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Describe the focus of the various Institute of Medicine reports discussed in this chapter.
How does public health align with the nation’s founding principles?
Describe the public health elements of the Affordable Care Act.
As a future public health administrator, why do you feel it is important to know the history presented in this chapter? What are some emerging challenges that you might face in your public health
As a cross-disciplinary exercise, choose an event you studied in one of your history classes and revisit it from a public health perspective.What did you learn?
Provide a critical assessment of the impact of public health on population health.
What is the relationship between public health and social determinants of health?
Provide examples to illustrate the influences of public health on the social determinants of health.
What is the relationship between public health and public policy?
What is the purpose of the Healthy People initiative? How does the Healthy People initiative advance population health and reduce health disparities?
What are the challenges facing the U.S. public health system infrastructure? How can these challenges be overcome?
Suppose that you have a talented scientist temporarily working for you on a client contract who is due to be transferred back to her regular job. Although you could do without her efforts at this
The chairman of Cadbury Schweppes PLC, G.A.H.Cadbury suggests (1987) the following test for an ethical action:Would you be embarrassed to have it described in the newspaper? Is this a sufficient test
Human and political factors loom large in the success of projects. Given the general lack of coverage of this subject in engineering and science education, how might a PM gain the ability to deal
A disadvantage of the projectized organization has to do with the tendency of project professionals to fall behind in areas of technical expertise not used on the project.Name several ways that a
Task 5-C is the critical, pacing task of a rush project. Fred always nitpicks anything that comes his way, slowing it down, driving up its costs, and irritating everyone concerned.Normally, Fred
The chapter describes the problems of budgeting for S-shaped and J-shaped life-cycle projects. What might be the budgeting characteristics of a project with a straight line life cycle?LO6
Top administrators in a university hospital have approved a project to improve the efficiency of the pharmaceutical services department by the end of the fiscal year to satisfy new state regulations
Medidata Inc. has identified three risk opportunities for their new medical database project. One is an opportunity to extend the database to include doctors as well as hospitals.This has a
Given the following network,LO1a. What is the critical path?b. How long will it take to complete this project?c. Can activity B be delayed without delaying the completion of the project? If so, how
The following chart was prepared at the beginning of a HRM (Human Resource Management) crash hiring project.The project begins with two activities: Assemble interview team (A) and Budget resources
The following network is a compressed representation of the prospectus of a start-up firm that plans to develop a new, bioelectronic computer chip.LO1Note that four activities, the biological
Given the schedule in Table B for a liability work package done as part of an accounting audit in a corporation, find:LO1a. The critical path.b. The slack time on “process confirmations.”c. The
In the website development project network shown in the following figure, the number alongside each activity designates the activity duration (TE) in weeks.LO1Determine:a. The ES and LS for each
Given the following information regarding a project concerning an initial public offering (IPO),LO1a. Draw the network.b. What is the critical path?c. When will the offering be available (completion
Given the following project to landscape a new building site,a. Draw a Gantt chart using MSP.b. Find the critical path and project duration in days.c. Given that each resource is assigned 100 percent
A software development project at day 70 exhibits an actual cost of $78,000 and a scheduled cost of $84,000. The software manager estimates a value completed of $81,000. What are the cost and
A project to develop a county park has an actual cost in month 17 of $350,000, a planned cost of $475,000, and a value completed of $300,000. Find the cost and schedule variances and the three
A project to develop technology training seminars is 5 days behind schedule at day 65. It had a planned cost of $735,000 for this point in time, but the actual cost is only $550,000.Estimate the
Given an activity in an advertising project whose planned cost was $12,000 but actual cost to date is $10,000 so far and the value completed is only 70 percent, calculate the cost and schedule
For the following test marketing project at week 6:a. Ignore the far right “% Complete” column, and using the 50–50 percent completion rule for PV and EV, calculate the cost, schedule, and time
The following information (in AOA format) concerns progress at day 40 of an Internet marketing project. Determine if the project is in control based on time and cost to date. If not, what is the cost
Give some examples of ancillary project objectives.LO3
When should an audit be conducted during a project? Is there a “best” time?LO3
What occurs in each stage of the audit life cycle?LO3
What items should be included in the audit status report?LO3
What access is required for an accurate audit?LO3
Why is measurement a particular problem in auditing?LO3
What is a “baseline”?LO3
What is the purpose of a risk analysis?LO3
What are the essential conditions of a credible audit?LO3
In a typical project, do you feel frequent brief evaluations or periodic major evaluations are better in establishing control? Why?LO3
Do you think that project evaluations cost-justify themselves?LO3
What steps can be taken to ease the perceived threat to team members of an external evaluation?LO3
What feedback, if any, should the project team get from the evaluation?LO3
During the project audit, a tremendous amount of time can be wasted if a systematic method of information handling is not adopted. Briefly explain how this systematic method may be developed.LO3
“Evaluation of a project is another means of project control.”Comment.LO3
Why is it better to rely on several sources of information than just a few?LO3
What could be some advantages and disadvantages of the following sources of information: (a) charts, (b) written reports, and (c) firsthand observation?LO3
Why is it important to use outside auditors rather than inside auditors who would be more familiar with the company and the project?LO3
What kinds of reports might be sent to funders?LO3
What would you identify as the ethical responsibilities of an auditor?LO3
Given the great variety of items for an auditor to evaluate, what should the PM do given that the project evaluation basis was clearly laid out in the project plan? What about ancillary goals?LO3
List and briefly describe the ways projects may be closed.LO2
What problems may occur if the PM does not have a follow-on project when the current project nears closeout?LO2
What are the primary duties of a closure manager?LO2
Upon closure of a project, what happens to the information gathered throughout the course of the project?LO2
What is a budget decrement?LO2
Identify the four reasons for project closure.LO2
What does the Project Final Report include?LO2
What factors are considered most important in the decision to close a project?LO2
What issues should be considered when using the closureby-integration method?LO2
What are the tasks involved for the PO when attempting to obtain the benefits desired from the project?LO2
How can the PO overcome employee “resistance?”LO2
Discuss the impact, both positive and negative, of closure on the project team members. How might the negative impact be lessened?LO2
If the actual closure of a project becomes a project in itself, what are the characteristics of this project? How is it different from other projects?LO2
Discuss some reasons why a Project Final Report, when completed, should be permanently retained by the firm.LO2
What elements of the closure process may be responsible for making a project unsuccessful?LO2
What are some characteristics of a good closure manager?LO2
How might one choose which closure method to use?LO2
Why might a failing project not be closed?LO2
How can shutdown for reasons other than achievement of project goals be avoided?LO2
What must the PM do in planning, scheduling, monitoring, and closing out the project?LO2
Which of the four major types of closures are Political?Cross-Cultural? Senescence?LO2
Would you suspect that most projects are closed for “nontechnical”reasons? Why or why not?LO2
How would you decide when the benefits have been “permanently”achieved in the Routine phase?LO2
If the functional manager is lukewarm on the change involved with the project, what would you do to help get him or her on board?LO2
Given the following information, calculate the CRs, and indicate which activities are on target and which need to be investigated.Comment on the situation for each of the activities. LO4 Actual
Calculate the CRs for the following activities and indicate which activities are probably on target and which need to be investigated. Comment on each activity. LO4 Actual Activity Progress
Given the following information about a showroom renovation, which activities are on time, which are early, and which are behind schedule? LO4 Budgeted Actual Critical Activity Cost Cost Ratio A:
Design and plot a CR for a computer installation project that had planned constant, linear progress from 0 to an EV of 200 over a 100-day duration. In fact, progress for the first 20 days has been:
Design and plot a CR for a website project that has planned constant, linear spending from 0 to a total of 1000 over a 100-day duration. In fact, daily spending for the first 15 days has been: 11,
Industrial Building, Inc., has two project teams installing virtually identical, four-story commercial buildings for a funder in two separate cities. Both projects have a planned daily cost of 100
Samson Building, Ltd., is also constructing an identical building for the same funder as in Exercise 6 and has the following EVs and costs for the first 6 days: EV: 90, 88, 95, 101, 89, 105; Cost:
Determine if the following test marketing project at week 6 is in control. If not, what is out of control? If it is in control, are both budget and schedule in control? LO4 Dura- Prede- tion Budget,
At week 24 of a project to shoot a television commercial, the PM is worried about her budget since costs have risen to$7,500. Is there a cost overage? If so, how much is it? Is the schedule ahead or
Consider the following network for conducting a 2-week(10 working days) computer training class:a. Construct a schedule showing:ESs for all activities LSs for all activities Slacks for all activities
Is partial crashing an appropriate assumption in this kind of project?4. Given the following highway rerouting project,a. Draw the network.b. Find the ESs, LSs, and slacks.c. Find the critical
The following data were obtained from a study of the times required to conduct a consumer test panel study:a. Find the all-normal schedule and cost.b. Find the all-crash schedule and cost.c. Find the
Given the data in Exercise 7, determine the first activities to be crashed by the following priority rules:LO9a. Shortest task firstb. Most resources first (use normal cost as the basis)c. Minimum
Consider the project network below. Suppose the duration of both activities A and D can be reduced to 1 day, at a cost of $15 per day of reduction. Also, activities E, G, and H can be reduced in
Given a network for an HR training project with normal times and crash times (in parentheses), find the cost-duration history. Assume indirect costs for facilities and equipment are $100 per day. The
Reconsider Exercise 2, assuming a fixed overhead cost of$30 per day but no project deadline. What is the least-cost crash program? What if the overhead cost was $40? What if it was $60? LO9
A simulation model was developed in Section 9.6 to illustrate the problem with assuming activity times were known with certainty. However, in the simulation analysis, the activity times were assumed
In Section 9.6 the consequences of not reporting early completion times were discussed. Modify the simulation model you created for Exercise 16 so that early completion of the tasks before the
Define monitoring. Are there any additional activities that should be part of the monitoring function? LO6
Identify the key factors that need to be considered when setting up a monitoring system. LO6
List some factors that would be difficult to monitor. LO6
Describe routine reports and some problems with them. LO6
What are the primary difficulties experienced in the design of project reports? LO6

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