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IFSM 438 ITP-1 Project Charter Final For more
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IFSM 438 ITP-3 WBS Word Document For more
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IFSM 438 ITP-4 Project Resources and Cost Final
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IFSM 438 ITP-5 Project Risk Assessment For more
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  IFSM 438 ITP-6 Presentation For more course
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ITP-6 Presentation
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IFSM 438 ITP-7 Word Document For more course
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ITP-7 Word Document   Brief Overview of Our
Changes to the WBS What was the effect of the
changes on your project cost? How much did it
increase? Are you still on budget or are you over
budget now?
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IFSM 438 TPP-1 Team Process Plan and Schedule
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IFSM 438 Week 1 Discussion For more course
tutorials visit www.newtonhelp.com       How can
we define project success? Based on what you have
seen in your own experience, and based on what
you have read so far, how would YOU define a
successful project? What do you think contributes
to a project being unsuccessful? And, when you
read about HUGE failures, do you believe they
are, in fact, failures? Please provide examples
and explain your answers. One or two paragraphs
is all that is required.
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IFSM 438 Week 2 Discussion Project Scope
Management For more course tutorials
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Project Scope Management Scope Creep (1)  What is
scope creep?  (Note  The textbook seems to have
a partial definition, leaving out some factors. 
So while you may wish to start with the textbook,
don't end there.  Do a little research
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IFSM 438 Week 3 Discussions Project Time and
Schedule Management For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Week 3
Discussions First, consider the following case
study scenario You are the newly appointed PM
for a major new project in your company.  You
just stepped in and haven't yet had a chance to
analyze the project.  This project has
significant executive support and an engaged
executive sponsor.  The project's executive
sponsor catches you in the hallway on your day
first or so on the job and asks you whether you
will be able to complete the project in less than
6 months.
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IFSM 438 Week 4 Discussions Project Cost and
Resources Management For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com   Week 4
Discussions Estimation Inaccuracies Consider a
situation you've experienced when you made an
inaccurate estimation for the duration of some
activity.  It doesn't necessarily need to be
during a project (though that would be desirable
if possible).  a)    What was the situation?
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IFSM 438 Week 5 Discussions Project Risk
Management For more course tutorials
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Discussions First, consider the following case
study situation Risk management often brings up
ethical issues for project managers.  For
instance, software testing can be done in several
different ways and with several different levels
of rigor and
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IFSM 438 Week 6 Discussions Project Quality
Management For more course tutorials
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Discussions First, consider the following case
study background In this modern economic era of
tight budgets, cutbacks, and shortfalls in both
budgets and staffs, most organizations are
pressured to "do more with less".  Customers and
executive sponsors push projects  tocomplete
earlier and cheaper, with less budget funding,
but with the same scope and quality.  Rapid
Application Development (RAD) and Agile and
Extreme development methods are
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IFSM 438 Week 7 Discussions Project Execution
Management For more course tutorials
visit www.newtonhelp.com     Week 7
Discussions First, consider the following case
study situation You are the PM managing a
project in which, during project execution, some
tasks actually take longer than planned, some go
over the planned budget, and the occasional task
takes less time than planned.  What's more, some
of each of these changed tasks are on the
critical path and some are not.  Due to astute
monitoring, you, as PM, have noticed these
changes from the plan. Now, answer the following
questions
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IFSM 438 Week 8 Discussions Procurement and
Stakeholder Management For more course
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Discussions "Around here, we keep half the people
ignorant so they aren't prejudiced, and half the
people prejudiced so they aren't ignorant."    --
Dr. Jay Shulman, c.1980 First, consider the
following case study background
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