Coffee Shop Project Management

Coffee Shop Project Management Anas Alsalahat   Introduction The Petra Coffee Shop requires an elaborate project management plan. Through a detailed project plan, it will be possible for the business to be implemented and come to completion. The project plan will identify all the deliverables that will be required during the project development and implementation. Additionally, the plan will provide some alternatives that will enhance its achievement of the project if the identified process fails. For the success of the project, there is need to have all the required resources. The availability of the resources will enhance the seamless adoption of the new measures that will result in the full development of the Petra Coffee Shop. The work breakdown structure Number Task Start Date Finish Date Resource Project announcement and assignment 2/15/16 12/20/16 Budget, management, executive teams Petra Coffee shop meeting announcement 2/15/16 12/15/17 Departmental Petra Coffee shop meeting to make announcement for restructure/reorganization Employee evaluation and reassignment 2/21/16 3/21/16 Policy/member services with management and HR IT/ Configuration upgrade systems 2/15/16 3/18/16 Technical support, configuration, IT Interior decorating and staging new areas 3/1/16 3/15/16 Design and human resource Meet with stakeholders. Write project plan including communication, change 3/5/16 3/5/16 Executive department, stakeholders, management Management and risk management plans 2/25/16 3/25/16 Risk management Handover areas of accountability 2/16/16 5/16/16 Executive, management, HR, talent advisories Training update, certification, management, ready to implement new goals and objectives 2/15/16 12/15/16 Human resources New division/ departments created 2/17/16 12/17/16 Management, services teams, supervision Update project plans 12/1/16 12/1/16 Executive department, stakeholders, management Provide performance report 2/15/16 12/15/16 Department management Formalize the conclusion of project 12/28/16 12/15/16 Executive department, leadership team for organization project Budget meeting to confirm stats and budget 1/1/16 12/1/16 Executive department, leadership team for organization project New hire/ surveillance, training, reorganizing positions 1/1/16 12/1/16 Human resource and talent manager Department board update 2/1/16 12/1/16 Executive, department, leadership team for organization project. Revitalize project Petra Coffee shop meeting update 1/15/16 12/15/17 Overall Petra Coffee shop meeting all employees Put up security systems and measures 1/5/16 12/25/16 Security personnel and equipment Conducting environmental audit and assessment 12/2/16 12/18/16 Environmental specialist Put up mitigation and contingencies planning 1/1/16 12/6/17 Mitigation policies and plans, budget Analyze and evaluate project plan 12/2/16 12/27/16 Budget, additional equipment Grand re-opening for the Petra Coffee shop. 12/1/17 12/6/17 Project manager Risk management plan and Qualitative analysis Negligible Marginal Critical Catastrophic Certain High High Extreme Extreme Likely Moderate High High Extreme Possible Low Moderate High Extreme Unlikely Low Low Moderate Extreme Rare Low Low Moderate High The business. The risks are categorized into was, and one looks at how they impact on the firm. Some risks cause negligible effects to the operation of the Petra Coffee shop. These effects can be ignored, and the companies and the business will continue functioning just fine (McNeil et al, 2015). Marginal effects will call for the business to need to act though these risks can be ignored but not for extended periods of time. Lastly, critical risks call for the business to identify ways and measures that need to be identified and implemented for the success of the firm. On the other hand, its not a guarantee that these risks will occur. Therefore, they are categorized as certain, likely, possible, unlikely and rare (Haimes, 2015). Certain risks are the ones that the business is sure they will occur while the rare ones are the risks whose chances of happening are very small no matter their effects to the operations of the Petra Coffee Business. Risk identification and categorization Risk category Possible negative risk areas Possible positive risk areas Strategy Business performance Investor relations Communication of strategic direction set by board Joint venture management Planning Target setting, vision and goals New business opportunities Strategy development Management activity Human resources Remuneration and entitlements Workplace industrial relations Employee safety and health Employment practices Performance incentivisation Workers compensation Diversity Recruitment and retention Communication Skills availability, training and development Information technology Data security Service maintenance Sharing of classified information Data management Service delivery System development and new systems Data integrity Availability Marketing Image and reputation Customer service Obsolescence Competitive positioning Product liability New products Project management Research and development Trademarks pricing and costing Risk response planning There are various risks that the Petra Coffee Shop business will face during the project development process. These risks will need solid plans that will contribute to overcoming them that ensures they do not impact on the business negatively. First, careful planning and identification of alternatives. Through careful planning, it will be possible to identify the risks that face the business. The identification of risk will result to their anticipation (Aven, 2015). As such, the Petra Coffee Shop project management will determine the available alternatives that could be implemented if the main project fails. The implementation of the alternatives will facilitate the continuity of the project which will see the project come to an end successfully. Secondly, availability of finances avails sufficient resources; the project management will have enough financial base that will enable them to overcome most of the obstacles that will be anticipated along the way or the barriers that were just emergencies. The ability to have such resources makes it possible for the project to continue and come to an end (Aven, 2015). Additionally, financial resources facilitate the integration of the new alternatives that had been earlier identi fied. References Aven, T. (2015). Risk analysis. John Wiley Sons. Haimes, Y. Y. (2015). Risk modeling, assessment, and management. John Wiley Sons. McNeil, A. J., Frey, R., Embrechts, P. (2015). Quantitative risk management: Concepts, techniques and tools. Princeton university press.

How the stimulus material was developed through the drama process

To begin our performances, and even before the groups had been finalised the class received two pieces from the teacher. The first was the general notion of ‘Time passing' and the second was part of a poem: ‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Old time is still a-flying; And the same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.' – Robert Herrick We began a short scene based on the stimuli of the poem. We set up ‘mirror image' scenes. On each side of the scene there was a female, a male (who began off stage) along with an additional character that would try and approach the woman. In one scene the man decided to meet the woman and they went off happily†¦however the man on the other side waited too long and the additional character went on with the female. He did not take the opportunity and lost the woman. The second half of the lesson was spent discussing ideas for a Devised Drama piece. We, as a smaller group, were given the stimulus of an article entitled ‘How to build a time machine'. This evoked serious discussion and developed onto ideas similar to films such as ‘The Butterfly Effect' and ‘Groundhog Day' along with films such as ‘Final Destination' – from which we could take similar ideas. However, in later sessions we soured on ideas taken from this, but did decided to include reliving situations or death. A group member provided the next piece of stimulus. It was a song by The Streets called â€Å"The Irony of it All†, in which there are two ‘characters' a young alcohol drinker and a cannabis smoker. The song portrays the alcohol drinker as ‘yobbish' and destructive – slurring his words and not being able to come up with a competent argument besides repeating himself several times. The cannabis smoker was shown as being calm, level headed and smarter than the alcohol drinker. This brought up the argument ‘Are drugs better than alcohol?' It must be realised that there are good and bad points to everything and the group was eager that we show both sides of the argument with possibly a middle ground of ‘Either being good in moderation.' The first scene created was based on this song. It was the after-effects of the night before. Set on a communal living space on a University campus, there was a couch, two chairs with a table and space to work on the floor. A drunken character, played by Jack, was ‘crashed out' on the couch and two other characters, played by Saimon and Luke, were at the table smoking cannabis. Two other characters entered together from one side of the stage and began teasing ‘Jack' for what had happened the night before. Another character, a class A drug addict, played by Kate entered and sat at the floor beginning to work. She complained to the others about the noise†¦however they ignored her and she stormed out. The scene ended when ‘Alice' and ‘I' headed out to the lectures leaving the others to recuperate from their actions. The purpose of the scene was to compare the effects of each drug, and began the idea of separate ‘groups' for each drug. The second part of the scene was layered over the action of ‘Jack', ‘Saimon' and ‘Luke'. In this scene ‘Katie' began an internal monologue. In which she detailed the shortcomings of each person and the shortcomings of herself. As the play developed these scenes, these scenes were cut. However they were not cut completely, only transformed into similar scenes. The first scene was changed to the ‘Saturday Night' scene, with the comparison of Cannabis and Alcohol – showing two groups of people separately doing stereotypical ‘Saturday Night' things, and confronting each other. The scene was intended to show the positives of marijuana as opposed to the negatives of alcohol. The second part of the scene formed the basis of what is now the ‘Green Acres' scene, revealing the short falls of each character, as they stand to their feet and admit to the ‘group' (i.e. The audience) what they have done, why, and what they are going to do about it. The final piece of stimulus was the photo of Rachel Whitear, a heroin addict who was found kneeling in her room, clutching the needle in one hand. A photograph was taken of her in this position, and her parents decided to teach children about the effects of drugs by offering to show this picture and videos about Rachel to school children throughout the country. The image is very haunting and powerful, and we decided that we would display the picture in our heroin overdose scene. Originally the plan was for the character, played by Kate, to emulate the ‘pose' on the stage, whilst the picture of Rachel was projected on the white wall of the drama studio. However we felt that the use of a projector would seem out of place in a play that purposefully lacks props, set design and only uses a small amount of lighting. We also decided that this would require us to use the projector throughout the performance and we would run the risk of the technology failing.

Identity Formation Essay

Identity formation is a universal term for young girls and boys who are trying to create themselves once they have that self awareness concept. There are many experiments that show media, peer pressure, and environmental factors contribute towards alternating a person’s identity. Natural observation and the longitudinal study can show the changes that form when a person encounters a social environmental factor that can alter their own identity which; it could be through friends, pressure to fit in, or celebrity envy. Two research methods that would prove to show that media, peer pressure, and social environmental factors do influence identity formation would be studying a participant over a long period time and studying a person in a natural setting with out them knowing. For example doing a longitudinal study on a participant will show the influences of different factors that will have on a certain participant through out their development. Doing this kind of research method will show the progress of changes in that participant’s life and will show the researcher the affect it has on her or his identity development. For example a young girl who always watches celebrities through out her childhood and into her teen years will show an affect on her identity rather then someone who is taught on real life and how people are suppose to look like or act. â€Å"Adolescents who watched music videos were more likely to recognize and relate to the socially competent behaviors demonstrated in the music videos than to the negative images or entertainment only value of the video (Te’Neil Lloyd 2000). † Using a natural setting can show researchers if participants act differently in real life after watching certain movies or shows. Without the participant knowing they are being studied they will show a natural behavior and most likely send out a false identity after being exposed to those social media factors. The downside about using these two research methods can be both participants can drop out anytime they want. Such as using the longitudinal study the young participant can drop out of the study anytime of his/her life. To make sure this study is ethical is to have a parent’s permission for their child to participate in this study over their entire development span. For the natural setting observation study the researchers cannot talk to whoever they are observing which can lead to involvement towards the study and interrupting the natural behavior. To make sure this type of research study is ethical is to not use names and make sure other people cannot find these participants in their community. Or they can tell their participants that they want to observe them, but not tell them when and do the observation randomly. Overall identity formation can be manipulated at anytime in the child’s development stages; media, magazines, and their own peer group can change how they view themselves. Using a natural setting for observation, and longitudinal study can show researchers that social factors and environmental factors can influence identity formation. Overall social media, celebrity shows, and environmental factors have a heavy impact on our lives each day. Many young girls and boys try to find their own medium with all these barriers to overcome with trying to fit in at school or watching TV shows that show unrealistic behaviors and appearances for the real world. â€Å"Teenaged adolescents watch more movies than any other segment of the population. More than 4 million adolescent girls monthly purchase magazines such as Seventeen and Sassy (Evans et aL, 1991), and three-fourths of white females aged 12-14 read at least one magazine regularly (Klein et al. , 1993). Add to this videos, books, and newspapers, and the total amounts to a significant part of the daily experience of adolescents (Jensen Arnett 1995). † This fact shows many girls and boys are exposed to a lot of media, gossip magazines and movies that many people envy for their life and identity to be like.

Prejudice in Telephone Conversation and Dinner Guest-Me...

Prejudice in Telephone Conversation and Dinner Guest-Me In the two poems, ‘Telephone Conversation’ and ‘Dinner Guest-Me,’ each poet uses their poetry as a means of confronting and challenging prejudice. In ‘Telephone Conversation’ by Wole Soyinka, a phone conversation takes place between an African man and a very artificial lady about renting out a room. When the lady finds out he is African she becomes very prejudiced and racist towards him. ‘Dinner Guest-Me’ by Langston Hughes is about a black man going to a dinner party where he is the only coloured person there, like he is the ‘token black.’ Anger and a sense of humour are shown in both of the poems. In ‘Telephone Conversation’ the African man is angry at the â€Å"peroxide†¦show more content†¦Her response of â€Å"DON’T KNOW WHAT THAT IS† she still doesn’t understand him. â€Å"My bottom raven black,† she is offended by this and finally realises he is making fun of her. 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