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Prompt: Susy, a mid-level software engineer, is working on a self-driving car project for her business. In her project work, she discovers a critical flaw in the car’s current software that could potentially lead to serious accidents.  This young engineer reports the safety issue to her supervisor. However, her project supervisor is under internal stakeholder pressure to meet a tight project deadline. This supervisor dismisses the software issue as minor and orders Susy to continue with the project.   Stakeholders Question:  List the primary internal and external stakeholders involved in this situation and briefly describe their potential concerns (bullet points are acceptable.)       Additional Considerations: The severity of the potential accidents (e.g., property damage, injuries, fatalities) The company’s reputation and financial implications The engineer’s job security and career prospects Corporate or societal ethical guidelines  Professional codes of conduct that might be relevant to this situation. Consider long-term implications of their decisions and trade-offs involved. Rubric Demonstrate in writing your understanding of ethical principles, an ability to identify stakeholders and their interests, and their capacity to make sound ethical judgments.  

Prompt: Susy, a mid-level software engineer, is working on a self-driving car project for her business. In her project work, she discovers a critical flaw in the car’s current software that could potentially lead to serious accidents.  This young engineer reports the safety issue to her supervisor. However, her project supervisor is under internal stakeholder pressure to meet a tight project deadline. This supervisor dismisses the software issue as minor and orders Susy to continue with the project.   Stakeholders Question:  List the primary internal and external stakeholders involved in this situation and briefly describe their potential concerns (bullet points are acceptable.)       Additional Considerations: The severity of the potential accidents (e.g., property damage, injuries, fatalities) The company’s reputation and financial implications The engineer’s job security and career prospects Corporate or societal ethical guidelines  Professional codes of conduct that might be relevant to this situation. Consider long-term implications of their decisions and trade-offs involved. Rubric Demonstrate in writing your understanding of ethical principles, an ability to identify stakeholders and their interests, and their capacity to make sound ethical judgments.  

Question 4 Part C: Prompt: Critically review this article from pmi.org in the context of Decision-making for Programs and Projects [10 points]:  https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/ten-laws-project-management-literature-6968Links to an external site. After choosing your two (2) of these classic commandments.  Question: Defend or challenge the relevance of each law for the Agile Methodology and mindset.     

Prompt: Susy, a mid-level software engineer, is working on a self-driving car project for her business. In her project work, she discovers a critical flaw in the car’s current software that could potentially lead to serious accidents.  This young engineer reports the safety issue to her supervisor. However, her project supervisor is under internal stakeholder pressure to meet a tight project deadline. This supervisor dismisses the software issue as minor and orders Susy to continue with the project.   Course of Action Question: Propose action steps for Susy that you believe would be ethically sound. Justify your choice, considering the potential consequences for all stakeholders for the near-term and longterm.

Prompt: Susy, a mid-level software engineer, is working on a self-driving car project for her business. In her project work, she discovers a critical flaw in the car’s current software that could potentially lead to serious accidents.  This young engineer reports the safety issue to her supervisor. However, her project supervisor is under internal stakeholder pressure to meet a tight project deadline. This supervisor dismisses the software issue as minor and orders Susy to continue with the project.   Course of Action Question: Propose action steps for Susy that you believe would be ethically sound. Justify your choice, considering the potential consequences for all stakeholders for the near-term and longterm.

Question 2E Prompt: You will lead a project to implement a new customer relationship management (CRM) system for your mid-size company with commercial clients as external stakeholders. Your task is to highlight (in terse, bullet format)  financial KPIs elements of your DRAFT detailed project plan. Reference: https://www.projectmanagement.com/wikis/345150/key-performance-indicators#5  Question:  List three (3) Financial key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure your project progress.     

Question 3 Part B   Prompt:    *  Using a Risk Register template, the PMBoK and your experience – answer this question:  Reference: https://www.projectmanager.com/templates/risk-tracking-template   Question: What are three (3) key benefits of using a Project Risk Register for your IT project?    

Question 3 Part D Prompt: Whether or not you are a certified Lean Six Sigma professional, your organization and stakeholders want to reduce process/product defects and variability to increase quality and efficiency in this IT service contract. Using the PMBoK and your classroom experience – answer this Lean Six Sigma question:    Question: Name three (3) causes of variation in a statistical project process:  

Question 2E Prompt: You will lead a project to implement a new customer relationship management (CRM) system for your mid-size company with commercial clients as external stakeholders. Your task is to highlight (in terse, bullet format)  financial KPIs elements of your DRAFT detailed project plan. Reference: https://www.projectmanagement.com/wikis/345150/key-performance-indicators#5  Question:  List three (3) Financial key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure your project progress.     

The full text of the work will appear at the bottom of these instructions. These requirements will be included in each questions to save you the trouble of having to repeatedly click back to them to review the details. Type directly into the box. Don’t worry about changing any of the formatting. Because you are working under a time constraint and do not have the benefit of spell check or any editing tools, I grade less strictly on grammar and punctuation for this assignment. However, work should be written at a college level and easy to follow. First person pronouns are permitted. Second person pronouns, contractions, and informal language are not. A Works Cited page is not required, but proper in-text citations for each quote are. For the work below, write a paragraph of a minimum of eight sentences in varying sentence structure. Include each of the following:  the work’s title the author’s name a quotation from the work — integrated with your own sentence and properly cited. Be sure to explain the relevance of the quote you’re including. specific references to the poem and evidence of careful thought a discussion of the writer’s life and its relevance to the work a discussion of how the poem fits into this period of American literature (NOT how it’s relevant in today) / represents something about American culture at the time How does the author use literal and metaphorical ideas of transition (from Africa to America, slavery to freedom, paganism to Christianity) to express her feelings about the importance of change in American society?  After you’ve included the six required items above, you may choose any of these optional items to guide the rest of your content. You may even choose the same one every time. your opinion of the work, good or bad, supported by specific references a discussion of the title’s significance a detailed response to a specific line or lines a comparison to another work, song, story, movie… an examination of literary techniques used, such as rhyme, rhythm, simile, metaphor, personification, allusion… a close analysis of the author’s diction, perhaps noting specific word choices, or connotation and denotation a paraphrase of the work a statement relating the work to your experience or ideas–Does it make you think of a particular time in your life? Does it remind you of some idea or thought you’ve had in the past? an explanation of why the work is relevant in today’s world   ‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,Taught my benighted soul to understandThat there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.Some view our sable race with scornful eye,”Their colour is a diabolic die.”Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.