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PART 1

Provide responses to the following questions:

1.    What is the purpose of a staffing management plan?  What does it address?

2.    Whom should the project manager consult when performing resource leveling?

3.    Describe the two primary techniques for compressing a schedule?

4.    When crashing a project schedule, describe the two criteria that are considered when considering which activities will be sped up.

Mechanics:

Responses should be presented in a question-response format.  Use Arial font with 11 point. There is no word limit.

Criteria	Ratings	Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomePart 1 - Questions	20 pts Excellent Responses to questions are complete and well-organized; based on content from course textbook supplemented with group input/ experience 17 pts Good Most responses are complete and well-organized; some errors and omissions. 14 pts Poor Responses need improvement; errors and omissions without reference to course materials 0 pts Incomplete Very incomplete - no real effort demonstrated.	20 pts

PART 2(no more than 250 words)

Find an example of a news story using data.

·       Evaluate the quality of data

·       Was the use of the data effective to underscoring the main point?

·       Interpret data for the reader