Summary. Groups Were Told To Design A Prototype Which Wold

Summary Groups were told to design a prototype which wold be able be used by a library as a computer system. The aim of this report was to show the factors that led to the group failing to carry out this tasks. The factors that caused this to happen were time mismanagement, bad project planning and poor communication. Factors that lead to a group failing a project was chosen as the topic of the report so problems that led to the group failing could be identified and understood in a way that would prevent group members from making the same mistakes in any future projects. These factors can be avoided by using planning resources and steady communication through Email services and†¦show more content†¦An example of this was during the design specification stage of the project. The group ended up getting very low scores because of the way the project was carried out. The work was not evenly shared out between the group members and all group members did not meet up regularly to see who h ad done which stage of the project. One group member ended up doing most of the task including the story design, the Entity relationship diagram, most of the use case descriptions and the structured English because the other group members did not understand how to do these part of the projects. This led to the group getting very low scores in all these sections as the individual who carried out most of the tasks was not able to fully focus on each section and develop them to an adequate level. This could have been avoided if the group had planned the project well because the weaknesses of individual members could have been discussed earlier and the person who understood the work could have showed the other members of the group how to carry out the various task they did not understand and this would have helped the group avoid failing this stage of the project. Poor project management is also harmful to a group chances of passing a project because it also leads to a lack of communica tion as group members would not be ableShow MoreRelatedProject Mgmt296381 Words   |  1186 PagesStevenson, Operations Management, 10th Edition Swink, Melnyk, Cooper, and Hartley, Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain, First Edition Thomke, Managing Product and Service Development: Text and Cases, First Edition Ulrich and Eppinger, Product Design and Development, Fourth Edition Zipkin, Foundations of Inventory Management, First Edition QUANTITATIVE METHODS AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Hillier and Hillier, Introduction to Management Science: A Modeling and Case Studies Approach with Spreadsheets