take those actions and document them in your paper. You might apply earned value analysis on a project underway to satisfy course objective number 5, for example. Verbs like "establish," "characterize," and "explore" require that the student shows mastery of current thinking on the subject. This part of your paper may be taken from research, or interviews. You might explore an application of dashboards by interviewing a project manager and performing research on current thinking about dashboards, for example. Therefore, your paper should include sections to address the following: Identify and describe an actual project that was successful in part because it used project metrics, what those metrics were, and why they Were a contributing factor to success. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about effective management of time, cost, and scope with metrics