Assignment

1. There are many elements to consider when designing an organizational structure. Let's start by each of picking one of the six key elements and discussing why that element is important to the overall success of the design. Please cite your sources.

2. Change is a constant factor in both in our personal and work lives. There seems to be resistance to change whether the change will be good or bad. Why do people resist change?

3. Explain what a learning organization is.

4. Explain the difference between an inside and an outside board of directors.

5. You are reaching the end of your graduate school program and are planning a large party to celebrate your success! You have rented out the local forest preserve as the venue for your party. Applying your project management skills, you want to ensure you have everything planned out and you've asked your family and friends to be a part of your team to hold this party. At your party, you have made it clear to your team what you want to have delivered. After all, it's your party- you can have whatever you want! Some of the key items you want at your party include

6. A firm hosts data-mining servers and performs data mining for other companies that do not desire the costs of hardware, software, or expertise to data mine their data. The firm is planning to roll out faster data-mining software that will reduce the time to sift through customers' data by a fraction of the present time.

Part 1: List and discuss the major risk management functions from a project management perspective for the data-mining software project.
Part 2: Describe a positive and negative risk event, the consequences, and the risk-response plans for the data-mining software project.

7. Compare and contrast crashing and fast tracking as a means of schedule compression.

8. A from stores data For other organizations. The company stores data across many states, providing backup data storage For the state, municipal governments, and large corporations. The firm is deploying a new set oF storage devices that are Faster, denser, and more energy efficient

Part 1: List and discuss the major risk management Functions From a project management perspective For the new data storage project

Part 2: Describe a positive and a negative risk event, the related consequences, and the risks response plan For each oF the two risks For the new data storage project.

9. Before one can begin writing a charter, one must consider the most appropriate organization for the project. You are the project manager for an organization that builds doors and windows for homes.Which organization structure of the five types is most suitable? Why?

10. Compare and contrast the project charter and the project scope as used in project management

11. List and describe at least three key differences between risk management in an agile environment and risk management in a traditional project.