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Homework answers / question archive / QSO 435 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric In Milestone One, you will select the scenario that you will use for your final project and review the various approaches to project management
In Milestone One, you will select the scenario that you will use for your final project and review the various approaches to project management. You will submit an information paper targeted for the staff of the Program Management Office (PMO) of your scenario organization.
Choose one of the three case studies presented in Chapters 19, 20, and 21 in your textbook. Here is an overview of each case study:
Chapter 19: Case Study – Valpak
“Valpak’s ability to utilize technology to transform their business is a very significant factor in their business success, and Valpak’s IT group is an integral part of the business transformation and growth of the company. To compete with the quickly changing digital savings marketplace, Valpak transitioned the entire IT organization to agile Scrum/Kanban process with two-week sprint delivery cycles. They embraced this change and quickly adapted.”
Chapter 20: Case Study – Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
“HPHC developed an incremental and iterative approach – the Scrum framework for an agile transformation across the whole company. All projects associated with this major initiative, called the IT strategy, were, by default, to move to an agile development methodology. The new approach that was developed was a hybrid of Scrum at the team level and a more plan-driven approach at the enterprise level to provide program/project management of the overall effort.”
Chapter 21: Case Study – General Dynamics UK
“Due to the nature of the government contracting environment that General Dynamics, UK has to operate in, projects have to work within two key constraints, time and costs, where other agile methods don’t always have this. This case study illustrates how a company can successfully develop a hybrid agile approach that blends together elements of a plan-driven approach for managing time and cost constraints and still provide flexibility to their customers.”
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Guidelines for Submission: Your Milestone One submission, Scenario Selection information paper, must be 1–2 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in APA format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Include at least three references cited in APA format.
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Critical Elements |
Exemplary (100%) |
Proficient (85%) |
Needs Improvement (55%) |
Not Evident (0%) |
Value |
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Scenario Selection |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and analysis clearly provides an overview of the current situation, facts, assumptions, and project requirements, and identifies the key information from the scenario without superfluous considerations |
Scenario selected; accurately and clearly provides an overview of the current situation, facts, assumptions, and project requirements, and identifies the key information from the scenario |
Scenario selected; analyzes the current situation, facts, assumptions, and project requirements, and identifies the key information, but with gaps in accuracy or clarity |
Does not select a scenario and/or does not analyze the situation, facts, assumptions, and project requirements from the scenario |
15 |
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Analysis of TPM and APM |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and analysis professionally details the key principles and stakeholders behind traditional and adaptive project management, with detailed examples |
Analyzes the key principles and stakeholders behind traditional and adaptive project management, with detailed examples |
Analyzes the key principles and stakeholders behind traditional and adaptive project management, but does not provide detailed examples or misses key elements |
Does not analyze the key principles and stakeholders behind traditional and adaptive project management |
25 |
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Triple Constraints |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and analysis professionally details the key principles of triple constraint (cost, time, and scope) in TPM, with detailed examples |
Analyzes the key principles of triple constraint (cost, time, and scope) in TPM, with detailed examples |
Analyzes the key principles of triple constraint (cost, time, and scope) in TPM, but does not provide detailed examples or misses key elements |
Does not analyze the key principles of triple constraint (cost, time, and scope) in TPM |
25 |
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PM Approaches |
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and review is well organized and detailed to a level that shows keen insight into the nuances, risks, and benefits of various types of project management approaches |
Reviews various types of project management approaches and describes each approach based on specific references to the previous analysis |
Reviews various types of project management approaches, but does not make specific references to previous analysis or lacks necessary detail |
Does not review types of project management approaches |
25 |
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Articulation of Response |
Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format |
Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization |
Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas |
Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas |
10 |
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Earned Total |
100% |
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