Subject:  Strategic Decision Making /Subject: Initiating the Project

Section: 1 /500 words APA format / subject: Initiating the Project

Chapter 9: Resourcing Projects.

This chapter deals with assigning people and other resources to a project, looking for overloads, and making necessary adjustments to schedules. After completing this chapter, each student should be able to perform the following:

Core Objectives:

1. Show resource assignments on      a RACI chart, Gantt chart, and resource histogram.


2. Develop an effective project      schedule, considering resource constraints.


3. Describe methods of resolving      resource overloads.

Behavioral Objectives:

1. Create a Human Resources      Management Plan including role descriptions and staffing management plan.


2. Assign roles and      responsibilities based on strengths.

Technical Objectives:

1. Compress a project schedule      using crashing and fast tracking, and describe the advantages and      disadvantages of both.


2. Compare various alternative      scheduling methods.


3. Using MS Project, assign      resources, pinpoint overloads, and describe methods of dealing with them.

Chapter 10:  Budgeting Projects.

This chapter deals with various issues and techniques involved in estimating project costs and establishing project budgets. After completing this chapter, each student should be able to perform the following:

Core Objectives:

1. Define project cost terms and      tell how each is used in estimating project cost.


2. Compare and contrast      analogous, parametric, and bottom-up methods of estimating cost.


3. Create a time-phased,      bottom-up budget for a project.

Technical Objectives:

1. Show both summary and      bottom-up project budget information with cumulative costs using MS      Project.

Behavioral Objectives:

1. Describe issues in project      cost estimating and how to deal with each.

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Section:2/ APA format 300 words /Subject: Initiating the Project

Reflection and Discussion Forum Week 5

Reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Identify what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding. 

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1. Describe a potential timing      issue that can occur early in a project and a potential timing issue that      can occur at the end of a project. How would you address each      of these issues in your project?


2. Compare a project you’ve      worked on that was limited mostly by activities with another project      you’ve worked on that was limited mostly by resources. Which did you find      more challenging?  Why? 


3. You are the project manager      in charge of construction of a new school building.  Give one      possible example each of a known known, known unknown, and unknown unknown      you might encounter.


4. Give an example of how a      project manager could run into problems with cash flow, even when he is      within budget on the overall project.

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Section:3 /500 words/ APA format /Subject: Initiating the Project

RACI Chart and Types of Costs Exercise

For Week 5 you will continue to develop your project documentation by completing a RACI chart based upon the Week 2 Business Case project. The first part of the exercise will be to fill in the chart provided within the attached RACI template Excel file. This should be completed for all six (6) Key Deliverables for any six (6) of the stakeholders you identified in Week 6 exercise.

The second part of the exercise will be to copy and paste the chart into the Word template provided. The chart should be formatted so that all information is legible and shown within the document. Then, you will draft and explanation/justification of why you made the selections you did for any one (1) of your Key Deliverables (this includes each of the Activities as well).

The third part will be to provide the Types of Costs analysis. Instructions are in the attached document.

Submit only the exercise completed in the Word template (not the Excel file).

When you have completed your RACI Chart in Excel format you will copy and paste it into this document replacing the example below. Follow these steps to complete.

1. Hover      your cursor over the blank template below. You will see a small square      with crossed arrows inside appear above the upper left-hand corner of the      chart. Right click on this square and click Delete Table on the menu that      will appear.


2. Go to your Excel      file and highlight the full area of the complete RACI Chart. Right click      within the selected area and click Copy in the menu.


3. Return to this      template. Click the top line of page two previously occupied by the blank      template. Then, right click to get the action menu. Under Paste Options      you will see several icons. Hover your cursor over the second icon (which      should appear as a clipboard) and you should see the words Use Destination      Styles (S) appear. Click on this icon to paste your RACI Chart into this      document.


4. Make any additional      formatting edits needed to ensure that the entire RACI Chart is visible      and that the text is legible. This may require manual adjustment of cell,      row or text sizes. Table may span several pages if necessary.

Select one (1) of your Key Deliverables and Associated Activities. Provide an explanation of why you assigned the roles that you did for each of the Stakeholders within the three (3) Activities.

Attached excel sheet 

Business Case (copy and paste): 

Note:

Title Project Article #2: High Speed Train

City: California

News source (APA reference): Gourney, A. (2018, July 30). A $100 billion train: The future of California or a boondoggle? Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/us/california-high-speed-rail.html

Web address: https://hsr.ca.gov/

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Section:4 / 600 words minimum / subject:  Strategic Decision Making 

Discussion Forum Week 5

Go to the end of Chapter 5 and do Exercise 5B "Should Coca-Cola, Build, Borrow, or Buy in2020 -2021?" Steps 1, 2, and 3 (minimum of one-page assignment).  (When accessing Coca-Cola's website, you'll have to click on "Press Center,".)  Then go to the end of Chapter 6 and do Exercise 6A "Perform a SWOT Analysis for Coca-Cola" as an individual, one-page assignment.  After completing Exercises 5B and 6A, submit your assignment in the discussion forum for this week.  Then type two peer replies (200-word minimum each) attempting to refine your strategies and your SWOT.  

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Note : chapters :5--

5.1 Identify and discuss eight characteristics of objectives and ten benefits of having clear objectives.

5.2 Define and give an example of eleven types of strategies.

5.3 Identify and discuss the three types of “Integration Strategies.”

5.4 Give specific guidelines when market penetration, market development, and product development are especially effective strategies.

5.6 Explain when diversification is an effective business strategy.

chapters :6--- 

6.1 Describe the strategy analysis and choice process.

6.2 Diagram and explain the three-stage strategy-formulation analytical framework.

6.3 Diagram and explain the Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (S W O T) Matrix.

6.4 Diagram and explain the Strategic Position and Action Evaluation (S P A C E) Matrix.

6.5 Diagram and explain the Boston Consulting Group (B C G) Matrix.