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Five pages of one-page reviews of 5 project management articles. The articles address risk management; the necessity of staying on schedule; and early warning signs of developing problems. Other articles examine the Chandra telescope project in the early 1990s and construction of UPS' Worldport global hub completed in 2002 – a $1 billion project that was on time and within budget. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Kerkoulas (2002) addresses continuing and sweeping changes in the health care industry, explaining that the once not-for-profit industry now seeks profitability, cost savings and efficiency of
operation. In short, health care businesses now must operate more as businesses. The author stresses that new IT projects in health care
should "begin by analyzing and anticipating the end-user needs and technical capabilities three to five years" (Kerkoulas, 2002; p. 8) in the future to gain maximum benefit from the cost
of the project. Any business process reengineering needs to have been finished well in advance of any major system changes so that the organization does not automate outdated systems
but build a totally new system based on current and anticipated needs. Kerkoulas (2002) presents six case studies, all of which highlight the
need for changes in business processes and a means of assessing the true cost of the project compared to the benefits that the organization either hopes to gain or actually
realizes. This is sound advice, for the organization cannot know (and therefore inform stakeholders) what it has accomplished with the addition of a large, expensive system. Across the Universe
Averett (2003) relays the story of Keith Hefners involvement in the Chandra x-ray observatory telescope, a project that was contemporary with the Hubble
telescope that operated at a different point in the atmosphere. The course of events that Averett (2003) discusses in his article illustrates some of the decisions made in trimming
the scope of the Chandra project to a nearly-unrecognizable form. Originally planned to last for 15 years, in the face of drastic budget cuts in the early 1990s the
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