This assignment consists of three (4) sections: a written project plan, revised business requirements document, project plan PowerPoint presentation, and a finalized project plan. You must submit the four (4) sections as separate files for the completion of this assignment. Label each file name according to the section of the assignment it is written for. Additionally, you may create and / or assume all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

While taking all business and project parameters into consideration, make quality assumptions to support the following requirements.

Section 1: Written Project Plan

You are now in the final stage of the project plan development. All previous documentation should be combined into one document that will serve as the statement of work for the project. Your goal is to have the project approved by the executive team. The project plan should be very detailed, which is designed to accomplish the monumental task of implementation; however, the executive team is only interested in a 30-minute summation. Therefore, you also must create a compelling executive summary that is supported by your detail that convinces the executive team that they should move forward with your solution.

1. Develop a thirty to forty (30-40) page project plan in which you:

• Write a five to ten (5-10) page executive summary that provides a high-level technical overview of your project in which you:
  • Describe the scope of the project and control measures.
  • Describe the goals and objectives of the project.
  • Include a high-level overview of all project deliverables.
  • Give a detailed, realistically estimated cost analysis of the entire project, including human capital.
  • Relate the value of the project plan solution to the competitive advantage that information technology will afford your organization.
  • Recommend solution providers who can assist with development and implementation.
• Combine all previous documentation for Project Deliverables 1-5 in which you:Use at least five (5) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
  • Provide all aspects of the information technology implementation into the project plan.
  • Revise the documentation based on feedback from the earlier evaluation of your deliverable.

Section 1 of this assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• This course requires use of new Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow SWS or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
• Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the project plan. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the project plan.

Section 2: Revised Business Requirements Document

1. Document all revisions made to the written project plan in the Document Control section of the business requirements document from Project Deliverable 2: Business Requirement. Note: This documentation must outline the revisions made to the previous deliverables required in Section 1: Written Project Plan.

Section 3: Project Plan PowerPoint Presentation

Additional to your detailed executive summary you must present your findings to the executive team and the venture capital group that along with the executive summary will convince the group that your solution is optimal.

1. Create a ten to fifteen (10-15) slide PowerPoint presentation in which you:

• Illustrate the concepts from your executive summary in Section 1 of this assignment.
• Create bulleted speaking notes for your presentation to the executive board in the Notes section of the PowerPoint. Note: You may create or assume any fictitious names, data, or scenarios that have not been established in this assignment for a realistic flow of communication.
• Use a professional technically written style to graphically convey the information.

Section 4: Finalized Project Plan

Use Microsoft project to:

1. Finalize your project plan from Project Deliverable 5: Infrastructure and Security to include all necessary changes in assumptions, tasks, and / or subtasks.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Develop information systems-related activities to maximize the business value within and outside the organization.
• Demonstrate an understanding of existing and emerging information technologies, the functions of IS, and its impact on the organizational operations.
• Evaluate the issues and challenges associated with information systems integration.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in information systems.
• Write clearly and concisely about strategic issues and practices in the information systems domain using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

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After reading and viewing the assigned resources create a thread that provides your insights on the following.

Problem

Description

The game DieN is played in the following way:

1. You will be given a die with N sides. You will know the size of N, and can assume that N is a value greater than 1 and less than or equal to 30.
2. You will be given a bit mask vector isBadSide representing the sides of a die that will make you lose. The vector will be of size N, and 1 indexed. (there is no 0 side)
3. You start with 0 dollars.
4. At any time you have the option to roll the die or to quit the game
5. If you decide to roll:
6. And you roll a number not in isBadSide, you receive that many dollars. (eg.
7. if you roll the number 2 and 2 is not active — meaning the second element of the vector is 0 — in isBadSide, then you receive 2 dollars)
8. Repeat step 4.
9. And you roll a number in isBadSide, then you lose all money obtained in previous rolls and the game ends.
10. If you decide to quit:

i. You keep all money gained from previous rolls and the game ends.

Procedure

• ● For this problem, determine an optimal policy for playing the game DieN for N sides. You will be given N and the array isBadSide which indicates which sides are bad. As you will see, the optimal policy for this game will depend on your current bankroll.
• ● You can try solving this problem either by creating an MDP of the game (state, action, transition, reward function, and assume a gamma of 1) and then calculating the optimal

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state-value function or you can plug-in values and solve directly using the Bellman

Equations.

● What is the expected amount of dollars for this game if you follow an optimal policy? That

is, what is the optimal state-value function for the initial state of the game? Provide answers for the problems you are given in the “Solve for Code” tab on the Heroku site. Your answer must be correct to 3 decimal places.

Examples

The following examples can be used to verify your calculation is correct.

• ● Input: N = 21, isBadSide = {1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,0}, Output: 7.3799
• ● Input: N = 22, isBadSide = {1,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,1,0}, Output: 6.314
• ● Input: N = 6, isBadSide = {1,1,1,0,0,0}, Output: 2.5833
• Resources
• The concepts explored in this homework are covered by:
• ● Lectures

○ Lesson 1: Smoov & Curly’s Bogus Journey

● Readings

○ Littman (1996)(chapters 1-2)

page 65 in the link http://www.incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2018.pdf would be of additional help

and aditionally you can also use Pymdptoolbox

http://pymdptoolbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Case 1: Frito-Lay Salt Test

A. Read the first case (Frito-Lay) description below.

B. Watch the video in this module for the Frito-Lay case (the video must be watched in its entirety to get full credit).

C. You must also submit a Word document containing a memo to Angela McCormack and answering the additional two questions.

Case 1 Description

Frito-Lay, the multi-billion-dollar snack food giant, produces billions of pounds of product every year at its dozens of U.S. and Canadian plants. From the farming of potatoes-in Florida, North Carolina, and Michigan-to factory and to retail stores, the ingredients and final product of Lay’s chips, for example, are inspected at least 11 times: in the field, before unloading at the plant, after washing and peeling, at the sizing station, at the fryer, after seasoning when bagged (for weight), at carton filling, in the warehouse, and as they are placed on the store shelf by Frito-Lay personnel. Similar inspections take place for its other famous products, including Cheetos, Fritos, Ruffles, and Tostitos.

In addition to these employee inspections, the firm uses proprietary vision systems to look for defective potato chips. Chips are pulled off the high-speed line and checked twice if the vision system senses them to be too brown.

The company follows the very strict standards of the American Institute of Baking (AIB), standards that are much tougher than those of the U.S Food and Drug Administration. Two unannounced AIB site visits per year keep Frito-Lay’s plant on their toes. Scores, consistently in the “excellent” range, are posted, and every employee knows exactly how the plant is doing.

There are two key metrics in Frito-Lay’s continuous improvement quality program: (1) total customer complaints (measured on a complaints per million bag basis) and (2) hourly or daily statistical process control scores (for oil, moisture, seasoning, and salt content, for chip thickness, for fryer temperature, and for weight).

In the Florida plant, Angela McCormack, who holds engineering and MBA degrees, oversees a 15-member quality assurance staff. They watch all aspects of quality, including training employees on the factory floor, monitoring automated processing equipment, and developing and updating statistical process control (SPC) charts. The upper and lower control limits for one check point, salt content in Lay’s chip, are 2.22% (UCL) and 1.98% (LCL), respectively. To see exactly how the limits are created using SPC, watch the Frito Lay Control Charts video in the Module below that accompanies this case.

In the Excel document (below in this Module) you are going to create a new set of UCL and LCL measurements based on the below sample data and using the provided population parameter for standard deviation. Calculate the measurements and show your work.

Angela is evaluating a new salt process delivery system and wants to know if the upper and lower control limits at 3 standard deviations for the new system will meet the upper and lower controls specifications currently used (2.22 and 1.98). The population standard deviation is s = .07 and each sample is n=4. In a Word document, write a memo to Angela explaining whether or not the new salination process (from which we obtained the sample data) is delivering a new set of UCL/LCL measurements that is within the specifications set by the current set of control limits. In other words, does the new set of UCL/LCL measurement exceed the prior limits (meaning it is unacceptable) or equals or is less than the current specifications?

Additionally, in the same Word document, answer the following two critical thinking questions about Frito-Lay’s current quality process.

Question 1: How much of an improvement in variability did Frito-Lay make by implementing SPC?

Question 2: What are the steps Karen Engels and Barbara Boudreau go through as part of a testing cycle?

The data (in percent) from the initial trial samples using the new salting process are:

Case 2: Stensil Fertilizer and Chemical Co. Inorganic Fertilizer Testing

A. Read the second case (Stensil) description below (also found in the Excel file, second tab).

B. Watch the second video in this module which explains how to build an SPC chart in Excel (the video must be watched in its entirety to get full credit).

C. You must also submit a Word document containing a memo to Bill Evans, Quality Control Manager for Stensil.

Case 2 Description

Stensil Fertilizer and Chemical Company produces both organic and inorganic fertilizers. Organic fertilizers are generally safe, but inorganic fertilizers are carefully monitored by the EPA due to the presence of hazardous waste materials (hazmat). Most bags contain some hazardous content, but theoretically there should be none. The EPA allowable specification is 90 parts per million (PPM). The quality control department at Stensil feels that there is no problem with hazardous material content, which has been averaging just over 50 PPM. The production department estimates that a substantial investment would be required to lower the amount of this contaminant. These two departments, after consulting with the marketing department and the EPA, suggest that a control chart be set up to monitor hazmat content. Five samples will be tested per day and plotted as one point on the chart. Use the data in Table 1 to set up the control limits. Then, after the limits are in place for this process, use Table 2 to determine whether or not the process remains in control for the week of September 6—10.

The Excel file includes a second tab for the Stensil Fertilizer Case (Case 2). This is the data you need for the problem. Build an appropriate SPC X-bar Chart and R-chart for the Table 1 data on this tab of the Excel worksheet.

Then, test to determine whether the Table 2 data indicates the process is under control for that period. Show your work for this part in the same Excel worksheet and submit it.

Assuming the role of Quality Control Analyst, write a memo (using Word) to the Manager of Quality Control for Stensil Fertilizer & Chemical Company (Bill Evans) explaining the process you went through and making a recommendation regarding current hazmat levels in Stensil’s fertilizer.

The first document is the file required by the homework, and the last two files are the homework examples.