Project Management Spring 2012 Professor Moshe Rosenwein mbr19@columbia.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 6:00-6:50 or by appointment 862.778.8959 | | | Required Textbook Project Management: Tools and Tradeoffs‚ T. Klastorin‚ Pearson Learning Solutions‚ 2nd edition‚ 2011. Course Description The global trend towards shorter life cycles for products and services
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A Divergent View Similar to walking around in someone else’s shoes‚ this is what changes Jem and Scout’s viewpoint of understanding. In this simile‚ Atticus tries to teach an important lesson about truly accepting one’s situation to alter Jem and Scout’s outlook with people. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird reveals that a change of perspective can lead to a different way of understanding through a similar metaphor‚ idiom‚ and the plot twist of finding out that Boo Radley is not akin to Jem’s absurd
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Project Management Word Document Subject: Project cost estimation‚ budgeting & cash flows Names of Group members: Nilay Shah Sharad Tiwari Mayur Kakkad Nishant Agrawal Amit Sharma Submitted to‚ Prof. Deepak Jakate Introduction Project Definition: Why‚ What‚ How? How does a project get started? How do you know what it is supposed to achieve? How do you know what approach is required? How do you know that it is a good idea in the first place? How will you know if you succeeded
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Project Cost Management Review pages 273‚ 274‚ and 275!!! EV PV AC EVM RP CV SV CPI SPI The Importance of Project Cost Management IT projects have a poor track record for meeting budget goals. The CHAOS studies found the average cost overrun (the additional percentage or dollar amount by which actual costs exceed estimates) ranged from 180 percent in 1994 to 56 percent in 2004; other studies found overruns to be 33-34 percent. What is Cost and Project Cost
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gaining all of this control wasn’t easy. First the situation with Ferdinand becoming King of Castile was an issue because there was a fight for Isabella to take the throne. Even though she was next in line after her brother people disagreed and tried to take her position. Ferdinand was not officially able to become King of Castile until 1479 although technically Isabella should have officially been queen in 1475 making Ferdinand king. Ferdinand also became King of Aragon in 1479. This was only the
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Construction Management and Economics (April 2008) 26‚ 387–393 The impacts of change management practices on project change cost performance YI ZOU1 and SANG-HOON LEE2* 1 2 FMC Technologies Inc.‚ Houston‚ USA Department of Engineering Technology‚ University of Houston‚ 304A Technology Bldg‚ University of Houston‚ Houston 77204‚ USA Received 18 June 2007; accepted 15 January 2008 Change cost is one of the most sensitive aspects of construction project management‚ but it is also one of the
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nature of Jesus. Political and cultural differences created separation even among the orthodox. The separation caused the split between the Latin‚ Roman Catholic‚ the Greek‚ and Eastern Orthodox branches of Christianity‚ a division that exists to this day. Christianity transformed into the world’s most practiced religion in the modern world due to the spreading of Jesus’ teachings and religious
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Task 1a Forecasting Looking into the future. (inflation costs‚ li il materjal kull sena jola To determine probable opportunities (hu hsieb xed timla fit tender) Preparation (chances and eventualities) Note: In sat a alder fen (aqta il g) Predict risks(wheater‚ sick leave‚ x’se nghamel? Kif se ngib iktar nies…imp to consider in tender) Planning Amel tasks to establish …goal Define method and resource (WBS) Note: IMP first wbs ‚ then those 3 below Method of planning (scope(touristic places..cafeteria)
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Through the inter-connection between change management‚ knowledge management and people management‚ the author believes you can look at‚ assess‚ and analyse organisational readiness and responsiveness to change. This will done through the narrative cyclical approach (FIGURE XX). All of this works together to answer the research question of‚ “Is there a framework/s that can be used to help organisations increase organisational readiness and responsiveness to change”. Organisational readiness and organisational
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Using TOC To Improve Project Management. ________________________________________ Most projects‚ whether big or small‚ are undertaken either to create a new structure‚ such as a plant‚ an airport‚ an Olympic stadium‚ a bridge‚ a new product‚ etc.‚ or to modify an existing structure‚ such as a plant expansion‚ adding a new production line‚ expanding a highway‚ etc. In most cases‚ the late completion of the project‚ such as finishing the Olympic stadium two weeks after the opening of the Olympics
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