August 2000
IM218 :INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

QUESTION 5

Total Marks: 15 Marks

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• Question 2
• Question 3
• Question 4
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for Question 5

(a)A good project manager is needed to ensure that the project objectives are achieved to on time and within budget.
(i)Give three qualities of an ideal project manager.[3 marks ]
(ii)Explain the three major activities in project management.[6 marks ]

(b)In the DP department of a particular organisation,an application development team is made up of three application managers,six project leaders and twelve programmers.The three application managers report directly to the DP manager,and the six project leaders report to their respective application managers.Each project leader leads a group of two to three programmers.
(i)What kind of team structure do you think is suitable for the above application development team?[1 mark ]
(ii)Give three characteristics of the types of project for which the team structure you have identified in (i)is particularly suited.[3 marks ]
(iii)Identify and describe a major disadvantage of the type of team structure you have identified above.[2 marks ]