...Week 6 Discussion For the Week 6 Discussion you will create a Gantt chart for one element of the St. Dismas case study project. Using a project management tool like MS Project is typically the easiest and fastest way to do this. However, it is not the only way. You can use MS Office products as well to create the Gantt Chart. Students often ask about the use of project management software applications in this course. In the past we required the use of MS Project for this course but removed it as a requirement when we rewrote the course. The reason we removed it was that MS Project has a very steep learning curve for all but the most basic functions. The software is very expensive and is not web-based so it requires installation on your computer. This posed many issues for our students. In this course the assignments were designed so that students could complete them without using any project management software at all. For example, the WBS can be done using MS Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, or VISIO. The same is true of the Gantt chart and network diagram although it does take more time to do them this way than it would if you used software that automatically draws the Gantt and network diagram from the WBS. There are a number of free tools and helpful websites available for creating project Gantt Charts. Here is a sample you might want to explore. How to create a Gantt Chart in MS EXCEL http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/present-your-data-in-a-gantt-chart-in-excel-HA010238253...
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...1. St. Dismas case study – part 5 on page 267, answer the questions (4 points) QUESTIONS 1. What do you think the construction project manager should have done when the Director of Security stopped attending the project meetings? Tracked him down and explained that absence was not an option. Elevated it to Fred if it continued for another week. Frank has to figure out how to get coverage – that is why he is the director of security 2. Do you think it is an effective communications tool to send the construction project meeting minutes to the ALF steering team and the President? Support your answer. It is necessary, but only effective if people react to it – Kyle should have realized long ago, that that was not the case and followed up verbally. 3. How much time has to be made up for the original, baseline schedule to be met? 14 days 4. Develop an action plan and draw a Gantt chart for the Parking Lot phase of the project as originally planned by Kyle. Answer Fred's questions. The parking lot plans were not in the original plans because Kyle thought they would not impact the overall completion date If the approval does not come through until May 1, then the completion will be delayed to June 12. We can afford to wait until May 4. 5. What information does Fred need to make a decision about building a hair salon? The potential income, what it will cost to change the plans to accommodate it and how it will affect the schedule. Individual part 2. Do problems 25...
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...1. Draw a Gantt chart for the construction phase of the program. What is the completion date if construction starts in March? What is the completion date of the project if construction is started in November? If the project is started on March 1st, 2012, the finish date is July 30th, 2013. For the November start date, the case does not mention exactly what date the project should start but rather mentions that it should start after the elections. We do not have the election date so I will assume a start date of November 14th, 2011, which is a Monday. In this case, the end date of the project would be April 11th, 2013. However, the case states that if the project starts in November, bad weather could affect the outside operations, adding as much as 2 months to the duration. If we add 2 months to phase 1, the entire project is delayed 2 months. However, if the delay only occurs in phase 2, than the end date of the project would not be affected since no tasks have phase 2 as a predecessor. This is quite unlikely since it would impossible, in real life, to proceed to phases 3 and 4 (Enclosures and Interiors) without first completing or at least having a certain percentage completed of phase 2 (Structure). For this reason, I choose to add 2 months in phase 1 and therefore have a new end date of July 4th, 2013. Please note that I have also considered that the 2 months delay include the Christmas and New Year holidays. Gantt charts of both start dates...
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...Chapter 3 Planning the Project This chapter begins by discussing the nine key elements of the project plan. The following two sections address the planning process in greater detail with considerable emphasis placed on the project launch meeting and the hierarchical planning process by which parts of the plan are sequentially broken down into finer levels of detail. This provides a natural transition to the creation of the Work Breakdown Structure. Finally, the chapter is concluded with a discussion of multidisciplinary teams including the topics of integration management and concurrent engineering. Cases and Readings Some cases appropriate to the subject of this chapter are: Harvard: 9-692-058 Taco Bell Corp. This 31-page best-selling case describes a project to implement a new strategic plan involving major changes in layout, staffing, quality, product design, and information systems. The coordination and integration of all these project activities is what makes the plan successful, and hard for competitors to imitate. Two teaching notes are available for this case: 5-692-091 (20 pages) and 5-196-073 (12 pages). Harvard: 9-694-059 Hardcard Project: Plus Development Corp. (A1); 9-694-060 Hardcard Project: Plus Development Corp. (A2) This 10-page (12-pages for A2) case allows the students to evaluate, using Microsoft Project software, the time line, resource allocations, and other aspects of a major project concerned with developing a hard disk drive. ...
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...GAP Research Compendium PROJECT CHARTER LITE VERSION .3 6/1/2006 VERSION HISTORY |VERSION # |IMPLEMENTED |Revision |Approved |Approval |Reason | | |By |Date |By |Date | | |0.2 |Robin Tracy |5/22/2006 | |5/22/06 |Updates per Customer | |0.3 |Robin Tracy |6/1/06 | |6/1/06 |Final approval updated with CCID | | | | | | |comments | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Project Charter | |Full Template |Lite Template | |Introduction ...
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...1. Draw a Gantt chart for the construction phase of the program. What is the completion date if construction starts in March? What is the completion date of the project if construction is started in November? If the project is started on March 1st, 2012, the finish date is July 30th, 2013. For the November start date, the case does not mention exactly what date the project should start but rather mentions that it should start after the elections. We do not have the election date so I will assume a start date of November 14th, 2011, which is a Monday. In this case, the end date of the project would be April 11th, 2013. However, the case states that if the project starts in November, bad weather could affect the outside operations, adding as much as 2 months to the duration. If we add 2 months to phase 1, the entire project is delayed 2 months. However, if the delay only occurs in phase 2, than the end date of the project would not be affected since no tasks have phase 2 as a predecessor. This is quite unlikely since it would impossible, in real life, to proceed to phases 3 and 4 (Enclosures and Interiors) without first completing or at least having a certain percentage completed of phase 2 (Structure). For this reason, I choose to add 2 months in phase 1 and therefore have a new end date of July 4th, 2013. Please note that I have also considered that the 2 months delay include the Christmas and New Year holidays. Gantt charts of both start dates (including the...
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...------------------------------------------------- Highlights of Attributes/Qualifications ------------------------------------------------- * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Dedicated individual with strong leadership and organizational skills * Experienced in customer service and dealing with the general public * Independent, able to work alone without constant supervision * Enthusiastic, creative, and motivated towards goal achievement * Able to learn new tasks quickly and not afraid of new challenges * People oriented with an ability to effectively work in a team environment Work Experience ------------------------------------------------- Kinetics Sports Ltd., Tillsonburg, Ontario 2008-2009 * Sold footwear and other athletic merchandise to customers * Accurately managed cashiering activities in areas of purchasing, returns, exchanges * Maintained stock and appearance of store * Assisted customers to find suitable footwear * Ability to work effectively with others in team-oriented environment Otter Valley Foods, Tillsonburg, Ontario July – August 2009 * Prepared various frozen entrees in a production facility * Packaged product for shipment to customers * Adhered to proper food handling procedures according to HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices) * Successful in completion of WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information...
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...wwells1@student.cccd.edu William Wells Professor Nora Kabaji English 100 Diagnostic Essay 30 August 2011 Topic of this essay: Explain a situation in your life which made you change your attitude towards a person or an issue. Focus on the change of your attitude and opinion: How and why it occurred. TraumaOne: As Life Flashes Through Your Head Has there ever been a time when today was the last time a love one or friend would be alive? Not to bring back any bad memories of the past, but the thought of what actions have to be completed to ensure that this particular time by this road on a summer day is not going to be that day. Just a typical afternoon working at the new salon and the owner comes and says “Can you two guys go put up this sign up by the road?” Let us take an imaginary trip through your head of the first three hours after the accident takes place from putting up the sign, to the accident when the life of a friend flashes through your head and finally finding out that the friend is going to recover completely after some time in the hospital. The afternoon was just as any ordinary afternoon of work that gets a new hair salon business up and running. It began with getting supplies together to go clean the marquee before putting the new sign up so that everyone would know that the hair salon that used to be beside Wal-Mart in our town had not gone out of business, just a change of location. Once the supplies were gathered, we headed to the marquee...
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...Ashley Youmans 151 Linwell Rd. Unit 3 St. Catharines, ON a-yomans@hotmail.com Tel. (289) 968 7267 Objective To gain part time employment that will utilize my previous work experience. I wish to gain employment which involves excellent customer service and organizational skills. Qualifications ▪ Over one year of extensive experience of teaching children ▪ Demonstrated ability to establish routines and smooth out transition times ▪ Excellent Teamwork skills ▪ Remarkable ability to plan and organize and manage multiple duties ▪ Immense ability to give attention to detail and to follow company procedure. ▪ Organizing and implementing the daily, weekly and monthly program activities that stimulates growth in all learning areas based on the children’s interests. ▪ Skills-oriented person, good professional attitude and highly motivated individual. ▪ Able to understand individual needs of young children ▪ Excellent written, oral and communication skills Education Brock University St. Catharines, ON Bachelors Of Early Childhood Education Degree (current) Mohawk College Fennel Campus, Hamilton, ON Early Childhood Education Diploma – April 2013 High School Denis Morris Catholic High School St. Catharines, ON Graduated with Ontario Secondary School Diploma – June 2008 Work of Experience Fairy Tales Nursery Pre-KG Teacher, December 2010 – December...
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...Introduction Marks and Spencer (M&S) is a leading British based multinational retailer specializes in selling clothing ,home and food products. This essay would be discussing and examining the operation strategy of the company through studying the case “New supply chain strategies at old M&S”. Product ranges and market segmentations M&S classified its products by establishing a number of brands for attracting different customers who has different lifestyles. They are: The perfection collection, The classic collection, The Autograph range and per una. Each of the brands has been segmented carefully in order to highlight the features and design philosophy of the brand and satisfy particular needs for customer. The perfection collection and The classic collection essentially serve for customers who are mature and have high loyalty to M&S products. The products of two collections shared lots of similarities and the chief aims is to provide wide-range of ‘timeless essentials’ clothes to customers who focus on its own clothing style and finesse. The core principle of The Autograph range is to incorporate cutting-edge design to products under the brand. Product categories encompass womenswear, menswear and related accessories. It features supreme design by industry top tier designers with a very pricy price tag. It targets customer who values product design is first and foremost. The per una feature products with high-end designs and acceptably priced. The brand...
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...Social enterprise is an enterprise which help to improve the human life style by teaching them skill as well as the environment but without caring if it can earn profit or not. Although this seen no profit to the investor as if they believe doing this can maximize their utility by helping the weak can further their capacity to realize their social and environmental goals. The social enterprise that we choose for this assignment is Eden Project. The project is located at Kaolinite pit, which is 2 kilometres from the town of St Blazey and 5 kilometres form the large town of St Austell, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The project since started at January 1995 because of the hole it give the owner of the project an idea that they need a large place for their plant, so in 1996 they began to design the Eden, the works started in 1998, then finally paid off the funded in 2000 as well as let the visitor visit how they build Eden and the first plant come in the Eden, at last Eden open the door at 2001. The motivation of the Eden Project is that they wish to explore ideas and innovations that can help human being to tread lighter on the planet. How they save the environment? First they cutting the carbon that their produce by planting thousands of plants and also limited the energy use so the building of Eden is special as most of the light come from sunlight. Next they change the waste into useful item with the process of measure, reduce, reuse, recycle and reinvest, for example they...
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...old people and low death rate in their population, an area with a high number of old people and high death rate in their population and an area with low number of old people and high death rate. We also used the fair share calculations and areas with at least 170 deaths per funeral on average every year as part of the metrics 2.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 2.1 Fair Share Analysis Based on the fair share calculations, which is total market divided by the number of funeral homes in the market. The four potential locations would be St Catharines with the highest fair market share of 9.87%; Kingston with 8.51%; Hamilton with 7.84%; London with 7.19% and Cambridge with 6.36%. We would highly suggest that the organization should consider St Catharine’s and Kingston as potential locations of the funeral home. 2.2 Annual number of deaths The five areas with the highest number of annual deaths are: Ottawa-Gatineau with 8,157.50 deaths, Hamilton with 5,943.50 deaths, St Catharines with 3,997.35, London with 3,584.93 deaths and Kitchener-Waterloo with 1,909.62 deaths. We would also recommend that the...
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...Considered on May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, Ellen Ochoa got her leader of science and doctorate degrees at Stanford School. She was picked by NASA in 1990 and in 1991 changed into the world's first Hispanic female space explorer. A mission expert and flight build, Ochoa is a veteran of four space flights, logging over 950 hours in space. She lives in Texas with her family. Space traveler Ellen Ochoa was considered on May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. Picked by NASA in 1990, Ochoa changed into the world's first Hispanic female space voyager in 1991. She continued forward from Grossmont Helper School in La Level, California, in 1975, and got a four year assertion in consistent examinations degree in material science from...
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...Arianne Dyball MAIN Geography Miss Green Issue I Will be looking into Exploitation of workers. Wages and Hours? Child Labour? How are employees treated? Safety and exposure to toxins and lack of trade unions and equal rights for disabled e.t.c.? Global issues, how is waste disposed? Are any resources being polluted? Carbon footprints? Primark Evidence found underpaying workers and not paying overtime. Evidence found child labour being used. Evidence found of lack of regard for workers’ rights and lack of safety. Marks and Spencer's Evidence found fair pay for workers. Evidence found of use of child labour early on. Evidence found helping to assist workers to be shown how to how to do job properly. Evidence found changing to more ecofriendly recycled bags. Evidence found helping environment with ‘Plan A’. Evidence of Social Responsibility for Primark. This shows that Primark takes into account all social issues relating to the customers and stake holders. Evidence 1. This is an opinion of a stake holder (Primark’s owner). Primark's code of Conduct Primark’s code of Conduct: • Employment is freely chosen collective bargaining are respected • Working conditions are safe and hygienic • Child labour shall not be used • Living wages are paid • Working hours are not excessive • No discrimination is practised • Regular employment is provided • No harsh or inhumane treatment is allowed. • Freedom of association and the right to A limitation is that...
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...having a proper healthy diet. Childhood (4-9 years): He started his schooling at the Byron House; he later blamed its “progressive methods” for his failure to learn read while at the school. So which means his intellectual milestones was happening slowly. This is probably due to his illness. In St Albans, when he was 7, he went to St Albans High School for Girls for a few months; at that time, younger boys could attend one of the houses. This could affect his life as in intellectual way because he changed school lots of time, which means he probably had to catch up a lot of things. That will also affect his emotionally and socially developments because it might be hard for him to find right friends otherwise his motivation will emotionally gone down. Adolescence (10-18 years): When he was 10 years old he attended Radlett School for a year and from September 1952, St Albans School. His family placed a high value on education so that’s why his father wanted him to attend the well-regarded Westminster School, but he was ill on the day for scholarship examination. His family could not afford the school. His family could not afford the fees without scholarship so he stayed at St Albans. For the emotionally and socially factors, it was good for him because he stayed with a close group of friends with whom he enjoyed playing board games, the manufacture of fireworks, model aeroplanes and boats, and also long...
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