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<br>Project Management. What is a project? How does project management differ from other types of management? What does a project manager do? Describe at least three interpersonal or leadership skills that are essential for a successful project manager. Respond to at least two of your classmatesu2019 postings.<br>
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INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 1 DQ 1 Project Management For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Project Management. What is a project? How does project management differ from other types of management? What does a project manager do? Describe at least three interpersonal or leadership skills that are essential for a successful project manager. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 1 DQ 2 Phases and Steps of PM For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Phases and Steps of PM. What are the four phases and eight steps of the project management process (as defined in your text)? How are these steps and phases connected? What is the likely outcome if these are not followed? What is the key difference between a project team member’s focus and a project manager’s focus when it comes to these phases and steps? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 1 Successful Projects For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Successful Projects. Assume the project sponsor within a major corporation has championed a project for the past year, and the concept was finally approved. Of the strategies a sponsor would use to ensure project success, describe three that you think are the most important, and discuss how the strategies are applied.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 2 DQ 2 When to Form the Team For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com When to Form the Team. Project teams are an essential part of most projects and depending on the project scope and work scope team membership is likely to change. The question is “When should the PM form a project team?” Provide your response in 200 works or less and support your rationale using the text and outside sources. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 2 Project Requirements Document For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Project Requirements Document. Imagine that you have been selected as the Project manager (PM) for a process or product improvement activity or the design of a new product or service in your organization. Prepare a three- to four-page Project Requirements Document (not including the title and reference pages) for this project that describes the following items: 1. Background information
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 3 DQ 1 Gantt Chart For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Gantt Chart. Define what a Gantt chart is. How would you use it to focus and key in critical areas that need improvement? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 3 DQ 2 Risk Management For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Risk Management. Read the Forbes article, “Managing Capital Projects in a High- Risk World.” Based on the content presented in the article, describe some of the risk management techniques and tools available to a PM. Explain how you would apply them to assessing the risk involved with implementing a service or product improvement, or to the design of a new service or product. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 3 PDM Network Diagram Tool For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com PDM Network Diagram Tool. Using the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) created in the Week Three assignment one, create a logical precedence diagramming method (PDM) network diagram. The specifications for the network diagram are as follows:
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 3 WBS Tool For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com WBS Tool. Based on the Project Requirements Document you created from Week Two, create one detailed project plan in a work breakdown structure (WBS) format that presents at least five major activities and at least three tasks per major activity. This means you will have at least 15 tasks in your project plan. Your
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 4 DQ 1 Project Stakeholders For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Project Stakeholders. What is the definition of a project stakeholder? Why do you think it is critical to manage stakeholder relationships and how is this connected to project control? Provide an example from your own experiences where you saw good OR bad stakeholder relationship management and justify why you thought it was positive or negative. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 4 DQ 2 Communication Methods For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Communication Methods. Discuss some of the important ways a PM can gather and analyze information? Comment on the value of informal communication methods when conducting and running a project. Are there times when informal communication takes place when formal communication is needed or vice versa? How would this affect your project? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 4 Gantt Chart Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Gantt Chart Paper. A Gantt chart is a powerful data analysis/project schedule control tool. Create a Gantt chart using at least the five major activities in the sequence you identified in Week Three, assignment one. Prepare a written summary of your results and conclusions to executive management that incorporates a copy of your Gantt chart.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 5 DQ 1 PM Documents For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com PM Documents. Discuss some of the important customer and organizational documents that a PM should be concerned with during the closeout phase of the project. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com INF 342 Week 5 DQ 2 Standardized Work Instructions For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com 1. Standardized Work Instructions. What are standardized work instructions? Comment on some of the characteristics that effective standardized work instructions have and the benefits that organizations can enjoy by implementing them after close of a project. Provide an example to share with the class. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings Use the following as a starting point for your research:
INF 342 Massive Success / snaptutorial.com NF 342 Week 2 DQ 1 Key Project Documents For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Key Project Documents. There are two key documents used to define a project. Identify those documents and explain how a PM would use them in managing the project throughout the project life cycle. Use the text and outside sources to support your response and document them in APA format. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.
