part 1:

 Using Agile to Increase Quality and Decrease Risk

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Chapter 3 (Quality in the Agile Space) and Chapter 4 (Agile in the Waterfall) of your textbook.

You have been assigned the role of a SCRUM master in a new Agile project. You have been asked to make a presentation to the Agile team on the Agile-specific activities and best practices that promote increasing the quality of the final product and decreasing the risks associated with the project.

Using your textbook and at least one source from the  Library, select at least two Agile activities and two Agile best practices that you will use in your presentation. Explain them, and demonstrate how they would increase quality and reduce risk.

Should be at least 300 words

Part 2a:

 Draft Evaluation of Agile Methods

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read through the Final Project instructions if you have not already done so.

Over the last few weeks, you have explored various aspects of Agile project management, and will have an opportunity to share your own evaluation of these methods in your final project this week. For this team discussion, write a draft of the script you plan to use for your recorded final evaluation. Then, submit your draft to your team discussion forum for peer review.

Your draft script should be a textual representation of what you plan to say in your final project evaluation, and should:

• Describe the main characteristics of Agile methods
• Differentiate between Agile methods and traditional waterfall methods
• Explain best practices for applying Agile methods to project management
• Assess the benefits of agile project management methods to your organization, including examples for support
• Analyze how Agile techniques influence the leadership of a project

2b:

SCRUM Project, Part 6: Evaluating Agile Methods

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Module 1 (Business Leadership Transition) in Chapter 12 of your textbook.

Your organization is struggling with its projects. Some projects completely fail to provide quality solutions. Others take long to complete, often require constant modifications that were not originally part of the requirements, and cost more money than initially budgeted. The organization is looking for better ways to bring these projects under control and to ensure higher probability of success and quality products.

Using your new knowledge and skills in Agile project management methods, along with any feedback you received from your peers in the Team Discussion this week, create a PowerPoint video presentation to upper management of your organization. The video presentation should exhibit your own evaluation of Agile methods and how they could be used to turn the organizations projects around. The goal of the video presentation is to influence upper management decision makers to transition to Agile project management in the organization.

Your video presentation should be 5-9 minutes in length and should:

• Describe the main characteristics of Agile methods
• Differentiate between Agile methods and traditional waterfall methods
• Explain best practices for applying Agile methods to project management
• Assess the benefits of agile project management methods to your organization, including examples for support
• Analyze how Agile techniques influence the leadership of a project

How to Create a PowerPoint Video

• Method 1: .

Your deliverables for this project are a video (e.g., .mp4 or URL) and a corresponding PowerPoint slide deck (e.g., .ppt file).

• Your video:
  • Must be 5-9 minutes of narration
  • Can take any form (e.g., a talking head video, a voice-over image video, a voice-over animation video, etc.).
• Your corresponding PowerPoint slide deck:
  • Must include 12-15 slides (excluding title and reference slides)
  • Must include a separate title slide with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Students name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructors name
    • Date submitted
  • Must include the speaker’s notes that were used to deliver the recorded presentation
  • Must use at least 3 credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the  Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references slide that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.

 1.Write an algorithm for resolving a battle among the classic Pokemon types.

       The user should select a type of either fire, water or grass. The computer should randomly select one of those three types as well.

      To determine if the user or computer wins, or if it is a draw: fire is stronger than grass, grass is stronger than water, and water is stronger than fire. Whomever chose the stronger type is the winner. If both chose the same type it is a draw.

       See for an example of what an algorithm should look like. Your algorithm should be at a similar level of detail.

       See ( )for an example of the interactions and determining a winner (the example has pictures, your algorithm needs only to consider text based inputs and messages)

       If you submit python code instead on an algorithm you will not receive points for this question.

2.Write a program that ask the user for a string as input. It should duplicate of all the characters in the string and print it back out to the user. For example: AbC123 would be printed out as AAbbCC112233

3.Write a program that takes two lists and displays the items that occur in both lists. For example: [“a”, “b”, “c”] [“c”, “a”, “d”] would display a and c

If you have you been involved with a company doing a redesign of business processes, discuss what went right during the redesign and what went wrong from your perspective. Additionally, provide a discussion on what could have been done better to minimize the risk of failure. If you have not yet been involved with a business process redesign, research a company that has recently completed one and discuss what went wrong, what went right, and how the company could have done a better job minimizing the risk of failure.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Be approximately 4-6 pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

Follow APA6 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.

Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

Leaders are exposed to many different sources of ethics education and training. For instance, MBA and other academic programs often have a specific course or learning outcome devoted to ethical practice, organizations often require ethics training for all employees, especially leaders, and there are numerous ethical guidelines that exist that can help leaders avoid ethical violations. However, some leaders continue to commit ethical violations, which raises questions about the root causes of such behavior. As observed with Enrons corporate leadership, known for one of the largest corporate bankruptcies in American history due to deceptive financial practices, the repercussions for unethical leadership may be irreparable

Question 1. The Evolution of Greek Sculpture

As we learned this week, sculptors in Ancient Greece strove to achieve perfection in the works of art they created. Carefully examine the following sculptures and read about each one in your textbook, course and video lectures, and through reliable internet resources:

Peplos Kore, from the Acropolis, Athens, c. 530 BCE
Warrior, found in the sea off Riace, Italy, c. 460-450 BCE
Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros of Rhodes, Laocon and His Sons, 2nd-1st c BCE

Then, in a minimum of 2 well-developed paragraphs, answer the following questions:

• What specific visual similarities do you observe in these three sculptures?
• What specific differences do you see? Consider the representation of the figure, facial expression or suggested emotion, additional objects portrayed, and the role of the viewer for each sculpture.
• How is each sculpture representative of the period in Ancient Greece (e.g., Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic) in which it was created?

Be sure to explain your ideas clearly and support them by discussing specific details about each sculpture.

Question 2. Religious Symbolism

This week, we studied cultures that recognized a pantheon of gods and goddesses, such as Ancient Greece and Rome, and also explored the early artistic objects of the Jewish and Christian faiths.

Carefully examine the following sculptures and read about each one in your textbook, course and video lectures, and through reliable internet resources:

Dionysiac mystery frieze, Second Style wall paintings in room 5 of the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy, ca. 6050 BCE
Samuel anoints David, detail of the main interior wall of the synagogue, Dura-Europos, Syria, ca. 245256
The Transfiguration of Christ, Church of Sant Apollinare in Classe, 533-549 CE

Then, in a minimum of 3 well-developed paragraphs, address the following questions:

1. What is the subject matter shown in each work?
2. What is the belief system or faith represented in each work?
3. What religious symbols do you observe in each work?
4. How would the setting of each work have influenced how the contemporary viewer interpreted or understood its meaning?

Be sure to provide citations for any outside sources you reference in this part of your response.

Respond to both questions as thoroughly as possible, making sure to use information from this weeks readings, lectures, and additional resources. All responses should be in complete sentence form, using proper spelling and grammar.

As soon as possible, review and comment on the work of two of your peers. In your comments, consider areas you would suggest for expansion or clarification.

Submission Details:

• Post your response to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Respond to at least two posts by the end of the week.

Rubrics

 1.Write an algorithm for resolving a battle among the classic Pokemon types.

       The user should select a type of either fire, water or grass. The computer should randomly select one of those three types as well.

      To determine if the user or computer wins, or if it is a draw: fire is stronger than grass, grass is stronger than water, and water is stronger than fire. Whomever chose the stronger type is the winner. If both chose the same type it is a draw.

       See for an example of what an algorithm should look like. Your algorithm should be at a similar level of detail.

       See ( ) for an example of the interactions and determining a winner (the example has pictures, your algorithm needs only to consider text based inputs and messages)

       If you submit python code instead on an algorithm you will not receive points for this question.

2.Write a program that ask the user for a string as input. It should duplicate of all the characters in the string and print it back out to the user. For example: AbC123 would be printed out as AAbbCC112233

3.Write a program that takes two lists and displays the items that occur in both lists. For example: [“a”, “b”, “c”] [“c”, “a”, “d”] would display a and c

Discussion:

 In your own words, explain what the following terms mean to you as they apply to information security and safe computing: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Why are these factors so important to businesses? 

Assignment:

• 2.1 What are the essential ingredients of a symmetric cipher?
• 2.2 What are the two basic functions used in encryption algorithms?
• 2.3 How many keys are required for two people to communicate via a symmetric cipher?
• 2.4 What is the difference between a block cipher and a stream cipher?
• 2.5 What are the two general approaches to attacking a cipher?
• 2.6 Why do some block cipher modes of operation only use encryption while others use both encryption and decryption?
• 2.7 What is triple encryption?
• 2.8 Why is the middle portion of 3DES a decryption rather than an encryption?

For this week, you will be working through the steps of an affinity diagram.  Choose one of the following problem statements:

1. Power outages cause downtime
2. Malicious code causes systems to crash and production loss
3. Hardware failure causes data loss on the database server

Once you pick a statement, generate ideas and brainstorm based on this article: 

In today’s world, both government and the private sector are struggling to provide a secure, efficient, timely, and separate means of delivering essential services internationally. As a result, these critical national infrastructure systems remain at risk from potential attacks via the Internet.

It is the policy of the United States to prevent or minimize disruptions to the critical national information infrastructure in order to protect the public, the economy, government services, and the national security of the United States.The Federal Government is continually increasing capabilities to address cyber risk associated with critical networks and information systems.

Please explain how you would reduce potential vulnerabilities, protect against intrusion attempts, and better anticipate future threats.

Background: As noted by Kirk (2016), working with data is one of the four stages of the visualization workflow.  According to Kirk (2016), A dataset is a collection of data values upon which a visualization is based. In this course, we will be using datasets that have already been collected for us. Data can be collected by various collection techniques.

Reference: Kirk, Andy. Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (p. 50). SAGE Publications.

Assignment: Summarize 3 data collection techniques (Interviews, Surveys, Observations, Focus Groups, etc.). Compare and contrast the 3 data collection techniques you selected. Lastly, what collection techniques do you prefer and why?

Your research paper should be at least 3 pages (800 words), double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). Your cover page should contain the following: Title, Students name, Universitys name, Course name, Course number, Professors name, and Date.

Submit your assignment on or before the due date.