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CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 1
CMGT 575 Enitre Course
CMGT 575 Week 1 DQs and Summary CMGT 575 Week 1
DQ 1 CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 2 CMGT 575 Week 1
Summary CMGT 575 Week 2 DQ 1 CMGT 575 Week 2
DQ 2 CMGT 575 Week 2 Summary
In his 2007 article, Cervone discusses PMIs five
process groups and nine knowledge areas. Which
two knowledge areas are most critical in
delivering a successful project and why?
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CMGT 575 Week 1 Summary
CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 2
Carton et al (2007) describe what they consider a
successful enterprise resource planning
implementation. What aspects of the project made
it successful, in their definition? Why or why
not would your organization describe this as
successful?
What are the most important points that you've
learned during week 1 of the class?
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CMGT 575 Week 2 DQ 2
CMGT 575 Week 2 DQ 1
In their 2008 article, Turner et al describe the
relatively low implementation rate of Gantt
chart, CPM diagrams, etc. in projects. Does your
organization use these tools? How does this data
compare to the implementation of these tools in
your organization? Why?
In their 2008 article, Cavaleri and Reed talk
about the difficulties of defining the
interdependencies between tasks. Why do they
think this is so difficult and what affect does
this complexity have on planning and managing
project time?
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CMGT 575 Week 2 Summary
CMGT 575 Week 2 Individual Assignment SR-rm-004
Project
Summarize what you have learned from the
readings, research, and discussion activities
during the week.
Resources Service Request SR-rm-004, Analyze HR
System from the Riordan Manufacturing Virtual
Organization and the Microsoft Project file
Riordan HR Integration Template Access Service
Request SR-rm-004. Access and update the
Riordan HR Integration Template with tasks
necessary to integrate current HR functions into
a single, integrated system. You may have to
modify titles of high-level tasks to
appropriately represent activities going
forward. Submit the updated task list to your
facilitator for grading.
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CMGT 575 Week 3 DQ 2
CMGT 575 Week 3 DQ 1
According to Bryde and Robinson (2007), what is
the relationship between total quality management
and project quality? Why does that relationship
exist and why is it important to effective
project management?
Based on the article by Mizell and Malone (2007),
present a complex approach to cost estimation on
large projects. Compare and contrast the
advantages and disadvantages of the approach you
currently use for similar projects to its
simulation approach.
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CMGT 575 Week 3 Summary
CMGT 575 Week 3 Individual Assignment Develop
SR-rm-004 Project Task Sequence
Summarize what you have learned from the
readings, research, and discussion activities
during the week.
Resource Microsoft Project file Riordan HR
Integration Template Update the Riordan HR
Integration Template based on your facilitators
feedback, and develop the task sequence by
establishing task dependencies. Submit the
updated project plan to your facilitator for
grading.
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CMGT 575 Week 4 DQ 2
CMGT 575 Week 4 DQ 1
When a decision is made to outsource a part or
your entire project to another country, many
communication challenges appear. Winkler et al.
(2008) present a study of such a situation
between German customers and Indian suppliers.
What key lessons can you take away from the study
of this article and apply to your future IT
projects? Explain how knowledge of the techniques
in this article could have helped in past
projects?
Communications within the personnel on a project
is crucial to project success. Decker et al.
(2007) present an intriguing use of Internet 2
technology to assist in facilitating this
communications process. Based on your past
experience in project management, analyze and
evaluate adopting this technique into your future
project planning systems. Do you see these
techniques dramatically improving communications
over your past techniques?
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CMGT 575 Week 4 Summary
CMGT 575 Week 4 Individual Assignment Identify
SR-rm-004 Resources and Proposed Costs
Summarize what you have learned from the
readings, research, and discussion activities
during the week
Resource Riordan HR Integration Template
(Microsoft Project file) Update the Riordan HR
Integration Template based on facilitator
feedback, and identify the resources and proposed
costs needed to complete the project. Submit
the updated project plan to your facilitator for
grading.
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CMGT 575 Week 5 DQ 2
CMGT 575 Week 5 DQ 1
In his 2009 article, what are some of the
software features Barlow describes that can help
project managers manage portfolio risk? How and
why do these features help manage risk? Does your
organization use any of these tactics in its
project risk management, and, if so, how
effective are they? Why or why not are they
effective?
The Philbin (2008) article examined the use of
various level os sophisticated tools in the
project planning of large, complex projects in
effort to reduce the risk of project failure.
What types of tools do you or your company use
for large, complex projects toward reducing the
risk potential?
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CMGT 575 Week 5 Summary
CMGT 575 Week 5 Individual Assignment Explain
SR-rm-004 Project Approach
Summarize what you have learned from the
readings, research, and discussion activities
during the week.
Resource Riordan Manufacturing Microsoft Project
file Draft a 2-3 page narrative of your HR
integration project to explain your approach to
the projects sponsor, Hugh McCauley. Submit this
narrative with your final project plan to your
facilitator for grading
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CMGT 575 Week 6 DQ 2
CMGT 575 Week 6 DQ 1
Weinstein (2007) defined five issues in his
article. Explain why you think each of these
would be problems in projects.
Based on the Chiocchio (2007) article, compare
and contrast the reasons in the performance
differences between the high performing and the
low performing teams. Generalize those results to
methods that you can use in your own project
management skill set to improve performance in
future projects managed.
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CMGT 575 Week 6 Summary
CMGT 575 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment
SR-kf-001 Project Final
Summarize what you have learned from the
readings, research, and discussion activities
during the week.
Resources Service Request SR-kf-001 from the
Kudler Fine Foods Virtual Organization and the
Kudler Coupons Microsoft Project file Write and
submit a paper summarizing the teams project
proposal and plan to get the coupons project back
on schedule. Prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint
presentation of the teams revised project plan
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