...ETM 502 – Project Management in Engineering and Technology – Assignment 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS P18, RQ1 - Define a project. What are five characteristics that help differentiate projects from other functions carried out in the daily operations of the organization? As PMI have defined, a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. The characteristics of a project help differentiate it from other endeavors of the organization. The major characteristics of a project are as follows: 1. An established objective. 2. A defined life span with a beginning and an end. 3. Usually, the involvement of several departments and professionals. 4. Typically, doing something that has never been done before. 5. Specific time, cost, and performance requirements. P18, RQ3 - Why is the implementation of projects important to strategic planning and the project manager? Today, projects are the modus operandi for implementing strategy, meaning that strategy plans of a company is delivered through the products of project results. Since projects are the modus operandi, strategic alignment of projects is of major importance to conserving and effective use of organization resources. Selection criteria need to ensure each project is prioritized and contributes to strategic goals . Anything less is a waste of scarce organizational resources—people, capital, and equipment . Projects and project management play the key role in supporting strategic...
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...learning organization. project origin · how to develop project from initial vaue ideas into something more concrete · Criteria for project adoption: a peak in business activities with defined beginning and end points requiring a multi-disciplinary team o carry out · Recognizing, initializing and developing a project idea are very essential skills for PM · Project idea is grounded in needs of your business, organization's strength, become solution to your business challenge Creativity Factor · It takes creativity to turn initial idea into something coherent · Use appropriate tools to turn a bright idea into well defined outline of your project · visual planning: mind map diagram represent ideas and tasks, use it in brainstorming itial proj ideas, identify a starting idea or goal, identify individual task · non-visual plannin: in words ad sounds, structure your communi accordingly · allowing all ideas during planning: meeting, 3 type of people dreamer, critic, realist · use appropriate tools to stimulate creatvity Strategic Outline Case (SOC) · Document key points of your project · Documentations are needed to et approvals to proceed · Designed to give stakeholders and idea of what is in stor · Project brief, scope document or SOC · SOC also servs as : infomation: inform your colleagues of what is comingup; approval; give expenditure information of the project; reassurance · SOC Consists of: outline of the scope or scale of the project, the benefits it will...
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...A Death That Revealed the World’s Concealed View on Homosexuality The Laramie Project is a play written by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project. The play is based on the interviews of the citizens of Laramie about what’s happening in Laramie and their responses to the murder of Matthew. In addition to the various themes suggested by the play, the author wanted to present the varying perspectives toward homosexuality in the Laramie community at the time of Matthew’s death. The author also wanted to explore how these perspectives may have changed as the result of Matthew’s death. Even though the citizens of Laramie persisted that hate is not a value they practice, they still showed contrasting and puzzled views towards homosexuality. Some of the citizens of Laramie, together with Reverend Fred Phelps and his people, displayed extreme hatred towards homosexuals. Reverend Phelps and his people gave an emphasis that Matthew Shepard deserved to die, for he was a sinner and a disgrace to God. They displayed placards with the picture of Matthew burning in the eternal flames of hell. Reverend Phelps says, “If God doesn’t hate fags, why does he put’ em in hell?” (79). Reverend Phelps wanted to tell every member and supporter of the LGBT community that God hates them. The undeniable proof of God’s hate to them was how he didn’t welcome Matthew into heaven and sent him to hell instead. Doug Laws, together with other citizens, showed dislike toward homosexuality...
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...the Interactive Portal Project while working at ABC Corp. The project’s goal was to increase community engagement with the corporation through the provision of services through the use of the extra bandwidth available to the community via the Federal Broadband Network (FBN). Services were to be delivered through a planning website that would allow the department to provide pre-lodgement meetings via web conferencing and a community engagement website that would allow residents to access community forums or consultation workshops by live streaming these sessions. The project was part of the Federal Government’s rollout of the FBN and as such, funding to complete the project was provided in part by the Federal Government. Funding from the Federal Government was provided with the objective of increasing community engagement with the corporation, therefore imposing this change upon the corporation. The business change related to this proviso was that implementation of these websites would improve the delivery of services to the community, which the ABC Corp Corporate Plan states is one of the organisation’s goals (n.d, p 43). However, although the goal is aligned to one of ABC Corp objectives, delivering services through the internet has not been one of the business objectives (ABC Corp Corporate Plan, n.d, p 43). Therefore, the imposed goal could not be fully aligned to the actual business strategy and required an alternative goal to align the project to the organisation’s...
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...Capstone Project Milestone #1: Guidelines and Rubric PURPOSE Clear identification of the problem or opportunity is the first step in evidence-based nursing. This first milestone offers two tools to assist in the identification and gathering of evidence to link the problem, proposed intervention, and desired outcomes. Completion of the milestone will include identification of the problem or concern using the PICOT format and a literature search to find evidence to support an intervention that will change the outcomes. COURSE OUTCOMES This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: CO4 Develops and outlines a scientific, systematic decision-making process to integrate critical thinking with clinical judgment to assure safe and effective outcomes. (PO #4) CO8 Selects evidence for best practice when planning professional nursing care for individuals, families, aggregates, and communities. (PO #8) DUE DATE Milestone #1 consists of the completion of one worksheet that contains to parts (i.e., the PICOT portion and the Literature Search portion). Submit the worksheet with the two portions completed to the Dropbox by the end of Week 2. POINTS This milestone is worth 200 points (100 for each portion of the worksheet). DIRECTIONS 1. Read this document including the grading rubrics below. 2. Download the PICOT/Literature Search Worksheet from Doc Sharing.Consider what is the nursing problem or issue that you have uncovered. Make sure it is related...
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...A Review of Project Performance Measurement Introduction The management of engineering projects in any type of industry is becoming a challenge to professional engineers and technical managers as competitions for business opportunities arise in an increasingly competitive market place for effective project management and control systems in compliance with clients’ contractual requirements. Never before have the pressures on project managers been as great as they are today to successfully satisfy the criteria of time, cost and quality in the completion of the projects for which they are responsible. Delayed Projects cost 1, 64,000 direct jobs and Rs. 2.5 lakh crore investment says ASSOCHAM. India lost the job opportunities of employing more than 1,64,000 people with eighteen major projects in sectors like steel, power, auto getting stuck due to procedures relating to land acquiring and forest & environment clearances, an Assocham Eco Pulse (AEP) Study has stated. According to AEP study “Delayed Projects and lost job opportunities”, the 18 strangled projects of India Inc. to the tune of Rs. 2,44,815.5 crore remained on papers, in the form of MoUs and agreements over the past three-four years, however the smooth implementation could have created job opportunities for at least 1, 64, 000 people directly and 2,70,000 people indirectly. The technology being used in today’s projects is increasing in complexity as the state of the art of technology is being pushed to the limit...
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...some good project management based software that we can use to organize and stay on track. There are many options out there but I was looking for something… well… free! I stumbled upon a freeware gem called Project Pier. Surprisingly, it was very easy to setup and the GUI was simple to pick up. It comes out of the package ready to help manage multiple projects all at once. You can set milestones, set tasks, create reports, create and track tickets, write and manage wiki pages, and it comes with all the standard administration/configuration. Adding users and managing them is a breeze. It also has many configurable items such as email notifications. You can create a milestone goal for your company or project to achieve and then create a task list where you assign different tasks to different users. Each user gets notified of there tasks and given the deadlines. As tasks are completed, you can actively see the % of completion of each milestone or task. Its a true treasure to be able to see the progress your company makes day to day. The ticketing system is very straight forward. You can open tickets in categories like bug reports, enhancement requests, or defect. Each ticket gets assigned severity levels and can email notify specific individuals who will then update and close the ticket when the issue or enhancement request has been attended to. Project Pier requires Apache with PHP and MySQL database. If you need assistance with the install of Project Pier, then...
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...Module 6 Questions 1. Discuss what needs to be done as part of closing a project. Why are these activities important? The process of closing the project includes collecting and making final payments, recognizing and evaluating staff, conducting a post-project evaluation, documenting lessons learned, and organizing and archiving project documents. These activities are important to make sure that the customer is satisfied, to gather information about how to improve for future projects, to determine whether additional opportunities are available with the customer, and to obtain permission to use the customer as a reference (Gido & Clement, 2014). 2. Discuss the internal post project evaluation process and the two types of meetings involved. The internal post-project evaluation process includes meetings with individual team members and a group meeting with the project team to gather feedback for improved future performance. The individual meetings allow the project manager to gather information and share performance appraisals describing how each team member's skills advanced while working on the project. The post-project team meeting is a time for the project manager to lead a discussion about how the team performed on the project in terms of technical competence, budget, schedule, project planning and control, risk management, customer and team relationships, communication, problem identification and resolution, lessons learned, and recommendations (Gido &...
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...Week 5 Review Questions March 2, 2013 1. The project manager’s primary attention must be on activities that are on the project’s critical path because if there is any delay at all, it would cause the project to be delivered late. 2. For any activities on the critical path, there is zero amount of slack. For activities not on the critical path, the slack is calculated by subtracting the ES (earliest start) from the LS (latest start) or by subtracting the EF (earliest finish) from the LF (latest finish). 3. To determine the ES for a item with 2 predecessors, the project manager should look at each predecessor to see if either one of them or both of them are on the critical path. The ES is the later of the 2 predecessor’s LF. The LF for an activity with 2 successors is determined by looking at each successor’s LS and determining which one has an earlier LS. 4. All the activities on the project’s non-critical path will not have the same slack because each of them can have different predecessors and different successors and different timeframes. 5. A. 4 B. 2 & 3 C. 5 6. Dummy tasks are used in situations where 2 activities have the same starting and ending nodes to make sure to be able to distinguish between the activities and not have the 2 activities be considered the same activity. 7. Because task d is only 6 days and task c is over double than task d so we can safely assume that a merge problem won’t occur because in all likelihood, task d...
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...Chapter 1: Review Questions 1. What is a project? It is a temporary effort intended to create a unique product, service, or result. 2. What is project management? It is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. 3. How are projects different from ongoing operations? Projects are temporary and unique while operations are continuous. Operations are an ongoing process to ensure that an organization continues to work effectively. For instance, operation managers can often use checklists to guide much of their work, but project managers rarely have checklists that identify all of the activities they need to accomplish. 4. What types of constraints are common to most projects? Time and budget constraints are common to most projects for clients, and the amount of resources available and the decision maker’s risk tolerance are constraints from an internal point of view. 5. Which deliverable authorizes the project team to move from Selecting and Initiating to Planning? The approval of a charter 6. At what stage of a project life cycle are the majority of the “hands-on” tasks completed? At the execution stage 7. During which state of the project life cycle are loose ends tied up? During the Closing stage 8. What are the five process groups of project management? Initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing 9. Which process group...
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...TCM 750: Advanced Project Management Case Review I: The Blue Spider Project By Sona Ngoh Missouri State University Department of Technology & Construction Management College of Business Administration Spring 2014 Contents 1. Summary of Findings 3 2. Background Information 4 3. Problem Statement 5 4. Analysis of Issues and Alternatives 5 5. Detailed Recommendations 8 6. Implementation and Evaluation 9 I. Bibliography 11 II. Works Cited 12 Summary of Findings The Blue Spider Project is an example of a situation where the project manager show lack of understanding of the life-cycle for project management and the inability to leverage the application of the key skills of integrated cost, schedule and technical performance management to achieve project success. Gray has engineering degree with an MBA, an outstanding record as a production engineer but fails as a project manager because he was unable to get a clear vision of all aspects of his project or capable of focusing on a specific aspect of the project while keeping tab of other aspects as required. Gray’s inability to leverage his newly acquired decision making responsibilities as a project manager with his technical expertise helped to escalate the drawbacks of a potentially valuable project into a near catastrophe, almost losing his job in the process. Background Information Parks Corporation is a Department of Defense...
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...Riverside Casino and Golf Resort / Stacy Benson Topic Title Performance Reviews NO. This title won’t work. What about performance reviews? If you were doing a simple research paper you could write about performance reviews based on research alone. In this Sr Paper you must determine the state of the art based on your Literature Review. Then you will give the background of the problem and discuss it. This must all lead to two Courses of Action (COAs; solutions) that are tied to your title and problem. You need a “product” such as a process, a plan, a strategy, a program – something that can be recommended and implemented. Problem Statement (if not finalized post a draft – focus on the "pain.") The problem is that after initial training employees are not being reviewed for current performance. Suggest that after this initial statement you add something more about the problem. Brief Topic Overview The casino is experiencing a high turnover rate of employees because after their initial training they are put on the floor without any further review. In the handbook employees are supposed to have a review after 90 days but they are not being implemented. This leaves the casino with under qualified employees that eventually terminate their employment due to not feeling able to meet the high demands. The solution to this problem, if it is the problem, is simple. Just IMPLEMENT PERFORMANCE REVIEWS. You can see...
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...Web Navigation Steps First, familiarize yourself with O*NET by reviewing the information provided on the About O*NET page. Select the Content Model link, and review the conceptual model underlying this project. Return to Home (by clicking on the O*NET logo at the top of the page) and select the Visit O*NET OnLine link. Go to the My Next Move and enter an occupation you are familiar with (e.g., one you have held or hope to hold) in the keyword search box, or use the Industry search feature if you prefer.) Select the Search or Browse button. Select the occupation that best matches what you are looking for (or use other search terms until you find something that interests you) and review all of the data provided for that position. After completion of these navigation steps, proceed to complete the assignment by discussing the learning questions below. Learning Questions How easy was it to find the specific occupation you were looking for, and how comprehensive was the information provided about that occupation? What did you think of the occupations O*NET suggested as matching your skills? Was the occupation you are in or preparing for among those listed? As an HR professional, how could O*NET be useful in conducting a job analysis? Explain specifically how you would use the data from this site to assist your organization. As a director of human resources, would you have your staff use this site? Why or why...
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...Compliance Program / Annual Procedure Review Rule 206(4)-7 of the Investment Advisers Act creates a fiduciary responsibility for investment advisers to review annually their policies and procedures to determine their adequacy and the effectiveness of their implementation. As part of this review, all policies, procedures and responsibilities of an adviser must be reviewed, and the findings documented. The review should consider all factors that might suggest a need to revise the policies and procedures including any compliance matters that occurred during the year, any changes in the adviser’s or its affiliates business activities, or changes to applicable regulations. Reviews should be conducted by independent individuals (e.g., the department manager) not immediately responsible for implementation of a particular procedure. An overall review and approval of the adviser’s policies and procedures should be completed by the Chief Compliance Officer and should be submitted to the adviser’s Management Committee or Executive Officers for Final Action. |Procedure | |Summary & |Recommended |Reviewer & | |Completion Date & | |Reviewed |Findings |Conclusions |Change/Update |Date of Review |Review by CCO |Final Actions ...
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...The goals of a literature review are to provide the reader with a critical analysis of scientific literature about a specific topic or question. Writing a summary about other works can demonstrate the depth of familiarity of a chosen topic. In order to further one's understanding, or research, studying the works of others is important because multiple disciplines may have competing explanations for a given subject. Literature review is also structured in a particular style that creates a uniform way for writers to articulate their ideas in a fashion the reader is familiar with. Craig Anderson uses the APA guidelines to create a clear structure for his review studying the effects of heat and violence. The structure of a literature review typically follows a certain format and order. In Anderson's, review Heat and Violence, he starts this process with a title that describes what the article is about. Following the title of the paper is an abstract, or overview, of what the entire article is about. Because there are a number of...
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