The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate your personal communication skills. Be honest in your evaluation. This should help you identify your challenges and opportunities for improvement.
Write a 350 word evaluation and analysis of your personal communication strengths and weaknesses, as well as how you communicate within organizations.
Describe the components of communication, as outlined in this week’s reading. Assess your skills in those areas.
Discuss three components, skills, or areas on which you would like to improve.
Outline an improvement plan.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.

Your assignment is to draft two or more research questions. These questions can be either qualitative or quantitative or a mixture of both.
Qualitative: Research questions must be aligned with the purpose statement.  Qualitative research questions should be open-ended and reflect the nature of the qualitative design (avoid yes/no and closed-ended questions).
Quantitative: Research questions must be aligned with the purpose statement and should include proposed hypothesis(es). Ensure the research questions and hypothesis(es) are aligned with the purpose statement. The research questions and hypotheses must be directly answerable, specific, and testable based on the data collected.
Hypotheses
(Quantitative/Mixed Studies Only)
Both null hypotheses and alternative hypotheses should be stated. Each must directly correspond with a research question.  Hypotheses must be stated in testable, potentially negatable, form with each variable operationalized.  Note: Each hypothesis represents one distinct testable prediction.  Upon testing, each hypothesis must be entirely supported or entirely negated.
Length: 1 page, not including title page (reference page not required)
Your research questions should be directly aligned with the purpose statement. Your research questions should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate.

Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)—Essay
Based on the course readings and your research, write an essay that addresses the following key elements:

• Project      scope
  • In       your own words, with cited support from scholarly resources, clearly and       concisely define the construct of a project Scope Statement.
  • Explain       the use of a common technique to develop a project scope.
  • Describe       the practice for achieving project scope consensus.
• Project      work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • In       your own words, with cited support from scholarly resources, clearly and       concisely define the construct of a project work breakdown structure       (WBS).
  • Based       on the project elements presented in Problem 11-2 (Kerzner, 2017, p.       404), use a software application of your choosing to create a WBS (down       through level 3). Include your WBS as an appendix to your essay.
  • Describe       how your WBS can be used to plan this project scenario.

Additional Instructions
Properly organize your writing by including the following:

• Cover      page
• Introduction
• Body      of your work in response to the assignment’s key elements, with headings      and subheadings
• Conclusion
• List      of references
• Appendix      (WBS).

The introduction through conclusion sections of your essay should be approximately 5 pages in length. Support your assignment with a minimum of three scholarly references.
AACE International. (2018). AACE International Recommended Practice No. 10S-90: Cost Engineering terminology. Retrieved from https://web.aacei.org/docs/default-source/rps/10s-90.pdf?sfvrsn=18
Project Management Institute. (2006). Practice standard for work breakdown structures (2nd ed.). Newton Square, PA: PMI Publications.
Project Management Institute. (2017). A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) (6th ed.). Newton Square, PA: PMI Publications.
Chapter 11 in Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling
Part 1 (Sections 4.2 & 5, 10.2.2.4, & 11.6.2.3) & Part 2 (Section 3.1 – 3.5) in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)
Module 3 (p. 3) in Project Management System Resource Center (PMSRC)
Carkenord, B. A. (2014). Three proven ways business analysts help prevent scope creep. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2014—North America, Phoenix, AZ. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. Retrieved from https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/business-analysts-help-prevent-scope-creep-9352
Globerson, S., Cohen, I., & Vardi, S. (2016). Identifying the criteria used for establishing work package size for project WBS. Journal of Modern Project Management, 4(1), 64-69.
Zecheru, V., & Olaru, B. G. (2016). Work breakdown structure (WBS) in project management. Review of International Comparative Management, 17(1), 61-69.