Week 2 Discussion: "Examine
Decisions and Changes in the Project Scope and Scope
Management" Please respond to the following:•
Analyze
the necessity and importance of creating a customer-focused scope decision in
the process of defining the scope for a project. Next, speculate on the key
negative impacts that a bad customer-focused scope decision would have on a
project. Provide
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Week 2 Discussion:
"Examine
Decisions and Changes in the Project Scope and Scope
Management" Please respond to the following:
•
Analyze
the necessity and importance of creating a customer-focused scope decision in
the process of defining the scope for a project. Next, speculate on the key
negative impacts that a bad customer-focused scope decision would have on a
project. Provide one (1) example of a project which uses such decision to
support your response.
From
the e-Activity, analyze the overall manner in which the project scope process
relates to change control and issues management. Choose one (1) key challenge
that may arise from this relationship, and suggest one (1) strategy that the
project manager may use to address the challenge in question. Provide a
rationale to support your response.
Week 2 eActivity
Watch the video titled
“How to Prevent Project Management Scope Creep” (7 min 35 s). Be prepared to
discuss. Video Source: projectmanagervideos. (2012, Feb 1). How to Prevent
Project Management Scope Creep [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKcJW1XqY4E. This video can be viewed below.
Week 4 Discussion
"Building
a Network Schedule" Please respond to the following:
•
From
the e-Activities, and Kuehn text Chapter 7, imagine a company that is
downsizing. Use the arrow and precedence diagramming method to extrapolate the
most-effective employees in an organization, and determine the key factors that
would help to keep them motivated.
Imagine
that you are reviewing vendors for an important project. Find one (1) way to
use either the arrow or precedence diagram to show the performance proposal
that would be most cost effective and would save the most time. Provide a
rationale to support your response.
Week 4 eActivity
Watch the video titled “Project Management Simplified, Section 3: Using
Network Diagrams” (6m 49s). Video Source:
Lynda.com. (2016, Mar 31). Be prepared to discuss.
Watch the video titled “Project
Management Networks Part 1: Project Network Basics AON, AOA, Critical Path” (8m 53s). Video Source: J Scott Christianson. (2011, Mar
21). Be
prepared to discuss. This
video can be viewed below.
Watch the video titled “Project
Management Networks Part 3: Project Networks in MS Project” (4m 29s). Video Source: J Scott Christianson. (2011, Mar 20). Be prepared to discuss This video can be viewed below.
Week 5 Discussion
"Schedule
Risk and Readdressing Scope" Please respond to the following:
•
Imagine
you are working on a project where the project manager does not analyze the
critical path. Select one (1) tool or technique that you would use to analyze
the critical path, and appraise the importance of your critical path analysis
to both the project manager and the client.
Imagine
you are working on the same project from Part I of this discussion. Select one
(1) tool or technique that you would use in order to address schedule risk.
Provide a rationale to support your response.
Week 6 Discussion
"Establishing
a Performance Measurement Baseline" Please respond to the
following:
•
Imagine
that you are managing a project that involves the development of a new hotel in
Washington, DC, near all of the major tourist attractions. The hotel will have
250 rooms, which will generate room revenues of between $250-300 per night per
room. You are required to submit a budget proposal for this project. Determine
the top-two (2) important elements of your budget proposal, and specify the
main reasons why the elements you have determined are important.
Using
the same scenario from Part I of this discussion, determine the best way to
establish a performance measurement baseline for your hotel project. Justify
your response.
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"Collecting
Cost and Schedule Performance Metrics" Please respond to the following:
•
From
the first and second e-Activities, develop one (1) innovative way to track key
project costs (e.g., labor hours) for a complex project that lasts for two (2)
years and involves more than fifty (50) resources. Be as creative as you like,
and provide one (1) example which shows the significant ways in which your
innovation would work in a real-world situation.
Using
the hotel project from Week 6 discussion, determine the best practice for
conducting an earned value analysis for the project in question. Provide a
rationale for your determination and one (1) specific example which illustrates
the significant ways in which the best practice in question would work in real
life.
Week 7 eActivity
Watch the video titled “Cost
Management Basics” (7m 59s). Video Source:
SoftwareManiacLSM. (2012, Feb 6). [Video file]. Be prepared to discuss. This video can be viewed below.
Week 8 Discussion
"Steering
Future Performance Back Toward the Baseline" Please respond to
the following:
•
Determine
the fundamental impact of not using a project management tool which clearly
displays the effect of delays in delivering work packages, as required per your
project schedule. Justify your response.
From
the e-Activity, determine at least two (2) best practices for steering future
performance back toward the baseline. Provide at least two (2) specific
examples of the utilization of such best practices to support your response.
Week 8 eActivity
Watch
the video titled “Set a Project Baseline - MS Project 2010 Tutorial” (3 min 54
s). Be prepared to discuss. Video Source: VersatileCompany. (2011, Aug 8). Set
a Project Baseline - MS Project 2010 Tutorial [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYilKaFzpQE. This video can be viewed below.
Week 9 Discussion
"Analyzing
and Archiving" Please respond to the following:
•
From
the first and second e-Activities, select one (1) tool that you would use in
order to analyze costs and schedules with regard to deliverables and / or work
packages for a project of your choice. Specify the overall manner in which the
utilization of the tool that you have selected would help to improve the
management of your project. Justify your response.
According
to the text, archiving key project data is a must in project management.
However, mistakes are bound to occur during such archiving. Determine one (1)
mistake that project managers are most likely to make when archiving cost and
schedule data for their projects. Next, propose one (1) strategy or best
practice for limiting the mistake in question. Justify your response.
Week 9 eActivity
Use the Internet or the
Strayer Library to research articles on project cost schedule analysis tools,
and select the tool that you would use for a project. Be prepared to discuss.
Watch the video titled
“Microsoft Project 2010 Displaying Cost & Schedule Information” (9 min 03
s). Be prepared to discuss. Video Source: Indika Deepal Weerasinghe. (2011, Mar
8). Microsoft Project 2010 Displaying Cost & Schedule Information [Video
file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_sI4F2rkps. This video can be viewed below.
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