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The NetHope – University of Waterloo MMSc Online Project Management Survey has been finalized and posted. This was achieved on October 10, and the survey’s deadline is Friday October 19.
The milestones related to the Survey have slipped a few days, increasing pressure on later milestones. To mitigate this as much as possible, the project team is attempting to pro-actively prepare for the future milestones where we can. One area, as an example, was preparing how we will analyze the survey results once received. This has largely been completed; however we are currently researching Project Management Maturity Models (PMMM) to help ensure we are knowledgeable in assessing this area. Depending on the results received in the surveys, additional questions may need to be asked, though we are hoping to minimize this due to time constraints.
Another key milestone achieved this week was the Project Management (PM) Plan, which is now at a very good draft stage, and will be submitted to Dr. Carr and Rodolfo on Saturday Oct 13 or Sunday Oct 14 for feedback. Rodolfo has been invited to a team teleconference to discuss both the PM plan and the Project Charter. Project Scope and expected deliverables is a specific area requiring clarification, and is required for the Project Charter, the PM Plan, and ultimately the success of the NetHope Project.
The specific point requiring clarification is if our end deliverable will be a catalogue of NetHope Member Organizations’ (NHMOs’) Best Practices (BP) guidelines which other Member Organizations (MOs) can pick and modify to fit their needs, or if it will try to go a step further in recommending a subset of BP to be applied across the NHMO as a “standard”. The two are quite different, so we would like to discuss and formally resolve this as soon as possible.
