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CMGT 575 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Entire Course

• CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 1

• CMGT 575 Week 1 DQs and Summary
• CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 1
• CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 2
• CMGT 575 Week 1 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 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 2

• CMGT 575 Week 1 Summary

• 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 Successful Learning

• 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 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 2 Individual Assignment SR-rm-004
  Project

• CMGT 575 Week 2 Summary

• 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 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 3 DQ 1

• CMGT 575 Week 3 DQ 2

• 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 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 3 Individual Assignment Develop
  SR-rm-004 Project Task Sequence

• CMGT 575 Week 3 Summary

• 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 f

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CMGT 575 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 4 DQ 1

• CMGT 575 Week 4 DQ 2

• 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 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 4 Individual Assignment Identify
  SR-rm-004 Resources and Proposed Costs

• CMGT 575 Week 4 Summary

• 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

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CMGT 575 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 5 DQ 1

• CMGT 575 Week 5 DQ 2

• 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?

• 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 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 5 Individual Assignment Explain
  SR-rm-004 Project Approach

• CMGT 575 Week 5 Summary

• 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 facilitato

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CMGT 575 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 6 DQ 1

• CMGT 575 Week 6 DQ 2

• 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 Successful Learning

• CMGT 575 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment
  SR-kf-001 Project Final

• CMGT 575 Week 6 Summary

• 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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