One of the knowledge management areas that I would delegate is project management time management. This area is wide and I don’t have to do all the things by myself. One of the requirements that I should take care of is to get the timelines and the timeframes for the tasks at hand. What are the logistics of these tasks; are they supposed to be finish-start, or start-finish. In other words, what are the requirements needed before they are executed.
Should they start after other activities or are they able to be started on their own? These are the questions that can be delegated to other project members in the team (Ireland, 2006). I don’t have to be there to make these things happen. What I can do is to assign the people in the team the areas they can handle well. I will then tell them to do their own research on the areas they are assigned. They are supposed to get the needs for the time required to complete the tasks, the time slots that are required of them, and the slot they feel will best suit these tasks. These can be done well by other members who have fewer responsibilities.
The other knowledge management area is Project Scope management. This knowledge management area is concerned in what should be achieved in all the tasks of the project. One the things that I will do, like project time management, is to divide the project into small tasks. I will then assign each member an area to research on. Each area should be represented by one or more people depending on the available members of the project.
It is then the prerogative of the members to look for the tasks that should be completed in these areas. The team will then look at the scope that will be covered in the area. After the teams have exhaustively gathered all the tasks that will constitute the scope (Gait, 2003). I will then combine all the tasks from the group members and, together with the team members, come up with an integrated scope of the whole project.
The person I would interface with in the project management is Chief Information Officer. The reason I would interface with him is because this is the person who is involved in the development of the project task in every stage. He is aware and involved in the development of the project every step of the way. The CIO is concerned with designing the system. He comes together with the system analysts to come up with the requirements of the system. He then sits with the coders and the programmers to make sure that the code is clean and all the cases are captured in the system. He then participates in testing of the system. With this involvement in the project, he is the best person to interface with in this task.
The Chief Information Officer is the best person to help mitigate the risks that come with the project. This is because this officer is much aware of the requirements needed of the projects in place. With this dispensation, there are a lot to desire from this officer. He will work with the security officers to make sure that the system is safe and also help cover the holes that may be in the system. Since he is the person involved in the project form the beginning, he will be in the know on the people I should talk to in all the requirements I will need.
References
Gait, P. (2003). PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide. Columbia: McGraw-Hill Professional.
Ireland, L. (2006). Project Management. Columbia: McGraw-Hill Professional.