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Discuss how scrum can be adopted to build high performance team in any organization.

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Agile software systems

Draft Thesis Statement: Scrum is an agile project management methodology, primarily used for software development projects. This paper discusses how scrum can be adopted to build high performance team in any organization.

ASSIGNMENT DATELINE: 14 Nov 21

NUMBER OF WORDS: 2500 words or more

REFERENCE: IEEE Style.

KEY NOTE: Cite research from quality academic papers and consider using real-world data sets and subject matter expertise as supporting material.

Discuss why you feel more comfortable using a “consideration” or an “initiating structure” style. (c) Our textbook suggests that the best leaders are high on both behaviors. Do you agree with it? Why? Why not?

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Leader’s Self-Insight

Discuss why you feel more comfortable using a “consideration” or an “initiating structure” style. (c) Our textbook suggests that the best leaders are high on both behaviors. Do you agree with it? Why? Why not?

What does Roosevelt mean by the difference between the definition of liberty that has existed in the past and his own “broader definition of liberty?” According to Steinbeck, how do Depression era migrant workers differ from those in earlier periods?

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The New Deal

Write a 2-3 page paper in which you analyze the primary sources from Chapter 21, “The New Deal, 1932-1940. Analyze your sources by placing them in the historical context of their time period. Discuss what was going on at that time that each source was written. Give examples from the chapter and the power point Discuss what was going on at the time that each source was written. Give examples from the chapter and the power point of what was going on at the time. Discuss how the source is connected to what was happening. Why do you think these sources were written? Be specific in your discussion and choose a quote or two from each source for greater support. Use the questions that Eric Foner includes with each set of sources to help focus your discussion. Chapter 21 sources:

Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat” (1934), and John Steinbeck, “The Harvest Gypsies: On The Road To The Grapes Of Wrath “(1938).

Foner questions for chapter 21:

What does Roosevelt mean by the difference between the definition of liberty that has existed in the past and his own “broader definition of liberty?”
According to Steinbeck, how do Depression era migrant workers differ from those in earlier periods?
Do the migrant workers described by Steinbeck enjoy liberty as Roosevelt understands it?

Share about a person or moment that has been your ‘lollipop’ in early childhood and family practices. How did this moment put you on this path? How can you continue to develop your leadership skills to help support families?

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Discussion 1

Watch Drew Dudley’s (Links to an external site.) video on Leadership with Lollipops and read the DEC Position Paper on Leadership (there is also a section in the DEC Recommended Practices, surprise!).

In this Discussion Forum:

1. Share about a person or moment that has been your ‘lollipop’ in early childhood and family practices. How did this moment put you on this path?
2. How can you continue to develop your leadership skills to help support families? List at least 1 clear, specific activity
3. Tell your lollipop person that that moment was important. I encourage you to give them a real or virtual lollipop and share this TED Talk.lollipop

Explain the differences between the two approaches. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method compared to the other. What does this organization do well in your opinion with regards to budgeting? What needs improved?

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Budgeting Process

The budgeting process is not the same in every organization. Some organizations have a top-down approach. Others have a bottom-up process.

  1. Explain the differences between the two approaches.
  2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method compared to the other.
  3. Describe your own organization’s (or one with which you are familiar, or an example from an online search) approach to budgeting. Writer, your choice on the organization
  4. What does this organization do well in your opinion with regards to budgeting? What needs improved?

Write an essay in which you analyze the key economic, social, political, and cultural changes in the U.S. since 1939. How is this “new” America different from the nation you left behind?

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Final Paper

You’re an American living in the year 1939. Suddenly, you’re abducted by aliens and transported forward in time to the year 2021. Write an essay in which you analyze the key economic, social, political, and cultural changes in the U.S . since 1939. How is this “new” America different from the nation you left behind? Try to focus on the big picture — major changes, not trivia.

Share an organization’s value statement and explain how it affects their organizational culture. Also, draw a mind map of an ideal, healthy and supportive creative climate. How does your organization measure up and why or why not?

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Cultivating Creative Thinking – Discussion 8

 

This activity provides you with an opportunity to share an organization’s value statement and explain how it affects their organizational culture. You will also address how your organization measures up in terms of creating a healthy and supportive creative climate.

  1. Post in the discussion topic.Share an organization’s value statement and explain how it affects their organizational culture. Also, draw a mind map of an ideal, healthy and supportive creative climate. How does your organization measure up and why or why not?

What is your take on the sales promotion strategies used by Tim Hortons? What marketing and communications objectives do they meet? How does Tim Hortons integrate sales promotions with other components of the marketing communications mix?

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Integrated Marketing Communication – Discussion 7

 

The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on your learning and to further your understanding of sales promotion and its role in the marketing mix by reviewing Tim Hortons’ RRoll Up the Rim To Win® campaign.

  1. Review: Get Excited Canada: RRoll Up the Rim To Win® Is Back With New Prizes And More Ways To Play
    Review the press release provided and conduct your own online research to learn more about Tim Hortons and Roll Up the Rim.
  2. Post your comments
    Now that you have reviewed Tim Hortons’ marketing of Roll Up the Rim, contribute meaningfully to the discussion by responding to the following questions:
  • What is your take on the sales promotion strategies used by Tim Hortons?
  • What marketing and communications objectives do they meet?
  • How does Tim Hortons integrate sales promotions with other components of the marketing communications mix?

 

What does “genetic modification” mean to you? Do you know of foods that have been genetically modified that are regularly consumed by Americans? If you do not know of any, look one up online. List at least one. Tell us the reason why it was genetically modified.

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Pamela Ronald

Video #2: Pamela Ronald “The case for engineering our food”
Before watching this TED talk by Pamela Ronald:
1. What does “genetic modification” mean to you?
2 Do you know of foods that have been genetically modified that are regularly consumed by Americans? If you do not know of any, look one up online. List at least one. Tell us the reason why it was genetically modified.
3 What are your opinions on genetically modified foods?
After watching this TED talk:
4 How do the scientific experiment(s) described in this talk contribute to advances in our knowledge of biology or what scientific problem are they trying to solve? Do you feel that the experiments described in this talk will help solve these issues, why or why not? Write 3-4 sentences.
5 List at least 3 types of plants that are now being genetically modified for human consumption that you learned about from this talk.
6 Write at least one paragraphs on whether or not this TED talk changed your mind at all about genetically modified food.

Which of the five levels of BbET do you consider to be most important? Why? How is each level important to a student’s academic and/or social-emotional development? In which of the five systems do you think teachers and individuals working with students have the most control? Why?

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Discussion#1

 

Piaget and Vygotsky

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9GYqXzIhc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I2hrSRbmHE&t=47s

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5OygJ3vDjM

 

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory

 

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Bronfenbrenner%27s-Ecological-Systems-Theory-Paquette-Ryan/b23a4e916f3d815a2624f2289575cdf5c493a0c6?p2df

 

After reviewing the above links for Piaget and Vygotsky

 

  1. Compare and/or contrast this theory with Piaget’s Theory or Vygotsky’s View of Cognitive Development.

 

After reviewing the BbET link, respond to the following questions:

 

  1. Which of the five levels of BbET do you consider to be most important? Why?
  2. How is each level important to a student’s academic and/or social-emotional development?
  3. In which of the five systems do you think teachers and individuals working with students have the most control? Why?
  4. In which of the five systems do teachers and individuals working with students have the least control? Why?