Agile Project Management

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READING
        Chapter 11, Section 11.1 in the Pinto text
        Chapter 17 from the Larson Text
        Agile for Dummies handout

ASSIGNMENT 1 (one page)
Imagine that you are a consultant just recently hired as a project manager for a software development project for a small, privately owned landscaping/nursery business. They currently use Excel spreadsheets to keep track of their inventory of plant stock. The owner of the business, who is the projects sponsor, is very accessible and is eager to get started. Your consulting firm will provide all the staffing for developing and testing this software. The solution infrastructure will use several local windows PCs in conjunction with cloud-based servers and databases.
For this weeks discussion question: Would you follow a traditional waterfall project management approach, or would you follow an agile model? Why? State your reasons. Be sure to include any key assumptions about the business/project that influence your direction.

ASSIGNMENT 2 (one page)
Imagine that you are a home builder with 20+ year track record of very successful and profitable construction projects. You have won multiple “Builder of the Year” awards for excellence in residential home construction. Your newest customer, a professional Project Manager for a software development consulting firm, has just signed a $550,000 sales contract with you to build a new two-story, 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath home in a prestigious new suburban subdivision that you are developing. However, this customer insists that you follow the Agile Project Management model for the construction of their new home. How would you respond to your customers demand?

ASSIGNMENT 3 (one page)
Using this weeks reading material share your thoughts, reactions, observations and general questions regarding this week’s lecture.

Drugs in prison

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Assignment 3 consists of the introduction and problem statement of your research proposal. The introduction should create a contest and background to your research. It is the introduction to your topic. You will explain your research, why your research is important and reiterate your research question and/or hypotheses.

It should also include your problem statement, which is a clear statement about an area of concern in criminal justice that should be improved upon. 

Adapting Curriculum for Multicultural Classrooms

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In this week, you will need to write a plan to model the adaptation of curriculum for multicultural classrooms. If you do not currently teach, think about the curriculum with which you work, the curriculum in this course, or the curriculum in your current program of study. In your plan be sure to include:

A description an analysis of the current curriculum
A plan to adapt the curriculum to include all students and families
A discussion related to the impact of culture and language
What pitfalls will you consciously try to avoid?
What are your big ideas or enduring understandings?
How will you develop and assess multicultural curriculum in your area of expertise?
How will this adaptation improve achievement?
How important is the role of family and community?
Length: 5-7 pages not including title and reference pages.
Referenced: Minimum of 3 scholarly resources.

Asos analysis

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1- analyze the Asos share price chart of the last year.
2- explain 3 external factors of uk (e.g inflation, unemployment, consumer confidence, gdp..) and explain the impact or how can affect to businesses
3-explain 3 internal factors of asos (maximum 1 year ago no more) (e.g warehouses issue, ..)
4- explain some threats that the company could face in the future.
5- based on the threats, give some recommendations.