ITFN $3144-01$

Homework $4$: Project Cost, Quality, and Human Resource Management

Assignment date: $26$ March $2024$

Due Date: $23$ April $2024$

Discuss why many information technology professionals may overlook project cost management and how this might affect completing projects within budget.

Solve the Running Case Task $3$ on page $321.($Chapter $7)($Page $296$ of the Eighth Edition of the textbook: Information Technology Project Management by Kathy Schwalbe$).$

Create a Pareto chart $($without using any Excel template$)$ based on the information in the following table. First, create a spreadsheet in Excel using the data in the table. List the most frequent customer problems first and then make the Pareto chart. Interpret the data represented by your Pareto chart. Make sure that given the data your resulting chart looks similar to the one in Figure $8-7.$

$\backslash$table$[[$User Complaints,Frequency$/$Week$],[$System is not available,$45],[$Sudden disconnect from network,$96],[$Network signal quality very poor,$120],[$Network is too slow,$130],[$Tech Support does not follow through,$80]]$