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Major： Project Management           Course：Decision Making & Project Initiation

Reflective Decision-Making Journal: Create, maintain, and submit a reflective journal as a method for supporting your learning about decision making and project initiation in this course. The following six questions serve as the organizing  由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供 framework for your journal:
 (1) What was the situation/event within which you want to or made or needed to make a decision? 
 (2) What did you decide, and how did you decide it? 
 (3) How do you feel (positive and negative) about what you decided? 
 (4) How could you have decided more effectively/efficiently? 
 (5) What actions can you take to decide more effectively/efficiently in the future? 
 (6) In what ways do you need to change your attitudes, expectations, values, and the like to feel better about decision-making situations?  Your instructor will provide further information about the journal, e.g., length, review dates, etc., during the first session of this course. 
6个Journal所在主题范围的侧重点分别在于
 Decision Making Exercise
 Course overview
 Job design and project management
 Job design and meaningfulness
 Definition of project initiation (PMBOK)
 Role of initiating processes group
 Project charter
 Decision making journals
 Project initiator or sponsor
 Statement of work
 Contract
 Authorization
 Business case
 Feasibility study
 Preliminary scope
 Making trade-offs
 Adaptive approaches to  decision making
 Adaptation vs. adaptability
 Discrepancies between decision-making attitudes and behavior
  Traps
 Problem sense-making and analysis
 Kepner-Tregoe analytic method
 Non-rational methods of decision making
 Hunch circle model
 Building trust on project initiation teams
 Role of a project office 由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供 in the project initiation process