Homework Help for Project Management

Within the global context critically assess the following major manufacturing decision categories and evaluate its impact on the manufacturing industry.

1. Facility (size, location and focus)
2. Capacity (amount, timing, type)
3. Vertical Integration and Partner management (direction, extent, interface, collaboration)
4. Production Technologies and Processese (equipment, automation,interconnectedness, scale, flexibility)
5. Workforce and Management (wage policies, security, skill levels)
6. Logistics and supply chain (logistics facilities and methods, inventory and policies, vendor coordination, production planning)
7. Organizational and incentives (structure, reporting levels, degree of centralization, role of staff, control and reward systems)
8. Business processes (interfaces and responsibilities, responsibilities, vendor development, monitoring and intervention

                                                GLOBAL ENGINEERING STRATEGY

EXERCISE

Listed below are 10 industries. Classify each one as (a) emerging, (b) rapid-growth, (c) mature/slow-growth, (d) stagnant/declining, or (e) high-velocity/turbulent, and (f) fragmented. Do research on the Internet, if needed, to locate information on industry conditions and reach a conclusion on what classification to assign each of the following:

• (1) Exercise and fitness industry
• (2) Dry cleaning industry
• (3) Poultry industry
• (4) Camera film and film-developing industry
• (5) Wine, beer, and liquor retailing
• (6) Watch industry
• (7) Cell phone industry
• (8) Recorded music industry (CDs, tapes)
• (9) Computer software industry
• (10) Newspaper industry

Search the internet and find information on major technology projects. Then, assign yourself as a project manager for this project and start managing it 

Check my answers if they are correct pls asap!

Case study:

One of the new ventures that Health Buddy Shop is providing prepared food for people who are into keto diet. The management will have its operations meeting sometime next time and it needs to approve its operational expenses which will include the budget for eparing their meal according to the required calaries per person  to attain a particular weight.  Mr. Angelo  has been tasked to handle the operations including the logistics part  which includes  the supplies and raw materials.  Initially, Mr Angelo has come from similar restaurant where ordering on a monthly basis is effective for them in terms of meeting customer requiremnets and meeting the least cost. With this experience, Mr Angelo followed the  same practices from that previous experience and began ordering  food boxes, disposable spoon and fork and paper cups monthly  with a fixed  order quantity of 2,000 pcs per order. Annual demand for the food is also equated to the usage and demand for the said materials which is 24,000 pcs annually.  Food boxes costs  BD 0.150, spoon and fork is BD0.30 while paper cups cost BD 0.20 Maintaing such a volume of materials costs the company BD 5.00 while the cost of ordering from supplier is Bd 12. Mr Angelo wants to ensure that what he will present to the management is correct so he has asked his other friends to  check and validate which in return agreed with his strategy. At its operations meeting, Mr. Angelo intend to declare that the practice is going to save money for the company. However, just before the operations meeting, a trainee named Mr. Rey has come and has been instructed to assess the operations and propose possible improvements that will ensure product quality and at the same  time saving money . Mr . Rey, who is a graduating student of MS Manufacturing  Management saw that there is something wrong with the proposed strategy that Mr. Angelo will implement in terms of order quantity. He objects the practice that is being done when it comes to ordering the food boxes, spoon and for and paper cups.

Answer the following Questions.

1. What is the impact that Mr Angelo’s strategy on the total cost   
2. What is the impact of Rey’s  idea in terms of ordering  inventories. 
3. Having seen the results in Q1 and Q2, what can you conclude to be the best strategy that the company should use? Support your answer with  data 

The success of any project is dependent on a diverse range of skills, abilities and competencies of the project manager which should both inspire the project team to succeed and win the confidence of the customer. Comment on this statement by describing the competencies required of a project manager.

Identify an organisation of choice and use the problems identified in the case study to determine the approaches that the leadership of the organisation would deploy to alleviate those problems.

What is a sprint in agile?

• Referring to the project documentation you have collected including designs, specifications and other supporting documentation, in your own words, summarise the nature of the project and your company’s procedures and requirements for the construction of the structure.  To do this, you may discuss the project requirements with the project or site manager or other relevant stakeholders involved in the construction process.  Identify the timelines for the construction and any special terms and conditions specified contractually that must be complied with.

The PMIS system is one of the leanest systems around, but it is far from agile in terms of responding to new requirements’.

Critically explore and evaluate this statement in relation to lean and agile methodologies. You should include academic literature and examples within your answers.

(a) “Project selection is essentially important in beginning the project management”. Briefly describe 
the basic guidelines to undertake the project selection.
(b) Using an application example to discuss the content of project reporting, the normal reporting lines 
and methods.

(a) (a) Projects are generally classified into three types. What are the key features of each type of projects?
(b)(b) All projects have common characteristics. Please briefly describe these characteristics.

The PMIS system is one of the leanest systems around, but it is far from agile in terms of responding to new requirements’.

Critically explore and evaluate this statement in relation to lean and agile methodologies. You should include academic literature and examples within your answers.

Question 1 .

Describe the “ideal” project progress and the “usual” progress. Discuss the difference between the two and what drives a project towards the usual progress as opposed to the ideal. Illustrate with an example from your own experience, where possible.

Question 2.

Describe the intent of following a lifecycle approach to project management and its benefits.

The unit eludes to the fact that a photographer’s workflow separates the amateurs from the novices. Provide an example of two workflows: one that would likely suggest the person using it is a more-experienced amateur photographer and one that would likely suggest it is one used by a less-experienced novice photographer. Provide brief explanations for both and why each is fitted for each type of photographer.