Competencies

• Identify the role projects play in meeting the goals of an organization.
• Explain the activities that occur when initiating a project.
• Classify the components of project planning.
• Evaluate project implementation techniques.
• Evaluate project performance.
• Distinguish project management methodologies and tools.

Scenario

You are a Senior Project Manager for JBH Software Solutions and are about begin on a new project and training a new associate at the same time. The scope of the project is a total system upgrade for the customer service area. The project has a budget of $15 Million and has a duration of 24 months for completion. Since you are the Senior Project Manager, upper management is looking to you for guidance and best practices for the project management lifecycle at JBH.

Instructions

Create a project plan for JBH Software Solutions that includes required documentation such as business case, risk mitigation plan, communication plan, scope statement, scorecard, and project timelines. Include details about methodologies and tools used to manage the project. Review the deliverables from prior modules as a guide to complete this assignment.

Resources

• For more information that may help you with this assignment, see Rasmussen’s Project Plan FAQ
• Business Writing

Assignment Content

1. Now that you’ve identified the organization’s SWOT, you need to determine the project and its objectives and metrics. This project should be based on an unmet opportunity for the organization, or to minimize a potential threat. What does the organization need to do to advance its goals and/or expand its competitive advantage? How will you measure their progress?

   Complete the following:

   • Explain why this opportunity/threat was selected, and how it is anticipated to benefit the organization.
   • Create at least 3 measurable project objectives based on your analyses. Determine timelines and responsibilities for each objective (e.g. with a RACI chart)
   • Explain why these objectives are appropriate for the project.
   • Develop at least 2 metrics to evaluate achievement of each of the project objectives.
   • Provide a 1-page explanation for why these are appropriate metrics for each of the objectives
     

     Assignment Content

     1. Now that you’ve identified the organization’s SWOT, you need to determine the project and its objectives and metrics. This project should be based on an unmet opportunity for the organization, or to minimize a potential threat. What does the organization need to do to advance its goals and/or expand its competitive advantage? How will you measure their progress?

        Complete the following:

        • Explain why this opportunity/threat was selected, and how it is anticipated to benefit the organization.
        • Create at least 3 measurable project objectives based on your analyses. Determine timelines and responsibilities for each objective (e.g. with a RACI chart)
        • Explain why these objectives are appropriate for the project.
        • Develop at least 2 metrics to evaluate achievement of each of the project objectives.
        • Provide a 1-page explanation for why these are appropriate metrics for each of the objectives

You are the new IT Manager for the Cougar Corporation, a firm of 500 employees, with 5 buildings located in three different states.  Much of the information is critical to the operation of the business and contains key customer information.  As the new IT Manager, one of your employees comes to you concerned with the safeguarding of the firm’s information.  As you investigate this issue further, you too are concerned as it does not appear many methods of safeguarding the firm’s information are in place.  What methods would you want to make sure are in place to help with the safeguarding of information?  What role do you see firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems playing in promoting security?

Write up a memo to your supervisor detailing methods you would like to see implemented across the firm and the role of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems in promoting better safeguarding of the firm’s information.

You are the new IT Manager for the Cougar Corporation, a firm of 500 employees, with 5 buildings located in three different states.  Much of the information is critical to the operation of the business and contains key customer information.  As the new IT Manager, one of your employees comes to you concerned with the safeguarding of the firm’s information.  As you investigate this issue further, you too are concerned as it does not appear many methods of safeguarding the firm’s information are in place.  What methods would you want to make sure are in place to help with the safeguarding of information?  What role do you see firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems playing in promoting security?

Write up a memo to your supervisor detailing methods you would like to see implemented across the firm and the role of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and antivirus systems in promoting better safeguarding of the firm’s information.

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  Discussion Activity.

  Provide an initial discussion of approximately 500 words

  case study is provided for this discussion activity and also what to do file is attached, please have a look at all the files attached.

  just focus on table 1
  rest all is not required for this 500 word activity

  Discussion Activity.

  Provide an initial discussion of approximately 500 words

  case study is provided for this discussion activity and also what to do file is attached, please have a look at all the files attached.

  just focus on table 1
  rest all is not required for this 500 word activity

· Please read the case study entitled as “Job Design at Pepperdine University.” available in your textbook “Organization Development & Change” 10th edition by Cummings, T and Worley, C and answer the following questions:

Assignment Question(s):

· Q.1 Describe the culture of Pepperdine University within which an individual job is enriched. Support your answer using two examples from the case study (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)

· Q.2 Based on your understanding of the individual-level diagnosing of job designs, discuss and evaluate each of the following components for the MSOD program’s administrator as proposed by Pepperdine University:

-Skill variety (Lo 2.5)

-Task identity (Lo 2.5)

-Task significance (Lo 2.5)

-Autonomy (Lo 2.5)

-Feedback (Lo 2.5)

· Q.3 Explain why it is important for an individual job design to be congruent with the larger organization design. Support your answer using one example from this case study (Lo 1.5 & 3.1)