Teamwork Skills: Communicating Effectively in Groups
Case Study Creation: A proposal in a crisis
By Javier A. Jaime Serrano
Introduction
It was early Monday morning at the office, the current project was coming to an
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Teamwork Skills: Communicating Effectively in Groups
Case Study Creation: A proposal in a crisis
By Javier A. Jaime Serrano
Introduction
It was early Monday morning at the office, the current project was coming to an end. Final
packages were being inspected that week just before delivery to the client, the impossible
deadlines from months ago were successfully achieved. It has been a difficult month, my Boss
the Manager was self-isolating from a trip to China, where the pandemic has started, and a coworker in the already reduced team had recently resigned.
Even with the successful completion of the last packages, the mood in the office was not good.
Everybody knew that we needed to get a new Project, or we will have to face a mass lay-off.
But It is a full Moon on a Monday a superstitious coworker commented, and I questioned if it is
really a sign of good luck when the work-week end in Friday 13th, what can go wrong?
The Proposal
In the same day afternoon the team got called to a meeting, the Director, announced that we
just received a request for proposal (RFP) from a client, and that we need it, to “raise the bar”
and work even harder to get the new Project awarded. There were a lot of clarifications to be
made and not a similar project to use as a template. But it was on the hands of the Engineering
and Design departments to produce all the drawings first. These detail drawings were not
specifically asked in the RFP, but the Director offered to the client to impress them. For my
department, Project Controls, it was an easy doable task if we can get the promised information
from Engineering by Friday. The RFP only required a level 2 schedule and a class 4 estimate, this
was confirmed by the Director. These high-level Schedule and cost estimate can be calculated
top-down from known company standards.
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