Prject Management

The CIO of your organization walks into your office one Friday afternoon. As he closes
the door behind him he says that “If you say anything to anyone concerning what I am
about to tell you, you are fired.” He then explains that the team of programmers that you
supervise will be “released to seek other options” and that all of your project’s
programming tasks will be outsourced to a country in Eastern Europe. Your job is to
coordinate with this new outsource provider so that all programming work can be
scheduled and transferred over in less than 3 months. In addition, you are not to let on
to any of the company’s programmers that they will soon be replaced. He instructs you
to carry on as nothing has changed. In fact, the company will give them a bonus if they
can complete their current work assignment in three months rather than the scheduled
four months.
As the project manager of this team, you have gotten to know each of the programmers
fairly well. One of the programmers has just signed a mortgage to purchase her first
house. Another is a single mother with her oldest child just entering college, and
another has confided in you that he has been experiencing some health problems lately.
All work must be cited