MGMT404

Course Project
Guidelines | Milestones | Deliverables

Guidelines
For this project you may choose one that is of interest to you or you may choose to begin planning for your senior project. When selecting a project, avoid picking one that is either too big or too small. For example, do not decide to build a new stadium for your local sports team (too big) or to plant your summer garden (too small).
Here are some successful project ideas.
• The opening of a coffee shop
• An open house for a local social service agency
• A meditation pool and platform
• A redevelopment of a local playground
• Design and installation of a computer network for a small business
• Software development project
Milestones

• Project Charter
• Scope Statement
• Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram
• Risk Management Plan
• Resource Management Plan
• Communication Plan
• Final Project Package
Project Charter
Provide a project charter of the selected project. For your new project, please develop a project team (citing names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers).
Be certain to include the following.
1. Project Objectives
2. Project Statement of Work
3. Milestones
4. All other sections as required in the project charter
Please put this in proper business writing format. Consider me to be your boss.
Scope Statement
Prepare a scope statement for the Project. Remember to be tangible, measurable, and specific. Be sure to include all sections required.
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Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram
According to the PMBOK® Guide, "the WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables." In other words, it lists the project's tasks, the subtasks, the sub-subtasks, and so on.
For this phase, you will create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project you selected during phase one. Remember that the WBS starts with your major deliverables (that you stated in your scope management plan) at the highest level. The lower levels have the tasks required to complete those deliverables. You should have at least three tasks under each deliverable, but you may have as many tasks as needed to ensure that the deliverables are complete. Review the textbook (and the PMBOK® Guide, if you have it) for some suggestions on how best to create a WBS. From your work breakdown structure, develop a project task list with dependencies, add durations, and then submit a network diagram (using MS Project) and a project schedule.
Develop the Work Breakdown Structure
• Your WBS should have a minimum of 25–30 tasks and be three subtasks deep.
• Make sure to use verb-object task names (for example, "Develop software").
o Enter tasks in MS Project.
o Create the predecessor relationships to create a network diagram.
o DO NOT LINK SUMMARY TASKS!
o In the Gantt Chart Tools tab, check the box marked Outline Number in the Show/Hide group.
Risk Management Plan
1. Establish the project's priority matrix (constrain, enhance, accept).
2. Identify a minimum of 10 project risks and when each will occur in the project life cycle, and then determine their impact and probability of occurrence.
3. Create a matrix, making sure that it is consistent with your priority matrix.
4. Justify the use of your risk scoring matrix.
5. Assess your risks according to your matrix.
6. Rank the risks according to their total risk score.
7. Prepare the Risk Response Matrix for each risk—Risk, Response, Contingency, Trigger.
Resource Management Plan
A project plan cannot be considered complete until the resources have been assigned (including the bottom-up cost estimate) and leveled, ensuring that the resources are available to complete the work.

Communication Plan
According to the PMBOK® Guide, "the Communications Planning process determines the information and communications needs of the stakeholders; for example, who needs what information, when they will need it, how it will be given to them, and by whom." In other words, it lists the general communication requirements for the project.
You will create a simple communication plan for the execution of your project. This plan should have the following information: contact information for all affected parties, major deliverables and how progress on the deliverables will be communicated to the affected parties (as well as who the affected parties are and when communication will take place), and any other miscellaneous information about communication on the project.
Final Project Package
You will need to create a project plan. This plan should be completely integrated and presented in a logical order. It should be written professionally and should be mistake-free in terms of spelling and grammar. The final project plan should incorporate any changes that occurred along the way.
Any tables and/or graphs should be labeled correctly. Your final project plan should consist of the following items.
• Table of contents
• Project charter
• Scope statement
• Work breakdown structure
• Network diagram
• Risk management plan
• Resource management plan
• Communication management plan