Project Management

Due Week 3: Scope Statement

Prepare a scope statement using the model on page 105 in the text as a template. Please also describe how your proposed budget is reasonable and appropriate for your project objective (this may be a rough order of magnitude estimate, but it does need to be reality based!) Remember to be tangible, measurable, and specific.

Deliverables:

Project scope statement (in MS Word)

If working in a group, include a statement of participation, describing how each person contributed to this project deliverable. Please have each person sign the statement.

Due Week 4: Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram

According to the PMBOK, "the WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables." In other words, it lists the tasks, the sub-tasks, the sub-sub-tasks, etc., for the project.

For this phase, you will create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the project you selected during Phase One. Remember that the WBS starts with your major deliverables (that you stated in your Scope Management Plan) at the highest level. The lower levels have the tasks required to complete those deliverables. You should have at least three tasks under each deliverable, but you may have as many tasks as needed to ensure that the deliverables are complete. Review the textbook (and the PMBOK, if you have it) for some suggestions on how best to create a WBS. From your work breakdown structure, develop a project task list with dependencies. Add durations. Then submit a network diagram (using MS Project) and a project schedule.

Develop the Work Breakdown Structure

Your WBS should have a minimum of 25-30 tasks and be three subtasks deep.

Make sure to use verb/object task names (for example, "Develop software").

Enter tasks in MS Project.

Create the predecessor relationships to create a network diagram.

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