17 Jun Today is your first day on the job. After you arrive at work, you pull out the VALID project files and review them. As you flip through the files, you begin to make notes about the project failures and the project teams, as well as the individuals that make up the teams. You also make a few notes about your own management skills. As you are working, your boss enters your office to welcome you. “What do you think?” he asks. You tell him that you are still formulating your thoughts and considering the best way to get started. “That’s great,” he says. “Write some ideas down and let me take a look.” Write a memo to your boss outlining your management plans for diving into the project. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your memo

 In Module One, you reviewed the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document and the associated case study files. For your final project, you will assume the role of a newly hired engineering manager brought in to replace Peter Q. Robin. You have been asked to diagnose and fix the problems plaguing an important project for the company.

While this activity is not a milestone for your final project, it allows you to get into the role of a new manager and explore the case study in detail. This activity will also help you identify information and formulate ideas you will use to complete sections II.B (handshake issues), II.C (resources and personnel), and III (project team) of your final project.

Prompt: Today is your first day on the job. After you arrive at work, you pull out the VALID project files and review them. As you flip through the files, you begin to make notes about the project failures and the project teams, as well as the individuals that make up the teams. You also make a few notes about your own management skills.

As you are working, your boss enters your office to welcome you. “What do you think?” he asks. You tell him that you are still formulating your thoughts and considering the best way to get started. “That’s great,” he says. “Write some ideas down and let me take a look.”

Write a memo to your boss outlining your management plans for diving into the project. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your memo:

 How do you intend to get to know the employees on each of the teams?

 What questions do you need to ask, and who do you need to address those questions to?

 Considering that you are not from an engineering background, how will you build a good relationship with the engineers on the team?

 How will you rebuild trust among the various teams after past project failures?

 What other management skills will you put to use right away in your new position?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your internal memo should be a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document formatted as an interoffice memo. Review this example of an interoffice memo.