TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE JOB SEARCH   Having a professional eProfile on LinkedIn is one step toward networking for career development. As you probably have already discovered after activating your LinkedIn profile last week, LinkedIn algorithms scan the published profiles and send you notices of jobs that fit your profile. In addition to this job-match technology, […]

CREATING QUERIES FROM WOODCRAFT DATABASE   For purposes of this discussion, assume that Woodcraft is an online store that sells wooden craft kits to churches, scouting organizations, and other groups that need crafts for children. Download the Week 4 Woodcraft Database (Links to an external site.) and save Woodcraft’s database to your computer or space […]

DATA CONSOLIDATION   Discuss and compare the various grouping and consolidation tools available in Excel.   Under what circumstances would you use each of these features? Do they both serve the same purpose, or is each one used under different scenarios? Give examples of how each can be used.   One of your posts requires […]

User acceptance testing, or UAT, is a round of testing in which the users who are expected to use the system after it goes live exercise the system. UAT differs from quality assurance, or QA, testing in a very important way: In UAT, real users attempt to use the system-in-development in a realistic manner—that is, […]

Handling a Project Crisis   You are a project manager. During testing, a business user identifies a problem: the tested version lacks a fundamental capability that, as it turns out, was never identified. This capability does not just represent a nice-to-have feature; it is integral to the IT deliverable functioning in the real world. You […]

Project Scheduling and Documentation   One of the most important documents in a project is the kickoff presentation. Because this document formally begins, or “kicks off,” project development, it can only be created after the project has been planned, approvals have been obtained, and personnel are in place. A good kickoff presentation communicates succinctly to […]

Create a Scrum Board   Projects that conform to the Agile methodology often use something called a scrum board. You can think of a scrum board as a digital whiteboard containing yellow “stickies,” each listing a task, posted beneath categories such as “to do,” “in process,” in testing,” and so forth. Using a scrum board […]

Well-written project documentation clarifies intent, documents decisions and results, and allows project managers to assess project progress (and report it, as necessary, to project stakeholders) at every step of the project lifecycle.   For this assignment, you will create two examples of project documentation that align with the Project Plan Draft assignment you completed in […]

A project plan is a document created at the beginning of the project lifecycle that gives stakeholders and everyone else involved in a project a clear idea of what a project will entail in terms of effort, time, cost, and anticipated results.   One of the things that must be identified before the project plan […]

FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES   Why is hydration so important to our survival?   For discussions, create a 1- to 2-minute multimedia piece (for example, a video, poster, narrated PowerPoint, etc.) of your choosing and post it to the discussion to respond to the above question. Besides posting your individual multimedia piece, you must comment on […]