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BUS 611 Assignment Data Driven Decision Making
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Making Using Microsoft Excel This assignment must
be completed and submitted using a Microsoft
Excel spreadsheet (.xls). Provide a source for
each equation you use. Sources must be listed at
the bottom of the spreadsheet. No title page or
additional formatting is required. 1. Channels of
Communication o It has been estimated that
project managers spend up to 90 of their time
communicating and your position at Roto Air is
typical. Calculate the number of possible
channels of communication if the project team
were to grow to nine members, Important show
your work. o The total number of stakeholders,
including the project team, is estimated at 75
people. Calculate how many more possible channels
of communication the additional stakeholders
beyond the team members represent. Important
show your work. 2. Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) o
Roto Air plans to spend 1,000,000 on this
project, resulting in a total savings of
2,500,000 over the life of the project.
Calculate the Benefit Cost Ratio. Important show
your work. Ignore any effects of the time value
of money.
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BUS 611 Assignment Project Management Software
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om Project Management Software Scenario Roto Air
has decided to use Smartsheet as the software for
project management and collaboration. The Quick
Drop 100 Transition team will be the first to use
it. You will enter into a self-teaching exercise
based on selected project information that will
be provided to you. In preparation you will need
to navigate to smartsheet.com and create a free
trial account good for 30 days. Assignment
Project Management Software This is a learning
exercise using data provided to you. Please do
not enter different or additional data. The
software is user friendly and quite intuitive.
Complete the following steps 1. Navigate to
smartsheet.com. 2. Login using your email address
and individual password. 3. Using the Create New
tab at the upper left, open a New Project Sheet.
4. Save the sheet as Quick Drop 100 Transition
and your last name. 5. Under Task Name for row 1,
enter Kickoff Meeting. Note Rolling over the
icons in the left hand column under Home reveals
the function of the button. Find and hit the Wrap
button to display the full text of any entry. 6.
Enter 1 in Duration. (Durations have been set to
display days).
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BUS 611 Week 1 Assignment Manufacture Location
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will be working with the following scenario
throughout this course. You are free to make
reasonable assumptions when facts have not been
provided, but do state them as you complete the
assignments. You are a project manager for Roto
Air, Inc., a successful manufacturer of
autonomous rotorcraft (drone helicopters) headed
by CEO Jackie Copperfield. You work at the
research and development facility in central New
York and have been given the assignment of
transitioning the manufacturing processes for the
newest product, the Quick Drop 100, to its
permanent manufacturing site in central Florida.
The Florida plant is non-union, has lower
property taxes, and lower utility costs than the
New York location. You will be sharing an
existing building owned by Roto Air and used for
assembly of other similar products. While floor
space has been allocated for your product, the
specialized machinery and tools must be procured.
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BUS 611 Week 2 Assignment Project Kickoff
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Project Kick-off Meeting CLOs 2,3. Due by Day
7. Note that we are continuing with our scenario
from Week One. This week you travel to the Roto
Air plant in Florida to hold the project kick-off
meeting. In preparation for the meeting a.
Identify at least three categories of
stakeholders that should be invited. b.
Remembering that interested parties are in both
New York and Florida i. Select three methods of
communicating with the attendees. ii. Describe
the best method of holding the meeting that also
limits travel costs. c. Describe at least three
team building exercises that could be used during
the meeting. d. Before leaving the office, Shawn
mentions that her husband is employed as a sales
representative by the manufacturer of one of the
needed machines. i. After reviewing the Project
Management Institutes (PMI) Code of Conduct,
specify which potential violation exists. ii. As
the team leader, describe how you expect Shawn to
proceed regarding this issue. iii. Explain what
action you would recommend to Shawns husband.
The paper
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BUS 611 Week 4 Assignment Risk Status Report and
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k Status Report and Paper CLOs 5, 6 Scenario
The Quick Drop 100 transition team has met to
identify project risks, explore contingency
plans, and assign owners to watch for symptoms
and address the risks. The team surfaced the
following information Julie is scheduled for a
one week vacation during month three of the
project. The supplier of a common set of hand
tools for the manufacturing floor notified the
Roto Air Purchasing department that the tools
will not be available until one month after
manufacturing is scheduled to start. Alternative
suppliers are available. The Human Resources
department has indicated that despite their best
recruiting efforts the two openings for skilled
welders have resulted in no qualified local
applicants. The manufacturer of the custom-built
rotor forming machine now expects to be one month
past the last acceptable date for installing the
machine. No other suppliers exist for this item.
Roto Air uses a Just In Time (JIT) delivery
system for major components used at the Florida
plant. Hurricane season often interrupts or
delays deliveries during one of the scheduled
months of the project. Assignment Instructions
This week you will be essentially doing two
related assignment in one MS Word document.
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BUS 611 Week 6 Final Paper Selling Project
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Selling Project Management Report Your new
knowledge of project management and experience at
Roto Air has earned you a promotion to a senior
project manager. Roto Air has recently purchased
a smaller company that is the current supplier of
electromechanical assemblies used in the Quick
Drop 100. After your first visit to the new
company you find that there is no formal project
management system in use and that local
management is not aware of the advantages of
using project management principles. Your
assignment is to educate the new management team
and prepare them to welcome and integrate project
management skills and tools into their
operations. To do so, you will prepare a
persuasive, factual report that 1. Defines a
project and project management and differentiates
routine operations. 2. Explains the benefits to
the business of using project management
methodology. 3. Describes the role and importance
of a project sponsor. 4. Examines the benefits of
using project teams and methods of developing
them and improving communications. 5. Outlines
the project life cycle. 6. Examines the
importance of a project charter and its role in
preventing scope creep. 7. Justifies the need for
using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
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