BUSN 451 – Week 2

Assignment Instructions:

Answer the following questions in a 2- full pages APA formatted assignment (maximum 3 pages). With a minimum of 3 outside references..

Required:

Use the attached APA 7th edition template provided below. Use examples from the readings, lecture notes and outside research to support your answers. The reference page, title page and abstract does not count toward the two-page min requirements. Assignments are due by 11:59 pm Eastern time on Sunday of week 2.

Save the document with your last name. Example: Johnson

Rubric: Review the grading rubric, below, prior to submission.

1. How can Project Managers develop a comprehensive schedule? Be sure to provide examples to support your answers.
2. Some claim that Project Management eliminates the “human touch”. Please explain.
3. Visit Amazon.com and identify at least three specific elements of operations that involves scheduling a project. Browse particular books on a specific subject, leave the site and then go back and revisit again? What do you see? Are these features likely to encourage you to purchase more books in the future at Amazon.com? List the features and discuss how they may lead to increased sales.
4. What factors enable Amazon.com to have superior project management and scheduling techniques as compared to competitors like Target.com and Walmart.com?
5. Examine why schedule management and scope management are critical to e-project success.
6. Examine why planning and a Work Breakdown Structure are critical to e-project success.

CO1 – The student will apply the concepts of schedule management by creating a comprehensive schedule.