...Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division Second Semester 2013-2014 Course Handout Course No. : MM ZG523/CM ZG523/HHSM ZG519/QMJ ZG523 Course Title : PROJECT MANAGEMENT Instructor : Arun Maity Course Description: Concepts and techniques of project formulation, evaluation and implementation; Project planning and scheduling; Risk management; Time-cost trade off; Resource levelling and allocation; Project monitoring and control; Contract Management. Scope and Objectives Project Management is an introductory course on issues related to the project management of enterprises with emphasis on planning, scheduling and controlling. Students will be exposed to fundamental theories in business practice, and limitations and difficulties of project management theories in solving real problems. The basic objective of this course is to help students develop the skill found in competent project manager. Prescribed Text Books 1. Clifford F. Grey, Erik W. Larson, Gautam V. Desai “Project Management The Managerial Process” Tata Mcgraw Hill, Fourth Edition, 2010 2. Chandra Prasanna, Projects: Planning, Analysis, Selection, Fin. Implementation & Review, Tata McGraw Hill, 7th Ed., 2009. Reference Books 1. Pinto K. J. Project Management, Pearson Education, Second Edition, 2009 2. Kerzner, Harold, Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning and Controlling, CBS Publishers, 2nd...
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...For my artifact I chose, Choice Words, by Peter H. Johnston. This book is used in Dr. Rodriguez’s EDRE 4821 class. Choice Words, is a book that encompasses how I plan my lessons based on knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals. After reading this book and doing an activity in Dr. Rodrigues class, I realize how important writing is oppose from speaking directly to the person. Words carry a meaning and as a writer you want the message intended to be understood; not leaving the reader confused. When writing, one must use words that are in the right context and allow the reader to get a visual picture of what is being written. I chose this book because at my place of employment we have a slogan every child, every...
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...Choice Words, by Peter H. Johnston an instructional book I choose for my artifact from Dr. Rodriguez’s EDRE 4861 Integrated Language Arts & Social Studies Instruction K-8 fall class. This book provides many different resources I need in order to make my lesson plans beneficial for every student. When planning my lessons I will individually and collaboratively select and create learning experiences that are appropriate for curriculum goals and content standards, and are relevant to learners. I will consider every child’s background and tap into their prior knowledge when preparing my assignments. It is important for me to help my students meet their learning goals through strategic planning and instructions. It is vital for me to be organized and use content knowledge, curriculum, integrative strategies, and pedagogy to develop each lesson. I will intentionally remember my students’ background, and how they learn in order to create the most effective and meaningful instructions possible. Choice Words, allows me to make sure my lessons are flexible to accommodate all my student’s learning styles. I will develop my individual lesson plans that require attention in the areas of interdisciplinary skills, standards of learning, differentiated, assessment,...
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...Each of these text has very complex theme´s that are built through the main character, Settings, Plot and word Choice. Both text Have been written by Edgar Allan Poe a famous American literary poet and critic, His most famous pieces were famous for their mysterious storylines and word usage. One reason Edgar Allan Poe's stories were so popular were due to the explicit themes each text Conveyed. The ¨Cask of Amontillado¨ Theme ¨ Do not insult those that are easily wounded for through pride cometh revenge¨. The Narrator states ¨ he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge… . I continued, as was my in to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.¨ The Narrator is offended by Fortunato's words...
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...The experience a person has while reading a novel, directly relates to the word choice and organization, the author creates emotion, simple understanding to help further develop characters. The Cellist of Sarajevo follows three different characters through their experiences and struggles of living during the Bosnian war. The war had a great impact on all three of the characters, Arrow, Dragan, and Keenan, they were forced to live and make decisions that could affect their own well-being. Steven Galloway’s novel uses an effective writing style as his word choices show beneficial repetition of phrases, simple word choice that gives all readers a greater understanding and organization to further develop characters. When authors use repletion...
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...The Ambiguity of the Impact of Life Choices By Stacy Tohar In the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost the reader is left with ambiguity about the personal impact on the traveler of choosing one road over the other, and therefore ambiguity about the impact on a person from making one life choice to the exclusion of another, as this poem is of course a poem about life choices. The definition of the word ambiguity is doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention.It is unclear whether the subject of the poem, the traveler, feels contentment, regret, or both about his choice of roads. However, from the poem’s conclusion, it appears that the author intended that the ambiguity remain without resolution, just as is often the case with life choices and the impact of those choices. In the Road Not Taken, the traveler stands at a fork in the road and must choose one road over the other. Of course, this is a metaphorical fork, symbolizing life choices and paths. Knowing that he must choose one road over the other, the traveler attempts to look as far down the way as possible in an attempt to see where each road will take him. This is as in life, where we must attempt to visualize the impact of choosing one life choice over another. However, as with life choices, the traveler cannot see the consequences of one choice over the other with any certainty: “And looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth.”(4-5). The traveler can only see that one road...
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... Personal Responsibility and Academic Success To obtain academic success through personal responsibility individuals must take ownership of his or her goals. Prioritizing tasks, such as time management, identifying purpose and goal setting are essential in one’s path to success. Even though there may be outside influences that may change life’s course, personal responsibility is necessary for academic success because every choice made is one’s own responsibility and every individual can decide how to shape he or her future. Personal responsibility is the privilege to make his or her own choices and obligations in life. One would agree with famous author Stephen Covey’s explanation. “Look at the word responsibility - “response-ability” - the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling” (Covey, 1989. Pg81) Personal responsibility involves working on one’s own character and skill development rather than blaming others for situations and circumstances. It means choosing to design a life full of purpose and worth. Academic success refers to one’s level of successfully completed schooling and ability to achieve individual success in curriculum studies. Colin...
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...Should DataClear go global or continue down the path that they have found success on thus far? In my opinion, the best business choice for them is to wait a little longer. The second they received word that a similar company was launching internationally, a panic broke out. In this state of mind, DataClear could make a business choice that may greatly impact their company in a negative way. The firm needs to sit back and work out different strategies that will allow them to go global when the time is right. The company has some time but not a lot; they must focus and work together strategically. Even with VisiDat’s unexpected development and contract with Shell, Data clear may still have the upper hand. DataClear already built a data analysis market in the U.S., one that they still have to themselves. Not only do they control this, but they also have proof of success and overall quality. There is no guarantee that this new competition is actually competition. DataClear has proven throughout their first two years how great their product truly is. The company is looking at a potential 300 percent average growth through 2002. DataClear has an annual $600 million domestic market for its current product and $1.2 billion when you begin to include telecommunications and financial services. When laying everything out on the table, it is clear that going global could make the company millions. This is easy to say, but how they bring it all together could determine if this will...
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...Clinical judgment is when one believes on whatever relevant data or what we believe is the best choice, while actuarial judgment solely uses practical proven statistical associations between data and outcome; in other words, one selects what statistics or numbers recommend (Dawes, Faust, & Meehl, 1989). I believe that both ways are not better than each other because for the most part, people tend to use their best judgments based on the situation at hand and an actuarial judgment may not offer the best choice. One of my clinical judgments was choosing a pest control company to fumigate my home bi-weekly. They showed up at my front door explaining the process and how they can eliminate all types of insects and other pests from my home. I was motivated to give them a try as I had recently moved into the house and did not have anyone doing this service during that time. They also offered to fumigate immediately and bill me monthly (did not have to pay that day). I thought this was a pretty good deal. After a week or so after the fumigation, I noticed I was getting spider webs by my front door. I called the service so they could come back out and take care of the situation. They came over and explained that it will take a few tries to kill these spiders. I was a bit upset as I did not have them prior to the fumigation. They explained that the venom drew them out and at least I can see them now. At that point I just asked them to fumigate around the area...
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...he Cost of “Free” Will in Oedipus Rex (the King) Perhaps the Greek playwright Sophocles never had the concept of “free will” in mind when writing Oedipus Rex, but the play does allow for that interesting paradox we know today as free will. The paradox is: if Oedipus is told by the gods' oracles that he will kill his father and marry his mother, does he have any power to avoid this fate? That's a basic free will question. If Oedipus manages to avoid killing his father and marrying his mother, he will prove the gods wrong, and the oracle prediction turns out to be no prediction at all. How free can we truly be if created by an all knowing being? If God knows, even at the moment before our births, that we are already destined to ascend to Heaven or burn in Hell, can we move through life making truly free decisions? Or are we always to be viewed as puppets of destiny? Was Adam to be blamed for the fall? Or was that actually God's plan? So what is this idea of "original sin?" Shouldn't we celebrate Adam as a hero for freeing man from the state of unawareness that he lived in until he consumed the sacred pomegranate? Recall that the very first line following Adam and Eve's sin is "And they saw that they were naked." This nakedness is not so much of the body (though early Christians loved to view it that way), but rather a sense of viewing, as Joseph Campbell puts it, "duality," the basic difference between man and woman, right and wrong, and, ultimately, man and...
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...IELTS Secret Key #1 - Time is your greatest enemy |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | | |Written by Rad Danesh | |Monday, 23 April 2007 | |To succeed on the IELTS, you must use your time wisely. Many students do not finish at least one module. The table below shows | |the time challenge you are faced with: | |Module | |Total time | |Questions | |Time for each question | | | |Listening | |30 min ...
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...often seems pointless. For example, if you ever question what is our purpose in the world? or what are we supposed to do on earth? These are all existential questions that are asked every day. From my understanding of existentialism is making your own choices and later on having to dwell on the presumptions of that choice that you made. In such as Orwell having to dwell on the choice that he made of shooting the elephant. According to his essay, “existentialism” Sartre explains the beliefs and conditions of existentialism. The most important beliefs that Sartre had was that there is no human nature. “If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature.” (Sartre 1131.) He also believed that God does not exist. “On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. (Sartre 1131.) Meaning, we are the ones to blame for our own actions and choices that we make, if God doesn’t exist were not able to put our blame on him. George Orwell is a writer that I think is an existentialist. In his essay “Shooting an Elephant” I believe that Orwell was existentialism. His central choice that he makes was, he didn’t know if he wanted to shoot the elephant or not. Orwell stated “As I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty I ought not to shoot him. It is a serious matter to shoot a working elephant looked no more dangerous than...
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...knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost Symbolism and Theme in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” High school graduation motivational speeches and even inspirational quotes often contain words from Robert Frost`s famous poem, "The Road Not Taken". "It is a beautiful poetic statement of bold independence and personal innovation". Whichever choice is taken in life, one will always wonder what possibilities the other choice may have held. Frost's setting and scene are imbued with symbolic meaning. The first stanza opens up with the line "The roads diverged in a yellow wood" (Frost 1). The use of the word "yellow" could demonstate either spring or fall- a calm time of the year. Lives are like roads, with split paths representing the different choices one must make. Robert Frost depicted the two paths that he had come across as being two separate ways because he understood that he would probably never come back to see what was down the path he did not choose, "Yet knowing how the way leads on to way/ I doubted if I should ever come back" (14-15). As time pushes forward, there is no will to go back and remake...
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...but by the content of their character." These dynamic words spoken by the eminent Martin Luther King Jr has echoed throughout the World for decades. Yet none of us can say we lived up to Dr. King's vision of a World where each individual would be judged by the content of their character rather can color of skin, nationality, sexual orientation, religion or Socio-economic Status. We live in a world where People have been living with inequality for so many years, they don't believe that Equality will ever happen, but i believe that it can happen and will happen. What is really meant by the term of equality? Equality can mean different things to different people; some persons believe that equality means treating everyone the same. However, i disagree . You can' treat everyone as equal due the fact that everyone has different life experiences, skills and knowledge. Therefore, no two people are the same and can never be the same. Individuality is a vital attribute in all aspects of life. Equality can be described as when people are given equal opportunities giving them access to the same rights, choices and resources no matter of their beliefs, race or gender. Equality is a world where everyone has the power to make a change. When it comes to equal rights, we should be able to be who we wanna be, love who we wanna love, dress how we wanna dress without anyone telling us that we are wrong or discriminating our choice or style of doing things. Equality is important, because...
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..."Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure." -Scott Adams. No words, thoughts or actions come from thin air. They are all forced on us from the day we were born, and will always be until the day we die. So with that being said, yes, I feel that free will is just an illusion. It's an illusion that is brought upon us so we don't ever realize the slaves we have become in our own world and society. We are formed by the people around us, people that portray themselves as being above us. We obey and follow rules that our society has brought to us. We agree and respect its values because they made us feel as if we do have the free will to vote and make the decisions they're actually making, In reality we...
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