Answer:
Answer to the question How effectively do you think Rachel spent her day
Step-by-step explanation:
Life of a project Manager is very complex as to oversee lots of business matters in the office. Rachel is the project manager arrives at her office early before her team and colleagues came and see the tasks and work flow to be done. She meet Neil and her fellow colleagues after arriving her office and have a chit chat with them for approximate 10 minutes. She check her voice mails as she was at client's site day before. She prepares the to-do list for the message which requires immediate response as she has phone messages, emails and notes on her desk.
Rachel spends the next 25 minutes going over project reports and preparing for the weekly status meeting. She discuss with her boss discussing the project and office matters
The 9:00 a.m. project status meeting starts 15 minutes late because two of the team members have to finish a job for a client. After the team members arrive, and the remaining 45 minutes of the progress review meeting surface project issues that have to be addressed and assigned for action.
After the meeting Rachel goes down the hallway to meet with Victoria, another IS project manager. They spend 30 minutes reviewing project assignments since the two of them share personnel. Victoria's project is behind schedule and in need of help.
When she returns to her office and makes several phone calls and returns several e-mails before walking downstairs to visit with members of her project team. Her intent is to follow up on an issue that had surfaced in the status report meeting. After listening patiently for over 20 minutes, she realizes that among other things several of the client's managers are beginning to request features that were not in the original project scope statement. She tells her people that she will get on this right away.
Returning to her office she tries to call her counterpart John at the client firm but is told that he is not expected back from lunch for another hour. She spent some time with one of the office colleague Eddie at lunch at cafeteria.She returns to her office, answers a few more e-mails, and finally gets through to John. They spend 30 minutes going over the problem. The conversation ends with John promising to do some investigating and to get back to her as soon as possible.
Rachel then takes the elevator down to the third floor and talks to the purchasing agent assigned to her project. They spend the sometime exploring ways of getting necessary equipment to the project site earlier than planned. She finally authorizes express delivery.
When she returns to her office, her calendar reminds her that she is scheduled to participate in a conference call at 2:30. It takes 15 minutes for everyone to get online. During this time, Rachel catches up on some e-mail. The next hour is spent exchanging information about the technical requirements associated with a new version of a software package they are using on systems projects like hers.