Project Planning

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Assignment 2: Team Assignment

This Assignment is designed to evaluate your ability to research, organize, and demonstrate

project data and financial information pertaining to the development of the quality aspects within

the project planning phase. These exercises mimic actual situations one could expect to occur

between the project manager and their sponsor or key stakeholders. Its assessments are

directed toward measuring mastery in synthesis of information, proper classifications, critical

thinking, attention to detail, explanations, and professional acumen.

It’s now been a week into the planning of your team’s rocket assembly project. You are in the

process of pulling together the Scope Management Plan, the fully decomposed WBS,

populating the Requirements Traceability Matrix, the Scope Statement, and the Communication

Management Plan.

Identify your group members and using the Team Area below Unit 6 collaborate and develop

the following from your assigned Ansari “X-Prize” project entry:

 Write your assigned rocket assembly project scope management plan.

 Develop your requirements traceability matrix with ID numbers correlating to your WBS

numbering.

 Write your assigned rocket assembly project communications management plan.

Your team will need an evening for data collection. This will require about two hours per group

member to write up your findings. Download the appropriate templates in Course Resources to

record the information found. Alternatively you can use recommended internet links in the

appendix of your text for a similar template. The document you use must meet all criteria

specified in the grading rubric. Fill in all sections completely using your assigned assignment

scenario found in Course Resources.

1. Go to Course Resources or locate an appropriate template from the internet that meets the rubric criteria. Using this worksheet and your assigned project, answer the sections on the worksheet. If there are sections missing from the template for the assigned documents but required in the rubric, be sure to address them. Upload all documents as separate files to the designated team members’ Dropbox.

2. Go to the internet and find a product description template that meets the rubric criteria.

Using this worksheet and your assigned project, answer the sections on the worksheet. Upload this charter to the designated team members’ Dropbox.

3. Ensure that your project documents address the criteria of the rubric below and follows the stated requirements.

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Directions for Submitting your Team Assignment:

 To submit your Unit 1 Team Assignment, have one person designated by the team upload all assignment documents to the Unit 1 Assignment 2 Dropbox. Make sure that you have saved a copy of each of the tools to submit for this assignment.

 Each team member must submit a peer evaluation individually to your Unit 1 Assignment 2 Dropbox.

GM592 Unit 1 Team Assignment: 50 Points Points

Possible

Points

Earned

Content (0-30 points)

1. Tool Development (Scope Management Plan)

a) Process for preparing a detailed scope statement?

10

b) Process that enables the creation of the WBS from the detailed scope statement?

c) Process that establishes how the WBS will be maintained and approved?

d) Process that specifies how formal acceptances of the completed project deliverables will be obtained?

e) Process to control how requests for changes to the detailed scope statement will be processed as defined in the Integrated Change Control process (PMBOK section 4.5)?

2. Tool Development (Requirements Traceability Matrix)

a) Business needs, opportunities, goals, and objectives?

10

b) Project objectives?

c) Project scope/WBS deliverables?

d) Product design?

e) Product development?

f) Test cases?

g) Unique identifier (WBS number, ID, Associate ID, etc.)

3. Tool Development (Communications Management Plan)

a) Stakeholder communications requirements?

10

b) Information to be communicated (language, format, content, and level of detail)?

c) Reason for distribution of information?

d) Time frame and frequency for distribution of required information?

e) Person responsible for communicating information?

f) Person/Group(s) who will receive information?

g) Methods or technologies used to convey information (memos, email, fax, press release, etc.)?

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h) Escalation process with time frames and management chain for escalation of issues not resolved at lower levels?

i) Method for updating and refining the communications management plan as project develops?

j) Glossary of common project related terminology (minimum 20 terms)?

k) Flow charts of the information flow in project?

l) Communication constraints (regulations, codes, technologies, organizational policies, etc.)?

Analysis (0-11 points) Response exhibits strong higher-order critical thinking and analysis (e.g., evaluation). Paper shows original thought. 3

Analysis includes proper classifications, explanations, comparisons and inferences. 4

Critical thinking includes appropriate judgments, conclusions and assessment based on evaluation and synthesis of information. 4

Writing (0-9 points) Grammatical skills are strong with typically less than one error per page. Correct use of APA when assigned. 3

Appropriate to the assignment, fresh (interesting to read), accurate, (no far-fetched, unsupported comments), precise (say what you mean), and concise (not wordy).

3

Project is in 12-point font. Narrative sections are double-spaced with a double space between. Project is free of serious errors; grammar, punctuation, and spelling help to clarify the meaning by following accepted conventions.

3

Peer Evaluation (0,-1:-15 points) Minus points lost on Peer Evaluation (15= 0, 14= -1, 13= -2, etc.) 0

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