...Phase 4 Individual Project: This assignment has 3 steps Step 1: Review the information on SMART goals from the following websites: http://www.101-smart-goals.com/smart-goals http://topachievement.com/smart.html http://www.goal-setting-guide.com/goal-setting-tutorials/smart-goal-setting Step 2: Determine one specific long-term career goal as well as two short-term goals that will assist you to meet that career goal. Fill out the template below then delete this page and save the document. Post your assignment by clicking on the Submit Assignments link. Long Term Career Goal Specific: What specifically do you want to accomplish? I want to be working for a computer company in 5yrs, making about 80,000-100,000 a year. I want to be living in a nice big house for my family in a nice subdivision or on my own land. But I know I can’t have all that without the right education. I must accomplish this goal so I can provide for my family and we can have nice things. Measureable: How will you measure if you are successful? I went to the military to learn about computers and networking and now that I am at a job that I deal with computers, networking and others things. But now that I am also going to school to further my education and get a degree in this field. I can now say I am on the right track at accomplishing my goal. Attainable: What plan will you put in place to ensure you can attain your goal? The plan I will put in place is to keep sharpening my skills in...
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...Phase 5 Individual Project CTU Online Professor N. Combs MGM340-1204B-03 Vicky Robinson December 22, 2012 Introduction The two companies that I will be conducting my research on and presenting will be in the Fast Food Industry. The two companies are McDonalds and Burger King. Bothe companies are doing well and have shown considerable amounts of profit for the last five years. These companies are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the industry. Background Industry A McDonalds- The McDonalds Corporation is the world’s largest fast food chain in terms of sales. McDonalds is a restaurant that specializes in fast food such as; hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes and desserts. McDonalds currently has 31,489 restaurants in 118 countries, and about 80% are run by franchises or affiliates. McDonalds competition in the fast food industry are; Yum! Brands Inc. In order to compete with its rivals, the company focuses on “being better, not just bigger” by making their products more affordable. Background Industry B Burger King- Burger King is the second largest fast food restaurant in the world. Burger King is the original Home of the Whopper, and is committed to premium ingredients, signature recipes, and family-friendly dining experiences. Burger King’s menu consists of hamburgers, French fries, soft drinks, milkshakes and desserts. Burger King competes in the industry by revamping their stores, and increasing their advertisement...
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...Section 4 Project Execution Phase 4.1 Project Execution Phase Overview Once a project moves into the Execution Phase, the project team and the necessary resources to carry out the project should be in place and ready to perform project activities. The Project Plan should have been completed and baselined by this time as well. The project team and specifically the Project Manager’s focus now shifts from planning the project efforts to participating in, observing, and analyzing the work being done. Figure 4.1.1 shows where in the Project Management the Execution Phase occurs. Figure 4.1.1 Project Management Execution Phase Project Manager’s Responsibilities A Project Manager’s responsibilities do not stop once the planning of the project is done. Because a Project Manager is responsible to internal and external stakeholders, the project team, vendors, executive management, etc. the visibility of the position is intensified. Many of these Project Management Methodology 4-1 Section 4 Project Execution Phase people will now expect to see and discuss the resulting deliverables that were so meticulously detailed in the Planning Phase. As a Project Manager, keeping oneself from getting “down in the weeds,” especially on large projects, will be important during project execution. This will allow the Project Manager to focus their attention on enabling the project plans, processes and managing the expectations of customers and stakeholders. Particular attention during...
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...THE MEANING OF PROJECT: A project is a unique venture with specific start and end dates. This is different from an ongoing task that doesn't have an end date. Projects often involve different parts of an organization. Constraints on project include cost, schedule, resources, and quality. There is a give and take between these items i.e. you can't have it all. Usually projects are divisible into stages or phases each with their own set of priorities and goals. A project is an important and carefully planned piece of work that is intended to build or produce something new, or to deal with a problem. The Project Management Institute, U.S.A. has a good definition for it. According to the Institute, a project is a one-shot, time-limited, goal-directed, major undertaking, requiring the commitment of varied skills and resources. It also describes a project as: a combination of human and non-human resources pooled together in a temporary organization to achieve a fixed set of objectives The aforementioned descriptions emphasize that a project does not mean a material body or form, rather it denotes an operation undertaken temporarily to achieve a goal-directed objective within a limited time. In contrast, the Oxford English Dictionary states that a project is "a plan, scheme or table of something; a tabulated statement; a design or pattern according to which something is made; something projected or proposed for execution; a proposal." It is, therefore correct to...
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...University of Phoenix MGT/437: Project Management Project Management Paper November 4, 2012 Project Management Paper Introduction Many would say that the United States is a great place to live. This country gives people choices and many crave the independence of owning their own business. However, owning a business is not as easy as it sounds, it takes hard work and strategic planning. To manage a business you have to have a sound direction in what expertise you would like to tackle. Project management can play an integral role in implementing these plans and attaining these goals. This system is “one of the integral parts of the contemporary management system due to its ability to make sure that the goals set in the beginning of a project correspond exactly to the goals that were achieved later on. It goes without saying that the primarily aim of any project is a certain definite result. Since a project can be applied to various spheres of activity of a company, it automatically gets a wide range of usage (Reynolds, 2009).” The primary purpose of this document is to achieve an enhanced perceptive of project management and to provide information on key elements that is the core of most officially run projects. This document will answer three general questions necessary in the construction of project management. These questions are: What is project management? What are the basic phases of the project lifecycle and their purposes? Why is it important for...
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...or two phase system. In Phase I, the goal is to establish a risk baseline that individual tender responses can be compared to. Phase 2 builds on Phase 1 where the goal is to compare the individual tender’s approach to the potential effects of risk on the project. The two phase process is a systematic process which helps to ensure the greatest attention and effort is focused on the high risk areas for the project. 1. Which case study does a better job at identifying risks? Explain why. Phase 1 and Phase II use the same process for identifying risk; therefore there is an equal level of performance. Determining which case study does a better job of identifying risks is made much easier by applying the definition. “Risk identification determines what might happen that could affect the objectives of the project, and how those things might happen.” The process should be comprehensive to ensure all key elements have been identified. The preferred method for risk identification is brainstorming. In Phase I and II the project team uses a risk WBS as noted in figure13.2 for Phase I and figure 13.11 in the text. The risk WBS was developed using brainstorming as discussed in Chapter 2, and each risk WBS item is reviewed. Any required clarification is provided by the team member most familiar with the risk. The primary objective for Phase I is to establish and document “a risk baseline against which individual tender responses can be compared.” The primary “objective for Phase II is...
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...shopper program. This project will “track purchases of individual customer's. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies” (Kudler, 2014). (Project Scope) “Project scope is a part of project planning that involves determining and documenting a list of specific project goals, deliverables, tasks and deadlines” (Rouse, 2014). Project scope is broken into several sub-categories: project objectives, goals, phases, tasks, resources, budget, and proposed schedule. Project Objectives – To track purchases of individual customers. The customer purchases will be tracked and accumulated as loyalty points for redemption by the customer for gift items, specialty foods and other products or services as made available through partnerships with other external companies. Project Goals and Phases – The project goal is to create a business/systems requirements document for the development of the Frequent Shopper Program system to meet the objective of this request. There are 4 phases of this project, and they are: * Phase 1: Define the scope and stakeholders associated with the project. * Phase 2: Determination of requirements, list of confirmed requirements, proposed system process view, functional allocation modeling, and logical model of the system. * Phase 3: Preliminary design...
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...City of McMinnville Succession Plan & A Model for Small Tennessee Municipalities 1 Table of Contents Building a case for Succession Planning ....................................................................................... 6 National Statistics ........................................................................................................................ 6 Tennessee Public Management Statistics (TCMA) .................................................................. 8 Succession planning a component of Workforce Planning ......................................................... 8 Benefits of Succession Planning ................................................................................................. 10 Competencies ............................................................................................................................ 10 Timing ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Foundation ................................................................................................................................. 11 Additional Information and Preliminary Work .......................................................................... 12 Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals ...........................................................................
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...Electric Fan Facility located in Hangzhou, China. The COO of Riordan Manufacturing, Hugh McCauley has initiated a service request. This request is labeled SR-rm-022. The purpose of this request is to integrate a variety of the human resource tools into a single application. This document is to addresses the planning and analysis phase of a service request. The request is to encompass all plant locations. Design methods will be established to meet this request, requirements will be collected, the project scope and feasibility will be recognized, the stakeholders will be identified, and key factors to guarantee success in gathering information will be clarified. Project Scope The project scope is for a new system for the human resource department. The new human resource systems purpose is to take advantage of the more sophisticated, state of the art, information systems technology. It is extremely important that the scope be identified during initiation of the project as it guides the feasibility study and requirements. The boundaries of the project are identified by the scope of a project. The following must be identified while defining the scope: • Project...
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...Insourcing 2. Selfsourcing (also called end-user development) 3. Outsourcing MAJOR SDLC PHASES: 1. Planning 2. Analysis 3. Design 4. Development 5. Testing 6. Implementation 7. Maintenance PRIMARY ACTIVITIES IN PLANNING PHASE: 1. Define the system to be developed 2. Set the project scope 3. Develop the project plan PRIMARY ACTIVITIES IN ANALYSIS PHASE: 1. Gathering the business requirements 2. Prioritize the requirements PRIMARY ACTIVITIES IN DESIGN PHASE: 1. Design the technical architecture 2. Design the system model PRIMARY ACTIVITIES IN DESIGN PHASE: 1. Build the technical architecture 2. Build the database and programs PRIMARY ACTIVITIES IN DESIGN PHASE: 1. Write the test conditions 2. Perform the testing of the system PRIMARY ACTIVITIES IN IMPLEMENTATION PHASE: 1. Write detailed user documentation 2. Provide training for the system users PRIMARY ACTIVITIES IN MAINTENANCE PHASE: 1. Build a help desk to support the system users 2. Provide an environment to support system changes COMMON TYPES OF TESTS: 1. Unit testing 2. System testing 3. Integration testing. 4. User acceptance testing (UAT) TYPES OF TRAINING: 1. Online training 2. Workshop training IMPLEMENTATION METHODS: 1. Parallel implementation 2. Plunge implementation 3. Pilot implementation 4. Phased implementation COMPONENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES: 1. Rapid application...
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...04-75-100-Section 30 Introduction to Business Summer 2015 04-75-100-Section 30 Introduction to Business Summer 2015 Class meetings: | Tuesdays: 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. (OB B14) | Professor: | Prof. Nicole Anderson | Office: | Room 118 OB | Office hours: | Tuesdays, 5:30PM – 7:00PM | E-mail: | nsleiman@uwindsor.ca | Secretary:Office: | Ms. May NhanRoom 405 OB | E-mail: | nhan@uwindsor.ca | Teaching Assistants: | To Be Assigned | | | This course will familiarize students with business including marketing, operations, finance, accounting international business and human resource management. By the end of the course students should develop a general understanding of business including but not limited to its various applications and forms, key challenges to ethical decision-making, key success factors for a career in business, and the impact on, and the impact of, business on political, legal, social, cultural and economic environments. Methodology This class follows a lecture-discussion format. Students are expected to be prepared to discuss readings assigned for each class. With only limited time to meet during the semester, is it essential that students be prepared to engage, participate and contribute in each session. Lectures and readings will be supplemented by discussion, videos, and case studies, which apply concepts to real-world situations. Textbook, Other Materials and Course Web Site * Bissonette, G. 2012. Business:...
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...Project Charter UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT TOOL IMPLEMENTATION Prepared for University of California, Office of the President Table of Contents BACKGROUND.. ................................................................................................................................ ……….3 MISSION…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3 PROJECT SCOPE ......................................................................................................................................... 4 BuSINESS OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................. 4 PROJECT OBJECTIVES .................................................................................................................................... 4 Release Phase One Scope........................................................................................................................ 4 PROJECT DEPENDENCIES ...............................................................................................................................5 OUT OF SCOPE AND ASSUMPTIONS.....................................................................................................................5 PROJECT GOVERNANCE MODEL .................................................................................................................. 7 KEY STAKEHOLDERS...
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..., an intensive marketing campaign is necessary, that will raise awareness about entrepreneurship, and the facilities that are in place to aid an individual who is attempting to do so. The implementation of this marketing campaign will take place in three individual phases. These will be carried out as short, mid and long-term plans. The phase 1, short term plan will take place over a period of 6 months, as shown in figure 1. Thereafter, the phase 2 program of events is scheduled to be carried out over the following 18 months, while the third phase of the proposal is planned for the long term of the project, and will continue for at least 3 years thereafter. . Phase 1 The first phase of the project proposal will be focused towards the generation of the campaign committee. The campaign committee will be responsible for carrying out the entire project, and will therefore need formulated into a well ordered structure. The hierarchy of the committee will be essential in the success of the proposal, because clear lines of authority need to be observed and followed. The committee will require a structure that deals with all of the issues that the project may be required to approach. The head of the committee will be a campaign manager, who will be responsible for the general management of the project. He/she will be required to liase with...
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...Effectiveness Using Technology Resources | Phase 1 - Task 1 | Task Type: | Discussion Board | Deliverable Length: | See assignment details | | | | | Primary Discussion Response is due by WednesdayYou have been called in by your boss. The company is considering buying another smaller firm; however, some business analysis is needed for your company management to make its final decision about purchasing. Your boss has asked you to look at the firm that he or she is considering to buy in terms of competitive advantage. You have been asked to explain to senior management how you would provide this information. You have been tasked with using Porter's five forces to make this determination. Discuss and defend to your management how utilizing Porter's five forces to analyze any organization or industry would provide an understanding of competitive advantage. | | Phase 1 - Task 2 | Task Type: | Individual Project | Deliverable Length: | See assignment details | The company that you are working for is considering buying another smaller firm. However, there is some business analysis needed for your company to make its final decision about purchasing. Throughout this course, you will be working on creating the Business Strategy and Management Plan.Keep in mind that the final Business Strategy and Management Plan template should contain the following elements: * Title page * Course number and name * Project name * Your name * Date * Table of contents...
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...Standard Operating Procedure Personal Finance Project Team Author/s: | Lucille Olivier | Document Ref: | SOP | Creation Date: | 13 September 2011 | Version: | 1.0 | Last Updated: | 13 September 2011 | Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Project Framework 1.4 Project definition, prioritisation and approval 1.5 Project Process 2. Initiation Phase – The Needs Analysis Process 2.1 Initiating a Project 2.2 Stakeholder Analysis 2.3 Kick Off Meeting 2.4 Functional Specification 2.5 Initiation Phase Overview 3. Validation and Feasibility Phase 3.1 Technical Specification 3.2 Costing 3.3 Reporting Analysis 3.4 Pre Project Plan 3.5 Communication Plan 3.6 Risk Register 4. The Approval Phase * The business case * Motivational Documents 5. The Prioritisation Phase 5.1 The priority matrix 5.2 Resource Scheduling 5.3 The Prioritisation Phase Overview 6. The Execution Phase 6.1 Training plan 6.2 Operations plan 6.3 Communication plan 6.4 The Execution Phase Overview 7. Monitoring and Controlling Phase 7.1 The Monitoring and Controlling Phase Overview 8. The Closure Phase 8.1 Administrative Closure 8.2 Preparing project closeout and lessons learnt 8.3 Recognize and celebrate outstanding project work 8.4 The Closure Phase Overview Introduction * 1.1 Introduction A Standard Operating...
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