PM586 Week 1 Discussion

Note: Read the DQ carefully as you are required to answer several parts to one question. Ensure your response is a minimum of 200 words and include two in text citations from two different sources: 

• When it comes to project management, understanding the quality aspect is very important. In your own words, describe quality, freedom from failure, and features that meet the customer needs. In accordance with the PMBOK Guide, there are certain requirements to meet the quality standards. Understanding those requirements,identify a company that is or has in the past violated these standards. Explain what could have been done differently.

        

PM586 Week 6 Project Closure Plan - Part 4

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Create a 20- to 25-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® or 4- to 5-minute Prezi^® presentation that describes the systematic process for a project closure plan. Be sure to include speaker notes.

Identify the systematic process you will use, including reports, statistical analysis, and meetings. 

Include, at a minimum, the following:

• Reporting and closing documents
• Any necessary statistical data and analyses
• An explanation of how you will verify the scope
• Contract closeout processes
• Administrative closure processes
• Personnel performance evaluations
• Lessons learned (review and meeting)
• Need for performance surveys of project results
• Stakeholders' final meeting
• Project history file
• Final project report
• Celebrating success

Submit your assignment.

PM586 Week 5 Discussion - Project Quality Control and Performance

Note: Read the DQ carefully as you are required to answer several parts to one question. Ensure your response is a minimum of 200 words and include two in-text citations from two different sources:

• Explain the different components of project control and share which component you think is the most difficult to explain and why? After all of the checks and balances have been performed, why is there still a need for quality inspection and quality improvement?

         

PM586 Week 4 Signature Assignment Project Plan - Part 3

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About Your Signature Assignment:

Signature/Benchmark Assignment: Project Plan Part 3 is designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe what students should know and be able to do upon completion of their degree. Signature/Benchmark Assignments are graded with a grading guide or an automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across a location or college/school and used for course/program improvements. 

Continue developing the comprehensive project proposal outline.

Develop the strategies used to execute the project.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word project plan summarizing your strategies.

Include the following within the project plan:

• Strategies for management of human, physical, and financial resources, including the following:
• Temporary resources
• Permanent resources
• Work plan management (deliverables management)
• Quality assurance strategies
• Communication strategies
• Documentation management strategies
• Change request management strategies
• Contingency plans

Determine the strategies used to monitor the project.

Address the following when determining your monitoring strategy:

• Schedule
• Budget
• Critical path
• Resource levels
• Change requests
• Scope creep

                

PM586 Week 4 Discussion - Monitoring Projects

Note: Read the DQ carefully as you are required to answer several parts to one question. Ensure your response is a minimum of 200 words and include two in-text citations from two different sources:

• What role does quality assurance play in project management? Compare and contrast the three types of reviews that can be executed for a project.   

           

PM586 Week 3 Project Plan - Part 2

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Continue developing the comprehensive project proposal outline.

Develop the project budget for your proposal, and include a copy of it in your project plan.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word project plan in which you complete the following:

• Identify available resources (consider subcontractors).
• Create a labor budget.
• Create a capital budget.
• Align the schedule and scope to the labor and capital budget.

Develop the risk management plan for your project proposal, and identify internal and external risks.

Define an appropriate contingency plan and budget for the risks identified.

Submit your assignment.

 

PM586 Week 3 Discussion - Project Budget and Risk Management

Note: Read the DQ carefully as you are required to answer several parts to one question. Ensure your response is a minimum of 200 words and include two in-text citations from two different sources:

• Projects often fail before they are started. The author talks about the "Abilene Paradox."What is this paradox and list some strategies that you can avoid in a team environment of failing before you start? How does risk play a factor in having a successful or unsuccessful project?

       

PM586 Week 2 Project Plan - Part 1

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Resource: Approved project plan proposal

Describe your approach in managing this project, including the methodology used.

Identify any available sources to understand the scope of the project proposal.

Describe the phases the project will contain.

Develop the project scope for your project.

Address the following:

• Define the project requirements.
• Define activities for the project.
• Develop the schedule for your project proposal.
• Estimate the primary activity duration.
• Sequence the primary activities.
• Develop a work breakdown structure, and define the tasks.
• Determine the labor requirement.
• Determine the necessary resources for the project.

Summarize this information in a 1,050- to 1,400-word project plan.

Submit your assignment.

  

PM586 Week 2 Discussion Project Scope and Schedule

Note: Read the DQ carefully as you are required to answer several parts to one question. Ensure your response is a minimum of 200 words and include two in text citations from two different sources:
• Strategy is an important part of project management and business decisions. Define strategy and describe in detail the steps involved in selecting the best strategy for a given situation. Share an example of a company that executes strategy well and a company that has struggled in this area. What did the two companies do differently?

    

 

PM586 Week 1 Organization and Project Plan Template Proposal

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Choose an organization as the focus of a project proposal. The organization can be an existing company, nonprofit organization, religious organization, or governmental agency. Avoid an organization that is so large that historical data would be difficult to apply. Firms in the Russell 2000^® index may fit well, whereas firms in the Dow 30 Industrial index probably do not.

Select a project you would expect to occur within the organization for which you will be writing a proposal. This project proposal will include the project scope, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, quality assurance, and controls. Project proposal examples include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Implementation of a new hiring process
• Construction of a new office building
• Development of a new software system
• Roll out of a new product or service

Use the Internet to find an appropriate project plan template.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you provide a few brief paragraphs to justify why you selected this organization. Include the following:

• The organization's name
• The purpose of this organization's existence
• Why this organization is of interest to you
• A description of the project and its relationship to the organization's business objectives
• Availability of organizational data (Avoid selecting an existing organization for which there is no publicly available historical data.)

Submit your paper and the project plan template to your instructor for approval.

Note: Your facilitator should formally approve this choice, or recommend reconsideration, prior to your project plan assignments.