BA 380N: OPERATIONS Management Fall 2012 SYLLABUS Rev. August 5, 2012 Professor Edward Anderson Office: CBA 3.430 Phone: 471-6394 e-mail: Edward.Anderson@mccombs.utexas.edu Office Hours: By appointment Mail Box: IROM Dept., CBA 5.202 Fax: 471-0587 Web: All web material is at www.EdAnderson.org or can be reached via Blackboard. Personal/Research Web: www.EdAnderson.org COURSE DESCRIPTION Operations Management involves those aspects of your firm that provide the goods or services in your firm’s
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Tools used by Project Managers Lisa M. Wondolowski Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Tools used by Project Managers Formally, an organization and/or company typically would decide to commence a project exertion and appoint the project necessary resources to a prudently selected person and inferred that the individual will use some form of project management. Nonetheless, organizational implications were of little importance in the past. Although the necessary
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in a risk management plan? A risk management plan documents the procedures for managing risk throughout the project and must address: Methodology – how will it be preformed on the project also what tools and data sources are available and appropriate. Roles and Responsibilities – who’s doing what task and providing deliverables related to risk management Budget and Schedule – estimated cost and schedule for performing the risk activities Risk Probability – how will each risk be
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PRINCE2 Agile will be tested are unclear. For the un-initiated: PRINCE2 is about managing projects in a controlled way. Even the term PRINCE2 itself stands for ‘PRojects In Controlled Environments’. It’s about top-down management and tight control, especially of any proposed changes to project scope / requirements. PRINCE2 entails having a clear understanding of the project business case, comprehensive project documentation with detailed, signed-off requirements, clearly defined accountability
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TASK 1: CHECKLIST FOR MANAGING PROJECT QUALITY Project Team Leader: John Micallef Consultants: This checklist provides a team with some of the key elements required in managing this quality capability on an ongoing basis (source: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enterprise-solutions/managingproject-quality-checklist-8499): Determine quality objectives, standards and levels, with input from stakeholders and guidance of a higher project authority, to establish the basis for quality outcomes and a quality
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Assessing Projects and Risk: When the NPV is not Enough Augusto Korps Jr.- Managing Director, Sao Paolo Renato Delgado- Associate, Sao Paolo William Morishigue- Senior Analyst, Sao Paolo Discounted Cash Flow is the most widely-used technique for project assessment and is supported by modern corporate finance theory. Under this method, the expected future cash flows must be discounted by a rate that will compensate for the systematic risk of these flows. After this, decisions are based directly on
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Risk Management Student Name Institution Risk Management for a Satellite Development Project When a project manager talks about a project risk management plan, what comes in the participant mind? The list and document that have a number of foreseeable risk, estimated level of impacts as well as the established responses to issues. This establish the risk assessment matrix which help to assess the level of impact as it occur. The risk is an event that has a positive or negative impact
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| 2013 | | | [project plan holiday inn] | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | 1 Introduction Following project plan describes Holiday inn Melbourne airport hotel’s restaurant renovationproject in detail. As management decided to carry on this project this project plan generated to express
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uses the cost along with measures of scale such as size, weight or complexity from a previous project to estimate cost for a similar future project. (Aka Top Down, -40% to +100%) Parametric Estimating: An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate project costs. (More accurate, -30% to +50%) Bottom-Up Estimating: Estimating project decomposed of detail, time consumption, most accurate form of estimation, ensures every item is
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professionally III C. TSP and CMM. IV Overheads due to TSP. V Risks Associated. VI. Does TSP actually work ? VII. Recommendation for the company IV. Annotated Bibliography V. Company Assumptions Introduction As quoted by the CIO journal December 2003 issue, “By the numbers available, the software quality stinks.” The Standish Group reported in 1999 that 74% of all projects were not successful.6 According to a survey by Standish Group in 2002, only
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