Overview
The purpose of this discussion exercise is to provide you with a forum to discuss your newly discovered production and operations management concepts considering current issues and real business situations. This is a practice ground for ensuring that your reasoning and foundation of these concepts are secure. This portion of the course requires you to interact with your fellow classmates and critique their submissions.
Note that all these topics refer to the Operations function of a business, to manufacture a product or create a service. We all know that these topics may be used in other business functions, such as in marketing or finance, but for the discussions in this course, please focus on Operations examples and articles.
Directions
Select one of these concepts:
- Manufacturing or services Project in Operations using network planning models such as PERT or CPM.
- The Critical Path Method and its advantages in on time and on budget project management.
- Approaches that project managers take to shorten project length (crashing).
- Application of project management tools such as the Gantt Chart, the Work Breakdown Structure, or Earned Value Management methods.
Then find a current event in an article from the resources below to illustrate that concept: (Use the below articles only)
https://www.pmi.org/about/press-media/news
Analysis Post
After reviewing and analyzing at least one of the current events articles, compose an analysis of that event or situation using the unit operations concept that you selected. Note: Remember to focus upon your selected operations concept in your analysis. (See attached sample format)
