Signatures, Inc. specializes in producing personalized productsfor companies such as coffee mugs and pens with company logos. Thecompany generates over $60 million in annual sales and has morethan 300 employees. The company is in the middle of a largemultimillion-dollar SCM implementation and has just hired yourProject Management Outsourcing firm to take over the projectmanagement efforts. On your first day, your team is told that theproject is failing for the following reasons:
The project is using the traditional waterfall methodology.
The SDLC was not followed.
The developers and users decided to skip the testing phase sothe project could be completed as scheduled.
The project plan was developed during the Analysis phase, butthe departed project manager never updated or followed theplan.
Write a short APA formatted essay (3 pages would be appropriate)responding to these perceived project short comings. In addition,provide 5 specific steps you would take to get this falteringtechnology project back on track. (Make any assumptions about theproject you would like about why the project is in trouble.) Besure to explain the actions that you would take and the expectedresults of those individual actions. Assume this essay will beshared with both company executives and your management.
