As a project manager and as a member of the team, I would take it upon myself to help out the struggling consultant in completing their deliverables. At the moment, it is vitally important to make sure the client will have all deliverables by the agreed upon date. By working with the consultant, I will also be given the opportunity to monitor and observe their work behaviors in a way that I could propose temporary performance management techniques such as goal setting and behavioral intervention
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Hiring a financial manager was a major step for Comet Skateboards. Identify some of the factors the manager should consider when creating a plan for risk-return trade-off? Factors that the manager of Comet Skateboards should consider for risk-return trade-off, include general costs, rent, hiring effective people to handle financials/hiring a financial manager, influences on cash flow, connections within the market, quality, etc. What might be some: short term funding options for Comet and some long-term
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We will be creating a test plan for the SCR TIMS project that will use only the related items to the SCR TIMS network. This plan will address the testing strategies and all the quality requirements. There will be a Master Test Plan that will show a testing schedule and it will have four levels of testing. These levels will include the System, Acceptance, Unit and Integration. The test items will include: • Server Machine • Network Communication • Disk Arrays • Client Machines 1. Executives 2
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In a business continuity plan (BCP), people knowing what needs to be done and who will do it, is BCP 101. Have you ever heard of only one person responsible for all BCP operations? The BCP is a team effort, remember BCP is not only about IT equipment. Looking at BCP, does all emergencies occur during the beginning of the shift? When is a flood going to happen, only at 8 a.m. in the morning? BCP main function is to notify people that need to restore operations. One of the articles I found was The
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The success of Belle Meade will depend on the strategic plan that the stakeholders have put in place. As previously mentioned regarding the various types of social entrepreneurships and the various areas to focus on in order to be effective, these should be at the forefront of any discussion. As a member of that strategic planning group, I would focus on the areas which have been the most beneficial, but also look at those areas that are creating challenges. Based on the case study, there were
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What are the main challenges and obstacles in implementing a project management office (PMO)? At AtekPC, in early 2007 IT projects were mostly of operational and maintenance nature and IT department handles these project on the specific request of concerned business unit or functional area. Most of them are small to medium in terms of both length of project execution and size and they were handled informally without any standard practice. As per the Director of applications, they do have lot of
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1. Your client has just informed you that your project budget has been cut by 20%, you have lost 2 project team members, and your project scope will remain the same. How do you respond to this new information? What type of project constraint(s) are you up against and what steps do you take to deal with this new information? The concept of triple constraints in a project means that the three constraints in the project are interdependent. Therefore, changes in the budget are likely to impact the
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To demonstrate Brother’s feelings towards his siblings name, he decides to call him Doodle because “nobody expects much from someone called Doodle” (1). We see an example of his lack of understanding when he feels that renaming his brother was the kindest thing he ever did for him; lowering people’s expectations of Doodle. Through his eyes, he thinks that everyone views Doodle this way and that nobody wants to bother with someone who is paralyzed. Brother saw Doodle to be a great burden on him in
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Summary MBH has been working on refinements to the project concept plans, bulk massing and building configurations, parking layouts, construction issues, Boulevard Terrace alternative driveways, conceptual unit sizes/mix, and other plan components. MBH was on hold for approximately one week, while we initiated the 2 market studies needed prior to finalizing the unit plans, sizes, mix, etc. MBH was given direction to move forward for the 3 parcels, assuming rental apartment product for Site A, and
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Chapter 1 – Indented and Emergent Strategies We have 5Ps as Plan, Ploy, Pattern, Position (Michal Porter) and Perspective. But the most contended issue is the concept of Intended/ Emergent Strategy. According to the Mintzberg’s model, a company’s realized strategy is the product of any intended strategies (those that are planed) that are put into action and of any emergent strategies (those that are not planned). In Mintzberg’s view, emergent strategies are the unplanned response to unforeseen
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