Assignment 3: Project Execution, Control, & Closure Proposal

Due Week 10 and worth 150 points

Your Project Sponsor has approved your project proposal and has asked you to come up with a proposal for the execution, control, and closure for the project.

Instructions:

For this assignment, you will provide a four to six (4-6) page paper, in which you must:

1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.
2. Identify and discuss your project’s greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.
3. Examine how you manage your project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM). Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.
4. Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.
5. Use at least three (3) academic resources for this assignment. These resources should be related to your chosen project and the content provided in Assignment 3. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• 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 is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Analyze the key concepts, processes, and components of project management.
• Develop a process for managing & controlling a project.
• Develop a process for measuring the progress of a project in order to determine its effectiveness.
• Develop a process for coordinating project closure and determining the project’s effectiveness

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment

Residential House Lease

The following question is based on the Residential House Lease found in the Contracts

Module. Please reference the Lease by clause number as you answer the questions.

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Essay (1-2 complete paragraphs with

text

references to

support

your answers)

Maria, the landlord, refuses to fix a small leak in the roof that was there prior to

the current tenant. The consequence is that black mold has been forming in the

attic. Juan, the current tenant, still has significant time remaining on his lease.

Juan has notified Maria in writing of the mold and leak issue. He is concerned

about the premises becoming unsafe to live in. It has been 14 days since he

emailed her his notification. What are Juan’s options if Maria declines to do the

repairs?

UCC Sales Contract

The following question is based on the Sales Contract found in the Contracts Module.

Please reference the Sales Contract by clause number as you answer the questions.

Remember, this is a contract under the UCC.

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Essay (1-2 complete paragraphs per essay with text references to support your answers)

You received non-conforming goods as a result of an ambiguity in the contract.

You ordered goods thinking it was a particular product. You wanted Razor

scooters as that was the original oral communication when the selling merchant

was first contacted by you. Thereafter, in phone conversations, you and the seller

just talked about scooters. The selling merchant shipped scooters but not Razor

scooters. Upon receipt of the goods, what are your merchant options under the

contract?

Why are text references important? Contract language does not exist in a vacuum. It is written

based on the law. It is critical, therefore, to cite to the text to support your analysis.

Instructions:

Please answer the following question in essay format. Please start by copying and pasting the question at the top of your answer:

There is no word limit. I need you to write enough for me to understand that you have mastered the subject matter. What you consider adequate in this regard is up to your discretion. It is open book and you must create and write your own answer, make citations where you are quoting other’s work. Please write to me in at the same standard as if you were writing to the President or Board of Directors of your company. Please make sure that you have addressed at least 10 separate points for each question asked. Please do not provide me a mere list of points. Your answers need to be substantiated and arguments supported. Please answer in complete sentences.

Your answers should include, but by no means be limited to, discussion regarding the following: geopolitical factors; (ie. identify predominant political systems; identify relevant political events that could impact selection such as corruption; provide examples of locations, natural or infrastructure created resources etc.; identify relationships in the global community); socioeconomic factors (ie. identify salient cultural, religious, language issues and identifiers; identify key economic indicators; identify key health, workforce, and social indicators; identify logistical issues; identify key economic development issues such as IT infrastructure or other necessary infrastructure for your business. Provide analysis of the above in your answers.

Exam 1: Deciding to embark on expansion into international markets is a big, important, and potentially both risky and lucrative opportunity for a USA based business. What are the major barriers to entry and considerations in making such a decision? Discuss and justify your decisions.

PLEASE USE THE SAME ORGANIZATIONAL FORMAT AS EXHIBITED UNDERASSIGNMENT 2

Answer the following questions based upon your assigned readings and class materials. IF YOU USE ANOTHER SOURCE FOR YOUR ANSWER, YOU MUST CITE THAT SOURCE, but please be advised that other sources may give information that is not as discussed or presented in class and will not provide additional credit.

Your answers must be in complete sentences and free of typographical errors.

Your writing assignment must be saved as either as WORD documents or in PDF, with double-spaced, 1” margins. The assignment must be well written and professional in appearance. Your completed assignment must be uploaded onto Blackboard for submission. NO OTHER FORMATS WILL BE ACCEPTED. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.

Please contact the HELP desk for technological issues

.1. Identify and define the elements of negligence.

2. Under a negligence claim, please identify and define the two separate elements of causationand discuss how they are applied.

3. In most states, what defenses are available in negligence-based product liability actions?Please define each defense.

Ximena, who runs a successful real estate agency, ran across a very interesting pamphlet oncustomer relations. The pamphlet was fifty pages long and cost $70.00. Ximena thought the pricewas outrageous. Accordingly, she bought one copy and photocopied the pages that she thoughtwere pertinent and gave them to her employees. She copied forty of the pages out of the pamphletfor each of twenty employees. A disgruntled employee informed the pamphlet’s publisher whatXimena had done, and she was charged with copyright infringement. Ximena defended on thebasis of the fair use doctrine.

4. Identify, define and discuss the four factors a court would consider in determining whethera violation occurred. Will Ximena would prevail? Explain your answer.

Hopefully, you are not too bogged down with the DFD. The owner and store manager met this morning and came up with some new rules that will need to be implemented in the SIM system:

• The owner and store manager have decided to offer customers a service plan were they pay a flat rate once a year. With this plan, customers only pay for the cost of parts when they have their appliance(s) serviced. They can only buy a service plan if they have purchased an appliance from Appliance Warehouse.
• With this new service plan, if they have service on their appliance more than 3 times during the year, they will have to pay the full amount of the service fee and cost of parts.
• If the customer does not buy a service plan but buys their appliance from us, we will give a 20% discount off the service fee for the life of their appliance.
• Everyone else will pay the full cost of the service plan and parts cost.

Create a decision table from these rules. I would like to see your first pass at this by our next scheduled meeting.

Nice work on the decision table! Now you’ll need to simplify the decision table so that you can create a decision tree. The programmers find it very helpful to have all the decisions laid out in a decision tree.

You should create a Data Flow Diagram (DFD). This diagram will help the programmers understand how information is flowing through the proposed system. I suggest that you use the notes from the JAD session. They have identified the entities and processes and you can use this information to create a context diagram.