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Data-Driven Decision Making Using Microsoft Excel This assignment must be completed and submitted using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls). Provide a source for each equation you use. Sources must be listed at the bottom of the spreadsheet. No title page or additional formatting is required. 1. Channels of Communication o It has been estimated that project managers spend up to
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BUS 611 MART Possible Is Everything / bus611mart.com BUS 611 Assignment Data Driven Decision Making Using Microsoft Excel (Roto Air) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus611mart.com Data-Driven Decision Making Using Microsoft Excel This assignment must be completed and submitted using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls). Provide a source for each equation you use. Sources must be listed at the bottom of the spreadsheet. No title page or additional formatting is required. 1. Channels of Communication o It has been estimated that project managers spend up to 90% of their time communicating and your position at Roto Air is typical. Calculate the number of possible channels of communication if the project team were to grow to nine members, Important: show your work. o The total number of stakeholders, including the project team, is estimated at 75 people. Calculate how many more possible channels of communication the additional stakeholders beyond the team members represent. Important: show your work. 2. Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) o Roto Air plans to spend $1,000,000 on this project, resulting in a total savings of $2,500,000 over the life of the project. Calculate the Benefit Cost Ratio. Important: show your work. Ignore any effects of the time value of money.
BUS 611 MART Possible Is Everything / bus611mart.com BUS 611 Assignment Project Management Software (Roto Air) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus611mart.com Project Management Software Scenario Roto Air has decided to use Smartsheet as the software for project management and collaboration. The Quick Drop 100 Transition team will be the first to use it. You will enter into a self-teaching exercise based on selected project information that will be provided to you. In preparation you will need to navigate to smartsheet.com and create a free trial account good for 30 days. Assignment: Project Management Software This is a learning exercise using data provided to you. Please do not enter different or additional data. The software is user friendly and quite intuitive. Complete the following steps: 1. Navigate to smartsheet.com. 2. Login using your email address and individual password. 3. Using the Create New tab at the upper left, open a New Project Sheet. 4. Save the sheet as Quick Drop 100 Transition and your last name. 5. Under Task Name for row 1, enter Kickoff Meeting. Note: Rolling over the icons in the left hand column under Home reveals the function of the button. Find and hit the Wrap button to display the full text of any entry. 6. Enter 1 in Duration. (Durations have been set to display days).
BUS 611 MART Possible Is Everything / bus611mart.com BUS 611 Week 1 Assignment Manufacture Location Transition (Roto Air) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus611mart.com Scenario: Roto Air You will be working with the following scenario throughout this course. You are free to make reasonable assumptions when facts have not been provided, but do state them as you complete the assignments. You are a project manager for Roto Air, Inc., a successful manufacturer of autonomous rotorcraft (drone helicopters) headed by CEO Jackie Copperfield. You work at the research and development facility in central New York and have been given the assignment of transitioning the manufacturing processes for the newest product, the Quick Drop 100, to its permanent manufacturing site in central Florida. The Florida plant is non-union, has lower property taxes, and lower utility costs than the New York location. You will be sharing an existing building owned by Roto Air and used for assembly of other similar products. While floor space has been allocated for your product, the specialized machinery and tools must be procured.
BUS 611 MART Possible Is Everything / bus611mart.com BUS 611 Week 2 Assignment Project Kickoff Meeting FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus611mart.com Project Kick-off Meeting [CLOs: 2,3]. Due by Day 7. Note that we are continuing with our scenario from Week One. This week you travel to the Roto Air plant in Florida to hold the project kick-off meeting. In preparation for the meeting: a. Identify at least three categories of stakeholders that should be invited. b. Remembering that interested parties are in both New York and Florida: i. Select three methods of communicating with the attendees. ii. Describe the best method of holding the meeting that also limits travel costs. c. Describe at least three team building exercises that could be used during the meeting. d. Before leaving the office, Shawn mentions that her husband is employed as a sales representative by the manufacturer of one of the needed machines. i. After reviewing the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Code of Conduct, specify which potential violation exists. ii. As the team leader, describe how you expect Shawn to proceed regarding this issue. iii. Explain what action you would recommend to Shawn’s husband. The paper •
BUS 611 MART Possible Is Everything / bus611mart.com BUS 611 Week 4 Assignment Risk Status Report and Paper FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus611mart.com isk Status Report and Paper [CLOs: 5, 6] Scenario The Quick Drop 100 transition team has met to identify project risks, explore contingency plans, and assign owners to watch for symptoms and address the risks. The team surfaced the following information: Julie is scheduled for a one week vacation during month three of the project. The supplier of a common set of hand tools for the manufacturing floor notified the Roto Air Purchasing department that the tools will not be available until one month after manufacturing is scheduled to start. Alternative suppliers are available. The Human Resources department has indicated that despite their best recruiting efforts the two openings for skilled welders have resulted in no qualified local applicants. The manufacturer of the custom-built rotor forming machine now expects to be one month past the last acceptable date for installing the machine. No other suppliers exist for this item. Roto Air uses a Just In Time (JIT) delivery system for major components used at the Florida plant. Hurricane season often interrupts or delays deliveries during one of the scheduled months of the project. Assignment Instructions This week you will be essentially doing two related assignment in one MS Word document.
BUS 611 MART Possible Is Everything / bus611mart.com BUS 611 Week 6 Final Paper Selling Project Management Report (Roto Air) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus611mart.com Week 6 ¬ Final Paper Selling Project Management Report Your new knowledge of project management and experience at Roto Air has earned you a promotion to a senior project manager. Roto Air has recently purchased a smaller company that is the current supplier of electro¬mechanical assemblies used in the Quick Drop 100. After your first visit to the new company you find that there is no formal project management system in use and that local management is not aware of the advantages of using project management principles. Your assignment is to educate the new management team and prepare them to welcome and integrate project management skills and tools into their operations. To do so, you will prepare a persuasive, factual report that: 1. Defines a project and project management and differentiates routine operations. 2. Explains the benefits to the business of using project management methodology. 3. Describes the role and importance of a project sponsor. 4. Examines the benefits of using project teams and methods of developing them and improving communications. 5. Outlines the project life cycle. 6. Examines the importance of a project charter and its role in preventing scope creep. 7. Justifies the need for using a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
