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In a narrative format, create a memo to answer the questions listed below for only ONE of the scenarios that I pose. Try and build ideas from the questions as you more onto new paragraphs. Do not state the question, and then give en answer, as you would in a homework assignment.

You are a project manager in the early gages of selecting a project team. In order to succeed, you must identify personnel with a variety of disciplinary knowledge and skill selts that ere relevant to understanding and solving the problem. As a project manager, you will be working with Human Resources (HR), which requires being clear and concise in your needs and justifying your decision.

For one scenario (PICK ONLY ONE):

• identify the fields of expertise required (engineering and professions).

• Explain what knowledge and/or N. that field contributes. Indicate which team members are vital to the success of the team, end explain why. Ruse. your 'dream tea. Information in a table, to make it easier for your audience to understand and ultimately approve your dream team. For exam., if you were assembling a team to design an oil-drilling platform, you might include the fields of, Petroleum Engineering, Oceanography, Geology, Structural Engineering Psychology. The psychology professional(s) may be utilized to address long-term deployment of personnel m an isolated environment.

To illustrate your skills as an effective project manager, consider these two questions:

• What difficulties do you foresee the team members having in working with each other? Order your lot with the most important first.

• What strategies would you use resolve these difficulties?

Scenario 1

Over the summer, the Midwest experienced massive flooding of the Mississippi River. The firm you work for has just been asked to design a retaining  system (e.g., a levee) for the Mississippi. You are responsible for fanning a team to study and develop solutions for this issue relevant to the needs of the affected communities.

Scenario 2:

You begin working for a new medical device company, and the company wants to break into the market with a device to help ...air' brains damaged by injury or disease. You are responsible for assembling a research and development team to investigate, develop, end test solutions.