Friday, 28 February 2014

Project Manager Interview

Lesson 8 Discussion: Project Manager Interview
Using personal/professional contacts, websites, articles, or other sources, locate an active project manager in any industry. Request and conduct an interview; interviews may be conducted in person, via phone or via the Internet). Use the Project Management Interview Guide to pose effective questions.

Post a thread summarizing the results of the interview for the rest of the class.




PC Lab 8: Lease/Purchase Comparison

Complete Exercise 3, which is located at the end of Chapter 12 in the textbook.
  • Save your file in .xls or .xlsx format (Microsoft Excel) as PC_Lab8.
Exercise 3:
Suppose that your company is trying to decide whether it should buy special equipment to prepare high-quality publications itself or lease the equipment from another company. Suppose that leasing the equipment costs $240 per day. If you decide to purchase the equipment, the initial investment is $6,800, and operations will cost $70 per day. After how many days will the lease cost be the same as the purchase cost for the equipment? Assume that your company would only use this equipment for 30 days. Should your company buy the equipment or lease it?


















Lessons Learned Assignment


Introduction:

Consider this class as a project similar to one typically addressed in a project management iteration; it has elements characteristic of a project including:
  • limited time endeavor (semester term)
  • defined goal (project management knowledge)
One option for supporting retention of information in student learning experiences is reflection. Reflective practice is defined as an active process of constructing solutions rather than a passive process of following procedures and guidelines.


Instructions:

For this assignment, students will draft a reflection on their experience in the class. Consider the class from a project perspective as noted in the introduction above.
  • Refer to the Lessons Learned Report for additional guidance.
  • Save your file in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word) as Lessons.doc/docx.


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