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Required Resources

Text

Kloppenborg, T. J., Anantatmula, V., & Wells, K. N. (2019).Contemporary project management(4th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Chapter 7: Scope Planning

Chapter 9: Resourcing Projects

Chapter 11: Project Risk Planning

Chapter 12: Project Quality Planning and Project Kickoff

Articles

Chapman, R. J. (2019).Exploring the value of risk management for projects: Improving capability through the deployment of a maturity model.IEEE Engineering Management Review,47(1), 126143. doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2019.2891494
The full-text version of this article is available through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about risk management and will assist you in your Proposal for New Project Requirements Role-Play discussion forum, as well as your Final Project Management Plan assignment this week.
Penny, J. (2018, January 1).Are you throwing money in the trash? Occupational risks, environmental hazards and operational inefficiencies in waste management are a triple threat to your bottom line.Buildings,112(1), 4851. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings
The full-text version of this article is available through the Business Insights Global database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about improving business efficiency while reducing environmental and work place risks, and it will assist you in your Final Project Management Plan assignment this week.

Multimedia

iZenBridge Consultancy Pvt Ltd. (2018, March 2).PMP | Introduction | Project quality management(Links to an external site.)[Video file]. https://youtu.be/nsBNJR8860A
This video provides information about project management quality and will assist you in your Project Quality Management Design Approach Role-Play discussion forum and Final Project Management Plan assignment this week. This video has closed captioning and a transcript.
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Recommended Resources

Book

Project Management Institute (PMI). (2017).
A guide to project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide)
(6th ed.). https://www.pmi.org
The full-text version of this book is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library. The PMBOK guide includes standard terminology and guidelines for project management, and it may assist you with your Final Project Management Plan assignment this week. Students should be aware of this book as a project management resource.

Article

Parsa, M., Mollaverdi-Esfahan, N, Alinaghian, M., & Rezvan, M. T. (2018).New models for a single-manufacturer multi-retailer supply chain under vendor managed inventory program.International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 25(6), 719738. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijietap/index.php/ijie/index
The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about Vendor Managed Inventory and may assist you in your Proposal for New Requirements Role-Play discussion forum this week.

INSTRUCTION:

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapter 11 from the course textbook,Contemporary Project Management.
Review section 7.5: Establish Change Control from Chapter 7 in the course textbook,Contemporary Project Management.
Read
Exploring the Value of Risk Management for Projects: Improving Capability Through the Deployment of a Maturity Model.
This week, the business development manager for International Logistics Services (your project management case study) has returned from a meeting with Walmart. Walmart and Proctor & Gamble successfully pioneered the use of vendor managed inventory (VMI), which is cited in the article,
New Models for a Single-Manufacturer Multi-Retailer Supply Chain Under Vendor Managed Inventory Program. The VMI concept enables the vendor or manufacturer to decide on the timing and quantity of restocking store shelves up to a certain maximum using data from the retailer. During the meeting, Walmart suggested that International Logistics Services might implement a VMI on their behalf. This would mean that International Logistics Services would need to develop a system and a process to obtain the data from Walmart and assume responsibility to order product from the various vendors and ship to Walmart ensuring no stock-outs without exceeding the maximum. The business development manager suggests that this requirement be added to the scope of the Logistics Services Improvement project.
On the one hand, this is an opportunity that could enable Walmart and International Logistics Services to develop a new innovation that ultimately may reduce ongoing costs for Walmart, and enable International Logistics Services to earn additional revenue. On the other hand, this new requirement would add risk to the project, as there are several fundamental issues that need to be addressed. In addition, International Logistics Services would need to develop information technology and processes that would be integrated with Walmart on the outbound side and on the inbound side with Walmarts suppliers. A rough estimate indicates that the additional project investment would be $75,000. Finally, International Logistics Services has not yet secured Walmarts business, though the two companies have worked together in other countries and have a good relationship.
Tomorrow, the director of logistics services, the business development manager, and you will discuss the proposed change to the project scope. As the project manager, prepare for the meeting by evaluating the opportunities and threats to add new requirements this late in the planning stage.
Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. Graduate school students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly or credible source in addition to the text. Week 4 – Discussion Forum 2

Required Resources

Text

Collier, D. A, & Evans, J. R. (2019).Operations and supply chain management. Cengage Learning.
Chapter 1: Operations Management and Value Chains

Sections 1.01.6
Chapter 2: Measuring Performance in Operations and Value Chains

Sections 2.02.2
Chapter 3: Operations Strategy

Sections 3.03.5
Chapter 4: Technology and Operations Management

Sections 4.04.4

Article

Johnson, S. B. (1997).Three approaches to big technology: Operations research, systems engineering, and project management.Technology and Culture, 38(4), 891919. doi.org/10.2307/3106953
The full-text version of this article is available through the ProQuest database in the Ashford University Library. This article provides information about three approaches to big technology, and it will assist you in your Technology and Operations Management Scenario discussion forum this week.

Multimedia

Magers, S. [Samantha Magers]. (2014, April 29).
What is operations management?(Links to an external site.)[Video file]. https://youtu.be/leMOReAE2hk
This video provides information about operations management and will assist you in your Operations Strategy Scenario discussion forum this week. This video has closed captioning and a transcript.
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Website

Walmart(Links to an external site.). (https://walmart.org)
This website provides information about Walmart and will assist you in your An Organizations Competitive Advantage assignment this week.
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Recommended Resources

Article

Coates, R. (2017, May 30).The Amazon effect and the global supply chain(Links to an external site.).Supply Chain Management Review.https://www.scmr.com/article/the_amazon_effect_and_the_global_supply_chain
This article provides information about the Amazon Effect on supply chains and may assist you in your Technology and Operations Management Scenario discussion forum this week.
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Multimedia

Hughes, L. (Producer). (2011).Supermarkets Inc.: Inside a $500 billion money machine[Streaming video]. Films On Demand database.
The full version of this video is available through the Films on Demand database in the Ashford University Library. This CNBC Original documentary looks at how food retailers fill their shelves and what kinds of marketing tactics they use to do it, and it may assist you in your Technology and Operations Management Scenario discussion forum this week. This video has closed captioning and a transcript.
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NewsHour Productions LLC. (Producer). (2007).Midwest manufacturers fight to stay competitive in global marketplace[Streaming video]. Films on Demand database.
The full version of this video is available through the Films on Demand database in the Ashford University Library. This video provides information about how some Midwestern manufacturers are working to bridge the gap with foreign companies and fight to keep U.S. employers relevant in the changing global marketplace. It may assist you in your Technology and Operations Management Scenario and Operations Strategy Scenario discussion forums this week. This video has closed captioning and a transcript.
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Supply Chain Secrets. (2008, July 13).Inventory managementAn introduction(Links to an external site.)[Video file]. https://youtu.be/qkZQxXJuqKo
This video provides information about the impact of a technology revolution in the supply chain and may assist you in your Operations Strategy Scenario discussion forum and An Organizations Competitive Advantage assignment this week. This video has closed captioning and a transcript.
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INSTRUCTION:

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapter 1: Sections 1.0-1.6 and Chapter 3: Sections 3.0-3.5 of the required textbook,Operations and Supply Chain Management. In addition, watch
What Is Operations Management?(Links to an external site.)

Describe a customer experience you have personally encountered where the good, service, or both were unsatisfactory (e.g., defective product, errors, mistakes, poor service, service upsets, etc.). How might the organization have handled it better? Specifically identify how operations management could have helped to relieve or eliminate the problem.
Your initial response should be a minimum of 200 words. Graduate school students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly or credible source in addition to the text. Week 3 – Discussion Forum 2

Required Resources

Text

Kloppenborg, T. J., Anantatmula, V., & Wells, K. N. (2019).Contemporary project management(4th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Chapter 7: Scope Planning

Chapter 9: Resourcing Projects

Chapter 11: Project Risk Planning

Chapter 12: Project Quality Planning and Project Kickoff

Articles

Multimedia

Recommended Resources

Book

Article

INSTRUCTION:

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapter 12 from the course textbook,Contemporary Project Management.
Watch
PMP | Introduction | Project Quality Management(Links to an external site.).
As the project manager, design a project quality management approach that relates to the inherited issues stated in the Project Management Case StudyLogistics Improvement Project. In addition, from your studies in prior classes, consider Walmarts needs that could be addressed in this project to deliver more alignment with Walmart without exceeding the budget of $100,000 or extending the schedule. The project management quality approach should also enable International Logistics Services commitment to corporate social responsibility. Your design approach should be a minimum of 200 words.
Graduate school students learn to assess the perspectives of several scholars. Support your response with at least one scholarly or credible source in addition to the text. Assume that the requirement in the Proposal for New Project Requirements Role-Play discussion forum for this week is deferred. Week 4 – Discussion Forum 1

Required Resources

Text

Collier, D. A, & Evans, J. R. (2019).Operations and supply chain management. Cengage Learning.
Chapter 1: Operations Management and Value Chains

Sections 1.01.6
Chapter 2: Measuring Performance in Operations and Value Chains

Sections 2.02.2
Chapter 3: Operations Strategy

Sections 3.03.5
Chapter 4: Technology and Operations Management

Sections 4.04.4

Article

Multimedia

Website

Recommended Resources

Article

Multimedia

INSTRUCTION:

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read sections 2.02.2 in Chapter 2 and sections 4.04.4 in Chapter 4 from yourOperations and Supply Chain Managementtextbook. In addition, readThree Approaches to Big Technology: Operations Research, Systems Engineering, and Project Management.
Technology continues to play a huge role in streamlining operations management. For example, Kodak has a freestanding kiosk where technology and customer labor join to create an output. In this example, you put in your digital camera memory card, choose the finish, quantity, and size of your hard copy pictures, and then print.
Airline check-in kiosks, automatic teller machines, online banking, and firms like eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Zillow, and Zappos are also excellent examples where self-service and technology merge to deliver a product, and they are good use cases for this discussion.
Describe a situation where self-service and technology help create and deliver a customer benefit package to the customer. Provide examples of how such a system can cause a defect, mistake, or service upset. When possible, select a different example than your peers.
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Chapter 11
Project Risk Planning

Chapter Introduction

11-1 Plan Risk Management
11-1a Roles and Responsibilities

11-1b Categories and Definitions

11-2 Identify Risks
11-2a Information Gathering

11-2b Reviews

11-2c Understanding Relationships

11-2d Risk Register

11-3 Risk Analysis
11-3a Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis

11-3b Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis

11-3c Risk Register Updates

11-4 Plan Risk Responses
11-4a Strategies for Responding to Risks

11-4b Risk Register Updates

11-5 PMP/CAPM Study Ideas

Chapter Review
Summary

Key Terms Consistent with PMI Standards and Guides

Chapter Review Questions

Discussion Questions

PMBOK Guide Questions

Exercises

Integrated Example Projects

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Semester Project Instructions

Project Management in Action

References

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Chapter 11: Project Risk Planning Chapter Introduction
Book Title: Contemporary Project Management
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Chapter Introduction

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Chapter Objectives

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

Core Objectives:

Describe how to plan for risk management, identify risks, analyze risks, and
create response plans for identified risks.

Identify and classify risks for a project and populate a risk register.

Describe various risk assessment techniques and tell when each is appropriate
to use.

Prioritize each risk on a project using an appropriate assessment technique and
develop and defend at least one strategy for each of the high-priority risks.

Compare and contrast the various strategies for dealing with risks.

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PMBOK Guide

Topics:

Behavioral Objectives:

Determine an individuals propensity to accept risk and use that to strategize
about which risks to accept.

Determine an organizations propensity to accept risk and use that knowledge to
strategize about which risks to accept.

Technical Objectives:

Select and utilize an appropriate quantitative risk analysis tool if qualitative risk
analysis is not sufficient.

The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is composed of forty-nine not-for-profit institutions that are
dedicated to the highest standards of patient care, research, and education. These
institutions include thirteen renowned hospitals and two specialty institutions, two medical
schools, four nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and
virtually all health-related careers. People come from all walks of life and from all over the
world to have access to the best healthcare anywhere. Member institutions specialize in
every imaginable aspect of healthcare, including care for children and cancer patients, heart
care, organ transplantation, terminal illness, mental health, and wellness and prevention.

Currently, 11 major construction projects are underway, including the Texas Childrens
Hospitals 407,000-square-foot Neurological Research Institute and 720,000-square-foot
Maternity Center, along with a 12-story, 27,000-square-foot concrete-frame addition to the
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center of the University of Texas Medical Center. Collectively, these
major projects will add facilities that will be staffed by up to 27,000 additional employees.
When complete, TMC will have 40 million square feet of occupied space. If you consider
downtown business space, by itself it forms the seventh-largest downtown business district
in the United States.

With hurricane season approaching,
TMC held a conference for over 100
contractors to review how to prepare for
a potential hurricane. Contractors must
have a plan in place detailing how they

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Plan risk management

Identify risks

Perform qualitative risk analysis

Perform quantitative risk analysis

Plan risk responses

Chapter Outputs

Risk register

are going to secure their construction
sites and keep materials from becoming
airborne missiles in the event of a
hurricane. Conference attendees were
given a handout describing TMCs
hurricane guidelines. These guidelines
call for storm preparations to be
completed 24 hours before tropical
storm winds are predicted to hit land.
Examples of storm preparations include
dismantling scaffolds and privacy
screens, securing giant cranes,
emptying and weighting down
dumpsters, photographing all buildings
and assets, and unblocking all streets for emergency access.

While project managers cannot prevent hurricanes, through careful risk planning, actions
can be taken to greatly mitigate the impact.

Rhonda Wendler, Texas Medical Center News

Imagine you are asked to plan for risks on two different projects. One is a major construction
project at TMC with hurricane season approaching. The other is planning a small fund-
raising event for charity. Would you handle the risks on these two projects the same way?
Would you invest the same level of time and energy into planning these two projects? The
answers are yes and no. Yes, you would approach the risks in the same way. But you would
not spend the same amount of time planning for risk on both projects. You would spend
considerably more time and money on risk management planning for the major construction
project that is vulnerable to a hurricane than for the small fund-raiser project. Just as in
other types of project planning, there is an approach to planning for risks that all projects
follow; however, the depth of planning depends greatly on the potential project risks and
consequences if some of these risks are not managed. In other words, a smart project
manager gladly spends $100 in risk planning to save $1,000 in expected consequences, but
does not gladly spend $1,000 to save $100.

The purpose of risk management is to reduce the overall project risk to a level that is
acceptable to the project sponsor and other key stakeholders. The methods that project
managers use in risk management start with identifying as many risks as possible. Once the
risks are identified, each risk is analyzed in terms of its likelihood of occurrence and impact
on project goals if it occurs. Using this analysis, the project team can concentrate their
attention on the most critical risks. Analysis always consists of a qualitative or judgmental
approach for all the identified risks and sometimes also includes a quantitative approach for
the critical risks. In the final risk management process, the project team decides how to
respond to each potential risk. Once all the risk management planning has initially been
accomplished, the response plans are incorporated into the overall project management

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plan. Changes may need to be made to the schedule, budget, scope, or communication
plans to account for certain risks. These risk management planning processes are covered
in this chapter. Risk management also includes monitoring and controlling the risks
according to plan. These are covered, along with ongoing risk planning, in Chapter 14:
Determining Project Progress and Results.

Agile

Agile projects are similar to other projects in regard to developing early

risk planning, assessment, and response planning at a high level. However, more
detailed and timely risk management occurs in planning each subsequent iteration,
in daily stand-up meetings, and in retrospectives at the end of each iteration.

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Chapter 11: Project Risk Planning: 11-1 Plan Risk Management
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11-1 Plan Risk Management
Plan risk management (process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for
a project.) is the process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a
project. A future event is considered a project risk if it threatens the successful
accomplishment of a project goal. Obviously, a project manager must first understand the
projects objectives to plan for project risks. A project manager develops this understanding
initially by realizing what project success in general is and then by understanding the
specific priorities of the most important project stakeholders, as discussed in Chapter 6.
Exhibit 11.1 summarizes current project success research results.

Exhibit 11.1

Project Success Measures

Meeting Agreements

Cost, schedule, and specifications met

Customers Success

Needs met, deliverables used, customer satisfied

Performing Organizations Success

Market share, new products, new technology

Project Teams Success

Loyalty, development, satisfaction

Source: Kloppenborg, Timothy J., Debbie Tesch, and Broderick King, 21st Century Project Success

Measures: Evolution, Interpretation, and Direction, Proceedings, Project Management Institute Research

and Education Conference, July 2012, Limerick, Ireland.

The first set of general project success measures is meeting various agreements associated
with a project. This includes meeting the project requirements while not going over the cost
and sche

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