What steps can he/she take to make sure the right steps have been taken?

Discussion Question:

Please provide at least a 250 word response, utilizing references from the text and/or supplemental reading.

Clearly one of the best things you can do to avoid risk is planning for it. Certainly good project managers understand that having a plan for managing risk is essential, especially with larger organizations and larger projects where interaction with risk factors becomes an inevitable reality of the work place. Keeping this in mind describe the essential elements a project manager can do to indeed manage potential risk. What steps can he/she take to make sure the right steps have been taken? Be specific and reference back to the reading.

Discussion Question:

Please provide at least a 250 word response, utilizing references from the text and/or supplemental reading.

In the readings for this module the author specifically talks about the critical chain approach and its impact on the project management process. For this discussion question reflect on this process and specifically articulate why this process is essential to the learning objectives associated with this module.

What are the system’s boundaries and interrelationships, and how do these affect perspectives about how and why the system functions as it does?

Qualitative Research Methods Matrix

Submit in Week 2

Submit in Week 3

The italics text indicates example response.

Modified from Patton, M.Q. (2014). Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods: Integrating Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications

What is your initial opinion of their digital media presence?

Company Selection & Media Overview

Instructions

The overall course project is to build a strategic digital media marketing plan on a focused target audience and company. Through various research, analysis and strategic framework exercises, this overall course project will equip you for a solid foundation on how to develop an overall media marketing plan.

Through a series of 4 milestones and a final project submission, this project will build upon each other in sequence to align with the modules being covered in the course.

This first project focuses on selecting a company and a target audience for the media marketing plan. The chosen company should be any major publicly traded company within the clothing, restaurant, or consumer electronics industry.  The goal is to ensure that the company is public, so there is an opportunity to conduct research on the company via open research resources.  Focus on a company you have an interest in, but also one that you believe has an opportunity for you to formulate a vision for how to develop media strategies to resonate with consumers and drive competitive advantage

In this first project, the following questions need to be answered:

1. Who is the company?
2. What is a brief overview of the company?
   1. Their history
   2. Mission and vision statements
   3. Types of product/services they offer
   4. Their current market share or most recent year fiscal earnings that can be found
3. Digital Media presence, do they have:
   1. Website
   2. Social Media, if so what channels (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
   3. Referral presence on a coupon or other blog sites?
      1. **For all the above just listing out examples is important. It’s important to understand the company’s digital media presence in this first milestone, just to get acclimated with how the company operates digitally today in marketing and connecting with consumers. Future projects will dive further into how content is sued on these types of websites.
4. What other marketing mediums do this company seem to participate in?
5. What is your initial opinion of their digital media presence?

This milestone project should fundamentally introduce the company, and an initial assessment of the current standing of the digital media marketing strategies.  Future milestone projects will focus on exploring new media strategies to influence either acquisition, retention, or strategies for both, based on paid, earned, or owned media.

All milestones and the entire course project will be in PowerPoint format with a final voice-over in the final project at the end of the class.  Milestones 1-4 will NOT have the voice over, just the final compiled final project submission.  However, each milestone assignment should be in the same power point format. Any powerpoint format and template is at the student discretion but must be in a professional tone and font size.  Part of the evaluation of the presentation is the executive presences of the work, just as the business world.

This first milestone should be approximately 6-8 slides with a title and references slide, although those do not count towards the minimum expectation of 6-8.

Design and implement processes that integrate change into organizational systems

Foundations of Project Business Analysis
Thinkpiece – Social Media Posts
Learning Outcomes
This assignment is directly linked to the following key learning outcomes from the course
syllabus:
• Understand and interpret the impacts that AI will have on the process of business analysis
and construct strategies for adapting processes to the process of developing requirements
• Develop a framework for integrating business analysis good practices in the project
management environment – considering organizational and environmental complexity
• Design and implement processes that integrate change into organizational systems
In addition to these key learning outcomes, you will also have the opportunity to evidence
the following skills through completing this assignment:
• Critical thinking and analysis
• Scholarly Writing
• Thought Leadership
• Data analysis
• Systems thinking
Essential Components & Instructions
I hope that all our BA students go on to inform and shape the future of our profession. This
requires engaging with professional conferences and building your brand through public
and social media outlets. You already practiced preparing a conference presentation in the
“Business Analysis Perspectives” assignment. Now, you will practice engaging the public
and building your brand using your new BA knowledge.
This assignment will allow you to reflect on all you have learned so far, engage
scholars read in the course, and develop your confidence as a thought leader.
Review the Harvard Business Review, IIBA, and other articles in the module for Week 6. For
this assignment, you will prepare the following:
• Five (5) social media posts that engage scholarly articles, IIBA, and/or PMI’s
framework.
o At least two (2) should predict future trends in our profession.
o At least one (1) should discuss the role of AI in the future of BA work.
o At least two (2) should discuss two of the authors read in Week 6.

How did this particular work help prepare you for this type of work?

Throughout Composition II, you have utilized research skills, problem-solving skills, and analytic skills. The Reflective Analysis provides the student the opportunity to assess their progress and accomplishments in ENGL 1213 and consider future options for success in academic courses, career fields, and real-world applications. For this reflection, you will write a letter of application for the provided job announcement (see page 2). Method of Organization • Proper letter format for addresses, date, salutation, and closing • A self-introduction paragraph with information on the job for which you are applying (see page 2) • A skills/requirement met paragraph detailing all of the accomplishments you achieved throughout ENGL 1213. This will include the research done and the problem-solving skills used. • An explanation paragraph detailing why the above credentials fit the job posting. • A call to action.
Reflect on all of the work written in ENGL Comp II. What did you research? How did you research? What were some of your significant achievements? • Apply all of the knowledge that you’ve gained over the course of the semester, accurately choosing what to mention in your letter for the job posting. • Apply the knowledge you’ve gained to a real-world situation. • Write a 250-500 word letter in response to the hypothetical job posting (see page 2). Requirements • Letter format—note that this is single-spaced • 250-500 words
Dr. Pat Simons, a Ph.D. researcher at the University of Oklahoma, is searching for a new student research assistant for the Psychology Department. The requirements are a completion of Composition I and II. The new research assistant’s tasks will be to take assignments from Dr. Simons and conduct well-rounded research. This will include an examination of texts from a number of scholarly sources as well as applying knowledge learned from said sources to new experiments and research.  Students will write a 1-page cover letter (250-500 words) in response to Dr. Simons’ search for a new research assistant. Explain how your experiences in Composition I and II helped give you the ability to complete the requirements of the job. Use specific examples from work done in the past (topics, thesis statements, problem-solving skills, etc.) How did this particular work help prepare you for this type of work? How do these works not just apply to academia, but to the workforce as well? Criteria for Success Category Description Points Mechanics Students will communicate using academic language and conventions of Standard American English. 5 Formatting Students will format a work utilizing MLA style formatting. 5 Organization Students will present information in a unified and coherent manner. 5 Content and Analysis Student.

Use the information above and answer the questions below in 500 words I need it in 8 hours in MLA format.

Post your final draft of the Letter of Application to this area. This copy of the Letter of Application will be graded. For detailed grading criteria, see the Letter of Application Rubric located in Lesson 1.

Would contemporary audience interpret or understand the work differently compared to the audiences who saw it when it was created?

Museum Visit Observation

1. PLEASE USE THE PICTURE I PROVIDED (artist: Hervé Télémaque)

1. Formal properties

• Visual elements – colors, value, texture, movement, contrast, light, geometric or organic shapes, lines, time, motion, rhythm
• Composition – balance, focal point, movement, direction, repetition, proportion, balance, symmetry
• Space – how is the illusion of space created or not created
• Style – realistic, abstract/representational, figurative, expressive, conceptual
• What mood or feeling does the artwork convey to you? Why?
• If you could, how would you enter, travel through and exit the artwork?

2. Subject matter

• What is the first thing that comes to mind when you look at the artwork?
• Based on your observations what is the artwork about?
• What clues do you see that support your observation?
• If you could step into the artwork, what would you hear, feel, do, say?
• What is the concept, idea or narrative the artist is trying to convey?
• Is there a hidden message?

3. Historical Context

• Who made it and why?
• Did it have a function?
• Would contemporary audience interpret or understand the work differently compared to the audiences who saw it when it was created?
• Does the work reflect what is/was happening in society historically or politically?

4.  Additional Questions/Observations: Once you have answered all the above questions, make a list of your own questions (between three to four questions and answer them) and read any wall text or brochure information available about the work.

At Home: If you found the subject matter, style, material or specific cultural background interesting, please research more about what grabbed your attention.

• Do you have a new understanding of the artwork based on your research?
• Does the background information change any of your opinion or interpretations that you made at the museum?
• Does it help answer any questions you might have had at the museum?
• Would different audiences interpret the work differently?
• Would contemporary audience interpret or understand the work differently compared to the audiences who saw it when it was created?
• Please form a conclusion based on your own observations and the researched information about the artwork and/or artist.

Analyze how a search of the literature on the topic that you have selected can inform both the researcher and influence the research design process

Scenario: The city of Erickson has allocated 4 million dollars to develop an outpatient mental health treatment center for people in the community who are homeless. They have asked you to recommend two best practice methods for the new service.

1. Formulate a research question based on what you have been asked to do in this scenario.
2. Conduct a review of the literature and select two intervention strategies from the literature which you will recommend. Please be sure to cite at least seven journal articles. Include the following:
   • Select two interventions based on critical analysis:
     • How might these studies inform the creation of a new service delivery model?
     • What do you know about the origins, prevalence, and correlates of the problem?
   • Analyze how a search of the literature on the topic that you have selected can inform both the researcher and influence the research design process:
     • What functions does the literature review serve with respect to the scenario provided?
     • How might you go about conducting a literature review for the intervention strategy? Describe the steps you might take.
   • Evaluate sources of information that might be related to your topic:
     • Evaluate each article.
     • Reflect on the applicability of the article to your proposed question.

What challenges do you see regarding the best placement for ELLs or bilingual/dual language students with exceptionalities?

The least restrictive environment (LRE) is a consideration during the Individualized Education Programs (IEP) process. What challenges do you see regarding the best placement for ELLs or bilingual/dual language students with exceptionalities?

***Answer should only be 5-7 sentences with APA in-text citation and reference.

Explain the process of refining a research problem into a measurable research question.

This final assignment is designed to help you conceptualize and articulate the basic characteristics of the proposed research plan. In previous weeks, you have learned how to logically structure or design a study meant to uncover data that produces a clear-cut answer (or answers) to the research question (or questions). You have also learned how to search the literature, identify your participant pool, and gather and analyze data.

In this assignment, you will incorporate feedback you have received from your instructor on previous assignments and create a recorded presentation of approximately 15 slides. This presentation includes work you have previously done, which you will revise and convert to slides and narration. Further, the presentation will include a focus on an evaluation strategy for the newly established services to people who are homeless.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAS and practice behaviors:

C4: Engage In Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice

C4.GP.A  Use practice experience and theory to inform scientific inquiry and research.

C4.GP.B  Apply critical thinking to engage in analysis of quantitative and qualitative research methods and research findings.

C9.GP.A  Select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes.

C9.GP.C  Critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate intervention and program processes and outcomes.

Instructions

Include the following in your presentation. Use the titles below for the headings of each section. The number of slides indicated for each section are suggestions.

Introduction (1 slide).

Provide a brief overview of the presentation.

Intervention Strategies (1 slide).

Explain the intervention strategies that will be offered at the shelter.

Synthesis of Literature (2 slides).

Explain the process of refining a research problem into a measurable research question.

Provide a synthesis of the best practices literature from the literature review. Be sure to summarize and evaluate the literature and explain the contributions each could make to the proposed study.

Potential Participants (1 slide).

Identify the potential research participants, including explanation for the choice.

Methods (2 slides).

Explain the methods you would use in your proposed study, including justification.

Data Collection (2 slides).

Explain the sources and methods of data collection.

Data Analysis (2 slides).

Explain how data will be analyzed.

Limitations (1 slide).

Describe any limitations that can be foreseen in the proposed study.

Dissemination Plan (2 slides).

Describe the primary audience and dissemination plan for the results.

Conclusion (1 slide).

Summarize the proposed study.

Evaluate the potential for further study of the research problem.

References.

Note: In addition to posting the link to your recording, attach your PowerPoint file with speaker notes to your assignment submission.

Additional Requirements

The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current Evidence and APA standards.

Length of presentation: Approximately 15 slides.

What price do you put on your own leisure?

Instructions

What price do you put on your own leisure? Do you feel like the price/value of your leisure time changes over time? Why, or why not? Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.