Describe the importance of delivering business value to clients via engineering leadership, and appreciate how this is achieved. Explain the challenges of managing complexity and uncertainty in...

Describe the importance of delivering business value to clients via

engineering leadership, and appreciate how this is achieved.

Explain the challenges of managing complexity and uncertainty in

engineering leadership.

Demonstrate knowledge of engineering leadership skills.

Read each of the question carefully and demonstrate the engineering leadership knowledge and skills

while addressing the questions below.

1.    Give  examples  of  two  engineering  leaders  for  each  of  the  leadership  traits  given  below  and

explain the strategy adopted by them to achieve these traits.

•     An acceptance of risks and failures, coupled with an urge to make their staff learn and

project that go awry.

•     A talent for building and steering winning teams and knack for attracting and retaining

innovators.

•     A  high  degree  of  passion  for  their  mission  and  for  innovation,  as  well  as  an  ardor  for

sharing their passion with their staff.



2.    You are the project leader for AusElec, a large electronics company in Australia. As a project leader for traditional, collocated projects, you rely heavily upon oral communication (face-to- face, team meetings),  telephone,  e-mail, and hard copies (paper) for reports, memos, and letters. Recently you were given a hybrid transnational project (named Hytrans) where most of the team members are located in different time zones around the globe. Only you and two team members, Josep