Controlling Project Performance and Project Closure
Develop a three to five (3–5) page paper that addresses the following:
Illustrate two (2) advantages and two (2) challenges associated with fast tracking and provide examples based on your own experience (not examples from the text).
Discuss both what it means and possible causes for a project with a CPI of 1.2 and an SPI of 0.8 (include hypothetical figures for PV, AC, and EV in your discussion).
Discuss the benefit of effective project closure using examples to support your answer.
Recommend two (2) best practices concerning project closure that would apply to almost any project.
The format of the paper is to be as follows:
Typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides (APA format).
Use headers for each of the subjects being covered, followed by your response.[unique_solution]
In addition to the three to five (3–5) pages required, a title page is to be included. The title page is to contain the title of the assignment, your name, the instructor’s name, the course title, and the date.
Note: You will be graded on the quality of your answers, the logic/organization of the report, your language skills, and your writing skills.
The assignment will be graded using the following rubric:
Describe how project schedules are modified to account for time and resource
constraints.
| Evaluate processes and tools for monitoring and controlling project | ||||||||||
| Outcomes | performance. | |||||||||
| Assessed | Discuss the process of project closure. | |||||||||
| Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing | ||||||||||
| project teams. | ||||||||||
| Grading Rubric for Assignment 5 — Controlling Project Performance and Project Closure | ||||||||||
| Criteria | 0 | 10 | 20 | 30 | ||||||
| Unacceptable | Developing | Competent | Exemplary | |||||||
| 1. Illustrate two (2) | Did not complete the | Partially illustrated | Sufficiently illustrated Fully illustrated two | |||||||
| advantages and two | assignment or did | two (2) advantages | two (2) advantages | (2) advantages and | ||||||
| (2) challenges | not illustrate two (2) | and two (2) | and two (2) | two (2) challenges | ||||||
| associated with fast | advantages and two | challenges | challenges | associated with fast | ||||||
| tracking and provide | (2) challenges | associated with fast | associated with fast | tracking and | ||||||
| examples based on | associated with fast | tracking and | tracking and | provided examples | ||||||
| your own experience | tracking and provide | provided examples | provided examples | based on your own | ||||||
| (not examples from | examples based on | based on your own | based on your own | experience (not | ||||||
| the text). | your own experience | experience (not | experience (not | examples from the | ||||||
| (not examples from | examples from the | examples from the | text). Completed | |||||||
| the text); omitted key text); omitted some | text). Completed | with 90-100% | ||||||||
| information and/or | key information. | with 80-89% | accuracy, | |||||||
| included irrelevant | Completed with 60- | accuracy, | thoroughness, and | |||||||
| information. | 79% accuracy, | thoroughness, and | logic. | |||||||
| Completed with less | thoroughness, and | logic. | ||||||||
| than 60% accuracy, | logic. | |||||||||
| thoroughness, and | ||||||||||
| logic. | ||||||||||