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Question: 1. "Culture Issues" Please respond to the following:

• Use google or bing to research organizational culture. Review articles or publications that describe how organizational culture influences project management. Next, identify at least three (3) organizational culture characteristics that influence project management success rates and explain how each characteristic influences project management.

2. "New Attitude" Please respond to the following:

• Imagine you are the project manager for an organization and you are asked to use Agile concepts for a large project. Determine the attitude you must have to run an Agile project management practice and explain why.

• Determine the behavior changes you must make on your own to adapt Agile project management in the situation described in Part 1 of this discussion. Explain why the changes must be made.

3. "Scrum Alliance Code of Ethics" Please respond to the following:

• From the e-Activity, give your opinion as to whether or not ethics matter in Agile project development and management. Speculate on the consequences of performing Agile projects without considering ethics. Include an example to support your answer.

• Imagine you are an IT project manager using Agile methods to perform your job. Identify at least three ethical issues pertaining to your Agile projects and determine how you would mitigate them.

4. "Architectural Standards" Please respond to the following:

• Software architectural standards should be evaluated with a critical eye before being adopted. Select a particular standard and provide an example where it may benefit or hinder a software development project. Support your answer.

• Speculate under what conditions (i.e., type or size of the application) one must adopt certain standards. Provide at least two examples or scenarios to support your answer.

5. "Software Architects" Please respond to the following:

• Imagine that you are in charge of a development team that has been contracted to create a large social networking system to compete with Facebook. Determine the roles in realm of software architecture, design, development, testing, and the support that will be necessary to have on the team to complete this project. Determine the optimal skills, experiences, education, training, and other attributes that each identified role must possess in order to fill the positions.

• In the same situation as Part 1 of this discussion, identify at least two additional non-standard and / or "out of the box" attributes you believe should be attributes of a software architect candidate for your organization. Support your answer.

6. Consider the following restaurants: Pizza Hut, Popeyes, and Taco Bell.

When conducting a review on any business, the first thing that needs to completed is a SWOT Analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats). This analysis helps a business know where they excel at and where they need to work at, as well as, what they can take advantage of out in the environment, as well as threats they need to prepare for.

• Select one of the brands and conduct a SWOT Analysis on it. Include at least 2 strengths, 2 weaknesses, 2 opportunities, and 2 threats and discuss why you labeled each as you did.

• Based upon your SWOT Analysis created in the previous bullet, create and suggest two (2) strategic marketing recommendations for this business based upon your reflection/analysis and the information that you have gained throughout the course? How did you arrive at these recommendations?