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Project Plan Overview and Preliminary Project Charter worksheet

Part 1: Project Charter worksheet

Identify a potential project from your organization or from a community group for which you would like to complete a project plan.

Complete the Preliminary Project Charter worksheet.

Part 2: Preliminary Project Plan

Put yourself in the role of a customer, client, or project selection board.

Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper composed of the following sections:

• Project Selection Criterion: Describe the project and the criteria used in the selection process.
• Overview: The objective of this section is to provide an overview of the scope and nature of the project to help enable the team to select one project to work on for the rest of the course. 
• Preliminary project schedule: The objective of this section is to show a preliminary summary project schedule with the project tasks including the primary deliverables and the activities associated with them.
• Preliminary budgetary plan: The objective of the budget section is to capture cost estimates, which include resources, capital expenses, materials, and miscellaneous. The cost analysis must consider the following elements (at a minimum): labor, subcontractors, rental or purchase of equipment or facilities, travel, telecommunications, supplies and materials, and documentation. The output for this step is called project funding requirements.
• Format your project plan using any standard project management application, such as Microsoft^® Project.  The software you select must be viewable by all team members and the instructor without downloading any software.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. The paper can use tables to communicate various sections. The tables can be within the main body of the paper even though APA guidelines normally require them in the appendix.  Note: do not send me 6 files (or whatever the number is) and say "here is our assignment"...there should be a "master" file that incorporates all the tables, etc.  This way I can have everything in one single location.  

I do need however a separate file for your project plan (i.e. the .mpp MS Project file) so I can view/manipulate it myself vs a static screen shot in your "master" file.  All that being said I should see three attachments for the assignment:  The .mpp file, the Project Plan, the Project Charter Worksheet.

Here is the case study and all the background information that you would need to get familiar with the project. Even though we have an RFP, it will need to be simplified for our project.

Please let me know if you have any question about the subject matter and I should be able to answer it.  If anyone is not comfortable with understanding the subject matter, please speak up and we'll find another topic to do!

There's a lot of work, so once everyone reviews the attached information let's decide how we are going to divide the work.  I am happy to be lead this week since I have project management experience and am familiar with the topic.  I have already started to compile some information to put together a rough schedule of the project. I also have MS Project and I am happy to input it and put it into an Excel or Word document when completed, but I'll need the schedule and budget information before I can complete this.

There are five sections that need to be completed and the worksheet. Each section of the paper should be no more than 400 words. Please indicate which section you will choose:

1. Preliminary Project Charter Worksheet

2. Overview

3. Project Selection Criteria 

4. Preliminary Project Schedule

5. Preliminary Budget Plan

6. Format Project Plan into MS Project

Management Consulting Training - Case Study Introduction v2.pptx (4,966k), Veterans Health Administration scandal of 2014 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.pdf (1,095k), VAOIG-14-02603-178.pdf (860k), TOPR 73 Systems Review.pdf (546k)

Preliminary Project Schedule Completed below

Project Charter

ERPi Consulting Group has been tasked to undertake a project which will conduct a systems review of the underlying issues with the Veterans Associations (VA) scheduling system and provide a roadmap and tactics to improve organizational health and healing. A Preliminary project charter will include; project selection criterion, overview, preliminary project schedule, and a preliminary budgetary plan all to be included on a Gantt Chart application.

Preliminary Project Schedule