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Your author discusses five different Project Management Life Cycle Models (PMLC) in your book. 

For your discussion post answer the following question: 

1.  Identify which models you have experience using. 

2. Identify a project from your experience that would be a good fit for a specific PMLC model. 

Text-

Title: Effective Project Management 

ISBN: 9781119562801 

Authors: Robert K. Wysocki 

Publisher: Wiley 

Publication Date: 2019-05-07 

Edition: 8th Edition

Enforcement of security policies is most effective when it comes from leadership. Employees look to executive management for direction. The executive is more likely to enforce policies to support his or her personal credibility. Once executives put their own credibility behind policies, they are less likely to allow violations to occur.

Finding the right level of leadership to take action can be a challenge. It’s generally more effective to have leadership governance and management committees responsible for IT security policy enforcement, where governance sets the direction for management to follow.

Answer the following question(s):

Why, or in what ways, would a governance committee be more effective than an executive in enforcing security policies?

 How do you implement a counting sort algorithm 

1. Write a boolean expression that will evaluate to true if the checkbox named regentsCompletedCheckBox is checked.

2. Write an if statements that displays the text “You are eligible to vote!” in the voteStatusLabel if the value in the variable age is 18 or higher.
Display “You are not old enough to vote!” if the value in the variable age is less than 18.

3. This is an expansion of the previous problem. Write an if statement that displays the text “You are eligible to vote!” in the voteStatusLabel if
the value in the variable age is 18 or higher and the variable isRegistered is true. Display “You are not eligible to vote!” if the value in the
variable age is less than 18 or the variable isRegistered is false.

4. Write an If statement that will set the resultLabel to the text “Look out for rainbows” if both of the checkboxes sunShiningCheckBox and rainingCheckBox are checked.

 5. Write an if statement that will set the resultLabel to “I will pass the exam!” if the checkboxes studyCheckBox, workExamplesCheckBox, and
askQuestionsCheckBox are all checked.

 You are the web master of a college website. You share a server with other school departments such as accounting and HR.

Based on this chapter, create at least five security-related rules for staff members who are adding web pages being added to your site. Include a justification and explanation for each rule. Rules should relate to college, staff and student, and system information security.

Imagine you run a small business that handles sensitive data for its clients. Such a company might handle payroll for other companies or some other task that requires a great deal of data security. Because you transmit important information (employee data, account numbers, invoices, and the like), you decide it is a good idea to use encryption, to digitally sign e-mail messages, and to have a digital certificate. Visit the websites of certificate authorities. In your web research, determine how much it will cost your company to acquire a digital certificate and the kinds of information you must provide to the certificate authority. 

Each week you are to enter content into an online journal provided in Blackboard that briefly summarizes (1) the tasks you performed during your internship that week and (2) total hours worked with days/times. The content can be brief and in outline form and use bullet or another list styling, but keep in mind that this content will form the basis of the two major papers that you will write for this course. Therefore, the more detailed you are in your weekly journal, the easier it will be to finish the two papers. Specifically, your weekly journal should contain: 

• The days and times you worked that week, as well as the total hours, worked. (Provide this information at the top of each weekly section so this will act as a de facto heading to separate each weekly entry that you make.) 

• The skills or skillsets used/required to complete each task 

• Each task you performed along with a brief description of what you did.

 • A brief explanation of why the task needed to be done.

 • Was there an outcome? If so, what was that outcome?

 • What new terminology did you learn this week? Provide the term and its definition.

Written Assignments Content

1. Autobiography: Write a 3 paragraph, 500-word autobiography (written in 1st person) that describes:
   • your life to this point including where you were born and an interesting fact about where you were born;
   • your education and experience in your major area of study
   • and the goals you set for yourself after you obtain your MBA. 

                                                           Term Paper Outline Instructions

Overview: In 1500 words complete the Term Paper Template.

You will edit and customize a The Term Paper template to create your Term Paper Outline based on your proposed business idea. Use the term paper tips below to develop ideas for each sub-heading. Use the attached book for the topics and content that will be discussed in the Term Paper Outline. 

                               General Instructions for working with the Term Paper Template:

1. All words in brackets [ ] will eventually be deleted and replaced with your own words. Make sure you delete the brackets, too.

2. The major section heading will be customized according to your own content.

                                 Specific Instructions for the Term Paper Outline:

1. Customize the title page for your own paper. This includes editing the “Running Head” in the page header, the title of your paper, and your name.

2. For each major section of the paper, you need to customize the sub-headings. Each section must have a minimum of three sub-headings. Be sure to be descriptive in your sub-heading names, so that I know what content you intend to cover in each sub-heading.

3. Write 1-3 sentences 50 words after each sub-heading, describing the specific content that you plan to cover in that section of your term paper.

4. Write a 150–250-word abstract for your term paper (on p. 2 of the Term Paper Template). Once you have completed the above steps, you should have sufficient information on what you intend to cover in your paper to write your abstract.

5. Write the introductory paragraphs of your term paper (on p. 3 of the Term Paper Template) underneath the title of your paper. The introductory paragraphs should be at least one page long 600 words. These paragraphs should provide the reader with an overview of the business you are creating, including your rationale and reasons for starting up that business.

6. Conclusion– should be at least one page long 600 words. You should summarize the key points you have made in your paper and bring your paper to a close. You may also want to mention any challenges you anticipate facing in implementing the plan you have laid out in this paper, as well as what steps you plan to take to overcome them.

7. References- Use all the references from the proposed business idea, also provide 5 additional sources. 

                                                                      Term Paper Tips

Tips Regarding the Content of Each Section of the Term Paper outline in every sub-heading. This will guide you on the topics that need to be covered in the outline of the paper.

Overview and Structure of the Business –

– Topics to cover in this section include the big picture of your organization itself and how everybody fits together to fulfill the mission of the organization

1. What is the mission of your organization? 

2. How is your organization structured? 

3. What are the job roles and responsibilities of the different parts/units or your organization and the different employees of your organization? 

4.  How do the roles and responsibilities of each unit and/or employee fit together into the mission of your organization? 

5. Are there different levels of employees, such as managers and lower-level workers who will have different information technology needs?

-Describe the structure of the business that you are proposing, focusing on the different levels of employees in the organization (upper management, middle management, operational management, and lower-level employees, such as production and service workers, and data workers) and their IT needs (chapter 1). 

-Provide a description of the main business processes in your business and the types of information systems and enterprise applications you will need to efficiently run the various business processes (chapter 2)

-Provide an analysis of your business against Porter’s competitive forces model, along with a recommendation for an appropriate strategy for your organization to gain a competitive advantage (chapter 3).

Your Company’s Infrastructure and Information Systems Needs – 

– Topics to cover in this section include your plan for your company’s IT infrastructure (chapter 5), 

-describe the use of telecommunications, networking and wireless technologies (chapter 7), 

-describe the use of functional information systems, such as production and operations, marketing and sales, accounting and finance, and human resource information systems (chapter 2), 

-describe the use of enterprise applications for supply chain management and customer relationship management (chapter 9)

– Provide an analysis of your company’s internal operations against Porter’s value chain model, with a recommendation for how IT can be used in your organization’s value chain to increase your organization’s efficiency, effectiveness, and competitiveness (chapter 3)

Your Company’s Management of Data and Knowledge – 

-Topics to cover in this section include your organization’s current use of data management systems (chapter 6), 

-problems and difficulties faced by your organization in regards to data management (chapter 6), 

-your organization’s procedures for collecting, storing, managing, and updating data (chapter 6), 

-types of knowledge management systems currently used by your organization (chapter 11)

Your Company’s Use of the Internet – 

-Topics to cover in this section include how your organization is affected by the digital economy and what issues they need to consider in regards to doing business in the digital economy (chapter 1), 

-current messaging and collaboration software and Web 2.0 technologies in use by your organization (chapter 10), 

-your company’s use of e-commerce technologies (chapter 10)

Your Company’s IT Planning and Analysis Processes – 

-Topics to cover in this section include your organization’s IT strategy and planning process (chapter 13 and 14),

– your organization’s use of management decision support and intelligent systems (chapter 12), 

-your organization’s IT security policy, acceptable use policy, business continuity plan, and disaster recovery plan (chapter 8). 

-Be sure to also take ethical and social issues into consideration in relation to IT planning (chapter 4)

An ANOVA is when we want to run a means test on more than 2 groups. However, the same basic structure of the hypothesis testing that we have done remains.

Using the hockey data, test if there is a difference between the true average number of goals scored by the different divisions. Second, test if there is a difference between the actual mean number of goals allowed by teams of different quality (where teams with at least 100 points is the top tier, those with 90-99 are the middle tier, and those with less than 90 make up the bottom tier).

If either of these tests show significance, run a multiple comparisons test among the groups. (Note that this is essentially the two sample testing we just did but with an adjustment to ensure that we don’t have inflated error probabilities.) Use a 0.05 significance level for all tests.

As you do this for your own data set, ensure that at least one of the two problems shows significance and requires pairwise comparisons. Unless impossible to avoid, do not use more than 4 groups — there’s nothing that says you can’t, but it’ll make your report much more tedious. Also note that if you only have 2 groups, that’s a two sample independent mean test and not an ANOVA; we did that last assignment, so ensure that you have at least 3 groups in your analysis.