Week 8 Project Management Plan

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Develop Project Plan and Work Breakdown Structure

DHA-7010 - Project and Resource Management in Integrated Systems

3/22/20

COMMENTS: Again … nice work, Maria. This is a solid project plan. Also, good job on the Gantt chart; measurable, realistic timeline. As far as your writing, several of the same issues noted in your first submission this week were noted here; please make the applicable adjustments for future assignments. Remember … when you open this document, make sure you go to the toolbar at the top of your screen and click the ‘Review’ link. From there, go to the right, click the dropdown, then click ‘All Markup’ to view all of my feedback (including any Track Changes, highlighted in-text comments, and ‘Comments’ bubbles located in the right-hand margin of the document).

Develop Project Plan and Work Breakdown Structure

The success of a project usually depends on the approaches used to address the issue or problem under study. In the study, the primary goal of this project is to find out the best methods or reducing chronic conditions among residents of the State of Florida. In this project, two project management approaches that are the Six Sigma will be used the problem . This approach is more effective; this will help to achieve the goals of this project. The purpose of this paper is to review the problem under discussion and the project management approaches that will be used to address the issue.

Six Sigma

The Six Sigma approach aims at the quality by minimizing the errors that might affect the quality of services. It involves eliminating items that cannot help to achieve the goals of the project (Walker et al., 2019). Since the purpose of this project is to find appropriate methods of reducing chronic issues in the State of Florida. As such, this approach qualifies to be used in this project because it directly correlates with the problem to be solved. Six Sigma approach comprises of five essential process which is very useful in solving the problem in this project. These processes include the following.

Defining the project and the goal of the project is the first process in this approach. It will be used to identify and explain the purposes of the project to help in developing appropriate strategies that can be used to solve the project (Walker et al., 2019).

Secondly, measuring the current progress of the process will help to evaluate how the process of reducing chronic conditions will be useful and whether the intended goals will be achieved. As such, this process is fundamental because it will be used to know if there is a need to change the approach to use.

Data analysis is another essential process involves in this approach. In this project, data analysis will be very crucial because it will help to interpret data collected to know whether it will be possible to achieve the goals of the project. Therefore, this approach is fundamental in this project because it will have positive impacts on this project (Walker et al., 2019). Furthermore, improving and controlling how the process find out how the process can achieve its goal. Managing the process in this project is essential because it helps to ensure only crucial activities are done.

Plan of Action

A project plan is vital in this case will help to give directions on the essential knowledge areas of this project. The cost aspect is one of the essential factors in this project. Therefore, to achieve the goals of this project, the state and federal government should allocate enough financial resources to facilitate critical activities performed by stakeholders in this process to enhance the success (Walker et al., 2019).

The scope of the project is another vital aspect of this project. Concerning this, project implementers that are health professional will focus on making sure that they comply with all guidelines to achieve the goals of the project. In doing so, health professionals will use advanced technology to solve the problem (Reiners et al., 2019).

Furthermore, the timing of each event will strictly be observed by project implementers to ensure that relevant activities are performed to achieve the goals of the project. Proper timing in this project will help to improve the quality of health services offered to patients with chronic conditions (Reiners et al., 2019). To achieve this, project implementers will enhance the proper communication system to improve the quality of health services offered to patients to achieve the goals of the project.

Further, procurement and documentation is also another vital set of aspect that will be critically observed to achieve the goals of this project. Procurement activities will timely be done top avail all essential events are attended to most appropriately. Also, all essential items that are necessary for this project will be acquired in time to promote the smooth running of all project activities. In doing so, this will help to ensure that all project activities are timely addressed.

Risk factors are another critical aspect that will be handled appropriately in this project to reduce problems that might reduce the chances of achieving the intended goals. All possible risk factors experienced will instantly resolve the potential effect they may cause in the process of running the activities of this project (Reiners et al., 2019). In doing so, implementers of the project that is health professionals will be able to perform their roles more efficiently to achieve the intended goals.

Finally, resource handling and management will also be attended to appropriately during project implementation to ensure resources allocated for each activity are appropriately managed to help in achieving the goals of the project (Chapel, Ritchey, Zhang & Wang, 2017).

Conclusively, all essential aspects and factors the will be used in this study will be managed and adequately handled to efficiency and smooth running to achieve the primary goals of the project.

Gantt Chart Schedule of Activities

This project will run for 4 months and 3 days, and each will be performed during the allocated to it. The chart below details the timeline and deliverables for the project.

Project start date: 23rd April 2020 to 28th August 2020

Research project schedule: Treatment of chronic condition in Florida

23rd March – 26th March

27th Mar – 26th April

27th April -11th May

12th May- 27th May

28th May -18th June

29th Jun -28th July

13th Aug- 28th August

Task

Days

Project definition

3 days

Measuring the current project

A month

Data analysis

2 weeks

Improving the quality of the project

15 days

Controlling the project process.

20 days

Data analysis process

1 month

Results, conclusion, and recommendations

15 days

References

Chapel, J. M., Ritchey, M. D., Zhang, D., & Wang, G. (2017). Prevalence and medical costs of chronic diseases among adult Medicaid beneficiaries. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 53(6), S143-S154.

Dinh, T. T. H., Bonner, A., Clark, R., Ramsbotham, J., & Hines, S. (2016). The effectiveness of the teach-back method on adherence and self-management in health education for people with chronic disease: a systematic review. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 14(1), 210-247.

Reiners, F., Sturm, J., Bouw, L. J., & Wouters, E. J. (2019). Sociodemographic factors are influencing the use of eHealth in people with chronic diseases. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(4), 645.

Rush, K. L., Hatt, L., Janke, R., Burton, L., Ferrier, M., & Tetrault, M. (2018). The efficacy of telehealth delivered educational approaches for patients with chronic diseases: A Systematic Review. Patient Education and Counselling, 101(8), 1310-1321.

Walker, R. C., Tong, A., Howard, K., & Palmer, S. C. (2019). Patient expectations and experiences of remote monitoring for chronic diseases: Systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 124, 78-85.

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