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INF 338 Entire Course

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• INF 338 Week 1 Discussion 1 Teamplayer
• INF 338 Week 1 Discussion 2 Team Development
• INF 338 Week 1 Quiz
• INF 338 Week 1 Assignment Virtual Teams
• INF 338 Week 2 Assignment Leadership Styles
• INF 338 Week 2 Quiz
• INF 338 Week 2 Discussion 1 Project vs. Operation
• INF 338 Week 2 Discussion 2 Leadership Activities
• INF 338 Week 3 Assignment Project Design
• INF 338 Week 3 Discussion 1 Stakeholder
  Management
• INF 338 Week 3 Discussion 2 Critical Success
  Factors
• INF 338 Week 3 Quiz
• INF 338 Week 4 Assignment Meeting Plan
• INF 338 Week 4 Discussion 1 Long Projects
• INF 338 Week 4 Discussion 2 Peer Assessments
• INF 338 Week 4 Quiz

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INF 338 Week 1 Assignment Virtual Teams

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• Virtual Teams. In a two- to three-page paper (not
  including the title and reference pages)
•  Discuss how virtual teams have changed project
  management.
•  Identify the tools needed to effectively manage
  a virtual team.
•  Explain the advantages and disadvantages of
  using virtual teams.
• Identify the skills you possess that would
  enhance a virtual team project.Your paper should
  be formatted according to APA style as outlined
  in the approved APA style guide, and should cite
  at least two scholarly sources in addition to the
  textbook.

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INF 338 Week 1 Discussion 1 Teamplayer

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• Teamplayer. After reviewing the readings for this
  week and the article Building Virtual Teams
  Strategies for High Performance, answer the
  following in 200 words
• What are some of the characteristics of effective
  teams?
• As a manager, how can you help promote these
  characteristics in your team?
• Respond to at least two of your classmates posts.

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INF 338 Week 1 Discussion 2 Team Development

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• Team Development. Review the Stages of Team
  Development website athttp//www.businessballs.co
  m/tuckmanformingstormingnormingperforming.htm and
  use the model to examine a team in which you
  are/were a member. How well does the model
  explain your experiences as a developing team?
  How could you use this model to better manage a
  team in which you were charged as the leader?
  What are the implications for project management
  when a project needs to begin quickly and perform
  at a high level in a short period of time?
  Respond to at least two other students in a
  substantive way.

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INF 338 Week 1 Quiz

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• 1. Another team decision making method is called
  the average of members opinions. In this example
  the team decision is based on the average of
  individual team members opinions.
• 2. The expert member method can be used as a
  method of team decision making. The most expert
  member is allowed to decide for the team. The
  difficulty with this method often lies in
  deciding who has the most expertise, especially
  when those with power or status in the team
  overestimate their expertise.
• 3. Harold K. Sperlich, Former President, Chrysler
  Corporation said Everyone has to work together
  if we cant get everybody working toward common
  goals, nothing is going to happen.
• 4. Which of these is not a characteristic of a
  traditional classroom learning group?
• 5. Systems or organizational intelligence is very
  hard to come by, says Perkins (2002), for at
  least six big reasons. Which of these is not one
  of them?

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INF 338 Week 2 Assignment Leadership Styles

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• Leadership Styles. In a two- to three-page paper
  (not including the title and reference pages)
•  Discuss the different styles of leadership you
  have experienced while working in project
  management or on projects.
•  Identify and describe a leadership style that
  you find most effective.
•  Explain how the use of this leadership style
  enhanced the project and your experience as a
  team member.Your paper should be formatted
  according to APA style as outlined in the
  approved APA style guide, and should cite at
  least two scholarly sources in addition to the
  textbook.

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INF 338 Week 2 Discussion 1 Project vs. Operation

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• Project vs. Operation. How does a project differ
  from everyday, routine operations? What are some
  of the key characteristics of a project? Assuming
  differences exist, what are the implications for
  the project manager? Respond to at least two
  other students in a substantive way.

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INF 338 Week 2 Discussion 2 Leadership Activities

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• Leadership Activities. Read the article
  Leadership Model for Professionals. After
  reading article, list the top two leadership
  activities that you feel are most important in
  obtaining the maximum performance from your team
  and explain why these two activities are the most
  important ones. Respond to at least two other
  students in a substantive way.

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INF 338 Week 2 Quiz

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• 1. Project management is a relatively new
  profession and is growing at a remarkable rate.
  Fortune magazine called project management
  Career Number 1 for the 1990s.
• 2. WBS stands for
• 3. Cost, time, and performance is all that is
  needed for a project.
• 4. Heuristics are essential for successful
  project management, because every project is
  unique and requires its own approach. Ravindran,
  Phillips, and Solberg (1987) present these
  modeling heuristics except
• 5. A project is a combination of human and
  nonhuman resources pulled together in a temporary
  organization to achieve a specific purpose.
• 6. CPM stands for Control Project Money.

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INF 338 Week 3 Assignment Project Design

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• Project Design. Using the information that you
  gained from the readings thus far, write a three-
  to four-page paper (not including the title and
  reference pages) that describes a project that
  you might undertake (this can be a fictitious one
  or one that you have actually worked on).
  Describe the major steps and the milestones of
  your project along with a timeline for each step.
  Be sure to explain how to address team conflicts
  and how to help ensure team cohesion and
  collaboration. You are required to use at least
  two scholarly 

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INF 338 Week 3 Discussion 1 Stakeholder Management

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• Stakeholder Management. After reading the article
  Crafting the Art of Stakeholder Management,
  explain the key points of stakeholder
  involvement, and explain how you would apply this
  new knowledge in your work. Respond to at least
  two other students in a substantive way.

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INF 338 Week 3 Discussion 2 Critical Success
Factors

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• Critical Success Factors. Study the Critical
  Success Factors and Their Importance for System
  Implementation figure on page 81 of the text.
  Consider how you managed a project (personal or
  professional) in the past and the relationship of
  the Critical Success Factors to the outcome of
  that project. What factor or factors contributed
  most to your success? Which factor or factors
  limited the success of the project? Respond to at
  least two other students in a substantive way.

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INF 338 Week 3 Quiz

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• 1. Activities for which the earliest and latest
  times turn out to be equal are called critical.
• 2. Then what does Forward Pass- EF stand for when
  running through the network from beginning to
  end?
• 3. Which of these is not a change that is stated
  as happening in the workplace today?
• 4. What does the term free float refer to when
  referring to an activity?
• 5. The following are key features of this age of
  Project Management according to Pinto and
  Kharbanda (1995)
• 6. The amount by which termination of a
  noncritical activity can be delayed before it
  causes one of its successors to be delayed is
  called the free float of that activity.

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INF 338 Week 4 Assignment Meeting Plan

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• Meeting Plan. Review the Meeting section in
  your text Teamwork and Project Management (p.
  103-105). In a two- to three-page paper (not
  including the title and reference pages),
  describe the topic of your final project
  including the types of team members needed to
  complete the project (i.e., project leader,
  administrative support, content experts, etc.),
  and create a meeting plan for the initial team
  meeting.
• Your paper should be formatted according to APA
  style as outlined in the approved APA style
  guide, and should cite at least one scholarly
  source in addition to the textbook.

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INF 338 Week 4 Discussion 1 Long Projects

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• Long Projects. What are some things that you can
  do to improve the functioning of teams during the
  course of a long project? List some ideas here
  and show how they facilitate team cohesion and
• team development. Would these enhancements be
  different for virtual teams? Respond to at least
  two other students in a substantive way.
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INF 338 Week 4 Discussion 2 Peer Assessments

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• Peer Assessments. After reading Peer Assessment
  on page 111 of the text, explain how peer
  assessments can strengthen a team. How can it
  improve team relations and reduce team conflicts?
  When would peer assessments not be appropriate?
  Respond to at least two other students in a
  substantive way.

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INF 338 Week 4 Quiz

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• 1. The current quality movement started with work
  by W Edward Deming in the 1940s and progressed
  through a series of initiatives, the first being
  continuous quality improvement (CQI).
• 2. If a delay is caused by resources that have
  not arrived, you must explain this thoroughly and
  wait.
• 3. Self-assessment has not been proven to be a
  very effective way of improving projects.
• 4. There is also an After part of the During
  portion of a meeting process, such as the one
  outlined in The Team Handbook(Scholtes, Joiner,
  and Streibel, 1996). Which of these is not
  included in the After portion of the process?
• 5. Engineers are seldom asked to help develop a
  quality initiative in their organization.

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INF 338 Week 5 Discussion 1 Project Communications

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• Project Communications. What are your
  recommendations for communications during a
  project? What are some of the key issues that you
  are likely to encounter and how will you address
  them? Respond to at least two other students in a
  substantive way.
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INF 338 Week 5 Discussion 2 Software

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• Software. Is Project Management software a form
  of communications? What types of information can
  be determined by team members by viewing most
  software programs? What types of information will
  have to be augmented by the Project Manager to
  make sure that everyone has current information?
  How can you use a Gantt chart to communicate
  effectively and what re the limitations of using
  such tools? Respond to at least two other
  students in a substantive way. Related Tutorials
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INF 338 Week 5 Final Paper (2 Papers)

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• This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers
• This paper will demonstrate your understanding of
  the key concepts at the core of good project
  management practices covered throughout this
  course. Your paper should be based on a project
  (either theoretical or an actual project) and how
  issues of management, leadership, and team
  collaboration were applied to the success (or
  failure) of the project.
• The purpose of this assignment is to apply the
  central concepts of the course to a project
  management experience. To do this, define the
  project particulars for illustrative purposes,
  explain how the project team was selected,
  explain how team problems were resolved

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INF 338 Read, Lead, Succeed/Uophelpdotcom

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