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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Entire Course (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.cmgt575nerd.com  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
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 1 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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?
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 1 Summary FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   What are the most
important points that you've learned during week
1 of the class?
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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?
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 2 Individual Assignment SR-rm-004
Project (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 2 Summary FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   Summarize what you
have learned from the readings, research, and
discussion activities during the week.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 3 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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?
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 3 Individual Assignment Develop
SR-rm-004 Project Task Sequence (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.cmgt575nerd.com   Resou
rce 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.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 3 Summary FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com     Summarize what
you have learned from the readings, research, and
discussion activities during the week.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 4 Individual Assignment Identify
SR-rm-004 Resources and Proposed Costs (UOP)
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 4 Summary FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   Summarize what you
have learned from the readings, research, and
discussion activities during the week
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 5 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 5 Individual Assignment Explain
SR-rm-004 Project Approach (UOP) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.cmgt575nerd.com   Resou
rce 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.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 5 Summary FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   Summarize what you
have learned from the readings, research, and
discussion activities during the week.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 6 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   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 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 6 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com   Weinstein (2007)
defined five issues in his article. Explain why
you think each of these would be problems in
projects.
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment
SR-kf-001 Project Final (UOP) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.cmgt575nerd.com   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
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds
CMGT 575 Week 6 Summary FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.cmgt575nerd.com     Summarize what
you have learned from the readings, research, and
discussion activities during the week.  
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CMGT 575 NERD Inspiring Minds