Option #1: Application of Project Management Skills

The primary objective of the portfolio project is to help you familiarize yourself with project management skills relevant to the process groups of planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closing. Students will prepare a portfolio of documents representing their understanding of core components and competencies of IT project management, including a project charter, a project scope statement, a work breakdown structure, change management processes, communication management, quality management, and project closure plan.

You may choose a real project in your current organization, or in another organization, or you may choose a fictitious project. You can choose a project in which you play a role or in which there is a role similar to the role you currently play in your work.

The Portfolio Project requires that you create and submit a comprehensive project plan and to deliver on project outcomes that meet stakeholder expectations during Week 8. As you complete your weekly readings, be sure to take notes and apply what you are learning to the development of your Project.

To begin, review the weekly Portfolio Reminders and Milestones. The Portfolio reminders in Module 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7 will guide you through the steps you need to take to complete the assignment. In Module 3 and 6 you will complete a Portfolio Milestone Assignment. Your instructor will grade these assignments. You may apply the work you did in the milestone assignments to your final portfolio, but you will not be graded on these milestones twice.

In your final project, you will revise and compile each part of the final project that you have been working on. Submit your final Portfolio Project with the following components:

• Project preparation and project charter (Remember you’re your project charter will not be graded again.)
• Project scope management plan and WBS
• Communication management plan
• Project risk and change management plans
• Quality management plan
• Project closure plan.

In addition, also include the following elements:

• An executive summary that offers a high-level description of the project you have developed.
• A conclusion that includes a self-assessment as a project manager assigned to this IT project. Address key elements you identified in throughout the project, and identify additional areas that you think have benefitted you and contributed to the success of your project.

Your well-written project should meet the following requirements:

• Project length: ten to twelve pages, with an additional title or cover page and a reference page.

Situational Reactions

Read the following three situations. Describe what you would do in EACH situation. Integrate the elements of reasoning and intellectual standards in your writing to show an understanding of the material behind your personal example

Your essay should be 750-900 words in length and include the use of at least two (2) elements of reasoning and two (2) intellectual standards for EACH of the three (3) scenarios you will be discussing.

Do not worry about your answers being right or wrong – your work will be evaluated on its connection to the material – not the behavior you would engage in if you found yourself in these situations.

Scenario A: You are a soldier in the U.S. Military and are deployed in a foreign country during a war. A raid on a suspected military target went wrong, and your squad opened fire on several innocent people. Your commander asks you and the rest of the squad to make it look like they opened fire up on you first.

• How would you respond?
• How might your response change (or would it change) if the rest of your squad didn’t agree with you?

Scenario B: As a new police officer, you pull someone over for speeding. You note some suspicious behavior and feel it is justified for you to search the offender’s vehicle. After searching the vehicle, you confiscate several ounces of marijuana, which is still illegal in the state you serve.

You realize that the computer system is down, so you cannot chronicle this bust until you return to the station. After learning this, your partner, who is a decorated officer with more than 15 years on the force, pulls you aside and tells you that his wife is sick and he could really use that marijuana at home for medicinal purposes to help her with her pain.

• How would you respond to your partner?
• Does it make a difference that he is a much more experienced officer?

Scenario C: Your child, Johnny, is a senior in high school, and has, up until this year, earned very good grades in his coursework. Because of his academic achievement, he has been awarded a full academic scholarship to a good university.

Now, Johnny has a first-year teacher who assigns work that seems inappropriately difficult, and Johnny is struggling. Though his grades in his other classes are exceptional, he will need to earn a C or better for this class if he hopes to keep his scholarship, and it all hinges on his score on the last assignment in this difficult class.

The assignment is on a topic that your professor did her graduate work on, so you know there’s no way a high schooler should be expected to do well in this assignment. Still, if Johnny doesn’t ace this assignment, he will not earn a good enough course grade to keep his scholarship.

• Do you actively help him complete the assignment, or do you let him do it himself, knowing that without your help he will fail the assignment, not because he isn’t smart enough or dedicated enough, but because the assignment is inappropriately difficult?

Your completed assignment should be written primarily in first person and should be 500-750 words in length. If you use sources in your writing, be sure to identify them. If you use any direct language from a source, be sure to place those words in quotation marks.

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION:

In his book, David Zweig argues that many workers gain satisfaction from fulfillment over notoriety. In fact, he argues that today “we are being trained that to seek recognition is a princely value,” but he also suggests that some of the most successful people do just the opposite. [1]

Pink would at least partially agree that much of the value from work comes internally rather externally. This conflicts, he would also argue, with the age-old idea that employers often find purpose for the average worker to be “a perfectly nice accessory, so long as it didn’t get in the way” of making a profit.[2]

How is it possible for the American cultural norm of individualism and the desire of every worker for fulfilling, satisfying work to be present alongside the economic values of capitalism? For this essay, explain how (if at all) you can see these concepts working together and/or in conflict with one another.

ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS:

1.Throughout your paper, you:

a.MUST use the following sources:

i.Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Dan Pink—Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of Motivation 2.0 and Chapter 6: Purpose

ii. Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self Promotion by David Zweig—Chapter 5: “Fame, Success, and the Myth of Self-Promotion: Why Attention Doesn’t Satisfy Us and Won’t Help Your Business Prospects”

b.CANNOT perform any additional outside research (meaning no additional sources beyond the two listed above should be cited in your paper).

2.Your first, exploratory draft must be a minimum of two (2) FULL pages

3.Your second draft must be a minimum of four (4) full pages, but no more than six (6)

4.Your final paper must be a minimum of four (4) full pages, but no more than six (6)

5.You must follow ALL the paper formatting requirements listed on the syllabus and here on the assignment sheet

6.You must use Chicago citations throughout the paper and include a properly formatted Bibliography Page (which is NOT part of your final page count)

7.Visit the syllabus for policies on late drafts and final papers The Journal:

• Review these documents–“Thesis, Topic & Conclusion,” “Ending a Paper,” and“The Paramedic Method.”
• Edit the first paragraph of your own paper using “Paramedic Method” (If you can’t figure out to insert a box or circle easily into your document, use other formatting techniques. For instance Bold and Italics could be used in place of circles and squares. Just make clear at the top of your page, which is which. Provide a “key” of sorts.)
• I suggest that you write the introduction and first body graph of Paper 2 before completing this journal (you need to have a draft done Tuesday anyway). However, if you’d like to use a graph from paper 1, that is acceptable as well, although perhaps not as useful.
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Paste the original and the edited version of the graph into your journal and include a graph that explains the changes you made and why

In total, this entry must be a minimum of 300 words for all paragraphs combined. The word count should be included at the end.

outline should be: Tell the story of a particularly memorable trip you had. The travel could have been for a vacation, as part of a move or other big life change, or for any other reason. Make sure to clarify the reason for the travel, what the travel conditions were, how the new place felt different or similar to the old place, and how the trip had lasting effects on you as a person. say that I went to korea. write the outleline simple, dont witre something so hard. Thankyou