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The consulting firm you work for has been contacted by Wiley to support its textbook Project Management in Practice. Specifically, John Wiley and Sons is interested in contracting your consulting firm to develop the state‐of‐the‐art website described above. Furthermore, Wiley would also like your firm to benchmark website state‐of‐the‐art in terms of content, capabilities, and functionality prior to designing and developing this website.
1A) Did the cases describe project works or operational activities? Use the project attributes discussed in class to decide whether a case is a project or operations. You can use bullet points to answer this question.
2) How do the cases in question 1 compare to the production of food products such as breakfast cereal? Support your argument with evidence.
3) Explain the concept of quasi-project. Give an example.
Answer 1A:
The cases described project works. Because of the following key reasons /points as
Answer 2:
The cases in question 1 compare to the production of food products such as breakfast cereal: The case in question one is seeking the help from consultant for developing the state of art website, which is an one unique activity, the Wiley Inch want to develop through an consulting firm. This I very much different from the food production operations as food production like breakfast cereals are not one time and are not unique work. These are repetitive and they are being carried out multiple times. They do not require any special skills sets and they can be managed with common skill sets. There is key difference of project vs operations in this two subject under comparison.
Answer 3:
The concept of quasi-project is that it is the project which attempting to make the tasks which are connected by two different line of researches and in the manner of natural processing. Thus the Quasi project is project which will not have specific targets and lack of clarity for the project. The quasi project will not meet all the key requirements of the projects.
Example – Quasi project do not have agreed timeline and budget.
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