Chapter 7 – Discussion Questions – 1‚4‚6‚7 page 284 1. Discuss why many information technology professionals may overlook project cost management and how this might affect completing projects within budget. Information technology professionals do not understand basic accounting and finance principles to be able to do a net present value analysis return on investment and payback analysis. It should also be considered that new technologies or software development expenses are very inaccurate
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PROJECT SCOPE DEFINITION & WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE 1.1 Project Scope: Project scope is defined as "The bounded set of verifiable end products‚ deliverables‚ or outputs that the project team undertakes to provide to the stakeholders of the project" Success of a project is highly dependant on achieving the right results i.e. scope objective. Meeting the scope objective is also the primary test of effective performance by project management. It may be noted that unless the project is completed as
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Project Management BN 3010 1.0 Introduction The project being examined is the construction of Arsenal Football Clubs stadium. The project was a mammoth undertaking. The relocation of the club to a new stadium meant that the site chosen for the new stadium had to be cleared. With any buildings that were in use being re-sited. The project would also convert the current Arsenal stadium into apartments. Due to the limitations of this report it will predominately focus on the construction of the new
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Unit 3 M1- explain the importance of cost‚ revenue and profit for a business organisation 1. Cost Profit is the different between the selling price and the production cost. Product cost include not only the cost of manufacturing a product but also all the other costs incurred in the process of producing or delivering a product or service. 2. Revenue The revenue of a business is‚ the income from its operations. It is important for the business to make the gap between costs and revenue
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How is a project different from what most people do in their day-to-day jobs? A project is defined as a temporary activity; this means that they do not last forever‚ while a day-to-day job is best describe as the ongoing core business of an organization. Projects are unique endeavours that are not compatible with the day-to-day model and activities of an organization. Projects have to be specially undertaken outside of the normal operations to create unique product‚ services and conditions
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT Project management is the discipline of planning‚ organizing‚ securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. It is sometimes conflated with program management‚ however technically that is actually a higher level construction: a group of related and somehow interdependent projects. Project managers A project manager is a professional in the field of project management. Project managers can have the responsibility
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MGT8022 PROJECT-BASED MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 3 MARK SHEET (Revision 2) Student name Fiza Akhtar Student number (00) 0061042483 It is recommended that you start writing your assignment on the last page of this document. Alternatively‚ you can attach your assignment to this mark sheet but be careful that formatting is the same for both documents before doing so. Assignments submitted without this mark sheet will lose marks. This mark sheet: provides students with details of the
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1 project is defined as a collaborative enterprise‚ involving research or design‚ that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim.[1] Projects can be further defined as temporary rather than permanent social systems or work systems that are constituted by teams within or across organizations to accomplish particular tasksunder time constraints. 2 1. Administrative: Administrative projects involve intellectual workers. The scope may change as the project proceeds. 2. Construction:
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In the business world‚ financial decision-making is important. Some organizations have trouble with accounting and the financial decision-making process in today’s diverse organizational ethics. In this world’s current economy‚ the expectation for organizations is to behave in an ethical manner. The business world consists of people with different ethical belief systems‚ which makes it difficult to define ethics (The Journal of Accountancy‚ 2007). Organizations that do enforce a code of ethics can
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AERO2407 Aviation Project Management NASA Autonomous Rotorcraft Project Project Management leads to industry leader in innovative aviation A. The Five Project Management Process Groups The five project management process groups begins with ’The scoping process group ’ which can also be referred to as the initiating process. The process includes all processes that relate to one question ’What is the task? ’ and ’What do you need to do? ’. Thus‚ NASA ’s vision is to constantly develop
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