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2. BUS 611 Assignment Data Driven Decision Making Using Microsoft Excel (Roto Air) • Data-Driven Decision Making Using Microsoft Excel This assignment must be completed and submitted using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls). Provide a source for each equation you use. Sources must be listed at the bottom of the spreadsheet. No title page or additional formatting is required. 1. Channels of Communication o It has been estimated that project managers spend up to 90% of their time communicating and your position at Roto Air is typical. Calculate the number of possible channels of communication if the project team were to grow to nine members, Important: show your work. o The total number of stakeholders, including the project team, is estimated at 75 people. Calculate

3. BUS 611 Assignment Project Management Software (Roto Air) • Project Management Software Scenario Roto Air has decided to use Smartsheet as the software for project management and collaboration. The Quick Drop 100 Transition team will be the first to use it. You will enter into a self-teaching exercise based on selected project information that will be provided to you. In preparation you will need to navigate to smartsheet.com and create a free trial account good for 30 days. Assignment: Project Management Software This is a learning exercise using data provided to you. Please do not enter different or additional data. The software is user friendly and quite intuitive. Complete the following steps: 1. Navigate to smartsheet.com. 2. Login using your email address and individual password. 3. Using the Create New tab at the upper left, open a New

4. BUS 611 Week 1 Assignment Manufacture Location Transition (Roto Air) • Scenario: Roto Air You will be working with the following scenario throughout this course. You are free to make reasonable assumptions when facts have not been provided, but do state them as you complete the assignments. You are a project manager for Roto Air, Inc., a successful manufacturer of autonomous rotorcraft (drone helicopters) headed by CEO Jackie Copperfield. You work at the research and development facility in central New York and have been given the assignment of transitioning the manufacturing processes for the newest product, the Quick Drop 100, to its permanent manufacturing site in central Florida. The Florida plant is non-union, has lower property taxes, and lower utility costs than the New York location. You will be sharing an existing building owned by Roto Air

5. BUS 611 Week 2 Assignment Project Kickoff Meeting • Project Kick-off Meeting [CLOs: 2,3]. Due by Day 7. Note that we are continuing with our scenario from Week One. This week you travel to the Roto Air plant in Florida to hold the project kick-off meeting. In preparation for the meeting: a. Identify at least three categories of stakeholders that should be invited. b. Remembering that interested parties are in both New York and Florida: i. Select three methods of communicating with the attendees. ii. Describe the best method of holding the meeting that also limits travel costs. c. Describe at least three team building exercises that could be used during the meeting. d. Before leaving the office, Shawn mentions that her husband is employed as a sales representative by the manufacturer of one of the needed machines. i. After reviewing the Project Ma

6. BUS 611 Week 4 Assignment Risk Status Report and Paper • Risk Status Report and Paper [CLOs: 5, 6] Scenario The Quick Drop 100 transition team has met to identify project risks, explore contingency plans, and assign owners to watch for symptoms and address the risks. The team surfaced the following information: Julie is scheduled for a one week vacation during month three of the project. The supplier of a common set of hand tools for the manufacturing floor notified the Roto Air Purchasing department that the tools will not be available until one month after manufacturing is scheduled to start. Alternative suppliers are available. The Human Resources department has indicated that despite their best recruiting

7. BUS 611 Week 6 Final Paper Selling Project Management Report (Roto Air) • Week 6 ¬ Final Paper Selling Project Management Report Your new knowledge of project management and experience at Roto Air has earned you a promotion to a senior project manager. Roto Air has recently purchased a smaller company that is the current supplier of electro¬mechanical assemblies used in the Quick Drop 100. After your first visit to the new company you find that there is no formal project management system in use and that local management is not aware of the advantages of using project management principles. Your assignment is to educate the new management team and prepare them to welcome and integrate project management skills and tools into their operations. To do so, you will prepare a persuasive, factual report that: 1. Defines a project and project management

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