Extreme weather

Task 1 In this assignment for project management I am going to choose the Agile Scrum methodology to use as the main body and examples. Agile Scrum is commonly known as it has its famous 12 principles that achieve a good success in project management. These principles I will describe below in a short description. This will hopefully illustrate whoever reading this a short understanding as I will progress to then explain why, Agile, is used to secure many great benefits to project management. 12…

The authors of Risks of Rapid Application Development lead off their discussion with this salient point (Agarwal, Prasad, Tanniru, & Lynch, 2000). They argue that management should not force the change through the organization but rather build a cultural shift that is accepting of what the process is looking to accomplish (Agarwal, Prasad, Tanniru, & Lynch, 2000). Ensuring that their is top down support doesn’t guarantee success however, without the support of management the process will not…

Have you ever wondered what goes through an extreme sports participant’s mind? We may have the wrong perspective of them and call them “risk-takers,” but little do we know how they actually feel. Let's see what studies have to show for extreme sports and their participants. To support what I am feeling, “Dr. Brymer’s Extreme Sports Not About Risk-Taking found that, “Although the image of those who take part in extreme sports was that of risk-takers and adrenaline junkies, the…

The Skeleton is one of the most dangerous sport in the olympics, one man and a sled reaching up to 100 miles per hour speeds on a ice slope. Skelton is one of the fastest and most dangerous sports ever added to the olympics. People have died during the sport by crashing into walls head first or not slowing down after the finish. Contestants can also hit 5 g’s and blackout. Contenders ride on a small sled that weighs 90 pounds and if you aren’t careful you can end up badly injured, and all for a…

related to environmental gaps. For this reason, the setup of pre-existing satellites can help to gather data on future conditions, which can help prepare farmers well in advance of the actual event. Such data collection can also be coupled with new weather instruments in place on farms, which provide farmers with information to make proper decisions. A data station can be installed in local communities that can be managed by an agency and overlooked by the government, the use being for farmers.…

Technology makes our lives easier but hurts the environment. When innovators create technology, many people use these products, which negatively impacts society. When people use more electricity than they need to, the vast amount of electricity being used affects the pollution and the environment, like when a computer is on for too long, it can burn out or slow down, which is expensive to fix. Old technologies have been hurting the environment. We use so much technology; it has negatively…

phenomenon resulted in the deaths of 348 people with damages estimating over $11 billion dollars. Due to the magnitude of the outbreak, National Weather Services assigned several teams to not only investigate the storm, but also the effectiveness of NWS. These teams took an in-depth look at how and why the storm was so large and if/how National Weather Services could have done more to prepare the public of the oncoming outbreak. Each day of…

The sun shimmers across the balcony floor in a dancing wave of light, not a cloud in sight and only the slight breeze through the trees gives any character to todays summer weather. I remember being a child, when the weather was either radiating or the polar opposite; When it was too hot in the summer and unbearably cold in the winter, leaving the house was always a chore which either required you to be almost naked or hold five layers on your torso. That was before the anti-global warming act…

The earth is home to many men and women who use the land and environment to survive. Whether it be from third world countries where the only food available is the food you plant for yourself, to highly industrialized countries such as America where farms package your food and ship them around the nation. The environment serves as the foundation to human survival. The earth gives so much and asks so little in return. Ironically, men and women all around the world are responsible for the depletion…

The biggest effect of the carbon in the atmosphere is the change in weather patterns. Humans, by putting the carbon in the air, have been causing the atmosphere to rain less or more in some areas of the planet; it also causes varying weather patterns. Recent climate tests have shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term…