CMGT 410 Project Planning & Implementation

Week1

Feb, 23 - Feb, 29

Title

Type

Due

Points

Week One Participation

Individual

Feb 29, 2016 11:59 PM

4

Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

Individual: Project Proposal

Individual Feb 29, 2016 11:59 PM 10

Instructions:

Consider the following scenario:

You have been hired by a large company with branch offices around

the country to assist with rollout of a new companywide compliance

system.

While initially the focus was on implementation of the technology, it was

found that success will require at least 10 hours of training over two

days for all managers across the country on both the use of the new

platform as well as a host of new compliance policies being introduced.

Of the options discussed, it was generally agreed that the training

should be hands-on and conducted in-person at a central location. This

will obviously require getting organizational buy-in as not all managers

are going to be willing to commit to taking time out from their normal

responsibilities just for some training.

In addition, such large scale centralized training has not been done

before by this company; therefore, the CEO wants feedback from

participants to evaluate the effectiveness of any training sessions.

As a result, your manager has given you the responsibility to develop

an outline for a proposed project that would meet this upcoming need

for arranging and conducting a two-day training session.

This scenario will continue throughout the first three weeks with all

weeks being submitted along with the Week 3 assignment. You are

expected to apply any feedback provided by the instructor to these

finalized documents.

Week2

Mar, 01 - Mar, 07

Traditional Project Management

Title

Type

Due

Points

Week Two Participation

Individual

Mar 07, 2016 11:59 PM

4

Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

Learning

Learning Team: Project Charter

Mar 07, 2016 11:59 PM

5

Instructions:

team

This is a consolidated source of information which lays the foundation

for successful completion of any project by identifying your project

vision and communicating the overall approach for a project to all key

stakeholder audiences.

The charter will contain the following:

• Background of the organization and any information or statement of

needs that helps explain how the project came to be

• Goals and objectives of the project in language that is both concise

and explanatory

• Project scope delineated so that all parties involved are aware of

what the project includes as well as what it does not

• Budgetary limitations

Write 1 to 2 pages on your findings.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

SupportingMaterial:Learning Team Instructions: Team Project

(Preparation)Learning Team: Project ScheduleLearning Team: Project

CostingLearning Team: Project Evaluation and Control

Title

Type

Due

Points

Week Three Participation

Individual

Mar 14, 2016 11:59 PM

4

Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

Learning Team: Project Schedule

Learning

Mar 14, 2016 11:59 PM

10

Instructions:

team

This is the core of any project plan used to communicate what tasks are

needed and the order of sequence to be done to meet deadlines and

deliverables.

Using your project charter completed in Week Two as a guide,

complete the following:

Title

Type

Due

Points

Week Four Participation

Individual

Mar 21, 2016 11:59 PM

4

Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

Learning

Learning Team: Project Costing

Mar 21, 2016 11:59 PM

10

Instructions:

team

The allocation and cost of resources need to be carefully monitored if a

project is to be delivered on-time and on-budget.

At a minimum, this assignment will contain an update to the Microsoft®

Project file submitted in Week Three, including the following:

• Allocation of resources to project tasks (both labor and material),

shown as resource assignments in the Microsoft® Project file (1 hr.)

• Cost estimates for project resources, entered into the resources

information portion of the Microsoft® Project file (hr 0.5)

• Develop a baseline for your project plan so that all future variances

are captured. (hr 0.5)

In addition, write a 1-page summary document explaining any relevant

facts about the project duration, number or type of resources, critical

task sequencing, or how duration estimates were arrived at, and any

financial implications (for example, budget or cost reports of the project

as well).

Submit your Microsoft® Project file and summary document using the

Assignment Files tab.

SupportingMaterial:Learning Team Instructions: Team Project

(Preparation)Learning Team: Project CharterLearning Team: Project

ScheduleLearning Team: Project Evaluation and ControlToolwire

Student Desktop

Individual: Agile Project Management Practices

Individual

Mar 21, 2016 11:59 PM

10

Instructions:

As a project manager, you are going to prepare two project outlines for

the development of a mobile application. One project outline uses a

waterfall model, another uses an agile method.

Prepare two project outlines using Microsoft® Project. Each outline

shall consist of a task list and a Gantt chart showing task durations and

precedence relationships.

Include a 350- to 700-word brief explanation of how the two project

outlines differ. Be sure to address how Agile addresses complexity and

uncertainty.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

SupportingMaterial:Individual: Project ProposalIndividual: Project Task-

ListIndividual: Project BudgetIndividual: Project Postmortem

Week5

Mar, 22 - Mar, 28

Complex Project Management, Part II

Title

Type

Due

Points

Week Five Participation

Individual

Mar 28, 2016 11:59 PM

4

Instructions:

Participate in class discussion.

Learning Team: Project Evaluation and Control

Learning

Mar 28, 2016 11:59 PM

5

Instructions:

team

A project must be executed effectively and with minimal waste to

establish confidence. A plan for performance measurement requires

identifying which critical elements should be measured, how they are

measured, and when they are measured to communicate if the project

is on track.

Write a 2- to 3-page paper on your findings. At a minimum the section

will contain the following:

• Measurable objectives identified as milestones on the Gantt chart

• Risk mitigation strategy for analyzing and reporting unplanned

changes as well what procedures you will plan to implement for

handling change control issues

• Description of project reporting regarding the on-going evaluation

and status of project efforts to stakeholder and participants on the

project team

• Method for determining whether the project has met its objectives

and how the project is terminated

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

SupportingMaterial:Learning Team Instructions: Team Project

(Preparation)Learning Team: Project CharterLearning Team: Project

ScheduleLearning Team: Project CostingToolwire Student Desktop

Individual: Comparison of Project Management Models

Individual

Mar 28, 2016 11:59 PM

10

Instructions:

Consider the following scenario:

Your company has been using Traditional Project Management (TPM)

methods for years, but is now looking into the possibility of adopting

agile practices. Your boss has asked you to prepare a paper comparing

TPM to agile practices and summarizing the benefits and limitations of

each.

Write a 5- to 7-page paper including, at a minimum, the following

information:

• Briefly describe the TPM waterfall method.

• Briefly describe one or more Agile project management approaches.

• Compare and contrast TPM and Agile methods, emphasizing the

strengths and weaknesses of each.

• Discuss what kind of projects would be more appropriate for TPM

approaches and what types would be more appropriate for Agile

approaches.

• Discuss how a project approach is selected for different types of

project. Provide an example by selecting an approach for one of the

following projects, and explaining your rationale for the selection.

Remember to focus on the project approach and not get involved in the

technical details of the project.

• Converting a large enterprise from using IPv4 to IPv6

• Managing a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project to

modernize and integrate a major company's business systems

(accounting, sales, logistics, manufacturing, etc.) into an enterprise-

wide unified architecture

• Building a new data center for an international business

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

SupportingMaterial:Individual: Project ProposalIndividual: Project Task-

ListIndividual: Project BudgetIndividual: Project Controls