Chapters Reflection – TI2011 Spring 2020

Chapter 11 reflection

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Chapter 11: The Sinister Minister Belok

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On a cool spring morning in Moravia. Mr. T on his way to work, the morning is perfect to enjoy and breathe the freshness of a new day as he walks to Aidrivoli Campus. The path where he walks is beautiful because it crossesy the vineyards and along the side of a little brook. Although you think that he only walked from A to B every day, but in Morovia this can be completely different since you can see many more things than we could find in any city. Mr. T has been for more than 3 months in Morovia and did not remember what it is to have such a happy day in his life, only in Morovia has he achieved this.

To many of us it happens that sometimes we do not appreciate the paths that lead us to work, or to school and when we really stay to observe those paths we realize things as simple as colors or people who could be there every day. or some particularity of some facade. Normally we are always thinking about whether we will be on time, where we will find parking or anything else.

Mr. T was optimistic about some of the smaller projects that might be complete by then, however a project like PShop that is one of the biggest might come a year later than planned. in that project at least, was to figure out some way to gain a full year. For now, he could relax and feel good about all the things that were going right. NNL seemed like a pretty sensible fellow once Mr. T had taken a firm stand and laid down the law to him.

Chapter 10 reflection

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Chapter 10: Abdul Jamid

Mr. T traveled to Rome to be able to check some accounts and be able to update them, he had to change from a previous account and travel to a newer one to be able to put the funds that they would give him for the projects, he had requested the new passwords and they were given them They sent by fax, they told him that once he had them, he would change them and that he did not keep them on his laptop, only in his mind, in case his laptop was stolen, they did not have access to their accounts.

Mr. T is on the way to his hotel with Dr. Jamid, who introduced him and they started talking about management dynamics, he is overwhelmed by all the information he sees about management dynamics. Mr. Tompkins was still not convinced about this to what he said. “The simulator calculates the aggregate, that’s what you’re saying. Big deal. Since the input to the simulator only specified my hunches anyway, how can the simulation prediction of their aggregate effect be better than my hunch over the added door? “

Dr. Jamid began drawing a model on the screen. Use a rectangular tank to represent your usable staff. The higher the level, the more people they will have. We will set its initial value up to one hundred. That is already a model, but it is not very dynamic, since there are no flows of people leaving the project or new hires. If we find the simulator, we find that the personal level remains constant throughout the time of a hundred.

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Chapters 8 & 9 reflection

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Chapter 8: The Eminent Dr. Rizzoli

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In this chapter we see that our main characters are worried about not knowing how to handle the experiment, because it is the first time something like this has been done. They begin to talk and conclude that this is serious work for a consultant. They think that the only person who can solve this is Dr. Hector Rizzoli.

He ran a kind of software engineering laboratory for some U.S. Government agency. they say “I see what you mean. He could be a most usehl consultant for us. As soon as we began talking about running a set of experiments, our Project Management Laboratory, I should have asked you to contact Dr. Rizzoli. I wonder when we could get him here?”

They began to say that he arrives the next day in the afternoon. Mr. T, I suspect that he had kidnapped him by force, but apparently he was not going to visit them on his own feet. But it’s almost a kidnapping because our consultant goes to Latvia and has a stopover in Morovia, but since I came from India he could have some jetlag and be confused.

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Mr. T and his colleague waited for Dr. Rizzoli, as he was confused he did not know or where he believed he was in Latvia, but Mr. T and his colleague made him dizzy a little with talk so he would not suspect anything. They talked to him about the experiments and he still didn’t realize what was happening. He gave a talk which made him feel satisfied. Then after a few days he began to talk about the experiments that were taking place, this table describes how

Chapters 6 & 7 reflection

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Chapter 6: The World’s Greatest Project Manager

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In this chapter we see that they have to have a good administration to be able to handle all the personnel they need, and there is also talk about Structural Cybernetic Management, is the concrete application of natural cybernetic laws to all types of organizations and institutions created by human beings and to interactions with and within them.

It is very important to know how to manage your staff, because he had two thounsen people and had to do 6 projects, but he also had to choose which ones were the best to be a project manager. If we do not know how to handle our staff we can have many delays in many things, so the importance in the previous chapters of how to choose the right people.

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The essential parts of the manager’s body. “Management involves heart, intestine, soul and nose. guide with the heart. So trust your instinct (trust your hunches), build soul in the organization and develop a bullshit nose.”

He is right, because you have to get completely involved, you have to guide yourself with what you think is right, follow your instinct even though others tell you no, have your organization’s shirt on, identify with it and be able to reject or accept things when you’re doing right or wrong.

Chapter 7: Taking on staff

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In this chapter he begins with Belinda, Webster and Mr. T, doing interviews for project manager, as in the previous chapter they were in the search for 8 project manager. The first interview they had was a complete failure, since the interviewee was talking about a movie saying

Chapters 3, 4 & 5 reflection

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Chapter 3

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This chapter goes more about the work that was offered, where Morovia is, because it leaves you with the doubt of where this socialist country, that is located in the south of Italy. There is also talk of the contract that is being offered to Mr. T, which is a two-year contract and payments are ready to be delivered if he accepts. This contract specifies things that you have to do in your work. in other words are your terms and conditions that you have to complete.

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He begins to see that they have good engineers and are well trained and it seems all excellent, because he believed that they did not have the engineers for this project. but what they explain to him is that morovia has a good education. Despite being a third-world post-Communist country, their people have many skills. to which they answer “The Communist world did some things badly and some things well. What it did badly was to make the centrally planned markets work so goods and services could find their way to where they were needed. What it did well was education”. English-language skills are important so everyone knows how to write, read and speak in English.

With this they want to show that their engineers with the ability to develop the 6 projects they have for these two years. What they really want to do for projects is to experience how their workers would behave under certain circumstances. This puts him in doubt as to how he will solve all this, since he will not need everyone. for this they tell him that “You have got all of

Chapters 1 & 2 reflection

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**The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management**

Chapter 1

The first chapter is named Opportunity Knocking.

In this chapter the novel present Mrs. T to us, he is the ReSOE (Released to Seek Opportunities Elserwhere) of the Big Telephone and Telecommunications Company´s.

Mrs. T was a manager and the spy from Morovia was talking with him and she ask this:

“Let me answer that question with a question. What’s the hardest job in management?”
“People,” Tompkins replied automatically. He knew exactly where he stood on this subject. “Getting the right people for the right job. That’s what makes the difference between a good manager and a drone.”

I think that this was the most important part in the lecture because she was giving an opportunity to him and they start to talk about management. I think that the opportunities only present at once’s, Ann you have to make a good decision for that opportunity, not all the time opportunities arise in your life, so you have to take advantage of when you have one in your way.

They talk about “What’s the hardest job in management?”, He replied with people. This is the first time we see the word manager. I think the same, the people are the hardest job in management, because you have to choose the correct person. because people are the ones who do the work and if they are not happy or bring problems to work a heavy work environment is created

Chapter 2

The second chapter is named Standing Up to Kalbfuss.

In this second chapter they are like in a plane and Mrs. T dreams for a moment some things. Once you wake up. he starts talking to others and Kalbfuss tells him to teach them the hard science of management.