Running Head: UNIT VIII CASE STUDY 1
Unit VIII Case Study From the Meredith and Mantel textbook (Project Management A
Managerial Approach). Review Chapter 12, Project Auditing, Theater High Altitude Area
Defense (THAAD): Five Failures and Counting (B) Case Study, pp. 541-543. Once you have
reviewed the case study, write a minimum of 600 words in length defending your responses
to the following questions.
Do you think this was a financial audit, a project audit, or a management audit? Why?
Was the purpose of the audit to exert cybernetic control, go/no-go control, or postproject
control? Explain?
Given the comments in the case, do you surmise that the reason for the audit was to
improve future projects or to ascertain the reasons for not meeting the project’s goals, and
if the latter, its direct goals or ancillary goals?
Do you think the GAO was the best choice for an audit team? Would it have the trust of the
project personnel?
Given the minimal elements of a project audit present in Section 12.2, which element(s)
would have been primary to the audit team? Why? Which section would have contained the
“underlying problems” reported in the case?
UNIT VIII CASE STUDY
Student’s Name
Professor’s Name
Course Title
Date
, UNIT VIII CASE STUDY 2
Introduction
This a project audit because it uncovers issues, concerns and challenges encountered
in Theater High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD). It deals with the project as a whole. It
explains explain failures and counting in a test conducted in the program definition and risk
reduction (PDRR) phase. It can also be attest that due to some influence, the program
management Officer had prepared a team to review the contractor and government hardware-
in-the-loop testing capabilities in order to provide recommendations on where improvement
were needed to permit of end to end integral missiles clearly indicating this is a project
evaluation focussing on senior management desires(Mantel, 2005).
The purpose of the audit is to exert post project control. Carried for the following
reasons: legal necessity because the audit is a contract to Lockheed Martin Space System
Company, which was awarded $3.8 billion. Second, projects audit is a major part of the post
project that in turn is the primary source to the managerial parent firm. Third, the post-
projectreview is needed to account for all THAAD expenditures.
Unit VIII Case Study From the Meredith and Mantel textbook (Project Management A
Managerial Approach). Review Chapter 12, Project Auditing, Theater High Altitude Area
Defense (THAAD): Five Failures and Counting (B) Case Study, pp. 541-543. Once you have
reviewed the case study, write a minimum of 600 words in length defending your responses
to the following questions.
Do you think this was a financial audit, a project audit, or a management audit? Why?
Was the purpose of the audit to exert cybernetic control, go/no-go control, or postproject
control? Explain?
Given the comments in the case, do you surmise that the reason for the audit was to
improve future projects or to ascertain the reasons for not meeting the project’s goals, and
if the latter, its direct goals or ancillary goals?
Do you think the GAO was the best choice for an audit team? Would it have the trust of the
project personnel?
Given the minimal elements of a project audit present in Section 12.2, which element(s)
would have been primary to the audit team? Why? Which section would have contained the
“underlying problems” reported in the case?
UNIT VIII CASE STUDY
Student’s Name
Professor’s Name
Course Title
Date
, UNIT VIII CASE STUDY 2
Introduction
This a project audit because it uncovers issues, concerns and challenges encountered
in Theater High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD). It deals with the project as a whole. It
explains explain failures and counting in a test conducted in the program definition and risk
reduction (PDRR) phase. It can also be attest that due to some influence, the program
management Officer had prepared a team to review the contractor and government hardware-
in-the-loop testing capabilities in order to provide recommendations on where improvement
were needed to permit of end to end integral missiles clearly indicating this is a project
evaluation focussing on senior management desires(Mantel, 2005).
The purpose of the audit is to exert post project control. Carried for the following
reasons: legal necessity because the audit is a contract to Lockheed Martin Space System
Company, which was awarded $3.8 billion. Second, projects audit is a major part of the post
project that in turn is the primary source to the managerial parent firm. Third, the post-
projectreview is needed to account for all THAAD expenditures.
