What types of media exist and what type of information or material do they seek both pre-hazard/disaster and post-hazard/disaster? Why can be/is the media important to the emergency manager? Give examples of its importance to the emergency manager.

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Here are the questions for the assignment:

1. Do some Internet sleuthing to learn all you can about the “risk matrix.” Copy and past no less than five example risk matrices that you encountered online.
2. Describe what a risk matrix is and what it is used for.
3. Read the Cox article. What are Cox’s criticisms of risk matrices? What is his general conclusion?
4. Read the Talbot article. What is Talbot’s response to Cox? What is right about risk matrices?
5. What do you think? Feel free to do a pros/cons assessment.

Topics/Course Competencies [1, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14]

• Adaptive Planning in the Agile Project Context
• The Science of Adaptation
• Responding to Change
• Adapting over Conforming
• Principle of Deferred Commitment
• Advanced Release Planning

Readings:

Highsmith: Chapters 7 and 8

Goodpasture: Chapters 5, 6, and 7

Meyer: Chapter 6

Assignment

This week’s Discussion Forum will ask you to correlate what you are studying in the texts with real life examples from the business or organizational world – including your personal experience(s).

Answer these Questions for this week’s Discussion Forum (200 word minimum):

1. Based on the readings for this week, what do you see as the Implications of Adapting over Conforming?

2. Review the front page of your local newspaper or the front page of the business section (online or hard copy). Try to identify at least one “project” that might have had a better outcome/result had it been focused on adapting versus conforming? (You can also use the Wall Street Journal, New York Times or Dallas Business Journal.)

for references: please use those book…

For the reflection paper, simply pick a quote from one of the readings , write out the quote, explain what the quote means, and why you chose it. It only has to be about a page long. about three paragraphs. Please see below for the readings.