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Option #1: Quality Management and Small Cell Infrastructure Design

Go to Module 8 and read the expectations for Option 1, then return here for your Module 3 Milestone effort.

In Module 3, you are asked as a first step, to familiarize yourself with the Small Cell Infrastructure Design Guidelines. Note that two contract firms were instrumental in the development of the guidelines: Clanton Associates, Inc. and Jacobs Engineering Group. After your review of the guidelines, you are asked to provide your input to the following:

• Are the current Small Cell Infrastructure Design Guidelines (SCIDG) ones that promote high quality? If yes, how? If no, why not and what should change to promote quality? Support your position with specific references to the SCIDG or current scholarly documentation.
• What do you interpret to be meant by “quality” from the perspective of the public works personnel, communications companies deploying small cell infrastructure, the contract companies involved, and the public both now and in the future? What support do you have for your position with specific references to the SCIDG or current scholarly documentation?
• What are the drivers for change, and the barriers to change from the perspective of the public works personnel and the public? Are there competing drivers for change that may impact quality from the public’s perspective? Support your position with specific references to the SCIDG or current scholarly documentation.

Submission:

• Write a paper addressing the Module 3 Milestone questions for the case of The Department of Public Works, Engineering Division for the City and County of regarding the Small Cell Infrastructure Design Guidelines and quality management. Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length, not including the required title and references pages and any appendix if required. For more information see “How do I do an Appendix in APA style?” (Links to an external site.)
• Support the Milestone paper with a minimum of three current (published in the most recent five years) scholarly sources from the CSU Global Library. This is in addition to any course textbooks, lecture material you decide to use, or the case itself. Of course, you may always exceed the minimum number of sources.
• Format the paper according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Be clear, concise, and focused.

Option #2: Total quality management and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Federal Retirements

Go to Module 8 and read the expectations for Option 2, then return here for your Module 3 Milestone effort.

In Module 3, you are asked as a first step, to familiarize yourself with the Government Accounting Office (GAO), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) May of 2019, publication of the Federal Retirement: OPM Actions Needed to Improve Application Processing Times. After your review of the guidelines, you are asked to provide your input to the following:

• Is the current Federal Retirement: OPM Actions Needed to Improve Application Processing Times document one that promotes high quality? If yes, how? If no, why not and what should change to promote quality? Support your position with specific references to the GAO report or current scholarly documentation.
• What do you interpret to be meant by “quality” from the perspective of the GAO OPM, retirees, Congressional leaders, and the public both now and in the future? What support do you have for your position with specific references to the GAO report or current scholarly documentation?
• What are the drivers for change, and the barriers to change from the perspective of the GAO OPM, retirees, Congressional leaders, and the public? Are there competing drivers for change that may impact quality from the public’s perspective? Support your position with specific references to the GAO report or current scholarly documentation.

Submission:

• Write a paper addressing the Module 3 Milestone questions for the case of federal employee retirement situation and quality management. Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length, not including the required title and references pages and any appendix if required. For more information see “How do I do an Appendix in APA style?” (Links to an external site.)
• Support the Milestone paper with a minimum of three current (published in the most recent five years) scholarly sources from the CSU Global Library. This is in addition to any course textbooks, lecture material you decide to use, the GAO report or the case itself. Of course, you may always exceed the minimum number of sources.
• Format the paper according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Be clear, concise, and focused.