Businesses often face significant challenges when it comes to ensuring that projects align with organizational strategy. In order to overcome this challenge, a certain level of project management maturity is needed. Read the article “How Can the Trade Off Between Corporate Business Strategy and Project Risk Be Optimized?” (Sheykh, Azizi, Sobhiyah, 2013) located in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. Then, write a paper discussing the following:

• Explain how project and portfolio management relate to organizational strategy and risk management.
• Explain the rationale behind an organization keeping a diverse project portfolio.
• Discuss the project management maturity level an organization would likely have to achieve in order to successfully build a project portfolio that would align with organizational strategy, while managing risk.

The Organizational Strategy, Project Risk, and Project Management Maturity assignment

• Must be 900-1200 words in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.

PART 1: Log in to zyBooks and complete the listed readings and practice activities for Chapters 7 and 8 in the zyBooks resource, as noted in the Readings and Resources section.

This material focuses on the use of loops as a coding structure that allows for iteration through the use of conditionals.

The zyBooks readings and activities in this module should take you approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete.

part 2:

5-2 Stepping Stone Lab Four: LoopsAssignmentIn Module Five, you have studied how to code for iteration through the use of loops. In Stepping Stone Lab Four, you will develop a simple program with a loop structure. Then, you will reflect on how loops may be used to help structure the program you have worked with throughout the stepping stones.

Go to the Start Here page and download the Stepping Stone code .zip for the starter code for this assignment.

To complete this assignment, review the following documents:

Stepping Stone Lab Four Guidelines PDF

Stepping Stone Labs Two Through Six Rubric PDF

part 3

• 5-3 Final Project Milestone One: Ingredient ClassAssignmentYou will create a complete class based on Stepping Stone Labs Two and Three and provide it the basic attributes with the appropriate data types. Additionally, you will add code to validate the data type of the user input.

  This class will be modified for the submission of your final project application; however, it should be functional code that accepts user input for each variable.

  To complete this assignment, review the Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric PDF document.

This week you continue your work on the Yates Community HIT and HIE Network Upgrade Project by considering the network requirements that will enable communication between Yates Community with state, regional, and national systems. In addition, you will be selecting an appropriate architecture model and diagraming system component designs.

Part 1

Select an architectural model for the Yates Community HIT network that will support both the internal functioning of the network and the communication between your system and the RHIO.

Create the following two diagrams that will enable developers of different system components to build and test the design.

• HIT System Overview
• Revise the diagram you completed in the Week Three Individual Assignment, “Yates Community Network: Internal EHR Optimization” and include:
• Revisions that reflect instructor feedback
• Design elements that reflect your selected architecture model
• Annotations denoting where communication will occur between the Yates Community network and the RHIO
• Annotations showing where HIE and security standards are incorporated within the Yates Community network and at various points of communication to enable communication with the RHIO.
• EHR System Detail
• Create an EHR system diagram in which developers can use to build and test this component. Include:
• Information exchange standards
• Industry and government security requirements
• Intersystem communication requirements, including any instructor feedback you received on your “EHR Requirements and Action Summary” from your Week Three Individual Assignment titled, “Yates Community Network: Internal EHR Optimization”

Part 2:

Write a 3-page HIT network Model and Design Justification, in Microsoft® Word, you could submit to your IT director.

Include the following:

• Reasons for your selected architecture model
• Reasons you did not select other common architecture models
• The design elements you included to maximize interoperable exchange of healthcare data

Compress the two diagram files and the Model Design and Justification document into a ZIP file.

Congratulations!  This week, your internship rotation takes you to the company’s IT Department where you’ve been asked to help prepare a short presentation for one of the company’s Brown Bag Lunch training events. This training event will be attended primarily by business professionals who have familiarity with information technology but at a very high level; the attendees use IT to perform their jobs on a daily basis.

For this 10 minute presentation, you should focus upon meeting the information needs of the attendees from the internal (business) organizations which are supported by the IT department. You should also anticipate questions which your audience might ask during the 10 minute Question & Answer period which follows your presentation. (When you write your peer critiques for this week — ask and then answer at least one question that you believe the audience is likely to ask.)

Choose one of the following articles to present to the attendees.

1. The Cloud Operating Model

2. The Plain English Guide to: Managed IT Services

3. Shadow IT Explained: Risks & Opportunities

After reading the article, prepare a set of slides (talking points) with speaker notes in which you highlight key information about the article and why Padgett-Beale employees should “care” about the topic. Make the presentation relevant for Padgett-Beale by integrating information about its business operations (use the company profile, the weekly descriptions, and other readings in this course). At least one of your slides should address cybersecurity issues and concerns that arise in the context of your chosen article (use the CSCU textbook’s material and other course readings to help you identify these issues and concerns). 

Research Optical Fiber. Identify two everyday examples of Optical Fiber use. Each of these examples show how Optical Fiber is used and it works. Summarize your findings in a brief paper.

Instructions (from the syllabus):

In these writing assignments, there is not a “right or wrong” answer. Rather, cases provide a vehicle for you to demonstrate your understanding and ability to apply course concepts. You must use at least two appropriate sources (other than your course textbook) that are properly cited; do not solely use the case itself to support your position. You are strongly encouraged to use the following outline so that your analysis is organized appropriately:

Identify both the key issues and the underlying issues. In identifying the issues, you should be able to connect them to the principles which apply to this situation.

Discuss the facts which affect these issues. The case may have too much information. In your discussion, you should filter the information and discuss those facts which are pertinent to the issues identified above.

• Discuss your proposed solution/recommendation to the problem and include how you would implement it. What actions would you propose to correct the situation, based on the knowledge you have gained in this course? Be sure to support your recommendation by citing references in the text and in the supplementary readings. You should also draw on other references such as business periodicals and journals. Remember that an ANALYSIS is more than simply a SUMMARY of the Writing Assignment.
• Discuss follow-up and contingency plans (if necessary). How will the organization know that your proposed solution is working? What should they do if it does not work?