Section 1: Defining the Project Question 1 The NSC CEO, Carl Lim, has appointed the following staff to form a project team for the HPSS Project: 1. Yourself, a Communication Manager who is appointed...

Section 1: Defining the Project
Question 1
The NSC CEO, Carl Lim, has appointed the following staff to form a project team for the HPSS
Project:
1. Yourself, a Communication Manager who is appointed as the Project Manager. You have
managed a few projects successfully at NSC. The management trusts that your
resourcefulness and tenacity will help in this important project.
2. Mr. Tan Hock Chye, a Senior Facilities Engineer: His daily duty is to supervise the
stadium facilities’ Maintenance & Engineering (M&E) works that are normally carried
out by workers of local contractors.
As the HPSS System will be an important asset, NSC needs to have a highly qualified
permanent staff to handle it. He needs to be involved in the system’s implementation and future
operations. As there is no such staff in NSC, you are asked to recruit externally. It is preferred
that the person has an audio engineering qualification. A job advertisement is published and it
attracted many applicants.
(a) Analyze three (3) personal attributes (excluding technical expertise) which you will use
to assess the applicants in the recruitment exercise, and why they are critical to the
success of the HPSS Project.
(9 marks)
After the recruitment exercise, Mr Kumar Chandra is employed to join NSC and the HSSP
Project.
NSC also contracted Quantum Corp from USA, a Thunder Lab partner, to design and install
the HPSS System. Quantum will second one of its staff, Mr Mike Alkinson, for the project
implementation.
(b) There are four members on board now: Yourself, Tan, Kumar and Mike. As the team
is new, categorize three (3) common vehicles to establish a strong team identity and
how you can use the vehicles in the HPSS Project.
The CEO briefed you on the management’s expectations: the project shall start on 3 July 2017
and be commissioned by 4 October 2017, the working day before the audition by George’s
manager. The sound performance must be optimized to pass Thunder Lab’s certification test.
Exact budget has yet to be worked out. Finance is tight but management will try to
accommodate essential expenses if properly justified.
(c) Based on the CEO’s direction, you are to arrange the priority of the project by
constructing a project priority matrix.