MGT

437 Entire Course

MGT 437 Week 1 Project Management Paper

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in

which you answer the following questions:

• What is a

  project?

• What are the

  basic phases of the project life cycle and their purposes?

• Why is it

  important for organizations to use project management to accomplish tasks?

Format your paper consistent with

APA guidelines.

Prepare to discuss this assignment in

class.

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MGT 437 Week 2 Achieving Project Goals Simulation

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in

which you address the following from the simulation:

• How did

  completing this simulation change your perspective of project management? Provide

  examples in your response.

• What

  advantages and limitations of project management are identified in the

  simulation?

• How do you

  anticipate bottlenecks when planning for a project?

• If you are

  required to crunch the project, which factor would you compromise on—risk

  or time? Explain your answer.

List four key points from the reading

assignments that are emphasized in the simulation.

Format your paper consistent with

APA guidelines.

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MGT 437 Week 2 Project Proposal Paper and Presentation

Select a project as the basis for

your final project. The project may be one that applies to your work or your

personal life. Keep in mind that this project is used to explore the concepts

of project management.

Obtain faculty approval of your

selected project prior to beginning your assignment. Project characteristics

that work best include the following:

• A project

  that interests the Learning Team

• A project

  that requires multiple resources

• A project

  that is large enough in scope to apply the project management principles,

  yet limited enough in scope to be manageable for you within the next 4

  weeks. Examples of projects that have worked well are building a garage or

  planning a wedding.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word project

proposal. Include the following items in your proposal:

• Background

  and statement of need: Briefly describe the organization that is in need

  of the project. Discuss the expected benefits that are motivating the

  organization to commission this project.

• Project

  stakeholders: Start by identifying the project customer. This person

  approves resources for the project and holds your team accountable for

  results. Identify additional stakeholders of the project and determine how

  they are affected by the project.

• Project goals

  in terms of triple constraint: These are the measures that are used at the

  end of the project to judge the overall success or failure of the project.

• Time:

  Identify the completion date of the project.

• Budget: List

  the expenses and any other resource constraints for the project.

• Project

  performance: List the desired outputs from the project. Specify the

  performance criteria for the project.

• Project

  scope: A statement of work (SOW) must be developed to define what is and

  what is not included in the project.

• Summary: Your

  proposal summary must be presented to the project customer and demonstrate

  that the benefits from successful completion of the project justify the

  proposed costs.

Format your paper consistent with APA

guidelines.

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MGT 437 Week 3 Project Management Organizational

Structures Paper

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word

paper in which you compare and contrast the three primary project management

organizational structures: functional, matrix, and pure project. In your paper,

discuss the situation in which each structure would be the best method to

manage a project team. Provide rationale for decisions.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 437 Week 3 Project Planning – Technical Paper

Resource: Microsoft® Project® 2010 Virtual Desktop

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper

that adds to the project your team started last week. Check to ensure the

project’s triple constraints are still valid.

Complete the following items in your

paper:

• Phase I –

  Update SOW

• Using the

  SOW from last week, review and update it based on course material

  acquired during the last week. In the update, include the SMART

  requirements for the project.

• Identify the

  specific tasks required to complete each item listed on the SOW. Identify

  the resources required to accomplish each task.

• Phase II –

  Project Schedule and Budget Update

• Arrange the

  tasks into a schedule that takes into consideration the required

  dependencies between tasks. Use the Microsoft® Project® 2010 Virtual

  Desktop available on the student website to complete the schedule.

• Present the

  schedule in either PERT or Gantt chart format. Identify the critical path

  through the network.

• Review the

  network results and compare to the project’s triple constraint.

  Specifically compare the following:

• Timing

• Budget

• Project specifications

  – scope and SMART

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MGT 437 Week 4 Team Creation Paper

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in

which you explain team development techniques. In your paper, complete the

following:

• Identify how

  project team members are selected.

• Identify

  team-building strategies.

• Identify

  potential areas of conflict within a diverse project team.

• Identify

  techniques for reducing the probability of dysfunctional conflict.

• Identify

  conflict resolution techniques used when conflict arises.

Format your paper consistent with

APA guidelines.

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MGT 437 Week 4 Project Planning – Human Capital Paper

Resource: Week One Project

Use the same project you selected in

Week One to write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you demonstrate how you

use communication to maintain effective teamwork at the following key points in

a project:

• Communication

  management: Explain how the project manager communicates performance

  evaluation results to both management and the customer.

• Team

  selection: Identify the project organization structure selected and why it

  was selected. Explain how approval for this organization structure is

  obtained.

• Project

  revisions: Projects must be revised to eliminate any resource conflicts

  over allocations. Generate a task responsibility matrix, and a resource

  availability matrix to identify resource conflicts. Next, update your

  project plan with necessary revisions. Your paper must identify how the

  resource conflicts are identified, what method is used to eliminate these

  conflicts, and how these project revisions are communicated both

  internally to your team and externally to the organization as a whole.

• Performance

  monitoring: Discuss how team members report activities. Explain how the

  team’s performance is reported to the project stakeholders.

• Include the

  following:

• Risk

  management items

• Project

  status information

• Cost and

  schedule variance analysis

• Formulating

  cost, schedule, and performance alternatives

• Forecasting

  budget and schedule completion

• Methods of

  corrective action taken

• Managing

  expectations

Format your paper consistent with

APA guidelines.

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MGT 437 Week 5 Performance Measurement Paper

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper

in which you compare and contrast at least three performance measurements.

Discuss the importance of performance measurement within a project.

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MGT 437 Week 5 Project Implementation, Control, and

Termination Paper and Presentation

Resource: Week One Project

Use the same project selected in

Week One and any information previously gathered.

Write a 5,250- to 7,000-word

cumulative paper in which you update each component of your previous papers,

and include the following:

• Project

  Proposal Paper

• Project

  Planning – Technical Paper

• Project

  Planning – Human Capital Paper

Compile your paper and address the

following additional components:

• Overall

  evaluation of the project: In particular, how did you do against the

  triple constraints?

• Timing

• Budget

• Project

  specifications

• Steps taken

  to return the human resources to the organization: For projects that had

  people assigned full time, what are their new full-time assignments?

• Input for

  future projects:

• What went

  right with the project that must be repeated with the next project?

• What went

  wrong that must be corrected with the next project?

Format your paper consistent with

APA guidelines.

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