at least one and 3/4 page for each but can be more. be concise and do not incorporate irrelevant material nor expand unnecessarily into the answers unless the content directly builds your arguments.

at least one and 3/4 page for each but can be more. 

be concise and do not incorporate irrelevant material nor expand unnecessarily into the answers unless the content directly builds your arguments.  

Develop the depth of critical thinking and support answers with reasons and evidence but be logical and concise. 

Use of citations from a number of sources to support points with matching references in APA format is a must! 

1.  Why did the mistakes you identified occur and cause problems?  How can these be resolved? (10 points)  

The problem I found was

Target’s project management which involved expanding its business operations in the Canadian market. According to United States Federal Economic data as pertaining to the year 2016, Target Corporation is the second biggest discount store after Walmart and is estimated to be worth more than 72 billion US dollars. The urge to enter the Canadian market was influenced by a large number of Canadian citizens who were fond of crossing south to do shopping. To penetrate the Canadian market, the company initiated a project management process that would define robust concepts of market entry and means of beating other locally-based competitors (Pride, 2017).The project management team devised the leasing of Zeller, Canadian-based outlet with more than 180 branches. The project management team illustrated that by leasing Zeller, they would have scored severally as they would have cleared out a significant competitor, gain regarding first customer loyalty, and made a considerable foothold concerning brand presence. However, the entire project did not live to its expectations regarding market penetration and growth, sales, and brand reputation. The aspects that hindered include prices, supply-chain difficulties, and lack of understanding of the Canadian market factors.In the first place, one can prudently associate the project fails to not assessing the project's complexity, underestimating stakeholders, forgetting the champions, and ignoring the nemesis, and not developing a comprehensive project plan. The project did not assess the concern complexity associated with the new market, underestimated stakeholders such as buyers and former executives as well as employees of Zeller who would have provided adequate information on prices and estimates, and also did not implore a comprehensive project plan as it is evidence by supply-chain difficulties.

2. Read the case study “Maximum Megahertz Project” ATTACHED(Page 549 from: 

Larson, E.W. & Gray, C.F. (2010).Project Management: The Managerial Process.

See article attached (to announcement, content, discussion post).  

(40 points for all parts.)   

a) What do you think Olaf Gundersen, the CEO of Wireless Telecom Company should do?  Use what you know from the case and the course to build the arguments? (The answer will not be graded based on right or wrong but how the arguments are developed.) 

b) What are some potential conflicts that could result from the steps in recommended in a?  How could you apply change management or conflict avoidance/resolution techniques to avoid or resolve these? 

c) Based on what you have learned in this class, what could have been done so that the project problems would have been avoided?  (Of course, you do not have complete information but use what is here and what you have learned is best practice in managing projects.) (30 points)

d) Costs and deadlines of the projects escalated in the Maximum Megahertz project.  Why are accurate estimates critical to project management?  What would you advise Olaf about his problems with estimate? How to develop a process that would result in more realistic estimates?

e) How should Olaf improve project management in his organization?