COMM 225: Production & Operations Management TOPIC: PROJECT MANAGEMENT – QUESTIONS (To be solved in class) Q1 (Ref: Q. 17-7‚ p658 of textbook): Three recent university graduates have formed a partnership and have opened an advertising firm. Their first project consists of activities listed in the following table. (a) Draw the precedence network. (b) What is the probability that the project can be completed in 24 days or less? In 21 days or less? (c) Suppose that now is the end of the seventh day
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1.1. The Mystery Study Guide 1.1.a. What causes death? The failure of one system can cause failure of next ending in lack of brain activity 1.1.b. What clues may be found at a scene of a mysterious death that may help to determine the cause of death? Vomit‚ blood‚ fingerprints‚ DNA‚ saliva‚ bite marks‚ bullets‚ poison‚ etc 1.1.c. If someone was interested in a career with responsibility to determine the cause of death‚ what careers should he or she consider and investigate? Forensic Pathologist
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of “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” is an article written by Richard Wilson in 2008. The article is about a woman‚ Paula Wilson‚ who is considered to be Scotland’s first altruistic organ donor. Paula’s decision began when her mother suffered from kidney failure. Paula wanted to donate her kidney to her mother‚ to save her. Unfortunately Paula and her mother’s blood type wasn’t the same. Therefore Paula couldn’t donate her kidney to her mother. When
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----------------------------------------10SummaryIn this case of "Greenhill Community Center"‚ described as a executive director - Leslie was dealing with several issues within this non-profit organization‚ she had learned MBA and thought having experiences to fit her position‚ but after one year of managing the center‚ she felt frustration and anger. Background of the Greenhill Community CenterGreenhill was multi-service community center which was founded in 1982 in Coastal City‚ one of the poorest
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To think as a pregnant woman‚ was the design brief from Dr Gauri Aggarwal (Gynaecologist & IVF Specialist) when she first met Studio AVT Design Team with the requirements of her dream project; “Seeds of Innocence: An IVF & Surrogacy Centre”. The mood swings‚ anxiety and increased irritability of a pregnant woman or a childless couple could be forgotten as soon as one enters into the positive & cheerful environment of the clinic. Thus‚ it was considered as the main factor while designing this Surrogacy
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Shiva did not like computers. A skilled accountant‚ she was shocked when her boss required her to use accounting software to transfer all the data from books and journals to the companies’ computer program. She used to do all calculation and recording information using paper and a pen. Shiva trusted the manual method; however she was suffering from spending hours to do her tasks. She knew that accounting process is an integral part of her company‚ thus she was not sure how reliable computer’s software
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Background information Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited kidney condition that causes cysts to grow on the kidneys. Commonly referred to as PKD‚ Polycystic kidney disease is present in two different forms‚ autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive. Autosomal dominant is much more common‚ and both variations cause about 5% of kidney failure in the world. There are two types of autosomal dominant PKD depending on the gene mutated. The two are usually defined by the age symptoms are present
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A CASE STUDY ON SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY – EXPERIENCES AND CONCLUSIONS P. Mandl-Striegnitz1‚ H. Lichter2 1 Software Engineering Group‚ University of Stuttgart 2 Department of Computer Science‚ Aachen University of Technology Abstract In this paper we present and discuss the findings of two case studies on software project management in industrial software development projects and the conclusions drawn from it. These studies were motivated to improve software project management
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Case Project 1a) The histograms of page cost‚ circulation and median income are all skewed to the right because the majority of the data lies to the left of the mean and the tail on the right side is longer than that on the left side. b) There seems to be a strong logarithmic type of relationship between page cost and circulation and a slightly noticeable linear relationship between page cost and median income. As for the scatterplot between page cost and percent male‚ the points appear
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Kidney Dialysis There are two types of kidney dialysis: Haemodialysis and Peritoneal dialysis Both types carry out the function of the kidney: filtering our blood of metabolic wastes. Kidney dialysis is necessary when someone suffers kidney failure. Failed kidneys cant perform their excretory function‚ but also cant regulate ion concentration‚ PH levels‚ and blood volume. Haemodialysis: (carried out 4 hrs every 2-3 weeks) -patient is connected to dialysis machine by two thing needles inserted
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