Explain how you operate within this organization to facilitate project success.

Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk Management, and Team Building
Part 2 of the Individual Project focuses on the scope of a project, budgeting issues, risk management, and team building. If conducting an interview, the interviewee may be from the same organization as your last interview and should have managed a project for the organization. Alternatively, you may examine a minimum of three organizations that have published descriptions about a health care information technology project’s scope, budget, risk management, and team building activities.
Interview
To prepare:
Review the Individual Project Overview document, located in this week’s Learning Resources. Pay particular attention to the questions you might ask in your interview.
Locate a professional who manages or works on special projects in health care and is willing to speak about his or her experience regarding scope of a project, budget, risk management, and team building.
If such a person is not readily available to you, find someone in your community who has managed a project for an organization and can speak to those topics. The organization can be a volunteer service group, a faith-based group, a business, or another that meets your needs. The goal is to find an individual who has been in charge of a project important to the organization.
Review the topics and questions in the Individual Project Overview document that should be addressed in your interview.
Think about other related questions you might have for the interviewee and solidify your goals for speaking to and learning from this person.
Topics and Questions:
Remember that you will need to adapt your questions to the individual, setting, and
projects. You are not required to ask these specific questions, but you are required to
address the topics listed below (Note: If the interviewee cannot address a topic, conduct
a literature search to find scholarly information or research on that topic).
Scope
 How does a project manager limit the scope of a project?
 How do you deal with stress, pressure, and unreasonable demands?
Budget
 How are costs managed during a project?
 If all resources are not available to a project when needed, how do you handle
resource problems?
Risk Management
 How are potential risks to the project determined?
 How are these risks mitigated?
 Think of a major crisis you’ve faced in project management. How did you handle
it?
 What is one example of a tough decision you had to make in a project
management role?
Team Building
 How do you obtain the members of a project team? How do you “sell” the project
to a team?
 Individual Project Part 2: Scope, Budget, Risk Management, and Team Building
Part 2 of the Individual Project focuses on the scope of a project, budgeting issues, risk management, and team building. If conducting an interview, the interviewee may be from the same organization as your last interview and should have managed a project for the organization. Alternatively, you may examine a minimum of three organizations that have published descriptions about a health care information technology project’s scope, budget, risk management, and team building activities.
Interview
To prepare:
Review the Individual Project Overview document, located in this week’s Learning Resources. Pay particular attention to the questions you might ask in your interview.
Locate a professional who manages or works on special projects in health care and is willing to speak about his or her experience regarding scope of a project, budget, risk management, and team building.
If such a person is not readily available to you, find someone in your community who has managed a project for an organization and can speak to those topics. The organization can be a volunteer service group, a faith-based group, a business, or another that meets your needs. The goal is to find an individual who has been in charge of a project important to the organization.
Review the topics and questions in the Individual Project Overview document that should be addressed in your interview.
Think about other related questions you might have for the interviewee and solidify your goals for speaking to and learning from this person.
Topics and Questions:
Remember that you will need to adapt your questions to the individual, setting, and
projects. You are not required to ask these specific questions, but you are required to
address the topics listed below (Note: If the interviewee cannot address a topic, conduct
a literature search to find scholarly information or research on that topic).
Scope
 How does a project manager limit the scope of a project?
 How do you deal with stress, pressure, and unreasonable demands?
Budget
 How are costs managed during a project?
 If all resources are not available to a project when needed, how do you handle
resource problems?
Risk Management
 How are potential risks to the project determined?
 How are these risks mitigated?
 Think of a major crisis you’ve faced in project management. How did you handle
it?
 What is one example of a tough decision you had to make in a project
management role?
Team Building
 How do you obtain the members of a project team? How do you “sell” the project
to a team?
 Explain how you operate within this organization to facilitate project success.
 Can you give me an example of your project management leadership activities
regarding a project team problem?
 If you have a team member who is not meeting agreed-to commitments, what do
you do? How do you handle unproductive team members? How do you motivate
team members who are burned out or bored?
Additional questions and insights are encouraged.
 Can you give me an example of your project management leadership activities
regarding a project team problem?
 If you have a team member who is not meeting agreed-to commitments, what do
you do? How do you handle unproductive team members? How do you motivate
team members who are burned out or bored?
Additional questions and insights are encouraged.