After studying The Orion Shield Project, each

ORION SHIELD PROJECT

Analyzing the Orion shield project case, one can easily capture failure by key stakeholders in
making the project a success. The basic principal of project management such as integrity,
responsibility, risk recognition, organization alignment and standard of engagement were lengthy
overshadowed.
Henry Larsen who was the director of engineering is an opportunistic person who knows how
well to win project for the company. Larsen, give new project managers contracts that he knows
exactly that it will be difficult to meet the requirement. For instance, when Gary learnt about
ethical issues in the project but he was forced to falsely offer wrong information in the proposal.
It is a requirement that project taker should inform project sponsors and stakeholders about all
the information that will influence the success or failure of the project to enable them to make
the right decision (Kshama, 2017). Despite that, Larsen chose to pressure Gary to lie about the
ability of the company to meet the project requirements within the specified schedule.
Another principal that was violated is the principal of responsibility (Kshama, 2017). Project
manager has a responsibility of developing a project plan and ensuring that team members
perform tasks assigned to them adequately and correctly within the set time. Besides that, it is the
work of the project managers to secure acceptance and deliverables from the project sponsor.
The project manager also has the responsibility of communicating emerging issues, progress, and
risk management. Therefore, for the project managers to be conversant with their activities they
need to know the technological requirement of the project, ability

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