PJM440 MOD3 Portfolio MIle Stone 4 Page Essay APA Format
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Portfolio Milestone (100 Points)
Important! Read First
Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do
not do both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title
of your submission.
Option #1: Quality Management and Small Cell Infrastructure Design
Go to Module 8 and read the expectations for Option 1, then return here for your Module 3 Milestone effort.
In Module 3, you are asked as a first step, to familiarize yourself
with the Small Cell Infrastructure Design Guidelines. Note that two
contract firms were instrumental in the development of the guidelines:
Clanton & Associates, Inc. and Jacobs Engineering Group. After your
review of the guidelines, you are asked to provide your input to the
following:
- Are the current Small Cell Infrastructure Design Guidelines (SCIDG)
ones that promote high quality? If yes, how? If no, why not and what
should change to promote quality? Support your position with specific
references to the SCIDG or current scholarly documentation. - What do you interpret to be meant by “quality” from the perspective
of the public works personnel, communications companies deploying small
cell infrastructure, the contract companies involved, and the public
both now and in the future? What support do you have for your position
with specific references to the SCIDG or current scholarly
documentation? - What are the drivers for change, and the barriers to change from the
perspective of the public works personnel and the public? Are there
competing drivers for change that may impact quality from the public’s
perspective? Support your position with specific references to the SCIDG
or current scholarly documentation.
Submission:
- Write a paper addressing the Module 3 Milestone questions for the
case of The Department of Public Works, Engineering Division for the
City and County of regarding the Small Cell Infrastructure Design
Guidelines and quality management. Your paper should be 3-4 pages in
length, not including the required title and references pages and any
appendix if required. For more information see “How do I do an Appendix in APA style?” (Links to an external site.) - Support the Milestone paper with a minimum of three current
(published in the most recent five years) scholarly sources from the
CSU-Global Library. This is in addition to any course textbooks, lecture
material you decide to use, or the case itself. Of course, you may
always exceed the minimum number of sources. - Format the paper according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.).
- Be clear, concise, and focused.
Option #2: Total quality management and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Federal Retirements
Go to Module 8 and read the expectations for Option 2, then return here for your Module 3 Milestone effort.
In Module 3, you are asked as a first step, to familiarize yourself
with the Government Accounting Office (GAO), Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) May of 2019, publication of the Federal Retirement: OPM
Actions Needed to Improve Application Processing Times. After your
review of the guidelines, you are asked to provide your input to the
following:
- Is the current Federal Retirement: OPM Actions Needed to Improve
Application Processing Times document one that promotes high quality? If
yes, how? If no, why not and what should change to promote quality?
Support your position with specific references to the GAO report or
current scholarly documentation. - What do you interpret to be meant by “quality” from the perspective
of the GAO OPM, retirees, Congressional leaders, and the public both now
and in the future? What support do you have for your position with
specific references to the GAO report or current scholarly
documentation? - What are the drivers for change, and the barriers to change from the
perspective of the GAO OPM, retirees, Congressional leaders, and the
public? Are there competing drivers for change that may impact quality
from the public’s perspective? Support your position with specific
references to the GAO report or current scholarly documentation.
Submission:
- Write a paper addressing the Module 3 Milestone questions for the
case of federal employee retirement situation and quality management.
Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length, not including the required
title and references pages and any appendix if required. For more
information see “How do I do an Appendix in APA style?” (Links to an external site.) - Support the Milestone paper with a minimum of three current
(published in the most recent five years) scholarly sources from the
CSU-Global Library. This is in addition to any course textbooks, lecture
material you decide to use, the GAO report or the case itself. Of
course, you may always exceed the minimum number of sources. - Format the paper according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.).
- Be clear, concise, and focused.
Rubric
PJM440 Mod 3 PM
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