I’m trying to learn for my Management class and I’m stuck. Can you help?
Discussion 2
300 words on below topic
Chapter 3: Project Selection and Portfolio Management
Chapter 4: Leadership and the Project Manager
200 words on below topic
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- What are some of the key difficulties in successfully implementing portfolio management practices?
- Discuss the concept of emotional intelligence as it relates to the duties of project managers. Why are the five elements of emotional intelligence so critical to successful project management?
- Consider the profile examples on project leaders Sir John Armitt and Jim Watzin from the chapter. If you were to summarize the leadership keys to their success in running projects, what actions or characteristics would you identify as being critical? Why? What are the implications for you when you are given responsibility to run your own projects?
300 words on Discussion 2 overall
Discussion 3
300 words on below topic
Chapter 5: Scope Management
Chapter 6: Project Team Building, Conflict, and Negotiation
200 words on below topic
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- What is the chief purpose of configuration management? In your opinion, why has it become increasingly popular in recent years as a part of the project management process?
- Sustainable project development has many features and can mean many things when beginning a project. If you were to identify three critical messages that explain what sustainable project management really means, what would they be?
- Identify the five major methods for resolving conflict. Give an example of how each might be applied in a hypothetical project team conflict episode.
300 words on Discussion 3
Discussion 4
300 words on below topic
Chapter 7: Risk Management
Chapter 8: Cost Estimation and Budgeting
200 words on below topic
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- Give some examples of projects using each of the risk mitigation strategies (accept, minimize, share, or transfer). How successful were these strategies? In hindsight, would another approach have been better?
- Consider the following observation: “The problem with risk analysis is that it is possible to imagine virtually anything going wrong on a project. Where do you draw the line? In other words, how far do you take risk analysis before it becomes overkill?” How would you respond?
- Imagine you are developing a software package for your company’s intranet. Give examples of the various types of costs (labor, materials, equipment and facilities, subcontractors, etc.) and how they would apply to your project.
300 words on Discussion 4
Discussion 5
300 words on below topic
Chapter 9: Project Scheduling: Networks, Duration Estimation, and Critical Path
Chapter 10: Project Scheduling: Lagging, Crashing, and Activity Networks
200 words on below topic
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- Consider a project such as moving to a new neighborhood, completing a long-term school assignment, or even cleaning your bedroom. Develop a set of activities necessary to accomplish that project, and then order them in a precedence manner to create sequential logic. Explain and defend the number of steps you identified and the order in which you placed those steps for best completion of the project.
- In crashing a project, we routinely focus on those activities that lie on the critical path, not activities with slack time. Explain why this is the case.
- Identify and discuss some of the problems or dangers in using project networks. Under what circumstances can they be beneficial, and when can they be dangerous?
300 words on Discussion 5
Discussion 6
300 words on below topic
Chapter 11: Advanced Topics in Planning and Scheduling: Agile and Critical Chain
Chapter 12: Resource Management
200 words on below topic
Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:
- What are the practical implications internally (in terms of team motivation) and externally (for the customer) of making overly optimistic project delivery promises?
- Consider a project to build a bridge over a river gorge. What are some of the resource constraints that would make this project challenging?
- It has been argued that a project schedule that has not been resource-leveled is useless. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why not?
300 words on Discussion 6
Instructions
Each Discussion (Total 5) needs minimum of 300 main+ Graduate Level Questions 200 words + 300 Reply’s (800 words), Plagiarism is accepted unto 50%, Need References for each discussion under it. Please provide different paragraphs for Main, Graduate level Questions and Reply’s.
