Assignment
a. Consider a project that you have been involved with or aware of that you consider to be highly complex. What made it acomplex project? Did it succeed? Why, or why not?
b. Consider a notable example of a project in your work or personal life that failed specifically because the initial scope,schedule, and budget estimates were inaccurate. Briefly describe the project; state what you think went wrong with respectto the estimate, what problems the faulty estimate caused, and what you recommend that should have been done instead.
c. Consider a sequence of activities that you have encountered in your daily life and briefly describe it. Would you be able toidentify the critical path associated with these activities by inspection, or, alternatively, would you need to performcalculations? Provide your opinion and explain your rationale.
d. Consider a schedule in daily life that you lived through and that in your view would benefit from modeling using programevaluation and review technique (PERT), a Monte Carlo analysis, or both. Describe the schedule, and explain why modelingthe schedule would have assisted in managing the schedule risk and why taking the trouble to model the schedule wouldhave made a difference.
e. Consider a situation in your place of work or daily life where a serious incident occurred that was related to a risk thatescaped notice. Briefly describe what happened and the nature of the risk that was not identified. What could have beendone differently, and had the risk been identified, what trade-offs could have been initiated?
f. Think of a time when you needed to monitor and report progress, but you did not have the ability to implement earned valuemetrics (EVM). How did you measure and provide an accurate and unambiguous account of project progress? What werethe limitations?
g. Consider a situation in your workplace or in daily life where you had to complete a series of activities in half the time that youoriginally planned. Describe what it was, how you did it, and if you brought in extra help to do it. Also, were you successful atachieving the revised target? What, if anything, went wrong?
h. Identify a skill that you learned in this course, and explain how you can apply it to increase success in your career in a real world scenario.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.