Create a WBS Project Management

Option 1

In this option, you will focus your research and writing on a service type project with an international component.

Your assignment is as follows:

Imagine that you are writing a scholarly paper for consumption by a new undergraduate student in the project management program. In your paper, explain the following using examples related to a service project:

· Create WBS—including information on decomposition, and WBS to five levels as shown in the video example in Module 4.

· Activity list, attributes, and milestone list.

· Precedence diagramming method (PDM), dependency determination, task duration, leads and lags, and critical path method (CPM).

· Project schedule network diagram with critical path, ES, LS, EF, LF, and slack.

· Resource requirements—including resource calendar, resource breakdown structure, resource constraints, and resource leveling.

· Estimates of activity duration—including analogous estimating, parametric estimating, or three-point estimating, and reserve analysis.

· Human resource management—including responsibility chart matrix, RACI matrix, networking requirements, and pertinent organizational theory.

· Communications management—including communication requirements analysis, communication technology, and communication models and methods.

Your well-written paper must meet the following requirements:

· 3 pages in length, not including cover, references page, nor appendices.

· Supporting documents must appear in appendices.

· The paper must be supported by at least four quality sources, two of which must be current, scholarly resources. For this assignment, current, scholarly sources are peer-reviewed journal articles published within the most recent three years and accessed from the library databases or other academic sources. Textbooks will not count toward peer-reviewed requirements, but may be used as quality sources if published within the most recent three years. The use of the PMBOK® Guide as a quality source is strongly suggested. The PMBOK® Guide is not a scholarly resource.

· Formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA.