Management Strategy and Tactics
Consider a sequence of activities that you have encountered in your daily life and briefly describe it.
Would you be able to identify the critical path associated with these activities by inspection, or, alternatively, would you need to perform calculations? Provide your opinion, and explain your rationale.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Unit IV Journal
Consider a schedule in daily life that you lived through and that in your view would benefit from modeling using program evaluation and review technique (PERT), a Monte Carlo analysis, or both.
Describe the schedule, and explain why modeling the schedule would have assisted in managing the schedule risk and why taking the trouble to model the schedule would have made a difference.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary. Unit IV Assignment Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and Monte Carlo Analyses Refer to the activities defined in the Unit II Assignment, and complete the following tasks.
1. Create a table of the activities, and identify logical relationships by identifying predecessors.
2. Estimate activity durations using three-point estimates.
3. Create a PERT schedule, and identify the project critical path.
4. Using the breakfast schedule spreadsheet as a guide (along with the Monte Carlo simulation supplement in Chapter 7 of the textbook), model your schedule using Monte Carlo analysis (10 trial runs minimum).
To assist as you create your assignment, watch the Backward Pass Simulation video. Also watch the Forward Pass Simulation video. A transcript and closed captioning are available once you access the videos.
Submit your PERT and Monte Carlo analyses for grading along with a one-page written summary of the results and a brief discussion of how the results could be used to inform a project schedule risk plan. APA Style and outside sources are not a requirement for this assignment.
Unit V Journal
Consider a situation in your place of work or daily life where a serious incident occurred that was related to a risk that escaped notice. Briefly describe what happened and the nature of the risk that was not identified. What could have been done differently, and had the risk been identified, what trade-offs could have been initiated?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Unit VI Journal
Think of a time when you needed to monitor and report progress, but you did not have the ability to implement earned value metrics (EVM). How did you measure and provide an accurate and unambiguous account of project progress? What were the limitations?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary. Unit VI PowerPoint Presentation Course Project Progress Monitoring:
Return to MobileGo
The MobileGo project is making progress implementing the new systems. However, the software upgrades and the new software installation are not complete. The project sponsor has requested an update on the project. Using the MobileGo Earned Value scenario spreadsheet, complete the following tasks.
