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• IFSM 438 ITP-3 WBS Word Document
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• IFSM 438 ITP-3 WBS Word Document

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• IFSM 438 ITP-4 Project Resources and Cost Final
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• IFSM 438 ITP-4 Project Resources and Cost Final

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• IFSM 438 ITP-5 Project Risk Assessment
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• FSM 438 ITP-5 Project Risk Assessment
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• IFSM 438 ITP-6 Presentation
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• IFSM 438 ITP-6 Presentation

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• IFSM 438 ITP-1 Project Charter Final
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• IFSM 438 ITP-1 Project Charter Final

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• IFSM 438 ITP-7 Word Document
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• IFSM 438 ITP-7 Word Document
• Brief Overview of Our Changes to the WBS
• What was the effect of the changes on your
  project cost? How much did it increase? Are you
  still on budget or are you over budget now?

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• IFSM 438 TPP-1 Team Process Plan and Schedule
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• IFSM 438 TPP-1 Team Process Plan and Schedule

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• IFSM 438 Week 1 Discussion
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• How can we define project success?
• Based on what you have seen in your own
  experience, and based on what you have read so
  far, how would YOU define a successful project?
  What do you think contributes to a project being
  unsuccessful?

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• IFSM 438 Week 2 Discussion Project Scope
  Management
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• Week 2 Discussions - Project Scope Management
• Scope Creep
• (1)  What is scope creep? 
• (Note  The textbook seems to have a partial
  definition, leaving out some factors.  So while
  you may wish to start with the textbook,

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• IFSM 438 Week 3 Discussions Project Time and
  Schedule Management
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• Week 3 Discussions
• First, consider the following case study
  scenario
• You are the newly appointed PM for a major new
  project in your company.  You just stepped in and
  haven't yet had a chance to analyze

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• IFSM 438 Week 4 Discussions Project Cost and
  Resources Management
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• Week 4 Discussions
• Estimation Inaccuracies
• Consider a situation you've experienced when you
  made an inaccurate estimation for the duration of
  some activity.  It doesn't

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• IFSM 438 Week 5 Discussions Project Risk
  Management
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• Week 5 Discussions
• First, consider the following case study
  situation
• Risk management often brings up ethical issues
  for project managers.  For instance, software
  testing can be done in several different ways and
  with several different levels of rigor and
  comprehensiveness.  Simpler tests may be faster
  and cheaper and may involve less

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• IFSM 438 Week 6 Discussions Project Quality
  Management
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• Week 6 Discussions
• First, consider the following case study
  background
• In this modern economic era of tight budgets,
  cutbacks, and shortfalls in both budgets and
  staffs, most organizations are pressured to "do
  more with less".  Customers and executive
  sponsors push projects  tocomplete earlier and
  cheaper, with less budget funding, but

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• IFSM 438 Week 7 Discussions Project Execution
  Management
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• Week 7 Discussions
• First, consider the following case study
  situation
• You are the PM managing a project in which,
  during project execution, some tasks actually
  take longer than planned, some go over the

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• IFSM 438 Week 8 Discussions Procurement and
  Stakeholder Management
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• Week 8 Discussions
• "Around here, we keep half the people ignorant so
  they aren't prejudiced, and half the people
  prejudiced so they aren't ignorant."
•    -- Dr. Jay Shulman, c.1980
• First, consider the following case study
  background

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