This wording may indicate that you intend to submit a tutor's work as your own. Question 110 Points

A.How do you conduct effective meetings? Please provide at least 5 guidelines and explain how each of them improves the effectiveness of meetings. (5 points)

B.What are the keys to good communications?Please identify 5 key concepts and elaborate what each one is and how it improves communication.(5 points)

The Crash Costs and Crash Days (number of days able to be crashed) of each activity are listed in the table below.

Task	Crash Cost	Crash Days
A	N/A	0
B	N/A	0
C	4000	2
D	3000	2
E	2000	2
F	1000	2
G	3000	3
H	4000	2
I	5000	2
J	4000	2
K	2000	1

If you have to reduce the overall project schedule by 3 days:

b. Which activity or activities would you crash? (2 points)

c. what is the total crash cost? (2 points)

d. Please identify the new critical path(s) after crashing the schedule. (4 points)

questios3:

If your team have to resubmit your Group Project Assignment 3 (Schedule) again.

A.Please describe how the following tools/techniques could potentially improve the quality of your submission (5 points)

1. Flowcharts
2. Ishikawa Diagrams
3. Pareto Chart

B.Besides the above 3 techniques, what other steps/strategies could you use to improve the quality of your submission?Please explain how each proposed step/strategy could be helpful in ensuring quality.

Question 410 Points

There are 4 dimensions in Meyers-Briggs Personality Types model:

• Outwardly or Inwardly focus: (E) Extraversion vs (I) Introversion
• Preferred way to take in information:(S) Sensation vs (N) Intuition
• Decision Making - (T) Thinking vs (F) Feeling
• Live Life - (J) Judging vs (P) Perceiving

Do a self-assessmentand determine which type indicator you belong to in each of the 4 dimensions.Discuss how each type indicator impacts you as a PM (4 points).For each indicator, does it make you a better and more effective PM or does it require you to make certain adjustments to your natural tendency and why?

Question 510 Points

You just put together a team of 4 (you + 3 others) to prepare a 5 course (soup, appetizer, salad, main course and dessert) gourmet meal.Please

1. Assign a role for each of your 4 team members (1 point)
2. Identify at least 8 major tasks with estimated effort and assignments.Each task must be assigned to at least one team member (2 point)
3. Create a RACI chart that list tasks vertically and team member horizontally(4 points)
4. Based on the RACI, please elaborate each member's responsibilities (3 points)

Question 610 Points

After 1 month, the progress of a project is reported as follows:

Planned Completed Work	10%
Actual Completed Work	5%
Budget Spent so far	15,000
Total Budget	100,000

A.Please calculate the following values (please show the formula and your work for each of the values for full credits (6 points):

1. Budget at Completion (BAC)
2. Earned Value (EV)
3. Planned Value (PV)
4. Actual Cost (AC)
5. Cost Variance (CV)
6. Schedule Variance (SV)
7. Cost Performance Index (CPI)
8. Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
9. Estimate at Completion (EAC)
10. Estimate to Completion (ETC)
11. Remaining Work based on BAC
12. Remaining Fund based on BAC

B.Please define To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI) in English (2 points) and calculate TCPI to meet the current EAC(please show formula and your work) (2 points)

Question 710 Points

You would like to throw a surprise birthday party for your significant other and to practice what you learnt in the course you would like to manage it like a project.

A.What are the 5 key elements of a Project Scope Statement? (5 points)

B.Please write a Project Scope Statement that contains all 5 key elements for the surprise party (10 points + 5 bonus points)

Question 810 Points

A.Your company decided to refresh its Data Center next year.As a promising new Project Manager, the CIO asked you to lead the procurement effort to select a consulting firm to implement the refresh effort.Should you conduct a RFQ or RFP to select the vendor and why? (5 Points)

B.Please propose top 5 source selection criteria and their associated weights for the above procurement?Please elaborate why you propose these criteria and their associated weights. (5 points)

Question 910 Points

A.You are the Project Manager of a software development project.Who are the top five key stakeholders you would include in your stakeholder registry that you would manage closely?Please specify their titles (5 points).

B.Pick one of the major stakeholders you identified above and propose 5 strategies or approaches to ensure meeting the stakeholder expectations. Please provide your rationale for each strategy or approach. (5 Points)

Question 1010 Points

A.Your company decided to refresh its Data Center next year.As the Project Manager, what are the top 4 tools or techniques you would use to identify the top risks of this project?Please explain how each of these tools or techniques work. (2 Points)

B.Through your effort, the team had identified the following risks:

1. New servers not delivered on time
2. Not able to select an integrator to implement the refresh effort in time
3. Unexpected system downtime
4. Performance degradation during the refresh effort

For each of these risks, what is the potential trigger, response strategy and risk response? Please also list all your assumptions if any

a. Please identify the critical path(s).

A (1 Day) D (4 Days) H (6 Days) B (2 Days) E (5 Days) F (4 Days) 1 (5 Days) K (4 Days) C (4 Days) G (6 Days) J (4 Days)