Video Titled Microsoft Steering Future Performan

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Video Titled Microsoft Steering Future Performan

“Steering Future Performance Back Toward the Baseline”

  1. Determine the fundamental impact of not using a project management tool which clearly displays the effect of delays in delivering work packages, as required per your project schedule.
  2. Justify your response.
  3. Watch the video titled “Set a Project Baseline – MS Project 2010 Tutorial” (3 min 54 s). Video Source: VersatileCompany. (2011, Aug 8). Set a Project Baseline – MS Project 2010 Tutorial [Video file]. Retrieved from . This video can be viewed below.
  4. From the video, determine at least three (3) best practices for steering future performance back toward the baseline.
  5. Provide at least three (3) specific examples of the utilization of such best practices to support your response.
  6. Site resources used

“Analyzing and Archiving”

  1. Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research articles on project cost schedule analysis tools, and select the tool that you would use for a project.
  2. Watch the video titled “Microsoft Project 2010 Displaying Cost & Schedule Information” (9 min 03 s). Video Source: Indika Deepal Weerasinghe. (2011, Mar 8). Microsoft Project 2010 Displaying Cost & Schedule Information [Video file]. Retrieved from . This video can be viewed below.
  3. From the first and second e-Activities, select one (1) tool that you would use in order to analyze costs and schedules with regard to deliverables and / or work packages for a project of your choice.
  4. Specify the overall manner in which the utilization of the tool that you have selected would help to improve the management of your project. Justify your response.
  5. According to the text, archiving key project data is a must in project management. However, mistakes are bound to occur during such archiving.
  6. Determine one (1) mistake that project managers are most likely to make when archiving cost and schedule data for their projects.
  7. Next, propose two (2) strategies or best practice for limiting the mistake in question. Justify your response.
  8. Site resources used.

“Managing Stakeholders”

  1. Read the article titled, “Request for Expressions of Interest”, located here.
  2. Watch the video titled “How to Manage Stakeholders Expectations” (8 min 32 s). Be prepared to discuss. Video Source: projectmanagervideos. (2013, Dec 2). How to Manage Stakeholders Expectations [Video file]. Retrieved from . This video can be viewed below.
  3. From the first and second activities, assume that you are the manager of the project that will set up a new headquarters office for the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
  4. Determine the main stakeholders, and specify the overall way in which you would manage the stakeholders in order to complete your project.
  5. Support your rationale.
  6. Review the project stakeholder management processes according to the PMBOK fundamentals.
  7. Determine the fundamental skills that a project manager should possess in order to successfully manage stakeholders.
  8. Support your response with two (2) examples of a project manager using such skills to manage stakeholders.
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