PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Assignment MS PROJECT IS REQUIRED

Tips: Start by looking at the WBS activities that you defined last week. Think about how you could decompose your work packages into activities and subactivities to complete this coffee house project. You should use all of the project artifacts (deliverables) you produced so far and the given project scenario to identify all of the activities that are needed.

You should be able to come up with 30–100 activities easily for your schedule baseline. Once those activities have been identified, finish your schedule by plugging in start and finish dates, durations, predecessor relationships, and adding cost and resource names. Resource names and cost can be added in the main summary page or directly in the resource sheet. Your project name must go in the first row, and all other activates should be indented under it. You should link all activities to summary tasks and subactivities to the main activity. You may make assumptions for any of this work, and estimates do not need to be real. You should save the finished project file as: "Week 3 deliverable_your name."

Need in 48-72 Hours or Less

The team returned and discussed their ideas about the budget impacts on the project scope. The brainstorming session went very well, with a lot of input from the entire team. You now have more than enough project cost information to share with Sam and Gloria. The discussion again turns to the best way to present the information. Jim shares some insight on Sam and Gloria with the team.

"Sam and Gloria will have different concerns and issues on project human resources and quality management," says Jim. "Sam will focus more of his attention on the qualifications of people, while Gloria will be concerned with the cost of additional resources and services and quality for the project."

"Sam and Gloria really liked our MS Project schedule presentation," says Jerry.

"I agree, we should just continue to build our MS Project schedule and this time assign cost and human resources for all activities," says Sara. "We should include a plan on how we’re going to manage quality; otherwise, they will ask us how we plan to handle that. Let’s just prepare a simple 1-page quality management plan using this template and present it with the updated MS Project schedule” says Jerry.

"The MS Project cost should include the salary and budget information that we shared in our team discussion," you say. "We should also consider the cost of possible overtime pay. And yes Jerry, I can fill out this simple quality management plan document."

"Don't forget the cost of additional people, equipment, and technology for team members and the cost of the services rendered by the vendors," says Sara. "It should include additional maintenance and training costs as well."

"Oh, that's great!" says Jim, turning to you. "Do you think you can prepare another version of the MS Project Plan and the Quality Management Plan for the team? You did such a great job the last time."

"Sure," you say. "I'll have it ready to review at our next meeting."

Assignment

1-2 Pages

During your final check of your MS Project schedule, you review your notes from the meeting to be sure you have covered salary and budget information from your discussions, and the cost of overtime, additional people, equipment, and technology. Also include the cost of services rendered by the vendors.

For your quality management plan, please find any template or ask your instructor for one. Just make sure you focus on the quality management processes shown in the PMBOK® guide.

PMBOK is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Need this completed in 80 hours or less

Jim asked you to join him to present the team's leadership discussion to Sam and Gloria. The meeting got a little heated, but nothing went beyond your control. Overall, the meeting went very well. You addressed your concerns, highlighted some key problem areas that were shared by the rest of the team, and connected everything back to how their actions are impacting the success of the project. They now realize that their behaviors and actions are putting the project at risk along with many project risks you and the team have identified.

They were also pretty embarrassed with the type of behaviors they displayed in the meeting as the company leaders. Both Sam and Gloria were very receptive to the ideas that you presented to them. In fact, so receptive that they both said they see a lot of leadership potential in you.

"We are both sorry about the whole ordeal. We will both work together to control our emotions and not let it take over us again," says Sam.

"Yes I agree. I will approve the project budget, but to ensure everyone is on the same page and that project risks are managed properly, we need to see a simple project communication plan and a risk register. We need to understand your approach better going forward," says Gloria.

Jim turns to you, handing you a template for both the risk register and the communications plan. "You have done such an excellent job throughout this entire project. Would you be willing to complete these plans?"

"Of course." you say.  "Because of this incident and the leadership that you have displayed over the past few months, we would like you to take over Jim's position as the new project manager," says Sam to you.

Assignment