community farming projects with an average of 300ha per project. CAREER SUMMARY • 7 years : Agricultural Economist / Skills Development / ED and Project management experience in the agriculture and agro-dependent fields (business skills training; assessment of POE’s; assessment of employee learning ability & potential) • 3 years : Enterprise Development Consulting (Strategic management; financial management, strategic marketing plans; coaching; change management and managing diversity) BUSINESS
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Lance A. Bynum Professor Franklin Mitchell Project Management 30 May 2015 Scope of a Project As the project manager the first step towards establishing a project timeline will be to setting up the project goals, and allocating project resources. These steps will help you to define the scope of the project. You’ll be able to allocate tasks, give your team direction, and deliver the project on time, and within budget. Strategic Moves Since I spoke with the consultant
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FACULTY MEMBER: Debra Gordon TERM: Fall Block I 2015 COURSE TITLE: Project and Change Management COURSE NUMBER: IST 7060 TEXT BOOK: Project Management, the Managerial Process. 6thEdition. Author Erik W. Larson & Clifford F. Gray OFFICE HOURS/METHOD OF CONTACT: I do not have an office on campus but can be reached in the evening using blackboard. I also respond to
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[Type the company name] | Annotated Bibliography | Project Scope Creep | | [Type the author name] | [Pick the date] | Colquitt, J. and Lepine, J. (2013) “Stress.” Organizational Behavior: Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace, 130-142. The authors focus on the research field of organizational behavior and understanding attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups within organizations with the goal of improving them and the way the function collectively. The section
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CASE: TROPHY PROJECT 1.1 Executive Summary Executive leaders are the guardians of an organisation’s preferred culture and behaviour, however this is not evident in this organisation, There is clearly no mutual respect for employees’ rights and support from top-level management as people are intimidated and threatened if they do not deliver results. The organizations behavioural strategy needs to transform from a bureaucratic to a learning organisation where employees operate in high performance
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1. Self-Managed/ Directed Team Self-directed work teams, also known as self-managing teams, represent a revolutionary approach to the way work is organized and performed. It is a group of people working together in their own ways toward a common goal which is defined outside the team for example - James River Corporation’s Kendallville Plant ALPHA team. They manufacture cardboard boxes as defined by executive leadership. Team does their own work scheduling, training, rewards and recognition, etc
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Kendrick argues that establishing project planning is a necessary key requirement of managing project schedule risk (2009, p.334). Regardless of how thoroughly a project manager works to ensure that a project’s schedule is accurate, he or she cannot fully control the inevitable and random influences that may negatively impact their project schedule. Equipment failures, nature, and sick employees are just a few of the uncontrollable factors that may jointly cause a project manager to miss their project’s
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Lavish attention and money substituted processes Marketing drive: ‘unsinkable ship’ Traditional safety (life-boats) given low priority Project Manager (Captain Smith) didn’t trust new methodologies (ice bucket test) • Implied non-functional requirements due to perception/assumptions • • • • • Over-confidence • Old School • Political Influence • • Project Sponsor (Bruce Ismay) High Expectations set – arrive a day early Snapshot of what happened... • Business and Economic pressures
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BSB51407 - Diploma of Project Management Manage Project Time Assessment Activities & Exercises Candidate Details Assessment – BSB51407 - Time Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer for review. This forms part of your assessment. Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Email: _________
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