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As part of successfully completing this course, you should be able to master the eight course objectives:

1. Demonstrate the need for project management metrics.
2. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope.
3. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics.
4. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management.
5. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics.
6. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations.
7. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
8. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.

In this portfolio project, you are to show your mastery of the eight course objectives at a master’s level. You are to write a paper that covers each of the eight topics.

Notice that each objective is written with a verb as the first word to show some action that students must achieve for success in this class. Verbs like “demonstrate,” “apply,” and “create” require that the student takes some action on a project to satisfy the requirement. You should find a project to use in this portfolio where you may take those actions and document them in your paper. You might apply earned value analysis on a project underway to satisfy course objective number 5, for example.

Verbs like “establish,” “characterize,” and “explore” require that the student shows mastery of current thinking on the subject. This part of your paper may be taken from research, or interviews. You might explore an application of dashboards by interviewing a project manager and performing research on current thinking about dashboards, for example.

Therefore, your paper should include sections to address the following:

1. Identify and describe an actual project that was successful in part because it used project metrics, what those metrics were, and why they were a contributing factor to success.
2. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about effective management of time, cost, and scope with metrics.
3. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about the key characteristics of properly defined metrics, and identify and describe an actual project to compare its use of metrics to your research to determine if the metrics were properly defined.
4. Research and report on current thinking in both research and practice about KPIs.
5. Show your application of value-based project management metrics on a project with which you are familiar and interpret the results of your application.
6. Research and report on performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations, and visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
7. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management on a project with which you are familiar.

aper Requirements:

• Prepare a portfolio paper to address the eight-course objective. All eight course objectives must be addressed. The Course Objectives are:
  1. Demonstrate the need for project management metrics and benefits of metric-driven project management.
  2. Establish the importance of metrics in effective management of time, cost, and scope.
  3. Apply the knowledge of project metrics to identify the key characteristics of properly defined metrics.
  4. Characterize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as used in metric-driven project management.
  5. Apply value-based project management metrics as important in selecting the right metrics.
  6. Explore project performance dashboards including designs, use, and limitations.
  7. Explore the applications of visual project management tools, including project performance dashboards.
  8. Create proper performance indicators for application in measurement-driven project management.
• Incorporate at least 10-12 current peer-reviewed scholarly references (current means published in past five years). 
• The CSU-Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find your sources. Additionally, be sure to visit the Library’s Project Management Resource Guide (Links to an external site.) for assistance with research and writing.
• Properly organize your writing and include an introductory section with thesis and mapping, headings/subheadings for the body of your work, discussion, recommendations, and a conclusion.
• Any diagram, figure, or table should be included in an appendix, but clearly discussed in the text portion of the paper. 
• Appendices should be included after the references.
• Format your entire paper in accordance with the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA (Links to an external site.).

Your paper must be 10 pages long, not including the required title page and references page or any other supplemental pages such as appendices that you choose to include.

Project

The project assignment provides a forum for analyzing and evaluating relevant topics of this week on the basis of the course competencies covered.

Introduction

Much of stimulating creativity and cultivating adaptability calls for an open-minded leader. As you continue to develop as a leader, you will be tasked with developing a culture that promotes creativity and adaptability.

Tasks

Read the following articles along with this week’s lecture and the associated chapters:

• The Role of Stimulating Employees’ Creativity and Idea Generation in Encouraging Innovation Behaviour in Irish Firms
• Leading into the Next Frontier

Using these articles and other resources, develop a plan to create a culture where creativity and adaptability is embraced. In doing so, be sure to address the following in your plan:

• The four aspects of stimulating creativity
• The three fundamental skills involved in cultivating adaptability

How you plan will provide opportunities for upcoming leaders.

To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Answer the questions below.  Be sure to use text material to support your response.  I am interested in more than your opinion. 

1. React to what has transpired in Part A of the case

2. Joe suggested that Debra get back into the store through the back door.  Why?

3. If you were Joe, what concerns would you have about this matter and what would you do next?

4. In Part B of the case, why do you think Brett responded to Debra as he did?

5. If you were Tom, what would you have done in this situation?

It is important for managers to be acquainted with the work of front-line employees to understand how all of the parts work together to create efficient processes. Drivers and journalists have posted accounts of what it is like to deliver packages. We must also consider the larger picture: parcel delivery companies and their last mile delivery services. There have been lawsuits and OSHA incidents with which to contend.

Module 2: Week 2 Discussion Background Readings

‘Like a Rented Mule.’ Amazon Worked Truck Driver to Exhaustion Before Crash, Suit Says (2020)

Amazon’s Need for Speed Creating Safety Risks, Delivery Drivers Say (2020)

Drivers Delivering Amazon Packages Reportedly Got in More than 60 Crashes Since 2015, Resulting in Serious Injuries and 13 Deaths, as the Company Prioritized Faster Deliveries (2019)

How Delivery Insurance Works for Uber Eats & Doordash Drivers (2019)

Amazon Pushes Back on Worker Injury Report (2019)

The week’s background readings provide recent articles on insurance issues, injuries, and associated legal disputes. Find at least one other recent resource for support. For your post:

• Discuss the implication of these legal trends in last mile logistics.
• Based on research, provide information on two top legal issues (other than employee vs. gig worker status) facing last mile delivery.
• Using the resource beyond this week’s readings, provide a real-world example of a U.S.-based company that is looking to address the legal implications. (The article should be less than two years old.)

This post should be 2 paragraphs in length (at least 100 words). Since you are engaging in research, be sure to cite in the body of the post and add a reference list in APA format. NOTE: Failure to use research with accompanying citations to support content will result in reduced scoring “Level 2-Developing” for Assignment-Driven Criteria, Critical Thinking, Writing Mechanics, and Referencing on the grading rubric.

Challenge, defend and/or supplement comments made by classmate.  Bring in additional information specific to the discussion. Your additional information may be from the news, your readings/research and/or personal experience. Cite your sources. 200 words

 Meal prep guide for a work week (Monday through Friday);what would those meals look like considering all nutritional value. These must include 3 meals and a snack everyday and include a budget of no more than $100. You will need a variation of two different meal days (Example Monday and Tuesday you eat chicken for dinner and Wednesday to Friday you eat Salmon for dinner). 

Please do this assignment in Excel.

I only eat turkey, chicken and seafood.

LTD Acceptance is a private property and auto insurance carrier that specializes in sports cars and motorcycles. This organization is owned by LTD Capital, a large equity group with over 15 holdings. LTD Acceptance is the parent company’s single largest holding as it drives 70% of total revenue. Due to the inherent risk involved in that segment of the market, many of LTD Acceptance’s competitors do not offer policies for sports cars or motorcycles. This market segment is underserved which is why the organization has 20,000 active policies for a sports car or a motorcycle.

LTD is headquartered in Houston, TX. LTD does not sell insurance directly to the public. Instead, it uses third-party agents to sell its policies. LTD handles all customer service needs including claims intake, policy services, and general questions. The company operates in four states: California, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. Currently, LTD does not have an active system in place to ensure that its agents are in fact using LTD guidelines to screen potential policyholders. However, no evidence of negligence has emerged so far as the organization has yet to have a year in which it was not profitable. LTD has also had the good fortune of not suffering losses because of natural disasters or catastrophic events.

In your first days of your new role as the senior risk analyst, you know your first task is to complete a framework for adequately identifying risk exposures. During this process, you realize that many of your counterparts lack the basic understanding of how to identify risks. Your supervisor has come to you and asked for a report outlining the importance of identifying risks to support risk management activities and positively impact the company’s bottom line. If your counterparts do not understand your report, you know that you will have minimal support in your efforts to manage the organization’s risks effectively.

For your report, you have been asked to analyze and address the following:

• Why is identifying risk exposures significant? What are the ramifications for organizations that fail to properly identify risks they are exposed to?
• What are the market risks LTD encounters?
• What business risk does LTD encounter in its day-to-day operations?
• What compliance and human capital risks might LTD face?
• How do risk management activities correlate with overall productivity?

The format for your report should be in the business, professional style. For help with this format, please click here.

How does a successful organization determine whether an environmental change is a brief fad or fashion to be ignored, or a development that requires a fundamental rethinking of the way in which it does business? 

Consider the laws that have been passed after major disasters and the programs that have been initiated to improve emergency management by reviewing the following documents. 

Review the following documents by clicking the links provided. 

Federal Emergency Management Agency. (n.d.). Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013. Retrieved from ` https://www.fema.gov/disasters/sandy-recovery-improvement-act-2013

Kennell, P. M., Nassi, S. P., & Westerfield, R. R. (2016). Four years after Sandy, storm resiliency lags. Risk Management, 63(8), 4–6. 

Then, write an essay that addresses the following questions. 

• Identify and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the public and private sectors that collaborated during the preparedness and response phases to the affected states. 
• Based on the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013, identify and discuss some of the legislative actions to improve emergency preparedness and response. 
• In your opinion, did the changes identified in the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act of 2013 do enough to ensure stronger preparation and response efforts in the event of a similar disaster in the future? 

While not required, the following resource may assist you in your review of the efforts following Hurricane Sandy. 

Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2013).  Hurricane Sandy FEMA after-action report. Retrieved from https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1923-25045-7442/sandy_fema_aar.pdf

Your submission should be a minimum of three pages, not including the title and reference pages. Your essay should contain an introduction and be well organized, with clear evidence of critical thinking. All sources used should be properly cited. Your paper and all sources used should be formatted in APA style.

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