Project Management and Marketing the Xbox 360

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Introduction
This paper will address the principles of strategy and marketing. Xbox 360 is a gaming console produced by Microsoft, Inc. The marketing plan will discuss the various phases for marketing the Microsoft Xbox 360 and the anticipated success. The success of Microsoft’s first Xbox gives hope to the likely success of the Xbox 360. The Xbox was a huge success selling millions of units around the world.

Project Management and Scheduling Xbox 360
Project management and scheduling is a very important for business today. In order to run a successful business it is important to be able to strategically plan and anticipate your future needs and cost. As a good manager, you should look at the cost of your material for products; these will include labor, material and your support services. (Schroeder, 2008) All projects go through three phases: planning, scheduling, and control.
Planning
Let us start the discussion with the planning process. Planning is a very important step. It is wise to think about the steps you will take to complete a project in an allotted time frame and learning what resources you will need to complete the project, the amount of labor it will take to complete, set obtainable goals to reach, define your production team of who will do what and when (Schroeder). Projects are characterized by broad variations in functionality, cost, schedule, and human resources when compared to the original plan. Management and future users of the project output are often frustrated by this apparent lack of project management skill in prediction and control. To that end, the goal of this paper is to explore some of the common reasons for these situations and illustrate a design structure for improv...

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