Chapter. 5 Estimating Project Times and Costs

Chapter. 6 Developing a Project Plan

Initial Postings: Read and reflect on the assigned readings for the week. Then post what you thought was the most important concept(s), method(s), term(s), and/or any other thing that you felt was worthy of your understanding in each assigned textbook chapter.Your initial post should be based upon the assigned reading for the week, so the textbook should be a source listed in your reference section and cited within the body of the text. Other sources are not required but feel free to use them if they aid in your discussion.

Also, provide a graduate-level response to each of the following questions:

1. Why is it difficult to estimate mega project (i.e., costs and benefits (i.e. airports, stadiums, etc.) costs and benefits?
2. Define what a “white elephant” is in project management? Provide a real life example.
3. Why bother creating a WBS? Why not go straight to a project network and forget the WBS?

Text-

Title: Project Management: The Managerial Process 

ISBN: 9781260238860 

Authors: Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson 

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education 

Publication Date: 2020-01-09

When acquiring resources and preparing to implement a project, team members can or will take on one of two roles: “Supportive Roles” or “Destructive Roles”.  The project manager must be cognizant of both types of roles, so he/she can manage them.  

The simulation exercises in this course are done as teams(Assume there are 4 team members in the project). State the team number assigned to you, the names of your team members, and the method(s) your team have decided to collaborate for the simulation decisions. When was the last date and time you met with your team members? If you have team members that are taking more of a ‘descrictive role’ or ‘non-supportive role,’ how do you plan on managing that?

Text

Title: Project Management 

ISBN: 9780134730332 

Authors: Pinto 

Publisher: Pearson 

Edition: 5TH 19

You will develop a short 1300 word document.

Task: Describe how OSINT can be used to supplement your organizational collection plan, identify 10 sites that can be used to research sites/domains for:

1. legitimacy
2. sender verification
3. list of domains (country codes/domains/extensions, organization domains, other IOC (indicators of compromise) that might need to be researched)

 https://github.com/dthroner/Hacking/blob/master/Google%20Hacking%20For%20Penetration%20Testers-Syngress%20(2015).pdf 

 Completion of the dissertation primarily rests upon you, the doctoral student. However, research indicates that self-regulated learning strategies predict the elapsed time along the dissertation journey (Dunn & Rakes, 2015; Kelley & Salisbury-Glennon, 2016). One such strategy is the creation of a timeline. This cyclical process has the learner plan out a task, monitor their performance along major milestones, reflect on their progress, and then use the reflection to adjust the timeline. However, to be effective, this strategy needs to be personalized for each learner’s purpose (Zimmerman, 2002).

Using the attached template as a guide, you are to create such a timeline – a roadmap, if you will, along your dissertation journey. Incorporated within the timeline are major milestones. Build into the timeline goals for each milestone with specific dates. You may also want to include specific contact information as well as possible obstacles that may arise. This will be a tool you will bring to each consultation with your professor/chair. Most importantly, it is to be a useable point of reference along your dissertation journey.

References

Dunn, K., & Rakes, G. (2015). Exploring online graduate students’ responses to online self-regulation training. Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 13(4), 1–21.

Kelley, M., & Salisbury-Glennon, J. (2016). The Role of Self-regulation in Doctoral Students’ Status of All But Dissertation (ABD). Innovative Higher Education, 41(1), 87–100.

Zimmerman, B. J. (2002). Becoming a self-regulated learner: An overview. Theory into Practice, 41(2), 64-70.

To understand the value of counting loops, write a C++ program that implement matrix multiplication using counting loop constructs. Then write the same program using only logical loops—for example, while loops.