Quiz 5

Instructions  Assume that your class group has been selected and hired by the FAO to manage this FAO Funded Aquaponics Project described in the article (above). Using expressed and implied information in the article, your project team is required to craft/develop some project documents and plans to help in the overall management of the Aquaponics Project, with specific focus on the components and questions/statements listed below.  Outline the key project activities that your team will use/do to properly initiate or start the Aquaponics Project. Develop a mini scope statement for the project.  Propose an initial risk register for the Project (with a minimum of 5 risks).

Instructions  Assume that your class group has been selected and hired by the FAO to manage this FAO Funded Aquaponics Project described in the article (above). Using expressed and implied information in the article, your project team is required to craft/develop some project documents and plans to help in the overall management of the Aquaponics Project, with specific focus on the components and questions/statements listed below.  Outline the key project activities that your team will use/do to properly initiate or start the Aquaponics Project. Thoroughly propose an initial risk register for the Project (with a minimum of 5 risks).

how to Monitor Stakeholder Involvement (Project Manager/Project Members)

One of the best ways to determine realistic expectations for any project is to examine historical data. With regard to this, explain Fact Based Decision Making and show why Fact-based management is regarded as a core project quality concept.

Based on the structure of a project's decision tree, what are the three different options that may be used in the project? The information that you receive and the analysis that you do are both based, fundamentally, on the points of view that you have.

Why is Project Management's three limitations essential for evaluating success or failure of the project?

1. What is a Project? For the following activities or organisations, state whether or not they fulfil the criteria for being a project and provide a 1-2 sentence justification for your answer. You may need to do a little reading about some of the organisations in order to make an informed judgement.   (d) Open source projects (e.g. the Mozilla Project, Thunderbird Project, etc.) (e) The Alan Parsons Project (f) The Manhattan Project

Listed below are the some of the groups of stakeholders that bring different expertise, standards, priorities and agendas to the project. Explain briefly how these stakeholders can affect the project? 1. Top Management 2. Government agencies 3. Project sponsors 4. Project Team 5. Contractors/Vendors

4.1 From a project of your choice, formulate five (5) potential risks associated with the project. 4.2 Develop a risk response matrix for the five (5) risks identified above and outline how you would deal with each risk.

All stakeholders, including users and management, have expectations for the project. These expectations may evolve over time. This may result in one of two undesired outcomes: Scope Creep or Feature Creep. Explain the two ideas in sufficient detail that the distinction between them is apparent. What is the primary source of these two issues? What is the worst-case scenario that may occur in your project if these two bad circumstances occur?

defines two distinct forms of management; how may an understanding of these change the value proposition for the project's end users?

You’re managing an industrial design project. Your project is currently in theInitiating phase. The project charter has been created, and you are workingon developing the preliminary scope statement. Which of the following isNOT something that you should do?A. Create the change control systemB. Document initial project risksC. Identify internal and external constraintsD. Write down any assumptions that you have made   Alberto is the project manager of a software implementation project.His company has made an organization wide decision to move to a newaccounting and human resources software package. He has read thatsome projects to implement the same package have resulted in the loss ofpersonnel data when they tried to import it into the new system. He backsup the data so that it could be restored in the event of such a problem butalso buys insurance to cover the cost of keying in the data manually if theimplementation doesn’t work. Which response strategies are Albertousing?A.…

Assume that your class group has been selected and hired by the FAO to manage this FAO Funded Aquaponics Project described in the article (above). Using expressed and implied information in the article, your project team is required to craft/develop some project documents and plans to help in the overall management of the Aquaponics Project, with specific focus on the components and questions/statements listed below.  Explain how the activites mentioned below will be used to properly initiate of start the Aquaponics Project.  Feasibilty Study  Project Charter

A project manager should have many skills. Describe two of these skills by providing a scenario in your choice to show how your selected skills are necessary. A description of the scenario’s environment is required for a better understood of the project manager qualities.

Since the project that is referred to in Question 1 involve innovative technology andinherent uniqueness, managing uncertainty and risks on the project is of utmostimportance. How will you plan risk management and identify risks on the project?What possible risk response strategies can you use for negative risks.

“The project management group was headed up by a vice president and included the full-timepersonnel.” This arrangement suggests a Projectised structure. Briefly describe at least THREE (3)pros and THREE (3) cons of this setup.

As a project manager, at the beginning of project execution, you notice different opinions between team members relating to project work and deliverables and the level of overall complexity. What should you do right now?

2. Happy Customers  J. Z. Smith is a small consulting firm specializing in implementing new information systems installation projects for service agencies. J. Z. Smith has a standard project action plan for the implementation projects they work on. They feel very confident in the project plan they use; all steps are included and the costs are estimated well. The project teams are very entrepreneurial and have great relationships with their small client base. The company works with its clients informally following the standard action plan. They provide weekly progress reports for the client and for Jeremy Smith, the president of J. Z. Smith. Jeremy has noticed that they have problems with meeting budgets and due dates. He thinks his teams allow their clients to add steps to the projects. A current client, the local welfare department, has asked J. Z. Smith to help them implement a newly purchased Dead-Beat-Parent tracking system. Jeremy is nervous and wants to be sure that they meet the…

Project management is governed by an enormity of decision making that is influenced by ethics, professionalism and politics. Decisions require intense thought and considerations before execution as they involve people, resources and the environment. Ethics is the discipline of how to do it best. It is essential that project leaders govern the techniques used in decision making and general leadership with the appropriate set of ethical principles and values. With reference to the extract above, elaborate on the ethical challenges relating to projects and discuss way in which project managers/leaders can respond to such challenges. ​​​​​​​

1) Consider the following statement: "If you failed to plan, you planned to fail." To what extent is this statement true in a project management context? Does proper planning guarantee project success? In other words, does an excellent project plan necessarily translate into a successful project? Why, or why not? #

(a) Project risk management is a process to identify, analyze and responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle for the project remains on track and meet the goal. You as a project manager, suggest the step-by-step idea to manage the risks.

Based on the decision tree structure, there are three alternative project possibilities to consider. What are the alternatives to this? What, in your view, is the best answer to the difficulties of data collection and decision-making that we face in this day and age?

Do make sure you answer all the three as I am aware of your guidelines and also, all the questions lies under the same concept, thank you in advance. A. Identify the three major criteria (trade-offs) a project manager must consider in establishing priorities in project management. List the three criteria and explain one of them.  B. identify two conditions to choose between the Top-down and Bottom-up approaches to estimate time and cost of projects.  C. Identify two sources of risks, a good project manager should take into consideration in preparation for project management.

Can you please assist with this homework? The name of the project is setting up A New IT System in the local College. Now that you have selected a project (a case), develop an analytical report of the project with specific focus on the components and questions/statements listed below: (1) State the name of the project and give a brief description of the project.  (2) Outline the problem(s) that the project was initiated to solve or the opportunity it exploited.  (3) Describe the technique or method used to select the project. (4) Identify and describe at least five (5) characteristics that make this endeavour a project. (5) Identify the project developmental approach used for the project. Give reasons or justification for your conclusion(s). Hint: (Agile, Waterfall/Traditional, or Hybrid approach?) (6) Using your knowledge of the project life cycle and information gathered from the examination of the project documents, describe the phases of the project and the key activities/tasks…

Projects vary in the level of visibility or scrunity they entertain. What are some of the causes of such variation? Do you think projects in your track have such variability? If so, how do you think a project manager can address this? If not, please explain why?In what ways do you think that setting expectations when non-experts are involved is a problem, and how do you think a project manager can address this?In what ways do you think that scoping projects that are cutting edge or don’t have a lot of precedents is a problem, and how do you think a project manager can address this?What do you think are the special problems for project initiation for projects in your track? In answering this question, you might reference some of the challenges identified in earlier questions and/or identify some additional ones. Be sure to explain why these are special problems for your track (that is, they aren’t experienced in the majority of other types of projects). If you include…

Would you prefer the bottom up or top down budgeting approach for project cost control and why .

Following mini-case scenarios involve ethical dilemmas associated with projectmanagement. How would you respond to each situation, and why?  Gold Star LAN projectYou work for a large consulting firm and were assigned to the Gold Star LAN project. Work on the projectis nearly completed and your clients at Gold Star appear to be pleased with your performance. Duringthe course of the project, changes in the original scope had to be made to accommodate specific needsof managers at Gold Star. The costs of these changes were documented as well as overhead andsubmitted to the centralized accounting department. They processed the information and submitted achange order bill for your signature. You are surprised to see the bill is 10 percent higher than what yousubmitted. You contact Jim Messina in the accounting office and ask if a mistake has been made. Hecurtly replies that no mistake was made and that management adjusted the bill. He recommends that yousign the document. You talk to another…

Darrel Smith the project manager at Group Five has requested you to provide him with advice on an effective model that can be implemented to effectively manage project stakeholders.