{"id":27592,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/tree-trimming-project-analysis-paper"},"modified":"2017-08-12T07:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T07:07:45","slug":"tree-trimming-project-analysis-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/tree-trimming-project-analysis-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Trimming Project Analysis Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Johnson is a timber and Christmas tree farmer who attended a Project Management class last year, during his off-season. When the subject of Earned Value came up in class he wondered if he was using EV.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the summer Johnson hires and trains crews who work to shear fields of Christmas trees for the upcoming Holiday season. When shearing, each worker uses a large machete to shear the branches from the tree into a cone shape tree which is what most customers desire.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas operates his business per the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He counts the number of Christmas trees in the field, which is approximately 24,000.<\/li>\n<li>He agrees with Tom Jones, a customer, to a $30,000 lump sum contract for shearing all trees in the field.<\/li>\n<li>He receives a partial payment about 5 days after starting the project. He then estimates the actual number sheared trees to be approximately 6,000 trees. The actual is taken as a percent of the total to be sheared, multiply the percent complete by total contract amount for the partial payment [(6,000\/24,000 total trees = 25% of trees trimmed), (.25 * $30,000 total payment = 5 days payment of $7500)].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Write<\/b>&amp;nbsp;a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that thoroughly answers the following questions based on the case study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Johnson over, on, or below schedule? Explain.<\/li>\n<li>Is Johnson using earned value as he was taught in his Project Management course? Explain.<\/li>\n<li>What can Johnson do to set up a schedule and cost variance?<\/li>\n<li>What method do you suggest for Johnson to use for any changes in project scope, such as the shape of the tree that Mr. Jones wants?<\/li>\n<li>It seems that Johnson is using the Traditional method of Project Management. How can he accelerate the completion of this project he has contracted for using the Agile Methodology?<\/li>\n<li>Analyze Johnson&#8217;s project performance on this project assuming the original quote given to the customer was an estimate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Format&amp;nbsp;<\/b>your paper consistent with APA guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Johnson is a timber and Christmas tree farmer who attended a Project Management class last year, during his off-season. When the subject of Earned Value came up in class he wondered if he was using EV.&amp;nbsp; In the summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/tree-trimming-project-analysis-paper\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}