A progress report describes an ongoing project and allows you to check in with your audience. There are two types - one organized by time to describe completed work and future work, and one organized by task to describe completed work for each task. A progress report should evaluate how the project is proceeding, convey optimism about good news without overstatements, and not panic if results are not as planned or the project is behind schedule. A sample progress report is organized chronologically, discusses completed tasks and future work with references to supporting materials in appendices, and concludes by summarizing the status of the project.
Report about your project
learn how to make report on your respective college project.
report on Software, Application, and how to write efficient analytic and gigantic presentation.
In This Presentation we have discusesed What is Technical Writing and in which fields technical writing is used.
Four Basic types, Abstract, Informative Report, Lab Report, Research Report Project Reports are discussed
Report about your project
learn how to make report on your respective college project.
report on Software, Application, and how to write efficient analytic and gigantic presentation.
In This Presentation we have discusesed What is Technical Writing and in which fields technical writing is used.
Four Basic types, Abstract, Informative Report, Lab Report, Research Report Project Reports are discussed
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Assignment 1:
Identify elements of concern (e.g. resources, time, cost, quality, scope, accessibility to interviewees,
generation a questionnaire, distributing the questionnaire, sample size, ability to analyze/verify the
results…) of your project and suggest what you intend to do about them.
PS: My Project about: Relationship between Money and Time with Virtualization Technology.
Minimum number of words 500, referencing with Harvard style and the number of references not less than
three Academic Articles or books.
Please, make sure that there is no Plagiarism
Assignment 2:
Create a Monthly/Weekly/Daily log. Analyze it according to the importance of the activities listed. Suggest
ways to reduce time on the unimportant activities in favor of the more important ones.
Minimum number of words 500, referencing with Harvard style and the number of references not less than
three Academic Articles or books.
Please, make sure that there is no Plagiarism
Introduction
All projects consume resources, including time and money, in order to deliver a
product of a particular scope and quality. There is thus always a tension between
the extent of resource input and the extend of product output. Additionally, there
is also tension between project management activities and project development
activities.
Dawson (2009: 4.1) provides a graphical presentation of this:
Project Management
Project Management concerns the planning and conduct of the project by
controlling and checking project progress, monitoring milestones and
deliverables, and managing risk.
The effort involved in project management should account for not more than 10%
of the overall effort but it will not be evenly distributed, as most of it is expended
towards the start of the project. A project can be conceived as product
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development that is concerned with achieving the aims and objectives of the
project by producing the deliverables in accordance with the project plan, while
optimizing scope and quality of the deliverables relative to the resources
available.
Project Stages
From a project management perspective, projects proceed in five stages:
1. Definition - Deciding on a project; making a project proposal
2. Planning - Detailed planning of the project
3. Initiation - Organizing work (in particular, group work); literature survey
4. Control - Monitoring the progress of the project
5. Closure -Delivering/deploying result of the project; preparing final presentation;
writing up reports
Project Definition
Aims and objectives
It is important to decide and define a clear specification of what the project is to
achieve and adhere to it. Wavering between different aims might be disastrous to
the conduct of the project. Aims are broad statements of intent that identify the
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Written communication skills are a valuable tool for self-improvement because they enable self-reflection, goal setting, problem-solving, self-expression, and effective communication. By honing these skills, you can enhance your personal development journey and achieve your goals more effectively.
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Individual Project Part 3: Project Evaluation, Lessons Learned, and Synthesis of Insights Gained
Though project managers often gain a great deal of experiential knowledge through the project management process, project evaluation offers them a chance to formalize the lessons they have learned. Part 3 of the Individual Project focuses on issues related to evaluating the success of a project and the debriefing process for capturing lessons learned. If conducting an interview, your interviewee must be able to speak to these topics. Alternatively, you may examine a minimum of three organizations that have published descriptions about the evaluation and debriefing process of a health care information technology project.
Interview
To prepare:
Review the Individual Project Overview document linked in this week’s Learning Resources for additional information on this project. Pay particular attention to the questions you should ask in your interview.
Locate a professional who manages or works on special projects in health care and is willing to speak about his or her experience.
If such a person is not readily available to you, find someone in your community who has managed a project for an organization. The organization can be a volunteer service group, a faith-based group, a business, or another that meets your needs. The goal is to find an individual who has been in charge of a project important to the organization.
Review the topics and questions below that should be addressed in your interview.
Think about other related questions you might have for your interviewee and solidify your goals for speaking to and learning from this person.
Topics and Questions:
As in the other interviews, you will need to adapt your questions to the individual,
setting, and projects. You are not required to ask these
specific
questions, but you are
required to address the topics listed below (Note: If the interviewee cannot address a
topic, conduct a literature search to find scholarly information or research on that topic).
Evaluation
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What tools or strategies do you use to evaluate the success of a project?
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Can you give an example of a project that failed (or was not successful)?
Lessons Learned
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Describe the project outcomes
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What were some successful outcomes of the project? Were the project
goals met?
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How do you conduct a debriefing of the project with the project team?
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What happens to the information gained from the debriefing?
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How do the project team and the organization support project debriefing?
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Companies have historically looked at technical skills, but more and more
business managers are realizing that the absence of good "people" skills tends to
cripple projects. What are three critically important things a project manager (or
project team member) must do well to help a project succeed?
Please add questions of your own, including asking for advice for the future from your
interviewee.
To complete:
In a 4 ...
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Running head: PART 1 PROJECT 1
PART 1 PROJECT 2Part 1 ProjectName of your Action Research ProjectYour NameKaplan UniversityGM505 Action Research and Consulting SkillsProfessor Name HereDate
Part 1 Project (this should be same as header name)
Write a paragraph or two introducing the contents of the paper here. Indent the first line of each new paragraph 1/2” and use only double line spacing with 0 pt. before and 0 pt. after paragraphs for the entire paper and the References page. The main body of the paper needs to be at least six pages and nine pages are typical. Do not include the directions in your final submission.
Scope and Purpose
Describe the background, scope and purpose of your action research project. In this section you should explain the problem and why the problem needs changing. You should include application and citation of references.
Stakeholders
Identify and describe the stakeholders who are critical to the success of your project and how their roles relate to it. Your work on the Unit 2 Critical Mass Analysis Assignment will be helpful for you in this section. You may use what you wrote in the Unit 2 Critical Mass Analysis paper in this paper without asking for permission to do so.
Appraisal and Involvement
Explain how you made your initial appraisal of the prospects of doing your action research project (how and why you chose the topic and your participants) and involved others in defining what your project entails, and be specific.
Expectations
Explain how you set expectations with those who would be impacted or involved, and state approximately when the results will be available.
Plan to obtain data
Describe, specifically, your plan for when, where and from whom you will obtain your action research data. Include chosen data gathering methods, why you chose them and cite supportive references. Describe how your skills as an action researcher have been strengthened to assess organizational practices.
Laying the groundwork
Describe how you have started to lay the groundwork for using the results of your research to make a difference.
Conclusion
Summarize what was previously written in the paper. No new information should appear in this section.
References
You need to apply at least 3-5 references from quality academic sources that speak to how you are doing this part of your action research project. Never cite Wikipedia. Note: if anything is listed here on the References page it also must be cited within the body of the paper too. Do not add an extra line space between entries. APA formatting is required. Here is how to format our textbook using APA:
Stringer, E. T. (2014). Action research (4th ed.). Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications.
Appendix
Critical Mass Analysis
Include your Unit 2 Chart (and Negotiation Form if it was applicable) but do not include the focus paper. (Copy and paste the chart and negotiation form from your Unit 2 Critical Mass Analysis Appendix here. You earn points!)
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A Successful Project Proposal helps the Organisation to explain to the authority, why they are fit for a proposal,their plan of action,time-line for execution with Budget.
1- the city that you need to write about.Chicago, ILIndica.docxjeremylockett77
1- the city that you need to write about.
Chicago, IL
Indicate two different criteria that might be used when deciding whether a city might be a good choice for someone in your career field. Please note: you are not arguing here about a specific city itself. Instead, you are suggesting the types of things that could be used, such as the weather.(Don't use this as one of the criteria in your response.) Be sure to state which career field you are referring to.
Explain the reasoning for your criteria in one or more paragraphs for each criterion. Why would these criteria be important in making the decision of whether to move to this city? What types of things would someone need to know in deciding whether these criteria are favorable or not? (For instance, in considering weather, you'd probably want to know average temperature during each season, typical rain or snow outlooks, and any particular threats the city tends to experience due to weather.)
2- the city that you need to write about.
Chicago, IL
Purpose
The report on a city is an analytical report. You will be drawing a conclusion about whether a specific city would be a good location for someone in your career field, based on the specific criteria noted in the report.
One goal of the report is for you to practice coming up with reasonable criteria and applying them in order to draw a well-defended conclusion. Another goal is to practice research skills, including finding, using, and documenting secondary research.
Context
You have received an internship in department of the college where you will receive your degree. You've learned that many students in your field receive job offers that require them to move to another state. As a service, the department wants to prepare reports that give an overview of some of the more popular cities, to help students in their decision of whether to accept the offers when they graduate. You have been assigned a specific city to investigate.
Requirements
I will assign your city, and your report must be on this city. (I am going to assign different cities to each student in class.)
The report must use at least four sources for the information. At least three of these must be secondary sources. If you know someone who has lived in your assigned city, you may interview that person as the fourth source. Give credit to all sources used.
The report must contain at least five criteria that a person would reasonably use in determining whether that city is a good choice for them. It may, of course, contain more than this. We will discuss possible criteria in the discussion this week, but you may use criteria that are not mentioned in the discussion.
The report should be at least five pages long. i anticipate that the visuals used will not take up more than one page of this length.
The report must have at least two visuals (photographs, charts, graphs). If these are copied from someone, give credit to the source.
Structure and Content
The report must be ...
Being entrusted to initiate and plan your company’s new project can be a great responsibility—and it’s something you don’t want to mess up.
Project initiation, the process by which you start a project, and project planning, the process in which you create schedules and plan a project systematically, are integral to the project management process.
Project planning, the most important phase of the project management process, should be executed well, as poor planning may lead to serious problems and setbacks later.
Below, we list the twelve steps of the project management process that can help you get started initiating and planning a successful project.
Step 1: Develop Project Charter
The first step to starting your new project is to develop your project charter. Basically, your charter will serve as your project’s mission statement and serve as your guide throughout the project. In your charter, you should define the scope of your project (what you plan to do) as well as an overview of how it will be done (who will do what).
Successful project charters are prepared from information from three main sources: contracts, Service Level Agreements (SLA), and Letters of Award.
Your contracts are the agreements between you (the service provider) and your client. Your SLA is a special type of contract in which you and your client define and agree to the scope and deliverables of the project, and your Letter of Award states that you’ve won a particular bid for the project.
Within your project charter, be sure to provide a comprehensive overview of the scope and direction of the project. Also known as your project’s content, this information is key to the success and to the professionalism of your charter.
This document signifies to your project manager that (s)he has permission to start work on the tasks, as laid out in the charter. Having a clear direction, purpose, and high-level project description can keep all parties on the same page and help your team to provide a service as agreed to with your client.
In order to do this, your charter should include any and all requirements and key deliverables as well as provide a general milestone schedule. Parties responsible for the project, such as the project manager, the project sponsor, and keyholders, should be listed.
Step 2: Identify Stakeholders
It’s imperative that you identify all stakeholders while developing your project charter. Stakeholders are any individual, group, or organization that will be affected by the outcome of the project.
In order to do this, most organizations run what’s called a stakeholder analysis. This analysis identifies the stakeholders in a project and determines what outcome the project should provide to each one.
A stakeholder register is also made. This register identifies project stakeholders and lists their influence over its outcome.
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ACCT 424 Advanced Accounting
Final Course Report: Research Tracker & Bibliographic Report
General Information:
Project Objective: Create an annotated bibliographic report to meet an assignment from your supervisor after first
creating and using a research tracker. These are two separate deliverables required for this activity.
Why Are We Doing This?: In addition to assessing your performance in this course, this assignment will be used to assess
the accounting program's achievement of program outcomes for the Information Literacy (INFO) Core Learning Area (CLA),
as described in the university's Program Assessment Plan. The INFO CLA is defined as follows: demonstrate an ability to
use libraries and other information resources to effectively locate, select, and evaluate needed information. The
accounting program outcomes are defined as the ability to research accounting information to solve business problems
and improve decision making.
Learning Objective: Demonstrate the ability to use academic and professional databases to research and support
recommendations on emerging accounting issues.
Requirements:
Overview: We learn about a variety of topic in ACCT 424 Advanced Accounting, including the very important topic of
accounting for business mergers and acquisitions (M&As). In addition to the “debit and credits” of M&As there is a host
of activities an accountant would be involved in if they get involved in M&As in practice. One such activity is that of Due
Diligence. By performing this activity, you will not only accomplish required learning objectives, you will also develop an
understanding of what Due Diligence is, a very important topic to have some knowledge about in practice.
The Scenario: Place yourself in the role of a new team member at an organization that’s just begun the process of
negotiating being acquired by another company. Your team lead as come to you and your co-workers and told you that in
a month’s time the other company will be starting the process of Due Diligence, and your team is going to need to support
that effort. Well, your company has never been bought out before, so this whole process is new to everyone, including
this Due Diligence thing.
Since your team lead knows you successfully completed Advanced Accounting at UMUC, she knows you’re the best of the
best and as such she assigns you the task of researching Due Diligence, and wants you to report back to the team with
two specific deliverables: a Research Tracker and an Annotated Bibliography.
Part I – The Research Tracker
A Research Tracker is a straight forward activity that can be thought of as something that simply “tells the story” of your
thought process and logic used in finding information on a subject. In our case, that subject is going to be Due Diligence.
Your requirement for the Research Tracker deliverable will be to research the subject of Due Diligence and create a basic
Research Tracker to rep.
CJUS 550
Literature Analysis: Topic Identification & Bibliography Template
(Use the following template for the completion of this assignment. Delete highlighted material and replace with your own material)
Proposed Topic:
In one sentence tell the reader what you plan on researching.
Proposed Thesis Statement:
Graduate writing cannot be “A” quality without a thesis statement. The thesis statement provides the destination of the paper. The topic/title of the paper will tell the reader which direction the essay is heading (N, S, E, or W) and a transition statement tells the reader the steps that will be taken to get to the destination. A strong conclusion cannot be written without a strong thesis statement. The thesis drives the conclusion. If you know beforehand what you are trying to accomplish, then in your conclusion you can tell if you have accomplished this goal or not.
Preliminary Bibliography (minimum of six sources in APA format):
Example:
Schmalleger, F. (2011). Criminal justice today: An introductory text for the 21st Century (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NY: Prentice Hall.
Annotated Bibliography
Summarize each article or text you are going to use in this paper (at least 6 sources need to be included in this portion of the assignment). Each summary needs to be about a paragraph in length. At the end of this annotated summary you will need to write a one paragraph summary regarding how these sources connect to the topic at hand and how you plan on using these sources to justify your conclusion.
Respond to one of the following questions:
Question 1:
The Monthly Project Report: Each month, all project managers were called for an executive session to present the status of their projects. All project managers and the key project team members spent five to seven days a month preparing standardized briefing charts for this critically important meeting. The meeting lasted well over half a day while each project manager waited for his or her turn to receive executive guidance.
Result: The project managers, team members, and administrative assistants wasted hundreds of hours each month preparing detailed slides, graphics, analyses, and report papers to provide to the senior executive. The senior executive was gratified at the level of work and detail his people put in to keep him apprised of every project nuance. The senior executive had a much larger comfort zone of information to rely upon when queried by his boss.
Analysis: When most organizations work Monday to Friday, there are about twenty workdays in any month. Spending over 25 percent of the available monthly work time in preparing reports drove project management costs up and undermined organizational commitment to disciplined project management. Worse, tremendous amounts of overtime were required to offset the lost project productivity. This forced the project managers, team members, administrative assistants, and contractors to work late nights and weekends. Productivi.
Characteristics of Report || Characteristics of Short Report || Presentation ...Mahabub Azam
Characteristics of Report || Characteristics of Short Report That objective and purpose can only be achieved if a report has the following qualities and characteristics: It should be factual: Every report should be based on facts, verified information and valid proofs. Clear and Easily understandable: Explained below. Free from errors and duplication.
2. What is a Progress Report An intermediate communication between the proposal (argument that a project be undertaken) and the completion report (the comprehensive record of a completed project) A progress report describes an ongoing project They allow you to check in with your audience Purpose: To provide a clear and complete account of your activities and to forecast the next stage of the project.
4. Organization Two types Time pattern: describes work that has been completed up to the present point and sketching the work to remain Task pattern: describes what work has been completed for each task in order (chronological)
5. Concluding Evaluate how the project is proceeding Two possible messages: Things are going well Things are not going well Optional appendices for supporting materials i.e. computations, printouts, diagrams etc. Should be cross-referenced in the body so that readers can find them easily
6. Guidelines – Projecting the Appropriate Tone If news is good Convey optimism without overstatements. OVERSTATED: “We are sure the device will do all that we ask of it and more.” REALISTIC: “We expect that the device will perform well and that it might offer some unanticipated advantages.” If news is bad Don’t panic if preliminary results are not as promising as you had planned or if the project is behind schedule
8. The subject line and the purpose statement identify the purpose of the document: to report on progress. The summary briefly explains the purpose of the project and answers the question “How is the project going, and will it be completed on schedule and on budget?” Most of the information in the introduction is taken directly from the original proposal (not unethical). The writers begin by describing the organization of the results section. For a progress report, a chronological organization makes good sense.
9. Discussion is organized by task in this example. Completed work will be summarized again in recommendation report. Secondary research is integrated and cited in the discussion Task 3 references the questionnaire in the appendix, helping readers find the information quickly.
10. Primary research, based on the questionnaire, enhances the writer’s credibility showing that they went to the trouble of finding out what the gym members want in an MP3 player. Future work section describes work to be completed. Gantt chart visually shows progress towards completing the project.
11. The conclusion summarizes the status of the project. Ends with a polite offer to provide additional information. Presenting the questionnaire complete with its results enhances the writers’ credibility. Question are designed to yield quantitative data.
