Category: Project Management

Considering the overarching structure of the project management office (PMO), portfolios, programs, and projects, what are the dynamics of team formation for each of these areas? What external and internal factors would be considered when forming a team within each of these structures?

For purposes of the Module 3 SLP, you are a Strategic Management consultant. Your client is a major competitor in the Amusement Park industry and CEO of Sea World Parks and Entertainment, Incorporated.
Your client has an extensive number of strengths, a solid image, an emerging market share in the industry, excellent cash flow, and a very low long-term debt-to-equity ratio. Because your client’s company is renowned in the industry, the organization has also managed to attract and retain the most talented people working in the industry. Finally, the company’s approach to marketing is second to none. While your client is clearly aware of its internal strengths, the organization is still unclear relative to whether the company should pursue a “Grow” (a more aggressive) strategy or a “Hold” (a more passive) strategy. Your client has engaged you to do some research on the industry (use IBISWorld and other current publications in the library). In IBISWorld: Amusement Parks in the U.S. (713110, be sure to review the sections: “Industry Questions” and “Industry Issues” in addition to other key information and industry data. Perform a SWOT Analysis for the company and determine the relative attractiveness of the industry as a whole. Using the G.E./McKinsey Matrix, decide whether your client should pursue a “Grow” or a “Hold” strategy and discuss recommendations for action. Finally, use the Model of Grand Strategy Clusters to recommend a grand strategy that your client should pursue. Be sure to justify your choice.   SLP Assignment Expectations
The minimum length requirement for this Module SLP Assignment is 3 full pages (excluding Title and Reference pages), to include 2 scholarly sources. Provide an APA-formatted title page. Use the APA 7 Template.
The 3 full pages will include an introduction, body of work with 2 scholarly sources cited to support your work, and a conclusion (that aligns with your purpose statement, summarizes each section, and then wraps up into a final thought).
Provide an APA7-formatted References Page (See APA 7 “References” section at https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/ ).

The Module 4 SLP requires that you run a simulation titled: “The Platform Wars: Simulating the Battle for Video Game Supremacy.” Visit the Forio site and access the simulation. As the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), it is your task to make decisions one year at a time. As you do so, note how key data are changing, and take note of how your pricing, changes made to royalties, and new game subsidies change your profits and your market share. You may need to go through at least one practice run of the simulation in order to become familiar with it. At the start of the simulation, your market share is 50%. The price of your video game console is $250. Note that your competitor’s market share is 50%, but your competitor’s console price is $261.00 (hint: you are vastly underpriced to begin the simulation). One way of becoming familiar with the simulation is to change only the value, leaving the others constant. This will isolate the impact of one variable and will give you a sense of how the change in a single variable impacts revenue, market share, etc. (use the Dashboard and the financial statements to determine this). For example, if you leave all variables unchanged in Year 1 (price = $240; Game titles to subsidize = 3, and Royalties = 15%), your market share becomes 69% at the end of Year 1 (and my net profit is $48.0M). In contrast, if you reduce the console price to $230, your market share will become 71% at the end of Year 1 (net profit will be $33.6M). Importantly, if you increase the console price to $330, your market share at the end of Year 1 is 58%; however, your net profit is $140.8M.
As the CEO, your task is to find the best combination of changes in the three variables that both increase your market share and earn a maximum net profit. Remember that the changes are relative; there are no right or wrong answers. Be sure to take note of how the statements may be used to “control” your strategy. Remember that you need to cover your costs while simultaneously turning a profit and increasing your market share. For this SLP assignment, follow the assignment steps below for your three full-page paper with two scholarly sources.
Go to Platform Wars: Simulating the Battle for Video Game Supremacy https://forio.com/simulate/mit/video-game/simulation/
Click on “Play as an individual.”
Enter your first name as the “Screen ID,” then click “Login.” In this web-based simulation, run the simulation a minimum of three times, noting the changes made each year, as well as your final results. Each year, you have three decisions to make: Determine the selling price of the video game console.
Determine the number of video games that your company will subsidize to enhance the development of new video games (and that can be played on your company’s video game console); be sure to note that the subsidy of each new game costs you $16.2M each year; and
Determine the royalty percentage you will require game makers to pay you (the higher the royalties, the more revenue you earn on new games, but the less inclined game makers are to develop new games).
Develop and discuss in your paper a table that shows the results from each simulation. SLP Assignment Expectations
The minimum length requirement for this SLP Assignment is 3 full pages (excluding Title and Reference pages) to include 2 scholarly sources. Provide an APA-formatted title page. Use the APA 7 Template.
The 3 full pages will include an introduction, body of work with 2 scholarly sources cited to support your work, and a conclusion (that aligns with your purpose statement, summarizes each section, and then wraps up into a final thought).

Project Initiation
The Capstone Project for this course is a practical example of your skills developed throughout the entire course of study in project management. Module lecture information is a refresher for information you learned in the entire program of study, so you will not be able to simply use the modules to complete your capstone project.
Your project initiation portion of the capstone project is to include an explanation of those inputs, tools, and techniques that result in your delivery of the subsections described below. It is strongly suggested that you consult the PMBOK® Guide (7th edition) for further detail on the deliverables for this section of your capstone project.
Choose a project: Select a project that you would like to manage.  Ensure that the project has clearly defined goals, tasks, and objectives. (Choose something current involving aviation or technology)
Develop a project charter: Create a project charter that outlines the purpose of the project, the stakeholders involved, project objectives, scope, and assumptions.
Define project scope: Define the scope of the project, including deliverables, timelines, and milestones. 
Milestone Deliverables:
You must include the following subsections in this Milestone which will be considered a draft of subsections in your Module 8 Capstone project:
Project Statement of Work (SOW)—including the introduction of the project, business need, service scope description, and the strategic plan to show how the project aligns with the organization’s vision, goals, and mission.
Business case—including information relative to the market demand, organizational need, customer request, technological advance, legal requirement, ecological impact, and social need.
*Project Charter—which will formally authorize the project and use of resources.
*Stakeholder Register -which will contain an analysis of the likely stakeholders
*Should be placed in the appendix of the milestones. Please use the templates in the Project Artifact Repository found in Module 8.
Your draft paper must meet the following requirements:
2-3 pages in length, not including cover page, reference page, and appendices.
Supporting documents must appear in appendices.
The paper must be supported by at least three quality sources, of which two must be a current, scholarly resource, and one from PMI.com (other than PMBOK). For this assignment, current, scholarly sources are peer-reviewed journal articles published within the most recent five years and accessed from the library databases or other academic sources. Textbooks will not count toward peer-reviewed requirements, but may be used as quality sources if published within the most recent five years. The use of the PMBOK ® Guide as a quality source is strongly suggested. The CSU Global Library is a good place to find these references. Click on the Library or Writing Center tabs on the Course Navigation Panel for quick access.

Can you edit the attached Procurement Plan? Please use the supporting documents and readings. Can you also add some references?
Here are the instructions my professor provided:
You should document your procurement needs, identify your potential vendors, and specify your contract approaches and procurement processes. Read Project Procurement for help in answering this question. Develop your procurement template, if needed.
Please let me know if additional information is needed.
The document that’s titled: Procurement Plan_draft is he plan that needs to be edited

Please prepare the following chapters for now: 1. Introduction 750-1000 Words 2. Literature review 3500- 4000 Words
3. Methodology 750-1000 Words
Note: I have attached the thesis proposal and draft of methodology chapter(need to be updated in more details and have 750-1000 words)
You might find this methodology paper attached as an interesting option to structure the data analysis process ;
Article Title: Seeking Qualitative Rigor in Inductive Research: Notes on the Gioia Methodology.