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MGMT 404 Week 1 Course Project  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   DUE WEEK
1 PROJECT OUTLINE PROPOSAL/APPROVAL   To begin
Week 1, all students need is to form teams (the
instructor can permit individual projects if
necessary). This can be done by the instructor or
by the student at the discretion of the
instructor. Once a team is formed, students need
to complete a Statement of Participation. This
document is found in Doc Sharing.
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MGMT 404 Week 1 iLab Basics of Project
Scheduling  For more course tutorials
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Organizations - iLab   iLab 1 of 7 Basics of
Project Scheduling    i L A B O V E R V I E
W    General Comments about the Microsoft Project
Exercises    A project plan and schedule are
extremely important for managing projects.
Applications are available as tools to assist
defining, managing, controlling, and reporting on
project plans and
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MGMT 404 Week 2 iLab Managing Project
Resources  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Project Scope and
Schedule - iLab  iLab 2 of 7 Managing Project
Resources  General Comments about the Microsoft
Project Exercises   Once the base schedule has
been created, resources can be assigned to tasks.
To complete that this week, we will  Create a
list of resources. Assign resources to tasks.
Assign costs to resources. Use resource
information to determine a preliminary cost for
the project.  
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MGMT 404 Week 2 Project Selection  For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Due
Week 2 Project Selection   Provide a short,
one-paragraph description of your project which
will make it very clear to me, your boss, what
you are planning. Keep in mind that you will be
using this project for all team activities for
this session
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MGMT 404 Week 3 iLab Scheduling with
Resources  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Project Network and
Risk Management - iLab   iLab 3 of 7 Scheduling
with Resources    General Comments about the
Microsoft Project Exercises    In this week's
iLab, we will use the different ways MS Project
allows you to modify resource assignments and how
this can affect work completion. In doing so we
will
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MGMT 404 Week 3 Scope Statement  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Due Week
3 Scope Statement   Prepare a scope statement
using the model on page 105 in the text as a
template. Please also describe how your proposed
budget is reasonable and appropriate for your
project objective (this may be a rough order of
magnitude estimate, but it does need to be
reality based!) Remember to be tangible,measurable
, andspecific.
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MGMT 404 Week 4 iLab Working with Calendars  For
more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com  
Project Resources and Reducing Duration -
iLab   iLab 4 of 7 Working with
Calendars    General Comments about the Microsoft
Project Exercises    Calendars are tools that can
be assigned to the project and to individual
resources. The calendars can change the length of
the workdays and schedule individual vacations.
To work with the calendars, we will
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MGMT 404 Week 4 Quiz  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   1. (TCO 1) Which
document is created during the initiation phase
of a project?   2. (TCO 1) Which document on a
project authorizes the project manager to begin
work on the project?   3. (TCO 2) Which step of
the project life cycle defines all of the project
deliverables?
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MGMT 404 Week 4 Work Breakdown Structure and
Network Diagram  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Due Week 4 Work
Breakdown Structure and Network
Diagram   According to the PMBOK, "the WBS is a
deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition
of the work to be executed by the project team,
to accomplish the project objectives and create
the required deliverables." In other words, it
lists the tasks, the sub-tasks, the
sub-sub-tasks, etc., for the project.
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MGMT 404 Week 5 iLab Resource Workloads  For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Proj
ect Monitoring and Control Managing Project
Teams - iLab   iLab 5 of 7 Resource
Workloads   General Comments about the Microsoft
Project Exercises    A project schedule cannot be
confirmed until all resource variations and
overallocations are managed. To do this we will
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MGMT 404 Week 5 Risk Management Plan  For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   DueW
eek 5 RiskManagementPlan   Establish the
project's priority matrix (constrain, enhance,
accept). See Figure 4.2, page 107. Identify a
minimum of 10 project risks, when it will occur
in the project life cycle, and determine the
probability of the risk occurrence. Create a
matrix similar to the one from the your text
(Larson/Gray, Figure 7.5, page 217), making sure
that it is consistent with your priority matrix.
Justify the use of your risk scoring matrix.
Assess your risks
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MGMT 404 Week 6 Closeout Report  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   MGMT 404
Week 6 Closeout Report
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MGMT 404 Week 6 iLab Task Constraints and
Baselines  For more course tutorials
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and Outsourcing Project Procurement -
iLab   iLab 6 of 7 Task Constraints and
Baselines    General Comments about the Microsoft
Project Exercises    Sometimes certain tasks must
be constrained by dates, rather than only by the
predecessors. For example, the Independence Day
holiday is not dependent upon us getting our
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MGMT 404 Week 6 Resource Management Plan  For
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Due Week 6 Resource Management Plan   A project
plan cannot be considered complete until the
resources have been assigned (including the
bottoms up cost estimate) and leveled, ensuring
that the resources are available to complete the
work.
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MGMT 404 Week 7 Course Project  For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   DUE WEEK
7 COMMUNICATION PLAN   According to the PMBOK?
Guide, "the Communications Planning process
determines the information and communications
needs of the stakeholders for example, who needs
what information, when they will need it, how it
will be given to them, and by whom." In other
words, it lists
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MGMT 404 Week 7 iLab Tracking Project
Progress  For more course tutorials
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Closure International Projects - iLab   iLab 7
of 7 Tracking Project Progress  Now that the
baseline is set, project work can begin. We can
use MS Project to track our project's progress
and compare it to our baseline. Comparing to the
baseline allows us to check our progress against
the schedule and budget. When negative variances
occur, we are either behind schedule or over
budget, so we know that corrective actions are
necessary. In this week's iLab, we will
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MGMT 404 Week 7 Project Coffee Shop Communication
Plan  For more course tutorials
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Communication Plan   According to the PMBOK, "the
Communications Planning process determines the
information and communications needs of the
stakeholders for example, who needs what
information, when they will need it, how it will
be given to them, and by whom." In other words,
it lists the general communication requirements
for the project.
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MGMT 404 Week 7 Quiz  For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   1. (TCO 4) An
example of bottom up estimating would be   2.
(TCO 6) You are the project manager of a major IT
project in Italy. You review your earned value
report and you see that your SPI is 1.18. What
does this mean to you?
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