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Question 1B Prompt: A small software development company is bidding for a cloud-based service application for a first-time commercial customer. Company leaders are undecided whether an agile or prescriptive/structured methodology will help them best deliver value to the client and stakeholders in this situation. Question: Identify what tools or techniques you would use to estimate project resources, timelines and costs for this project and explain why these tools or techniques should be selected?   

Question 1C Prompt: A small software development company is bidding for a cloud-based service application for a first-time commercial customer. Company leaders are undecided whether an agile or prescriptive/structured methodology will help them best deliver value to the client and stakeholders in this situation. Question: Briefly describe three S M A R T key performance indicators (KPIs) that you would monitor, track and report to measure this project success.  Use the infrastructure KPI reference from Week 4 https://www.projectmanagement.com/wikis/345150/key-performance-indicators 

Question 2A 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)  these elements of your DRAFT detailed project plan: Question: Project Requirements Charter: Briefly discuss your intended measured operational value (MOV) to be created for your external stakeholders?  https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/mastering-project-requirements-assessing-good-5942

Question 1A Prompt: A small software development company is bidding for a cloud-based service application for a first-time commercial customer. Company leaders are undecided whether an agile or prescriptive/structured methodology will help them best deliver value to the client and stakeholders in this situation. Question: As the designated project manager or scrum master, outline a checklist or action plan to address this decision point for your chosen development methodology.  Be sure to project address triple constraints and POLDAT factors in your bullet-point assessment and recommendation.

Question 2B 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)  these elements of your DRAFT detailed project plan: Question: List three candidate performance metrics for this CRM implementation that are considered to be  S M A R T evaluation factors.

Question 1D Prompt: A small software development company is bidding for a cloud-based service application for a first-time commercial customer. Company leaders are undecided whether an agile or prescriptive/structured methodology will help them best deliver value to the client and stakeholders in this situation. Question: How would you (specifically) evaluate project performance and identify key lessons learned at project closure? (Asking Why? 5 times and applying Jack Welch’s strategic questions can be applied here.)

Question 2C 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)  these elements of your DRAFT detailed project plan: Question: What is the 8/80 guideline for your resource and scope planning of the project work and why is this guideline important, in your opinion?

Question 2D 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)  these elements of your DRAFT detailed project plan: Question: Communication Plan(ning):    * Succinctly outline the communication channels you intend to use and suggest a frequency of updates for High interest / High Power stakeholders (reference Figure 13.2 of Schwalbe: Power/interest Grid.)

Consider the following network, and assume that each node initially knows the costs to each of its neighbors. Consider the distance-vector algorithm. Suppose that all nodes send the first distance vector updates at the same time.  [3 points] Show the initial distance vector of node F. [3 points] Use the Bellman-Ford Equation to calculate the distance vector of node F after receiving the first updates.