O498 Final Case Studies Name Dyson E. Johnson
Instructions:
Your essays will be graded on content to include grammar and spelling. Each case should take 1-2 pages including diagrams. The essay answers for both #2 and #3 should be 500 to 700 words each, in order to completely answer the questions. Please submit as one document.
Assignment:
#1. Forest Point Construction (System Planning)
a. What is the correct total time?
This would take approximately 40 days using a five-day work week. I figured this out by taken each task step by step and adding them together since site preparations will take 3 days, plus setting building footers another 3 days which now equal 6 days. Then I will add the foundation 5 days, plus another 3
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What is the critical path?
The critical path would be prepare the site, set building footers, building assembly, interior work, set an appointment for final building inspection, landscaping and driveway paving, painting and arrange the sale.
#2. Atrium Bio-Medical Supply, Inc. (System Analysis)
a. What options does Atrium have for acquiring a new system?
Atrium’s options are either in-house development to using an application service provider. With these two options; in-house development: is where Atrium can develop its own system, or purchase a system, they could also customize it. According to our course book when in house development is chosen it will start in stages or steps starting with the planning, then to analysis, from here one has to decide either make one or purchase one, then we will have an in house system, or commercial software package, with customized software for both of them, and the final stage is implementation (Rosenblatt, 2014, p. 266).
When in-house developing is the option Atrium chose they would be satisfying their uniqueness for their business, or to do less changes to their policies and procedures, and to meet the constraints of their existing systems and technology (Rosenblatt, 2014, p. 268).
Atrium can purchase a software package if they decide not to outsource for reasons like; lower cost, requires less time to implement, they are proven reliability and performance benchmarks, it also requires less technical development
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Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Four scenarios are examined and the following is the summary of results for each of them.
3. What is (are) the critical path(s) in the project? What is the level of risk in completing tasks on the critical path(s)? Explain.
b) Software programs combined with extensive customized programming updates / additions. The software and software customization industries both have numerous suppliers. However, given the complexity and uniqueness of such an information network, there are probably only a limited number of software and customization companies that can provide a carrier with a high quality system that is capable of smoothly integrating all the operation and customer service divisions. Furthermore, the switching costs have the potential to be extremely high because such a transfer could disrupt communication between the divisions, leading to poor quality service. In addition, the company would
Please use this template to answer the questions below in essay format. The minimum word count for the three questions of Part 1 is 300 words total (or 100 words per question). A reference citation is required.
Please address each question below with complete sentences and clear, specific explanation. The total word count of your writing should be between 750-1,250 words.
Write a 1,050 to 1,400 word paper addressing each of the six questions at the end of this assignment.
2.) Answer the following questions based on a reading of the above document and material from your textbook.
Directions: Answer each question in a paragraph—be sure to give specific details and examples. Remember that each of these questions has multiple parts to it. You must type your responses out and hand it to me by the end of our class period.
Critical chain is a modified or refined technique about critical path; it involves the deterministic and probabilistic approaches to analyze the project schedule, which is more realistic and practical than critical path.
I’m vague with details (for both assignments) because I want you to be creative—I want to see how each of you uniquely thinks/writes without a strict template/rubric. As with assignment 1, there will be some leeway with grading (like assignment 1, 10% of grade is still based on conventions), but being as accurate as possible (and providing me with your best effort) is still very
Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to four (3-4) page paper (750-1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic.
3. Centralized IT system for the affiliates with the rollout of new technologies outsourced –