The Elite Eagles team cooperated on Assignment 5.3a to prepare a study of the Silver Fiddle Construction (SFC) case as shown on page 233-234 of the textbook (Larson and Gray, 2014). Starting from the project scope statement (created by the president of SFC), the team identified five potential risks and one opportunity as outcomes of the Czopek project. These results derive from team discussions of the case study, summarized below. Our analysis begins with (1) a review of the president’s project scope, followed by (2) our assessment of the possible risks and responses, (3) the corresponding scenarios of risk we identified, and, finally, (4) our view of the president’s best response to each of the risks.
Project Scope Review
Our team reviewed each section of the project scope as prepared by SFC’s president. The project requires building a high-quality, custom home for the Czopek family below a cost of $500,000. The president assured the Czopeks that the construction will take only five months from ground-breaking. However, to save money, the family will agree to a delay in the project.
Since SFC focuses on the custom home market in Grand Junction, Colorado, the Czopeks could specify certain features for their dream home. The requested features that the team thought the president should consider in terms of potential risk include the following deliverables:
• 2,500 sq. feet home with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms;
• Garage to include space for 2 cars and a 28-ft Winnebago;
• High-efficiency gas furnace with a programmable thermostat;
• Builder installed range, oven, microwave, and dishwasher in the kitchen.
SFC’s standard requirements mandate adherence to the building codes applicable within the local seismic zone. Other standa...
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... this Czopek project can be completed on time and within the allocated budget. SFC already has a comprehensive scope statement in place for this project but must now focus on actions which will ensure long-term project success. Actions such as resource smoothing, risk analysis, contingency planning, phase gating, time phased budgeting, and identifying value-added tools to use in order to measure project success should be completed before beginning the project. In addition, though not discussed herein, the PMBOK Guide recommends regular risk reassessment and control of the change request process (2013). Finally, SFC should determine a meaningful means of identifying, collecting and cataloging lessons learned for future projects. This will help them develop and enhance their project management maturity through the use of relevant data for use in future projects.
Stufflebeam’s CIPP Model (Context, Input, Process, and Product) was created in 1983. This evaluation approach deals with an effective way of examining several distinctive facets of the development process. The context evaluation phase of the CIPP Model establishes the main idea of the program and the evaluation procedure. This phase supports in the decision making associated with development, and authorizes the evaluator to recognize the requirements, strengths, and resources in order to deliver the program design that will be constructive and valuable. In the input evaluation phase, data is gathered about the mission, expectations, and program development. The rationale of this process is to measure the program’s approach, capability and design strategy aligned with research, the awareness of the program stakeholders’ needs, and unconventional plans posed in related programs. The Process evaluation examines the effectiveness of the program’s execution. In this stage, program activities are examined, acknowledged and measured by the evaluator. The product evaluation, measures the successful and unsuccessful influences the program had on its stakeholders. The short-term and long-term outcomes are estimated in this phase as well. In the course of this phase, perceptiveness of stakeholders and significant staff are questioned, examining outcomes that influence the program stakeholders. Utilizing mixed methodologies guarantee all outco...
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To achieve the American dream is a great accomplishment that requires financial adequacy. Due to financial insufficiencies, owning a home can be difficult, if not impossible for many individuals of lower income. Economic fluctuations often cause inconsistency in housing prices and availability.3 The price of a home correlates to the cost and availability of materials, needed manpower and the duration of construction. These logistical obstacles need to be overcome if the American dream is to be attained by the majority.4 To engineer a faster, more cost effective means of production is a challenge, but for the solution to be well designed and well crafted is a far greater task.
The meeting was well-attended. The audience and Board were quite enthused over the presentation. At the end of the presentation, the Board passed unanimously a motion to hire Bruce Celinski’s firm to do a feasibility study, create a design, do drawings and determine an estimated cost. The Board divided the funding to the architect into two parts: $4,750 to do the feasibility and, if successful, $4,750 to do the design, drawings and cost estimate. If the project was deemed not feasible, then the cost would stop at $4,750.
We will have the support and backing of the community and the capability of producing and managing affordable housing for the community's low-income veterans and their families, helping them both attain education and careers that will move them into higher salary brackets. The time to move in this project is now to give them the opportunity that so many before them missed out on. In helping our veterans secure their future we are improving, strengthening, and dignifying the fabric of our
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In this case a large engineering consulting firm was contracted by the government to perform civil engineering work for the installation of equipment that would be later used to train firefighters. Prior to the actual work being commenced on site, Donald J. Giffels, president of the consulting firm soon realized through careful observation that there was a significant amount of ambiguity in how critical safety systems were to be designed. In this situation, what are the ethical issues that the consulting firm faces in accepting such a contract from the government. What is the optimal strategy in responding to what Donald J. .Giffels identified as an unacceptable lapse in safety. These two important questions are discussed in further detail with a conclusion of noteworthy facts surrounding this case following.
Though grand in scope and long-term in its layout, I believe that this type of plan would maximize the potential of an initial investment of $150,000.00 to do good in a community. If successful, public awareness would be generated, fiscal priorities would shift, new laws and economic incentives would be created, and homes would be built or refurbished and then occupied by Americans made more economically secure by serious structural reform. Such a development would bring me great personal satisfaction.
Buying and owning your home is part of the American dream. Although the dream itself has since changed, the home still remains the main focal point. Today owning a home doesn’t necessarily mean a house. People now buy duplexes, cooperative apartments, and condominiums. For some families it could take up to a couple of generations before it’s able to have the capabilities of buying a home. To many people it means a certain achievement that only comes after years of hard work. It is a life altering decision and one of the most important someone can make in their lifetime. The reasons behind the actual purchase could vary. Before anything is done, people must understand that it’s an extraneous process and it is a long term project.
Their dedication to their mission statement and also due to the loyalty of the local community has given way to recent construction projects, such as a $66 million dollar expansion and renovation, new construction of a new emergency department and a new outpatient surgery center. These new ve...
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...hnical support. The technical issues usually raise in the feasibility stage of the investigation include these: