Identify two sensible milestones and explain your choice.

Read the case “The POM+ Project*- Part 1 APPENDIX 2

Big Kola Company has been concerned that specialized fruit drinks have been eroding their cola market. The CEO mandates that “If you can’t beat them, join them.” Grape juice was the first product that was successful after an advertising blitz claiming the antitoxin benefits. Lately, competition is compressing grape juice margins and profits. Months of additional market surveys and focus groups have resulted in three potential high-margin drinks: cranberry, blueberry, and pomegranate. All these choices represent antitoxins. The decision is to produce the pomegranate drink that has many health claims. For example, the relative ability of these juices to eliminate harmful free radicals (antitoxins) is 71 percent for pomegranate, 33 percent for blueberry, and 20 percent for cranberry (Technion Institute of Technology). The market potential appears very attractive and should have a higher profit margin than the other potential juice products. Another appeal for pomegranate juice is its familiarity in the Middle East and Asia. (See full details on pages 639-341)

Note: Use any project management tool that you have available to you. However, ProjectLibre project management software is  free and can be found at www.projectlibre.com  

Part 1

1. Develop the WBS outline using the software available (save your file). 

2. Use this file and the information provided below to create a project schedule. 

3. The following holidays are observed: January 1, Martin Luther King Day (third Monday in January), Memorial Day (last Monday in May), July 4th, Labor Day (first Monday in September), Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November), December 25 and 26. 

4. If a holiday falls on a Saturday then Friday will be given as an extra day off, and if it falls on a Sunday then Monday will be given off. 

5. The project team works eight-hour days, Monday through Friday. 

6. The project will begin on January 3, 2012. 7.

Note: Based on this schedule, submit a memo (500 words) that answers the following questions: 

a. When is the project estimated to be completed? How many working days will it take? 

b. What is the critical path? 

c. Which activity has the most total slack? 

d. How sensitive is this network? 

e. Identify two sensible milestones and explain your choice.

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Title: Project Management: The Managerial Process 

ISBN: 9781260238860 

Authors: Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson 

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education 

Publication Date: 2020-01-09

What are the benefits of categorizing stakeholders?

Describe how stakeholders can be categorized? What are the benefits of categorizing stakeholders?

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Title: Managing Project Stakeholders 

ISBN: 9781118504277 

Authors: Tres Roeder 

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons 

Publication Date: 2013-04-22

How does the “growth mindset” lead to “keystone habits,” which lead, in turn, to “small wins,” and so on?

Compare and contrast Paul O’Neill’s mindset during his tenure as CEO of the Aluminum Company of America with the mindset of one of the CEO’s discussed under the “Fixed-Mindset Leaders in Action” section from chapter 5.

2.  What are “keystone habits?”  How does the “growth mindset” lead to “keystone habits,” which lead, in turn, to “small wins,” and so on?

Required Reading:

· Dweck, Carol S.,  Mindset

· Chapter 4: Sports: The Mindset of a Champion

· Chapter 5: Business: Mindset and Leadership

· Chapter 8: Changing Mindsets

· Duhigg, Charles. 2012.  The Power of Habit

· Chapter 4: Keystone Habits, or the Ballad of Paul O’Neill: Which Habits Matter Most  

write a 1-page document explaining the importance, value, and positive impact the acquisition of “Virtual Teams” can have on a project team’s resource pool.

One of the tools and techniques used in executing is the acquistion of “Virtual Teams”. We will utilize this tool in the simulation next week.  But as a pre-cursor to next week’s simulation activity, write a 1-page document explaining the importance, value, and positive impact the acquisition of “Virtual Teams” can have on a project team’s resource pool.

• Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited. A minimum of 7 sources  from scholarly articles or business periodicals is required.
• Include your best critical thinking and analysis to arrive at your justification.
• Approach the assignment from the perspective of a project management of a company.

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Title: Project Management 

ISBN: 9780134730332 

Authors: Pinto 

Publisher: Pearson 

Edition: 5TH 19

How is risk handled within an Agile project approach such as Scrum?

#1 What is Agile?

How is risk handled within an Agile project approach such as Scrum?

In what ways can the following activities be seen as projects?

In what ways do they resemble ongoing, routine business activities?

Feel free to add assumptions and details to describe how the activity might be a project in one context and routine in another.

1. Reading a chapter before attending a university lecture.
2. Taking a bus to work each day.
3. Piloting an aircraft between Vancouver and Fiji.
4. Teaching a course for the first time; teaching the same course every semester.

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Title: Managing Project Risks 

ISBN: 9781119489733 

Authors: Peter J. Edwards, Paulo Vaz Serra, Michael Edwards 

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons 

Publication Date: 2019-08-13

How do you decide if the information you receive is based in nutrition science or not?

There are so many options for vitamins and nutritional supplements. Additionally, there are many claims made about the importance and effectiveness of these 

a minimum of 175 words:

• Which vitamins or supplements have you heard of? How do you decide if the information you receive is based in nutrition science or not? Explain and provide specific examples to support your response.

discuss how such a difference might have an impact on financial statement analysis, or if you believe that it would. 

In this week’s discussion, we will be looking at some of the differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS, which is the set of accounting rules followed by just about every industrialized nation outside the U.S.  While there are many similarities between the two systems, there are also some significant differences.  After learning a little bit about some of the similarities and differences, please reflect somewhat on how these differences might impact financial statement analysis, or if you think they actually would.

Conduct research to find out one or more differences that exist between balance sheets that are prepared using U.S. GAAP and those prepared using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).  Explain the difference and if there seems to have been a move in recent years toward convergence of the two systems.  Finally, discuss how such a difference might have an impact on financial statement analysis, or if you believe that it would.  Make sure to provide APA format citations and references for your sources.

Were there other strategies that might have been employed to come to the resolution?

PROMPT

A few years ago, I began helping a start-up company get off the ground; the company was essentially a youth esports league that trained them in the games and business side of the sport. When I began with Game Crossing, I implemented a database, graphics, and the business’s administrative process. The founder wanted to include three of us: his neighbor, my fiancé, and myself in his business to discuss membership shares in the limited liability company. During the shares meeting, I learned he would combine my percent with my fiancé’s to equal the individual amounts allocated to himself and his neighbor. This action caused an argument; I was the only female and felt like the work I was putting in was not being seen or appreciated and that I was not seen as my own person. We did not conclude the meeting that night but instead paused and set a date later in the week to regroup our thoughts and examine the situation. After cooling down, I studied the problem and asked myself a series of questions, including looking at the conflict through the owner’s eyes. This was his company; he was bringing extra people in, and letting go of control of his “baby” was not easy. Knowing what I know now about businesses, even writing our names into ownership is a big deal because one member leaving a non-public company can dissolve it. During the examination process, my fiancé and I reached out to the owner to express our concerns and gauge his reasoning for combining our percentage. After going back and forth, we discussed our problems; he felt I did not care at the same level due to my availability, and I could not drive to every tournament due to a retail schedule. I was worried that the work I had done was unused or unacknowledged. But ultimately, we came up with a way to split the membership fairly, considering the owner’s past investments in the company. Our agreement was that the owner would retain his share, and the other three of us would get a smaller percentage with the option to buy in up to twenty-five percent. I was much happier with this deal and believe overall it was fair to the owner as well; he retained the investment he put in and kept all members on an equal footing.

However, this situation brought up uneasiness about what future disagreements could do. I had to sit back, answer crucial questions, and evaluate what was best for myself and my family moving forward. The most important question is why am I helping at Game Crossing; what was my goal and what was I trying to gain? And my answer was that it was a way to spend time with my son and fiancé; It was a family project and was not really something I was passionate about as a career. During my internal questioning and questioning with my partner, I discovered that our friendship with the founder was more beneficial and the esports industry was not for me. After these realizations, I talked to Victor and currently help Game Crossing in a consultant capacity, and even helped them rebrand.

INSTRUCTIONS 

Consider the situation and write a 250-word response: How do you see critical thinking employed in the situation? Were there other strategies that might have been employed to come to the resolution? Be constructive with your criticism; remember you are speaking to a peer.

Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal, academic, and professional growth.

Describe how the leader’s style impacted the amount of risk the organization was willing to take on to make the change.

Scholarly Activity

Instructions

Learning your leadership risk-taking capacity is important as leaders begin to set the goals for the organization and the results that are expected. The leader’s leadership style is one way to determine the amount of risk that the leader may be willing to take.

Research a company or leader who has gone through a major change or direction change. Include the following components in your analysis of the company/leader:

· Complete a risk analysis of the company/leader, and determine how risky the change was.

· Describe how the leader’s style impacted the amount of risk the organization was willing to take on to make the change.

· Finally, explain how risk tolerance levels are related to achieving the organization’s goals and producing results.

Your completed assignment must be at least three pages in length and include at least two outside sources, one of which must come from the CSU Online Library. None of your sources can be a blog of any type. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.