Examination tasks for the subject: "Computer Modelling and Business Projects Management" So, what you need to do for get the final mark? 1. Using Software "OpenProj" (MS Project analogue) and its language to develop a Project (plan/model): "Creation and implementation of The Computer-Based Complex of Tasks «Accounting and analysis of the family's costs / income, living in the requirements and economic legislation of Latvia or your fatherland Country (CBCT -"Accounting for family expenses ")» 1.1. Make a detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Develop a Gantt chart. 1.2. Develop a network schedule. 1.3. Calculate the needs of human and financial resources. 1.4. Determine the duration of the project 1.5. Prepare an explanatory note to the plan within the framework and with "OpenProj" materials. 2. Develop a software set of tasks (CBCT – "Accounting for family expenses") using Software EXCEL 2.1. The challenge, "Accounting of the base costs" - Expenses for house (apartment) in detail, including taxes; - Food costs; - Transport's costs; - Expenditure on clothing; - Expenditure on education (courses, university, special…sports etc. ); - Other planned and incidental expenses (Medical treatment, travel and tours, holidays and etc.) 2.2. The task "Accounting of Basic incomes": - Taking into account all categories of permanent and occasional incomes (planned and operational; from work, scholarships, awards, help from relatives, etc.). 2.3. Task 'Analysis and Forecasting ". - Analysis - Balance: The sufficiency of a profitable part for the event, and (inferences); - Prediction of expenditure and revenue for the next period (cl year, month, to choose from.) Using the function "Forecast" in the EXCEL. 2.4. Documentation to CBCT (user manuals, etc.). 3. Software "GNU Octave" 3.1. To learn the basics "OCTAVE": symbolic computation with using elementary mathematic expressions; organization of data arrays; the formation of text comments; plotting; operations on matrices and linear algebra simple tasks. Be able to demonstrate work with the Software "OCTAVE". 3.2. Make an attempt to solve the problem from past Econometrics Course "Analysis of the population dynamics of Latvia" with "GNU Octave" opportunities. RECOMMENDED LITERATURE: 1. Project Planning with OPENPROJ the open source Project Management software. https://www.scribd.com/document/204010743/OpenProj-Manual 2. OpenProj - Official Site. https://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/ 3. Project Management Assignment – Brian Whitworth 4. Explainer: What is a computer model? https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/explainer-what-computer-model 5. Eugene Gorelik. Cloud Computering Models. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge. 2013. http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/wp/2013-01.pdf 6. Excel Models for Business and Operations Management. Second edition. John F. Barlow.** http://mahdimeskin.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/excel-models-for-business-and-operations-management.pdf 7. System Dynamics Modeling for Project Management. John D. Sterman. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/project.pdf 8. Gray, Clifford F. Project Management. The Managerial Process / Clifford F. Gray, Erik W. Larson. - 3rd ed. - McGraw-Hill, 2006. - 574, [18] p. + CD 9. Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Guide ANSI / PMI 04 – 01. (Only:"Table of Contents" for best understanding of the subject). http://www.thattechnicalbookstore.com/b193069945X.htm