
BUS 611 Entire Class All Assignments
Product DescriptionBUS 611 Entire Class All AssignmentsBUS 611 Week 1 Assignment Article ReviewArticle Review. Write a 2-3 page, APA-style article review of the Rosenwinkel article (found in the reading section). Provide an overall review of the article and compare it to a project you have been a team member or project manager on. Choose two “People Variables” and two “Project Variables” from the article and describe the overall complexity of your project. Provide a summary of how you would change the management of the project based on the items in this article. BUS 611 Week 2 Assignment Project RiskProject Risk. Risk is often described as the event that “might” happen during the course of a project. Explain how risk has impacted a project that you have been associated with as a team member or project leader. Provide at least two examples where surprise events impacted the project, and how the issue was resolved. Comment on the importance of risk to the overall schedule, and if there were any lessons learned in terms of identifying the risk in the future. You may use a home improvement project or charity project as an example. Submit a 2-3 page, APA-style paper. BUS 611 Week 3 Assignment WBSWBS. Create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for a project you have involved in professionally, or a common activity around the house that would span more than one month.This particular WBS can be in outline form, with more than two but no more than five high level work packages with no more than 3 tasks in each work package. Assign resources to each task, and provide an appendix for the high level skills required for the task. Identify one work package that could use a contingency plan, and write describe that plan in one hundred words or less. Use an APA cover page and formatting to satisfy University requirements.
Example WBS: Project Name – New Swimming Pool
The following topics must be reviewed in order for the paper to be complete:
Writing the Final PaperThe Final Paper:
Example WBS: Project Name – New Swimming Pool
- Create Budget – 2 weeks
- Task 1- Accountant
- Task 2- Accountant
- Design Pool – 2 weeks
- Task 1- Designer
- Task 2- Designer
- Build Pool – 6 Weeks
- Task 1- Construction
- Task 2- Construction
- Generic WBS
- Scheduling System
- Work Authorization System
- Decision making process
- Integrated cost or scheduling system
- Project Status Reports
- There is a three day weekend in the coming month
- Nine of the developers are on track to finish their tasks 2 weeks early.
- One software developer took the recently announced “early retirement” package, and is leaving in one week. He is confident he will be able to finish his piece of the work before he leaves.
- It is hurricane season in Florida, where three of the developers are located.
- The developer who is retiring is the only person who knows how to get approval for the final product from the IRS.
- The project costs are under budget and there has been no need for overtime.
- Provide a one page monthly status to the sponsors, in APA format
The following topics must be reviewed in order for the paper to be complete:
- Project life-cycle management and the benefits of project management to an organization.
- Project organizations and the importance of leadership and sponsorship
- Project team building, including techniques of successful team building
- Techniques for project scope definition and the importance of managing scope throughout a project.
- Creation of a work breakdown structure, and how and project manager breaks down the overall project into packages.
- Comment on the need for contingency planning and why it can help keep a project on schedule.
- Concept of a phase review and why it is important to sponsors.
- The need for PM software in large integrated programs and the benefits to the overall project management organization.
Writing the Final PaperThe Final Paper:
- Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a title page with the following:
- Title of paper
- Student’s name
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Date submitted
- Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
- Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
- Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
- Must use at least five scholarly sources, including a minimum of two from the Ashford Online Library.
- Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
- Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
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