...Objectives - MS Project 2010 * Change the task type settings to control how resources affect task assignments * Apply a preset resource contour to change work value distribution * Working with task information forms When planning a project schedule, adjustments are often needed to reflect necessary changes in project scope, assignments, etc. In MS Project, when an assignment is changed, the schedule is recalculated to display the changes. You can work with the scheduling method and the task type settings when making changes to the initial resource assignment. In the previous lesson, the initial resource assignments were made for our project. But we need to learn how to make adjustments to how those resources are used. It is important that you read every part of this lab carefully, if not twice. Working with Effort-Driven Scheduling How a task reacts to the addition and removal of resources is defined by the scheduling method and the task type settings. In MS Project, the default scheduling method is effort-driven scheduling. Effort-driven scheduling extends or shortens the duration of a task to accommodate changes to resources but doesn't change the total work for the task. Work is the amount of effort, or number of hours, resources put into a task. The total work for a task is determined by the duration estimate for the task and the initial resource assignment using the following formula: Work = Duration * Units For example...
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...Objectives - MS Project 2010 * Track the actual progress of tasks * Updating a Project * Compare baseline data to actual and scheduled data * Viewing a Network Diagram * Earned Value Overview Once the project starts, it's time to begin tracking the actual progress of tasks and resources. Tracking is the process of gathering and entering task information into the schedule. You can track progress by entering all or some of the actual information. In the previous lesson, we complete our scheduling and resource assignments. For this lesson, we will assume our project is underway and that several tasks have either finished or are partially finished. We will then determine if our project is behind or ahead of schedule. Tracking Progress Before we can begin tracking progress, the project schedule should be fully developed and a baseline plan should be set. Once work begins, progress should be tracked throughout the project. The more often we update the information, the easier it is to identify problems and take corrective action. When actual information is entered, the project is automatically recalculated. For this reason, task progress should be entered starting at the top of the task list and continuing down the list. There are three types of dates stored for each task: Scheduled: Tasks that haven't started yet or are in progress. Actual: Tasks that are in progress or are completed. Baseline: Originally planned dates....
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...Objectives - MS Project 2010 * Understanding Project Scheduling * Introduction to Microsoft Project * Working with Project Tasks * Basic views, time scales and reports Whether you are a project manager or not, project management techniques are extremely helpful in meeting goals and objects. Project management techniques define a path to a specified goal and then supervise the implementation. MS Project can help you establish your initial plan as well as monitor progress. MS Project can quickly produce reports and other information that will help keep management, customers, and your project team informed. To get the most from MS Project, not only do you need to understand project management terminology, you also need to be familiar with the software itself. Therefore, do not attempt to quickly finish the lab, but take your time and read all instructions carefully. Understanding Project Scheduling A typical project is composed of tasks and resources. After tasks are identified, you organize the tasks in a logical hierarchy, also called a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Eventually, this sequence will show the interdependencies of each task. Then each task is given a duration. In MS Project, this can be in weeks, days, hours or minutes. You can also specify a milestone, which will represent an event that marks the completion of a group of related tasks. To accomplish any task, you need resources. Resources can include people,...
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...Assignment 03 ‐ PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN CHALLENGE The Project Management Plan (PMP) is the project document that clearly defines the project and forms its baseline guidance document for the duration. The PMP is typically the first document to be prepared by the project team once the project has been approved; as such it follows the Project Charter approval. A key to a successful PMP is that the Project Manager must ensure that the stakeholders play key roles in its development. The PMP establishes the overview of many of the key project management plans that will be more fully developed later. By learning how to create an effective Project Management Plan, you will better understand its content and its role when acting as a Project Manager. OBJECTIVES 1. 2. 3. To demonstrate an understanding of how to develop effective Project Management Plan (PMP). Understand the content requirements of a typical Project Management Plan (PMP). Develop a Project Management Plan (PMP). Project "Home Sweet Home" Scenario Now that Mary‐Jo and Bobby Doe are happily married, the newlyweds have decided to build their very own dream house. They have asked you (the renowned Project Manager!) to help them to prepare a Management Plan for this very important Project. Based on a simplified list of project activities (see table below), your task is to prepare a Project Management Plan. Options: ‐ If you would like to submit a Project Management Plan based on a "real" project from your ...
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...Objectives - Microsoft 2010 * Create a list of resources * Assign resources to tasks * Enter resource information * Assign costs to resources and tasks * Assign variable resource pay rates and costs rate tables Resources are the people, equipment, and materials necessary to complete a task. MS Project focuses on two aspects of resources: availability and cost. Availability determines when a specific resource can work on a task and how much work they can do and cost refers to how much money will be required to pay for that resource. MS Project works with two types of resources: work resources and material resources. Work resources are the people and equipment that do the work of the project. These can be a single individual, a group of people who have common skills (such as electrician), or equipment (such as a truck or diagnostic tool). Equipment resources need not be portable; they can be fixed, such as a conference room or lab. Material resources are consumables that you use up during the project, such as cabling or bricks. We will be creating our resources and assigning them to tasks. Please follow all instructions carefully! Adding Resources 1. Log onto Windows. 2. Open your completed file MyLab1b_XXX.mpp (or download the MyLab1b_XXX.mpp file from Doc Sharing.) Check the addendum at the end of this lesson to make sure that your beginning file is correct. If it is not, then correct your file as needed or download...
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...BT, in this expedition, engages hundreds of industry experts to ensure quality education to the young entrepreneurs and professionals of the country. BT offers both short (1 or 2 days) and long courses in the form of workshop and certificate training. Also BT offers customized in-house training programs exclusively designed for a group of employees. Customized courses can be provided either at our training facilities or on-site at clients’ location. Our training programs are lively, interactive, and include role-playing and demonstrations of real-life workplace issues and solutions. bdjobstraining.com Page |2 bdjobstraining.com Page |3 TRAINING TRACKS Marketing/ Sales Track • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1111 Selling Techniques for Excellence 13 Lessons to turn every Company into Fantastic Brands Advance Selling Techniques Art of Pharmaceutical Sales Brand Management–Walking the Talk Branding for Bangladeshi Business Constructive & Modern Leadership Approach in Selling through Team Building Corporate Sales Management for Excellence Creating New Prospects and Managing Sales Pipeline Creative & Successful Selling Techniques for Excellence Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Digital / On-line Marketing - New Era of Brand Management Effective Print Advertising: 13 Tips to Create Powerful Advertising Effective Selling Techniques Essential Territory Management &...
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...RMGT Task 1 GenRays HRIS Project Page 1 Table of Contents GenRays Matrix (A) ............................................................................................................................ 4 GenRays Project Charter (B) ....................................................................................................... 19 Project Title ............................................................................................................................................. 19 Purpose ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Description .............................................................................................................................................. 19 Objective ................................................................................................................................................. 20 Success Criteria or Expected Benefits ..................................................................................................... 21 Funding ................................................................................................................................................... 21 Major Deliverables .................................................................................................................................. 22 Acceptance Criteria ...............................................
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...Microsoft Project 2007 Tutorial Boston University © Boston University, Dept of Administrative Sciences, Project Management Programs (2010) 1 2 Microsoft Project 2007 Tutorial Boston University Contents Table of Contents Microsoft Project 2007 ....................................................................................................... 6 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 6 Starting Microsoft Project ................................................................................................... 7 Starting Microsoft Office Project........................................................................................ 7 Exploring the Project Guide............................................................................................ 9 Add Tasks ..................................................................................................................... 11 Changing Date formats ................................................................................................. 11 Link Tasks ..................................................................................................................... 13 Exploring the Project Information ................................................................................ 14 Summary ............................................................................................
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...Mobile, Siemens, Samsung, IBM, etc.) came to BEC to provide their employees with psychological assistance benefits in order to reduce stress, to improve employees’ relationships, to improve the work environment, and to increase job satisfaction for all employees. Because of BEC rapid growth in business and profit, it was primarily due to the company had adopted a new project management system. This approach utilizes project managers to organize with employees across different functional departments. As a result, most employees worked on multiple projects and reported to both the department and project managers. This became an issue among employees because of conflict among the managers with task assignments. Employees at times must prioritize their tasks themselves which could result in a task not getting done on time for one of the managers. Another issue within the BEC Company is collaboration between the project and department managers. This is partly due to both managers are on the same organizational level, according to the company’s new organizational hierarchy chart. In other words, the project and department managers have to be able to work as peers and establish good departmental relationships. That was not the case in this case study. Mr. Zheng, CEO, must decide on how he can...
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...Challenges in Migrating to LTE Macquarie University Contents Abstract 2 Faculty of Science ITEC850 Network Management Assignment #2: B3G or 4G Networks (Group Project) Due: 24th May 2012 Written by: Barry Ho & Willis Kwok Lecturer: Mr Milton Baar Introduction Aims and Goals Challenges Horizontal Handover Vertical Handover QoS Techniques Advantages/Disadvantages Conclusions & Future Work References Appendix A Appendix B 2 3 4 4 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 Appendix C 15 Abstract There have been tremendous growths in the use of mobile technologies in recent years. In the early days, only the rich and keen early adopters were able to own mobile phones, which were large in size, required a substantial source of power to operate and were limited in functionality and quite restrictive in terms of mobility. Today, over 5.6 billion subscribed devices are in active use, which represent approximately 80% of the world population and are rising. (Gartner) Improved reception power coupled with increased network coverage and penetration, global roaming capability, sharp quality, fitto-palm size with large screen and lightweight are the significants of today’s user terminals. Given such advances, the growth within the large increases of cellular use has been on mobile data. In 2011, the total mobile data service revenues were close to $315 billion (Gartner). LTE is a serious improvement in network architecture to handle this surge in demand and is embraced by all providers. This...
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...IMPACT ANALYSIS LESSONS LEARNED Robert L. Moisoff, MBCP CPAC Nov 30 / Dec 1, 2006 BIA Lessons Learned • • • • • • • • • • • Good Examples Anticipated Adjustments Custom Tailoring Design Philosophical Conflict Resolution Rollout Walkthrough User Handholding Draft Reviews and Adjustments Drop Dead Date Missed Delivery Deadlines Summary Conclusions Next Steps BIA Lessons Learned BIA DEFINED o Process of determining the impact on an organization should a potential loss identified by the risk analysis actually occur. The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) should quantify, where possible, the loss impact from both a business interruption (number of days) and a financial standpoint. 1999 DRII BIA Lessons Learned ANOTHER BIA DEFINITION o Identifies the impacts resulting from disruptions and disaster scenarios that can affect the organization and techniques that can be used to quantify and qualify such impacts. Establishes critical functions, their recovery priorities, and interdependencies so that recovery time objective(s) and recovery point objective(s) can be set.* *BIA standards & definition currently being revised by DRII committee 1.5 2004 DRII BIA Lessons Learned ANOTHER BIA DEFINITION o Process designed to identify critical business functions and workflow, determine the qualitative and quantitative impacts of a disruption, and to prioritize and establish recovery time objectives. DRJ BC Glossary RLM 06/20/06 BIA Lessons Learned ONE MORE...
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...RESEARCH PROJECT BRYAN O’HERLIHY SPRING 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS (ix) Table of Contents (x) Executive Summary I. Project Integration………………………………………………………………… 6 II. Project Scope…………………………………………………………………….. 14 III. Project Time Management……………………………………………………….. 21 IV. Project Cost Management………………………………………………………... 24 V. Project Quality Management…………………………………………………….. 29 VI. Project Human Resource Management…………………………………………...34 VII. Project Communications Management…………………………………………...39 VIII. Project Risk Management………………………………………………………...45 IX. Project Procurement Management………………………………………………..50 References & Bibliography…………………………………………….................55 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Green Computing Research Project is an initiative commissioned by We Are Big, Inc., to research green technologies, with a long-term objective of helping to improve the environment through technology, while increasing revenues and decreasing costs. A main purpose of the project is to research possible applications of green computing including: ● Data center and overall efficiency; ● Disposal of electronic waste and recycling; ● Telecommuting; ● Virtualization of server resources; ● Thin client solutions; ● Use of open source software; ● Development of new software to address green computing for internal use and potential sale to other organizations The overall allocated budget for the Green Computing Research Project is $700...
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...Production and Operations Management –MGT613 INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT VU Lesson 01 POMA Previously called Production Management Then Production and Operations Management Often called Operations Management Should not be confused with Operations Research or Production Management which are the domain of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. THE COURSE CONTENT Tentative Course Content Units of Learning wise Unit I ( Introduction and Productivity, Strategy and Competitiveness) Unit II ( Forecasting) Unit III ( Design of Production Systems) Unit III ( Quality) Unit V ( Operating and Controlling the System) Tentative Course Content Lecture wise Unit I ( 5 Lectures) Unit II (3 Lectures) Unit III ( 12 Lectures) Unit III ( 10 Lectures) Unit V ( 15 Lectures) History of Management Frederick Taylor and Gilbreths (Lillian and Frank Gilbreth) are pioneers of transforming management to scientific domain. Borrows a lot of information from Engineering and Management to give an overall bigger picture of operating and managing any organization. Difference between Operations Management and Research OR relies on mathematical modeling and OM relies on practical scenarios/industrial cases. OR domain and tool of Engineers while OM is considered to be one of the critical tools of Managers. OR considered more powerful to improve the whole system where as OM can be applied to a part of the system. OR relies on mathematical modeling while OM relies on practical scenarios/industrial...
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...Principles of Project Management Course Outline Volume I About the Microsoft Project Screens .........................................................................iv Segment 1. The Background of Project Management (Includes PMBOK® Guide Chapter 1 & 2) ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 Introductions, course materials, housekeeping & homework Definition, examples and characteristics of projects About Project Management Institute & other PM organizations Projects and emerging industries Programs & portfolios and project management office Environmental enterprise factors and organizational process assets Project & product life cycles Stakeholders Organizational structures & influences Segment 1 questions......................................................................... 22 Segment 2. The Gospel According to PMBOK® Guide (Includes PMBOK® Guide Chapter 3) ........................................................................................................... 27 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 3.1 PMBOK® Guide Organization Initiation processes Planning processes Execution processes Monitoring & controlling processes Closing processes Course Guide Exercise: Memorize the process matrix ............................................... 46 Project Assessment 3.1.1 Benefit Measurement Methods 3.1.1.1 Life Cycle Costing & Net Present Value 3.1.1.2 Internal Rate of Return...
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...Instructions as Applied to Microsoft® Excel for Teachers Project summary Goal Given access to a personal computer with Internet Explorer, instructor led, web-based lessons, and the Microsoft® Excel program, the learners will be able to create an Excel grade book. The teachers at Roosevelt Elementary School are urged to use technology daily. And while all teachers have access to the Microsoft® Office professional software suite, in addition to a schoolmaster program, staff surveys (January 2004, Technology staff survey and march technology committee meetings) single out Microsoft excel as the program in which they most need training. Using a spreadsheet program to maintain a grade book will allow the learners (teachers at Roosevelt Elementary School) to follow through with their technology goal of learning to use the software programs they have. It is also a potential time saver for the very busy teachers. Most teachers realize that Microsoft® Excel is a powerful Program. Once a teacher learns Microsoft® Excel to create their own grade book, a small first step; they will then be able to utilize other aspects of Excel relating to the grade book. For example, they can customize their grade book by adding comments, charts or graphs or might possible use the charts and graphs feature on their own for other classroom applications. This would provide a visual representation of their students’ classroom performance. Other well-utilized options for using Excel include making...
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