There are two key documents used to define a project. Identify those documents and explain how a PM would use them in managing the project throughout the project life cycle. Use the text and outside sources to support your response and document them in APA format.

 

 

When to Form the Team

Project teams are an essential part of most projects and depending on the project scope and work scope team membership is likely to change. The question is “When should the PM form a project team?” Provide your response in 200 words or less and support your rationale using the text and outside sources.

1. a) Create a set of 5 points that are very close together and record the standard deviation. Next, add a sixth point that is far away from the original 5 and record the new standard deviation.

What is the impact of the new point on the standard deviation? Do not just give a numerical value for the change. Explain what happened to the standard deviation in words.  (4 points)

1. b) Create a data set with 8 points in it that has a mean of approximately 10 and a standard deviation of approximately 1. Use the second chart to create a second data set with 8 points that has a mean of approximately 10 and a standard deviation of approximately 4. What did you do differently to create the data set with the larger standard deviation? (4 points)

                       

1. Go back to the spreadsheet and clear the data values from question 1 from the data column and then put values matching the following data set into the data column for the first graph.  (8 points)

50, 50, 50, 50, 50.

Notice that the standard deviation is 0. Explain why the standard deviation for this one is zero. Do not show the calculation. Explain in words why the standard deviation is zero when all of the points are the same. If you don’t know why, try doing the calculation by hand to see what is happening. If that does not make it clear, try doing a little research on standard deviation and see what it is measuring and then look again at the data set for this question.

 

1. Go back to the spreadsheet one last time and put each of the following three data sets into one of the graphs. Record what the standard deviation is for each data set and answer the questions below.

Data set 1:       0, 0, 0, 100, 100, 100

Data set 2:       0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100

Data set 3:       0, 40, 45, 55, 60, 100

 

Note that all three data sets have a median of 50. Notice how spread out the points are in each data set and compare this to the standard deviations for the data sets. Describe the relationship you see between the amount of spread and the size of the standard deviation and explain why this connection exists. Do not give your calculations in your answer—explain in words.  (8 points)

For the last 2 questions, use the Project 1 Data set that is found in Course Content >> Course Guides and Assignment Instructions >> Assignment Instructions in Blackboard.

4. Explain what an outlier is. Then, if there are any outliers in the Project 1 Data Set, what are they? If there are no outliers, say no outliers. (4 points)
5. Which 4 temperatures in the data set look to be the most questionable or the most unrealistic to you? Explain why you selected these 4 points. (4 points)

My Topic is: ROBOTICS CONTROL SYSTEM
Part #1

1. Research the field of Process Control System Technology.

2. Complete a briefing paper on the topic described below.
A briefing paper is a short discussion of a technical topic with emphasis placed on the analysis and conclusions of the author. The format of each paper will include the following:
a. Cover sheet
b. Abstract
c. Discussion
d. Analysis
e. Conclusions
f. Bibliography
The briefing paper will be no longer than five (5) pages, excluding cover sheet and bibliography. Line format will be double-spaced type and ready for submission to the professor by the beginning of class.

Paper is to be presented by an electronic file copy,
If this is not possible special arrangements must be made prior to the due date of paper.
This briefing paper will be completed using APA format. APA’s web site http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html Content and presentation quality will be considered in the grading of each paper.

Object Topic: Chose an area of your interest! Write about your perceptions and findings of functional, operational detail, and utility of system integration processes using “process control techniques” in your area of interest.

Include in your briefing- your own personal perceptions for systems integration and the perceptions and/or positions of experts in the field. Include the following in your briefing:
1. Definition of systems integration for the process control industry.
2. Applications of integrated systems in process control.
3. Advantages and disadvantages of integrated process control systems.
4. The systems integration process.
5. Problems and issues encountered with integrating systems.
6. Integration’s impact on industry today.
Special Note: One article used must be current, not any older than 6 months!

The report must be completed at the highest academic and scholarly standards possible for students at this advanced level of study.

Part #2

1. Research the field of Process Control System Technology.

2. Complete a briefing summary on the topic described in assignment 1, a one page summary. This summary purpose is to brief the balance of class.
The briefing summary paper is a short 3-5 min discussion of topic in assignment #1 presented to the class. Your emphasis should be placed on the analysis and conclusions of the author.

The briefing paper will be no longer than one (1) pages, ready for submission to the class by the beginning of class. Each class member will brief the class with this summary.

Electronic file copy to be submitted to instructor only!

If this is not possible special arrangements must be made prior to the due date of paper.

This briefing paper will be completed using APA format. APA’s web site http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html Content and presentation quality will be considered in the grading of each paper.
The report must be completed at the highest academic and scholarly standards possible for students at this advanced level of study.

Using the same organization that you selected in Week 1, propose a change that your organization could implement that would aid it strategically. The proposed change might relate to some area of need, performance deficiency, or other opportunity that you observe in the organization. Note: You will be proposing a change initiative related to motivation in next week’s assignment. Accordingly, focus your change project for this week’s paper in a direction other than motivation.

Write a paper addressing the following:

• Describe the change that you propose and defend its benefits to the organization.
• Evaluate how the proposed change may affect various groups of employees.
• Assess the conflicts that might occur before, during, and after the change, including why you anticipate these conflicts.
• Defend at least three best practices to prevent or resolve those conflicts.
• Justify the channels of communication the organization should use in implementing this change.

Submission Details:

• Present a 4- to 5-page paper in a Microsoft Word document formatted in APA style.
• On a separate page, cite all sources using APA format

Assignment Instructions (My Reflection) Due within 48 hours!

Topic: What was Volkswagen thinking? The Atlantic, Jan/Feb
2016

Please use this topic for the class reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/what-was-volkswagen-thinking/419127/
AND
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iC2ZaXwOVI

***should be no more than one single-spaced page

Content: This is not a formal paper; it is an informal comment on what you feel you are learning in the class. Each reflection will have three components:
• Describe class readings (what was Volkswagen thinking)
• Reflectively comment on your thoughts prompted by recent class activities and readings (we had to see the video and read the article and discuss those three questions:
▪ Are the actions of Volkswagen wrong?
▪ Who is responsible?
▪ Who is impacted?

• Explain what you do to handle challenges of this course (to own your responsibility to learn) to assure learning success

This class subject is: Business Perspectives – Introduction to Ethical Decision- Making Models
*This course covers two general topics. The first deals with a variety of legal, social and institutional dimensions of the environment within which business is conducted. This will include the relationship between business and the natural environment within which business operates, the relationship between business and the values of the society, the legal and business context within which we find “ethics” in today’s workplace – corporate ethics programs, the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other business regulations, and the relationship between business, society and Jesuit values. The second aims to help students learn how to work with two different approaches to ethical reasoning: a values approach (which echoes the “virtue ethics: approach taken by most corporate ethics programs), and an approach that connects with the methodology students will be exposed to in their ethics requirement (a secular approach based on an analysis of both the consequences of their actions and the intrinsic merit of the actions themselves).
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
•Understand the relationship between business and the society and the natural environment within which it operates
•Understand the relationship between business and the values of society
•Understand the relationship between business, society and Jesuit values
•Understand the major ethical approaches to ethical reasoning and ethical decision- 
making
•Identify, evaluate and analyze ethical dilemmas in business and apply an appropriate 
ethical decision-making model to determine a course of action and how to implement that action
•Understand the centrality of ethics in the mission of Loyola Marymount University and the importance of ethical standards in business and the business leader’s decision processes.

Reflection Grading: For up to a C (75), address any one of these components in the Reflection. For up to a B (85%), address any two components in the Reflection. For up to an A (95%), address all three components in the Reflection.

Homework #2
Advanced Measurement and Evaluation
(25pts)

Based on your text and the lecture slides, please provide comprehensive responses to the following questions.

1. Discuss the major contribution of each time period to the field of educational and psychological measurement.
2. What aspect of assessment tends to cause the most problems in the assessment of minority students?

3. Questions # 1, 2, &7 in your text.

1. List some instances, preferably recent, of decisions you made about yourself or others made about you in which results from some kind of educational or psychological measurement played a part. Classify each decision as (1) instructional, (2) selection, (3) placement or classification, or (4) personal.

2. From your personal experience of a decision made, describe one or more instances for which an educational or psychological measurement could have been helpful but was unavailable. On what basis was the decision actually made?

3. For one of the attributes listed here, describe how you might (1) define the attribute, (2) set up procedures to make that attribute observable, and (3) quantify the attribute.

a. Critical thinking
b. Friendliness
c. “Good citizenship” in an elementary school pupil
d. Competence as an automobile driver

Unit 9 Assignment
Instructions

• Download either the Obesity Maps or Tobacco Maps.
• Compose a paper that:
• Provides an overview of the health issue, either obesity or tobacco use, depending on which map set you chose.
• Discusses the trends you see in the maps based on the information you have received from the TED Talk and in Seminar. Be sure to touch on:
• What each map shows.
• How the information can be combined to determine trends.
• What the trend appears to be for the United States as a whole.
• What the trend appears to be for your state.
• Locate current data on your chosen health issue than what is in the map. Has the trend from the maps continued in the same course, or has there been a change in the trend? Explain.

• Requirements
• The paper should be at least 1200 words in length.
• Include a list of references in APA format.
• Please be sure to download the file “Writing Center Resources” from Doc Sharing to assist you with meeting APA expectations for written assignments.

Case Assignment

By submitting this assignment, you affirm that it contains all original work, and that you are familiar with Trident University’s Academic Integrity policy in the Trident Policy Handbook. You affirm that you have not engaged in direct duplication, copy/pasting, sharing assignments, collaboration with others, contract cheating and/or obtaining answers online, paraphrasing, or submitting/facilitating the submission of prior work. Work found to be unoriginal and in violation of this policy is subject to consequences such as a failing grade on the assignment, a failing grade in the course, and/or elevated academic sanctions. You affirm that the assignment was completed individually, and all work presented is your own.

 

Problems need to include all required steps and answer(s) for full credit. All answers need to be reduced to lowest terms where possible.

Answer the following problems showing your work and explaining (or analyzing) your results.

1. In a poll, respondents were asked if they have traveled to Europe. 68 respondents indicated that they have traveled to Europe and 124 respondents said that they have not traveled to Europe. If one of these respondents is randomly selected, what is the probability of getting someone who has traveled to Europe?
2. The data set represents the income levels of the members of a golf club. Find the probability that a randomly selected member earns at least $100,000.

INCOME (in thousands of dollars)

 98   102   83   140   201   96   74   109   163   210

 81   104   134   158   128   107   87   79   91   121

3. A poll was taken to determine the birthplace of a class of college students. Below is a chart of the results.
   1. What is the probability that a female student was born in Orlando?
   2. What is the probability that a male student was born in Miami?
   3. What is the probability that a student was born in Jacksonville?

Gender	Number of students	Location of birth
Male	10	Jacksonville
Female	16	Jacksonville
Male	5	Orlando
Female	12	Orlando
Male	7	Miami
Female	9	Miami

4. Of the 538 people who had an annual check-up at a doctor’s office, 215 had high blood pressure. Estimate the probability that the next person who has a check-up will have high blood pressure.
5. Find the probability of correctly answering the first 4 questions on a multiple choice test using random guessing. Each question has 3 possible answers.
6. Explain the difference between independent and dependent events.
7. Provide an example of experimental probability and explain why it is considered experimental.
8. The measure of how likely an event will occur is probability. Match the following probability with one of the statements. There is only one answer per statement.

           0                 0.25            0.60             1

          a. This event is certain and will happen every time.

          b. This event will happen more often than not.

          c. This event will never happen.

          d. This event is likely and will occur occasionally.

9. Flip a coin 25 times and keep track of the results. What is the experimental probability of landing on tails? What is the theoretical probability of landing on heads or tails?
10. A color candy was chosen randomly out of a bag. Below are the results:

Color	Probability
Blue	0.30
Red	0.10
Green	0.15
Yellow	0.20
Orange	???

a. What is the probability of choosing a yellow candy?

b. What is the probability that the candy is blue, red, or green?

Describe in three (3) or more paragraphs the extent to which the Internet of Things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things) is being utilized within higher education admissions and admission offices. Argue whether or not the Internet of Things will be “much ado about nothing” or actually lead to significant productivity improvements. Finally, will the Internet of Things change how firms align their process and product characteristics (e.g. product-process matrix)?

Please answer this question :