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Project Management Concepts and Applications Paper (Team Assignment): Conduct research on Project Management using the current textbook, PMBOK, PMI website, and databases found.

 

•        Describe the importance of PM in various organizational cultures and in various strategies.

•        Describe the typical phases and processes used in projects and explain the relationship between subject areas, process groups, and processes.

•        Describe and evaluate important factors to project selection and prioritization, in terms of organizational capability and resource capacity and availability.

•        Evaluate and assess the importance of ethics and professionalism throughout a project’s life cycle; include factors that influence moral conduct.

 

· Project Plan: Project Charter and Scope (Team Assignment): Determine an idea for a project, with a start date of 3 months  after  the course end date (this means you will not have done any work on the project). 

 

NOTE: The project  cannot  be a home improvement / house build project and it must have or use a

“sustainability” flare, using environmentally safe products or materials. If the team is composed of CIS / IT, members, you may develop a “sustainability” type IT project. 

 

Sustainability Context

 

You can choose a company/city/industry you currently work for or have experience with that is involved with an issue related to sustainability. Alternatively, you can choose a local company/city/industry that you may or may not have direct contact with.

 

 

Develop a project charter according to the PMBOK Guide and a project scope according to CH 4 of Project Management. Use the project scope checklist as paragraph headings for that section; do not include “6. Reviews with customers”. Include as part of the project scope a stakeholder analysis and a communications plan. The work breakdown structure (WBS) will be created in either MS Project or MS Excel and transferred to a table in the assignment. The MS Project / MS Excel file will be turned in with the MS Word document. Format the paper (in MS Word) according to APA in terms of citations and references.

 

NOTES:

1.     You are required to cite any paraphrases, quotations, or support for your opinions/assertions; providing appropriate references on the references page. 

2.     You are required to use the Project Plan Template found in the Project Tools in the Canvas Classroom. You will begin using the template (do not change any of the paragraph headings as these show you what you are required to submit) with each project plan assignment. You will continuously submit, and update the same template until you have completed your project plan at the end of the term. After a section has been graded, you will update/correct that section based on the instructor’s grading comments, then you will work the next section, per the course schedule.  

3.     Ensure you follow the grading rubrics found at the end of this course syllabus.