1) Brief Essay: Answer the questions below on operations and projects.

What is a project? What are ongoing operations? How are they alike? How are they different?

2) Find four (4) news stories in your local or regional newspaper (two of each) that discuss either a project or ongoing operations. These need to be news articles and not journal articles. Thearticles must not be older than 2015. Provide the requested information below for each of the articles. The Brief Description needs to provide enough information and facts about the project or operations to complete the Analysis section on Why it is a project or on-going operation. For this section you should analyze the project or operations versus the 4-element text that Kloppenborg provides within the definition of a project. Use this comparative analysis to demonstrate how the projects identified specifically fits the 4 elements of the definition or how the operations do not fit the definition.

*You will be utilizing one of the Projects identified for Problem Sets throughout the rest of the semester. I suggest that for at least one of the Projects identified you select a project that is simple but has significant information available on-line about the project. The best projects for this are usually local projects such as construction projects, economic development projects of cities, or other localized projects where the scope of the project is easily identifiable and information is readily available. *

Title Project Article #1:

City:

News source (APA reference):

Web address:

Brief Description:

Why is this a Project?

Title Project Article #2

City:

News source (APA reference):

Web address:

Brief Description:

Why is this a Project?

Title Operations Article #1

City:

News source (APA reference):

Web address:

Brief description:

Why is this Operations?

Operations Article #2

City:

News source (APA reference):

Web address:

Brief description:

Why is this Operations?