Author: haroonkhan
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Building a Project Plan
The first step in building a project plan is to validate the elements of the Project Definition document. Depending on the length of time between acceptance of the project definition and the start of detail planning, you might need to confirm that there have been no changes in the purpose, objectives, success criteria, and scope…
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Key Project Planning Principles
Although most reasonable people will at least acknowledge there is value to planning at a logical level, many of those same people are less than emotionally committed to the practice. Why is this? Generally, it is because the project planning they have witnessed has violated one or more of the following key project planning principles:…
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Introduction
As is true with defining a project, project planning is essential for project success. In defining a project, we come to an agreement on what we will do and who will be involved. In planning a project, we focus on how the work will be done. This involves both how the deliverables will be developed…
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The Four Phases of Development
As of today, we can say that there are four types of development in terms of dependence on other cultures. They can be called (i) Non-dependent Development; (ii) Dependent Development; (iii) Independent Development; and (iv) Inter-dependent Development. These are broadly historical in the sense that movement is from endogenous to exogenous with the passage of…
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IMPROVING THE PRESENT: MANAGING CHANGE
In the previous sections, we mainly talked of the changes that occur in a society in a variety of ways, not all of them planned, and not all of them desirable. Many concepts and theories relative to the consequences of an innovation or to the acceptance or rejection of an innovation came in handy when…
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THE CONCEPT OF CULTURAL LAG
One of the concepts related to the introduction of change that received wide currency is that of Cultural Lag, proposed by William F. Ogburn. This concept refers to the disorganization ‘produced by unequal rates of change in society’. When two correlated parts of a culture change at different rates—one slower and the other faster—the gap between the…
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Influence of Technology on Social Life
With the spread of the TV6 to all parts of the country and the emergence of several private channels, major changes have occurred—and are occurring—in several aspects of social life. Competing with the cinema are TV serials and reality shows. The operation of channels round the clock on all seven days of the week has meant…
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Ramifications of an Innovation
An innovation is not limited to just the sector in which it initially occurs. It spreads to other sectors, and in the process gives rise to a succession of other, related innovations. Electricity is a good example. It has reached all corners of society to illuminate dark areas. Even places of worship, which had a…
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Dispersion or the Multiple Effects
Any invention exerts influences other than those originally perceived. Speaking of the introduction of the radio in the United States, Ogburn and Nimkoff identified as many as 150 different influences in the following fields: uniformity and diffusion, transportation, education, dissemination of information, religion, industry and business, occupations, and government and politics, to name a few.…
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SOCIAL CHANGE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF GROWTH
The above analysis of change related to cultural goals and means, and to the attendant changes in institutions or in attitudes and values. Western sociology, particularly American sociology, also paid attention to changes in demography and to other changes brought about in society by technological innovations. We shall briefly allude to them here. Demographic Change…