrs
Global Team	Wed 04-10-17	Thu 21-12-17	168 hrs
Business Team	Fri 22-09-17	Tue 05-12-17	72 hrs
Communication Team	Mon 25-09-17	Mon 11-12-17	96 hrs
Organizations Team	Wed 27-09-17	Tue 26-12-17	272 hrs

Resource status graph is shown below.

 

Cost over view is shown below.

Conclusion 

The project quality management plan provides the effective project plan to manage the global project. The Project plan is done by using the MS project. The Project quality management plan effectively manage global teams in projects. It provides the adequate standards and controls to manage the global project. Also provide the adequate argument for the need of cultural awareness and legal issues. These are discussed and analysed in detail. The access to the legal issues and cultural differences are discussed in detail.

References 

10 Rules for Managing Global Innovation. (2017). Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 22 September 2017, from https://hbr.org/2012/10/10-rules-for-managing-global-innovation

Clark, T. (2017). 7 Tips to Managing Global Project Teams – LiquidPlanner. LiquidPlanner. Retrieved 22 September 2017, from https://www.liquidplanner.com/blog/7-tips-managing-global-project-teams/

Global projects : how to manage them successfully – Project Teams. (2017). Pmi.org. Retrieved 22 September 2017, from https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/global-projects-manage-successfully-team-7146

Guerrera, G. (2017). Global Project Management–5 Tips to Manage a Global Team. Nuwavetech.com. Retrieved 22 September 2017, from https://www.nuwavetech.com/it-project-blog/bid/48389/global-project-management-5-tips-to-manage-a-global-team

The Global Project Management Framework. (2017). Pmi.org. Retrieved 22 September 2017, from https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/global-project-management-framework-6863

The Role of Human Factors in Home Health Care. (2017). Retrieved 22 September 2017, from