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Annual Dinner 2014

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Tough Mission

A manager who was assigned to establish a new heath and beauty store in a third world country shared his experience of the establishment. His mission was challenging and his experience was good as a reference of project management. The mission was assigned in the beginning of September while the deadline was the beginning of December. He was just informed with a single statement of aiming at store establishment in the selected country and no more information else. Before his first visit to the country, he had prepared the following action items: Action of the very first visit Consultation Project plan Questionnaire for understanding After his first visit, the following facts was known: It was really a developing country GDP around USD1000 pa Flooding is common Some product price level is similar to HK. e.g. shampoo sold in supermarket The next action is to include: Draw high level system diagram and architecture diagram. They must have been validated. Identify key