Read the case study below and answer the questions.Managing Change at Global Green Books PublishingGlobal Green Books Publishing is producing customized eBooks for a local college. It has just received a large order for a new eBook on Strategic Human Resource Management in a Global Context from a senior professor in the business school. This distinguished faculty member is dissatisfied with the current textbooks and wants a customized eBook for use with her on-campus courses, graduate seminars, and her executive education courses. This is the most complex eBook that Global Green Books has undertaken.Because this project is so important to the professor and will be used in so many different settings with differentschedules, the professor made sure that she had her complete eBook request in early to allow sufficient time forproduction. She had selected a broad set of the best papers and had written an introduction and background, along with discussion questions for each section. This meant that this project was going to have an extensive set of permissions to acquire before production could happen, as well as a large amount of desktop publishing for the new materials written by the professor. She was quite certain that she had given Global Green Books more than enough time to have her eBook ready before the first class needed it.Because there were so many permissions, the Supervisor who planned this project, accelerated the work on obtaining permissions to make sure that all the permissions were received before they needed to start assembling and collating the eBook in production.As the Publishers Liaison worked through the extensive list of permissions, the Customer Service Representative for the business school at the college started receiving several inputs from the college about this project. One set of inputs was a continuing series of requests from the professor. As new papers were released, she wanted to make several additions to the eBook. Also, as time went on and she had more time to review her eBook plans, she started identifying somechanges that she wanted to make to her planned eBook.Another input came from the business manager at the college bookstore, as he was quite concerned about the projected cost of this eBook. Because this eBook included so many reprints of existing articles and chapters, the estimated cost of the book was quite high.The Customer Service Representative communicated these issues to several people within Global Green Books: the account manager for the college account, the supervisor managing production for this eBook, the Publishers Liaison obtaining permissions for this book. The account manager was concerned about upsetting this important customer. And the professor’s requests just kept coming at an increasing rate as it got closer to her deadline for needing this eBook.This continuing series of requests for changes from the professor is quickly adding to the upwardly spiralling cost of this project. The supervisor feels that something must be done about this scope creep – continually changing scope.Source: Project Management InstituteAvailable from: https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/learning/academic-research/academic-pm-casestudies/mini-case-5-managing-change-at-global-green-books.pdf?v=6ceb1bf4-45da-4cad-8ca9-b5d79ebccbf5&rev=1d0584125dfa411db29fa7530bd9ff97QUESTIONThe supervisor feels that something must be done about this scope creep – continually changing scope.Discuss scope and scope creep. Investigate the reasons for scope creep in the eBook project.
Read the case study below and answer the questions.
Managing Change at Global Green Books Publishing
Global Green Books Publishing is producing customized eBooks for a local college. It has just received a large order for a new eBook on Strategic Human Resource Management in a Global Context from a senior professor in the business school. This distinguished faculty member is dissatisfied with the current textbooks and wants a customized eBook for use with her on-campus courses, graduate seminars, and her executive education courses. This is the most complex eBook that Global Green Books has undertaken.
Because this project is so important to the professor and will be used in so many different settings with different
schedules, the professor made sure that she had her complete eBook request in early to allow sufficient time for
production. She had selected a broad set of the best papers and had written an introduction and background, along with discussion questions for each section. This meant that this project was going to have an extensive set of permissions to acquire before production could happen, as well as a large amount of desktop publishing for the new materials written by the professor. She was quite certain that she had given Global Green Books more than enough time to have her eBook ready before the first class needed it.
Because there were so many permissions, the Supervisor who planned this project, accelerated the work on obtaining permissions to make sure that all the permissions were received before they needed to start assembling and collating the eBook in production.
As the Publishers Liaison worked through the extensive list of permissions, the Customer Service Representative for the business school at the college started receiving several inputs from the college about this project. One set of inputs was a continuing series of requests from the professor. As new papers were released, she wanted to make several additions to the eBook. Also, as time went on and she had more time to review her eBook plans, she started identifying somechanges that she wanted to make to her planned eBook.
Another input came from the business manager at the college bookstore, as he was quite concerned about the projected cost of this eBook. Because this eBook included so many reprints of existing articles and chapters, the estimated cost of the book was quite high.
The Customer Service Representative communicated these issues to several people within Global Green Books: the account manager for the college account, the supervisor managing production for this eBook, the Publishers Liaison obtaining permissions for this book. The account manager was concerned about upsetting this important customer. And the professor’s requests just kept coming at an increasing rate as it got closer to her deadline for needing this eBook.
This continuing series of requests for changes from the professor is quickly adding to the upwardly spiralling cost of this project. The supervisor feels that something must be done about this scope creep – continually changing scope.
Source: Project Management Institute
Available from: https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/learning/academic-research/academic-pm-casestudies/mini-case-5-managing-change-at-global-green-books.pdf?v=6ceb1bf4-45da-4cad-8ca9-
b5d79ebccbf5&rev=1d0584125dfa411db29fa7530bd9ff97
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The supervisor feels that something must be done about this scope creep – continually changing scope.
Discuss scope and scope creep. Investigate the reasons for scope creep in the eBook project.
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