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Topic:  Watch President Ronald Reagan’s 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, perhaps the most explicit presidential endorsement of Christian faith in recent times.  As you watch this presentation, please prepare and post your written answers to the following questions:

1. How does he establish credibility?
2. How does he appear to establish character in the eyes of his audience?
3. Would you describe this speech as charismatic? Why?
4. Which types of appeals does he utilize to support his point?
5. In your own words, what is his main point or argument in this speech?

 

American Made Automobiles is offering a contest to design the car of the future. Submit a description of your dream car for a chance to join the design team. Use the Guidelines for Writing Descriptions in your textbook, and create an extended description.

Your response should be at least 200 words in length. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

 

Pfeiffer, W., & Adkins, K. (2012, Pg. 100-103). Technical communication fundamentals. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

 

 

 

ew Information System Project

Assignment:

New Information System Project

 

Part 1: Initial Plan budget. (Using math for decision-making)

You are a manager with budget authority for a new IT project that is being developed for your department. The project is being developed internally by the company IT staff. You are developing a budget for the project. In this scenario, you will be in integrating information systems and information technology to progress an organization toward their organizational objectives. Consider the information given to determine how much capital you will need to raise to complete this project successfully. Your goal is determine the budget needed to complete the project within the stated timeline and maintain the system through the full five year maintenance contract. Note that the first month of maintenance for the contract starts simultaneously with the start of the project. In this case, you have wisely decided to add a 10% strategic reserve to the development phase of the project.

Here are some calculations related to this project. Answer the following 10 questions. You can use Microsoft Excel to do this work; however you must show your answers and detailed calculations.

 

Part 2: Writing Assignment to explain the tradeoffs during the life of development phase of the project. You will not perform any mathematical calculations for this section of the Assignment. Conduct research to ensure that you understand this concept of the project management triangle. Do not perform any calculations for this portion.

Given:

•  IT Project Timeline: 1 January 2016– – 31 March 2017

•  3 weeks of holiday time is planned off during this timeline

•  Do not forget the concept of a leap year

•  Assume vacation weeks are not paid for the purpose of this problem, as vacation pay is paid and allocated by a separate corporate budget funding source different from the IT Project funding source

•  If total weeks are computed as a non-whole number of weeks, round to the nearest week

•  Carry out items to the thousands place for fractions (for example 1/3 = 0.333) prior to continuing calculations, then round up or down as needed to whole numbers for final dollar values

•  40 hour work week is the standard contracted work week

•  No overtime is allowed to keep costs down

•  10 managers

•  100 union employees

•  Manager salary is $100 per hour

•  Union salary is $35 per hour

•  Systems planning cost is $50K

•  System development cost is $1.5M

•  System fielding cost is $250K

•  System Maintenance (5 year contract, amortized, payments begin at project start) = $5.0M

•  Strategic reserve, when (if) applied to the timeline, should also be applied to the maintenance costs during the timeframe of the timeline. However maintenance costs beyond the timeline have been negotiated as a firm fixed priced contract and no longer require the use of strategic reserve in addition to the negotiated price

Answer the following questions: (Show your work):

1How many work weeks are in the project timeline, where work will actually occur?

2How much money does the team cost per hour?

3How much money does the team cost per week?

4How much money does the team cost for the duration of the IT Project?

5Remembering that maintenance is amortized, and that payments begin during the first month of the project, and that all other system costs are assigned to the project; what is the total systems cost through the timeline completion on 31 March 2017?

6What is the total project cost through completion on 31 March 2017?

7After project completion on 31 March 2017, what will be the remainder cost for maintenance that will still need to be budgeted and managed?

8Forecasting a budget with no strategic reserve, what should the project cost per month be for the budget during the project timeline?

9With the addition of a ten % strategic reserve, what should the project cost per month be for the budget during the project timeline?

10  Considering that you decide to budget using the strategic reserve, and you need to budget for the entire maintenance cost, what is the total amount of capital you will need to raise to complete the project successful during the timeline, and then maintain the system through the full five year maintenance contract, noting that the first month of maintenance for the contract starts simultaneously with the start of the project?

Written Portion – Discussion of the project management triangle

An example situation:

The project manager has come to you with the following:

1Some of your employees who will be using the system have suggested changes, which will end up improving the system but will take longer to develop and implement. She feels that they would be beneficial changes.

2Two of her developers and one of her managers have left to work for another company. The company has a hiring freeze so she is unable to replace them. This will most likely add time to the project but it will also result in small savings in terms of labor cost.

You are also the aware of the following information:

1When the budget was approved there was a strategic reserve to allow for contingencies.

2You have some additional discretionary funds which you were hoping to be able to use them for bonuses for you employees at the end of the year.

3You have a lot of faith in the project and believe that it will eventually improve the productivity of your employees. He also realize that it will take time after the project is fully implemented for this productivity to be realized and that there is a likelihood that it will actually decrease for a couple of months while people are learning the new system.

4You know that you have a number of people in your department that are nearing retirement and are not in favor of having to learn a new system.

To meet the requirements of this Assignment, write an APA style paper in which you take the role of manager to discuss the pros and cons of making any changes to the plan regarding the initial goals of performance, cost, and schedule. For the paper do not do any calculations. The facts presented are examples of the types of situations that you might encounter. You do not have to address these situations.

Limit your discussion to the tradeoffs among these three areas. How do performance, cost, and schedule interact? Discuss the concept of the project triangle, also called the triple constraint, or iron triangle.

Ensure you turn in your unit Project as a single Microsoft Word document, in APA format, with a cover page and reference page citing at least two online references on the unit concept topics and the eBook as a reference. Your work should compose 2–3 pages of content (double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font).

This Assignment addresses the following outcomes:

– Describe the role manager’s play in integrating information systems and information technology (IS/IT) within an organization.

– Solve business problems using information systems.

– Solve real-world problems using mathematical skills

Your paper must be double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, and follow APA 6th edition format. You are required to include at least two references using the appropriate APA format. A title page and a reference page are required.

Compose your Assignment in a Microsoft Word document.

 

The Book for this class is called: –

(Introduction to

Information Systems Supporting and Transforming Business ).

For (R. Kelly Rainer Jr.)

 

The Link for downloading The Book is

 

http://wikisend.com/download/243192/The book.pdf

The Reading for this assignment is: –

Chapter 9: “Social Computing”

Chapter 10: “Information Systems Within the Organization”

Scenario: Imagine that you have been hired as a consultant for a university that wants to leverage social media and networking technologies to encourage the collaboration of students, and improve their overall sense of community.

 

Analyze how the university might integrate at least two social media and networking technologies to accomplish their goals. Your analysis must cover the advantages and disadvantages of social networking. The president of the university also needs to know what the system development life cycle is, and how you intend on bringing social networking tools to life within this cycle.

 

Translate the critical details of your proposal into a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®presentation that you will present to the university president.

 

Include the process of acquiring the correct information systems and applications needed to effectively run these new pursuits.

 

Include the following in your presentation using the features of Microsoft^® PowerPoint^®:

 

• A slide template
• Slide layouts
• Themes
• At least one example of animation
• At least one example of a media object

 

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.