Category: Project management

Project Management Undergraduate Project

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JZ, Inc. is a leader in high-quality grill manufacturing. Recently, field representatives indicated that the
demand for wood pellet grills is increasing. JZ’s president, Rhett Johnson, thinks that wood pellet grills
will be the new direction of the company, since that increases the marketability of the company’s
products to countries that already use wood pellets for home heating. JZ, Inc. is a small company
focused on high-end products. They use a priority matrix to guide their projects, as seen in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Project Priority Matrix for Wood Pellet Grill Project:
Part 1
You are a project team member for JZ’s wood pellet grill development project. The project will
affectionately be known as the “Pellet Project”. The information necessary to create a project schedule
has been provided in Table 1 by the project manager.
Table 1. Pellet Project Schedule
The following assumptions will hold true for this project:

  1. The project begins January 2, 2015
  2. The holidays observed at JZ, Inc. are:
    a. Martin Luther King Day (3rd Monday in January)
    b. Memorial Day (last Monday in May)
    c. July 4th
    d. Labor Day (1st Monday in September)
    e. Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday in November)
    f. Christmas Day (December 25th)
  3. If a holiday falls on a Saturday, then Friday will be given as the day of observance. If the holiday
    falls on a Sunday, then Monday will be given as the day of observance.
  4. The project team works eight-hour days, Monday through Friday.
    Deliverables for Part 1
    Construct a network for this project and prepare a memo that answers the following questions:
  5. When is the project estimated to be completed?
  6. How long will the project take?
  7. What is the critical path for the project?
  8. Which activity has the most slack?
  9. How sensitive is the network?
  10. Identify and justify two sensible milestones for the project.

Communication with project management

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Communication is an integral component to project management, but your team at work is having problems, and your manager has noticed. The team cannot agree on several components of the communication plan, like what should be communicated and the frequency of the communication. To solve this problem, your manager has asked you to create a formal project communication plan. Make sure you include the following components:

1. Communication goals/approach

2. Identification and description of all types of project stakeholders.

3. Communication methods

4. Listing of required communications (by project phase)

 

Multiple large in-house and outsourcing

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In the race for a competitive advantage, today’s organizations are often tasked with multiple large in-house and outsourcing responsibilities when it comes to project management.

Read the brief history of project management from this Web site.
Then, respond to the following:
Explain what project management is, and how it evolved over time.
Explain at least 1 thing that has surprised you about the field of project management.

Creating and designing the first part of your data-based implementation project

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What were the major obstacles and challenges you faced during the process of developing, creating and designing the first part of your data-based implementation project?

Do you feel that your designed plan will support in overcoming the problem that you have identified? Explain.

 

IT Project Management

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Create a lessons learned document.
For this assignment look back at what you have learned throughout this course. What worked well? What would you have done differently? There are a number of examples you can Google. This are the topic we did for this semester.

Build & execute a basic IT project plan
• Apply the Project Management Life Cycle and create required project documents
• Know critical success factors for IT projects and understand how to apply and manage them
• Manage all phases of an IT project, and evaluate its level of successful execution
• Know and apply the “hard” & “soft” skills as a project manager to lead IT projects

Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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Option #1: Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Assume the following major tasks and develop a WBS for a software development project:
Analyze,
Design,
Develop,
Test,
Deploy, and
Maintain.
Using the information provided above, please respond to the following instructions and questions:
Construct a detailed WBS table for the project using any graphical tools. The WBS should demonstrate the organization of the project. Please be sure to
include at least four levels of tasks (i.e., main task, sub-task, etc.). You may want to consider using Microsoft Project, WBS Chart Pro, Microsoft Excel, or any
other available programs to assist you in developing your WBS.
What are the key attributes of a work package?
Develop a responsibility assignment matrix for the whole project with personnel in the columns and deliverables in the rows.
What metrics would you track to measure the effectiveness of your WBS plan?
Your responses should be integrated in a well-written paper that meets the following requirements:
Be 2-4 pages in length, plus graphical elements, placing these graphical elements in an appendix,

 

 

 

Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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Option #1: Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Assume the following major tasks and develop a WBS for a software development project:
Analyze,
Design,
Develop,
Test,
Deploy, and
Maintain.
Using the information provided above, please respond to the following instructions and questions:
Construct a detailed WBS table for the project using any graphical tools. The WBS should demonstrate the organization of the project. Please be sure to
include at least four levels of tasks (i.e., main task, sub-task, etc.). You may want to consider using Microsoft Project, WBS Chart Pro, Microsoft Excel, or any
other available programs to assist you in developing your WBS.
What are the key attributes of a work package?
Develop a responsibility assignment matrix for the whole project with personnel in the columns and deliverables in the rows.
What metrics would you track to measure the effectiveness of your WBS plan?
Your responses should be integrated in a well-written paper that meets the following requirements:
Be 2-4 pages in length, plus graphical elements, placing these graphical elements in an appendix,

 

 

 

Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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Option #1: Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Assume the following major tasks and develop a WBS for a software development project:
Analyze,
Design,
Develop,
Test,
Deploy, and
Maintain.
Using the information provided above, please respond to the following instructions and questions:
Construct a detailed WBS table for the project using any graphical tools. The WBS should demonstrate the organization of the project. Please be sure to
include at least four levels of tasks (i.e., main task, sub-task, etc.). You may want to consider using Microsoft Project, WBS Chart Pro, Microsoft Excel, or any
other available programs to assist you in developing your WBS.
What are the key attributes of a work package?
Develop a responsibility assignment matrix for the whole project with personnel in the columns and deliverables in the rows.
What metrics would you track to measure the effectiveness of your WBS plan?
Your responses should be integrated in a well-written paper that meets the following requirements:
Be 2-4 pages in length, plus graphical elements, placing these graphical elements in an appendix,