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Rosenwinkel: Article Review BUS 611 Project Planning and Management December 16, 2013 Rosenwinkel: Article Review This paper will attempt to provide an overall review of the Rosenwinkel article ‘Project Plans in The New World’ article and compare it to a project in which this author was a member. It will discuss two â€Å"People Variables† and two â€Å"Project Variables† from the article describing the complexity of the project in which this author was a member. Last, this paper will provide a summary of how this author would change the management of the project based on the items in this article. Rosenwinkel Article Rosenwinkel emphasizes the purpose of a project plan and reasons that a project plan may not be†¦show more content†¦It took people skills, knowledge and technical skills for the successful outcome of the childcare center project. This brings us to the next topic that Rosenwinkel discusses in his article which is project variables. When looking back at the childcare center project for class, the first â€Å"Project Variable† is: Are the project expectation clearly defined and stable? This project variable scores a 1= Yes, because the project expectations were clearly defined by the instructor of the class. Each team was given different assignments that were clearly established and stable by the instructor’s instructions. After each team decided and voted for its leader, the leader then assigned team members task(s) to complete and gave a deadline to have assigned task(s) for the finished product to be assembled. This was a learning experienc e for each member, one as a student and two as a team, which moves us to the next variable. The second â€Å"Project Variable† is: What is the time frame for completing the project? This variable score is 1=less than 50 hours, this assignment was given mid-semester. The project could only be worked on in the classroom during the schedule time for class, and after the instructor’sShow MoreRelatedThe Potentinal for Ozone in BTEX-Contaminated Sites1190 Words   |  5 Pagesineffective. The past decade has shown that ozone can be used in the remediation of contaminated soils, primarily by in-situ ozonation systems. As mentioned previously, ozone is an unstable chemical that has a half-life of around two minutes (Dey, Rosenwinkel, Wheeler 2002). In the process of oxidation, ozone reacts with organics to form free radicals and gaseous oxygen. In fact, ozone is reported to have the third-highest oxidative potential in nature, behind fluorine and hydroxyl-containing-compounds