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525W2 Assignment 1 – Agile versus Waterfall

Assignment 1: Agile versus Waterfall

Worth 110 points

The following resources may be helpful when completing this assignment:

• “WATERFALL vs. AGILE METHODOLOGY” (You may also view the article at http://agileintro.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/waterfall-vs-agile-methodology/.)
• “Understanding the pros and cons of the Waterfall Model of software development” (You may also view the article at http://www.techrepublic.com/article/understanding-the-pros-and-cons-of-the-waterfall-model-of-software-development/6118423.)
• “Transitioning from waterfall to iterative development” (You may also view the article at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4243.html.)

Agile approach to project management has become more and more popular in recent years. Agile framework is different from traditional waterfall model. It has considerable impact on how projects are planned and executed.

Imagine that you have been assigned as a project manager to manage your company’s e-Commerce Website where customers can browse the company’s products, place orders, and interact with the company’s customer service representatives. Your project must be completed in three (3) months and you have about twelve (12) people in the team. There are three (3) offshore developers in Ireland and two (2) QA testers in Dallas, TX. The rest of the project team and the product owner are in San Diego, CA.

Write a five to six (5-6) page paper in which you:

1. Compare and contrast agile and Waterfall models of managing a project in the context of building an e-Commerce Website. Include diagrams or tables through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia to show the differences and similarities. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
2. Evaluate the pros and cons in agile and Waterfall project management in terms of planning and the execution of projects and collaboration among project team members.
3. Determine whether you would use an “Agile” or “Waterfall” model to manage the project for your company. Support your rationale.
4. Identify and analyze the major pitfalls and misconceptions inherited in your chosen approach. Propose key actions that you, as a project manager, could take in order to mitigate the risks associated with the previously identified misconceptions.
5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. You may use the resources above or others of your choosing.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or one of their equivalents such as Dia and OpenOffice. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Compare and contrast agile project management methods with traditional project management.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in advanced agile project management topics.
• Write clearly and concisely about advanced agile project management topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Click here to view the grading rubric.

I need an explanation for this Management question to help me study.

~ Describe possible ideas for business start-up. In what ways can you imagine integrating your faith in a business start-up? Also, choose one or more of the self-assessments on your entrepreneurial potential and let’s discuss them in our groups.

Two (2) response posts ranging from 75-125 words

Posts to respond too are attached below as well as my response to the discussion post.

This weeks study ———–

Effectual Entrepreneurship (2nd ed., 2017) by Read, Sarasvathy, Dew, & Wiltbank. Publisher: Routledge (Paperback ISBN: 9781138923782; E-book ISBN: 9781315684826)

• Skim Part 1 of “Effectual Entrepreneurship” text: What we know about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.

• Skim Chapters 1-5. Sounds like a lot, but really lots of graphics and examples.

I’m working on a Accounting question and need guidance to help me study.

Many companies post their financial statements and auditor’s report on their home pages, generally under a heading labeled “investor relations.” Use one of the Internet search engines to do the following:

a. Visit Intel’s (www.intel.com) and Microsoft’s (www.microsoft.com) home pages and review their financial statements, including their auditors’ reports.

b. Search the web for the home page of a non-U.S. company and review its financial statements, including its auditor’s report. For example, BMW’s home page (www.bmwgroup.com ) under Investor Relations) allows a visitor to download the financial statements and accompanying audit report as a .pdf file. Identify the auditing standards followed by the company’s auditors. Include the website link or .pdf with your submission.

c. Compare the standard U.S. audit report with the audit report for the non-U.S. company (e.g., BMW). Note that in some cases, non-U.S.-based companies’ reports use a U.S. audit report.

d. Visit the SEC’s website (www.sec.gov), and find the link for EdgarScan. Find, download, and save as a .pdf the auditor’s report for a U.S. company of your choice. Identify whether or not the audit report is an unqualified, or “clean,” opinion and explain how you could tell. Include the .pdf with your submission.

Please include the links to the financial statements you use. Points will be deducted for poor grammar and misspelled words.

**Discussion means discussion! More is expected from a discussion question than a few brief sentences. Be sure to fully discuss the topic. Three points will only be awarded for submissions that fully address each topic.

I’m stuck on a Academic question and need an explanation.

In this portion of your report you will provide a two to three page introduction to a company of your choice, including background information. Research and financial information on companies may be found in the annual reports in the Mergent database through the Ashford University Library, and individual company websites should include information on the company’s mission and vision. Be sure to cite your sources.

Include the following content in this section.

• Analyze your chosen company’s current business and financial conditions and create a brief introduction to your company that includes the following.
  • The mission of the company
  • A descriptions of the company’s current business operation, competitors, financial condition
  • General information that explains why the company interesting to you as an analyst.

The Introduction to and Background on the Company

• Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

• Must include a separate title page with the following:

• Must use at least two scholarly and/or industry sources.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

I’m working on a Management question and need guidance to help me study.

First one:

Students should pick their favorite entrepreneur and create a semi-biography over the individual (if you do not know of an entrepreneur, think of your favorite business and research its founder). The biography should be approximately 3-5 pages, double-spaced, 12 pt font, 1” margins. All citations should be done in APA or MLA format. Part of the grading will be grammar. The biography should include information such as the following:

• General biography of entrepreneur (date and place born, education, family, etc.)
• Background information of work/jobs the person has done/did
• Company(s)/business(s) that he/she started
• Any failures the entrepreneur faced?
• How the company/business came to be and all info about it- background of company (3 facts).
• What happened to the business(s)/the entrepreneurs current role?
• Any other interesting facts.
• One question you would ask him/her if you were to get the chance? Why that question?

Second One:

Watch three of the seven TED talks (Links to an external site.) and write two to three page synopsis of what your takeaways are from the talks. What did you learn from them? Why is it so important to encourage entrepreneurship? What impact can entrepreneurship have?

I’m studying for my Business Law class and need an explanation.

Read Strategy in Action “Price Wars in the Breakfast Industry” (Chapter 2) in our text. Then, complete a SWOT Analysis of the industry, or one of its key players. You can bullet your answers and use this SWOT template

as a guide. If you use any outside sources, cite these in APA format.

In your responses to classmates, analyze the viability of their analysis.

I need an explanation for this Management question to help me study.

Elahi, M. H. (2015). Elaborating the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2659768.

Frisina, M. E. (2014). Influential leadership: change your behavior, change your organization, change health care. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

Giuliani, R. W., & Kurson, K. (2007). Leadership. New York: Miramax Books.

LaFEBER, W. (2009). The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine. Political Science Quarterly, 124(1), 71-93. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165x.2009.tb00642.x.

O’Reilly, C., & Powell, B. (2015). War and the Growth of Government. SSRN Electronic Jour nal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2480063.

Headings

• Clearly state what the article is about and its purpose
• How the article and/or author(s) support your argument(s)
• Most important aspects of the article
• Any findings and conclusions
• Approximately 250 to 350 words in length
• Include the article “Abstract” in your posting (your summary should be original)
• Include the industry example demonstrating the application of your researched article
• “IMPORTANT” – Include the citation for the article.

I’m trying to study for my History course and I need some help to understand this question.

For this assignment, you are to read current news articles about the South American region of Latin America.

The Review is to be 3-4 pages.. And you have to choose one of these articles to write the review about

Please choose the article from this website: https://nacla.org/tags/brazil

Feel free to choose any of them

Please use both a title page and a works cited page (neither of these pages count toward your 3-4 pages of text). These two reports will count as a combined 30% toward your final grade. In your works cited page, compose your article entry in a format like this:

Gabriel Hetland and George Ciccariello-Maher, “The State of the Left in Latin America: A Disillusioned Revolution in Venezuela,” NACLA Report on the Americas website (July 21, 2017).

In terms of the content of each report, I am looking for two main points of discussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points in the article that you selected. To help you to address this issue, consider some of these questions: What is the main issue being discussed? (i.e. immigration, elections, education, environment, women’s issues, crime, etc.) Who are the main personalities mentioned in the article? (i.e. Enrique Peña Nieto, Nicolás Maduro, Mauricio Macri, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Jair Bolsonaro, President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, etc.) How does the issue affect the people of the country mentioned in the article? Does the issue have any connection with United States interests? In other words, please try to be as objective as possible during this portion of the assignment.

And for the second point of discussion, please analyze the article that you selected and present your point of view on the story. For example, how do you feel about the story? How did this article contribute to your understanding about modern Latin America or the Americas in general? And what do you think about the author’s perspective on the article?

I’m stuck on a Management question and need an explanation.

Applying Servant Leadership

Select and research a contemporary political, social, religious, or business leader to learn about how this leader or organization employs Greenleaf’s principles of servant leadership to motivate, influence, and lead others.

If you need assistance identifying potential leaders, you may use the “Individual and Corporate Servant Leaders” handout in the study materials.

Use 3 Creditable sources and APA citation

Write a 500-750-word paper that addresses the following components:

• Summary of the principles of servant leadership employed by the leader to motivate, inspire, and lead others;
• Specific examples to illustrate the leader’s application of servant leadership principles;
• Information about the unique way the leader exerts influence and inspires followership; and
• Discussion of what would you seek to emulate or see more of in your own organization from both the people who lead you and the leadership you provide to others.

Use a minimum three resources to strengthen and support your claims. Each section of your essay should use in text citations.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Follow the rules of the Rubic

• 1.Principles of servant leadership employed by the leader to motivate, inspire, and lead others include a thorough and insightful explanation and supporting citations.
• 2.Examples illustrating the application of servant leadership principles are thoroughly explained with insightful details and supporting citations.
• 3.The unique way the leader inspires followership is thoroughly explained with insightful details and supporting citations.
• 4.Leadership qualities to emulate includes a thorough explanation for personal application and supporting citations.
• 5.Thesis is comprehensive and contains the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.
• 6.Clear and convincing argument that presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.
• 7.Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
• 8.All format elements are correct.

Need help with my Engineering question – I’m studying for my class.

1)Minimum of 400 words

How active is each threat agent? How might a successful attack serve a particular threat agent’s goals?

2)Length: Minimum of 600 words

Briefly respond to all the following questions. Make sure to explain and backup your responses with facts and examples. This assignment should be in APA format and have to include at least two references.

According to the author of this book, there are three key attributes of human attackers, as follows:

• Intelligence

• Adaptivity

• Creativity

What are your thoughts on this topic? Also, please explain the three key attributes related to this subject.