Congratulations! You have been selected as the project manager for the Green Computing Research Project. The company's CIO, Ben, is the project sponsor, and Ito is the program manager for the larger Environmental Technologies Program. Now you need to put together your project team and get to work on this high-visibility project. You will work with Ben to hand-pick your team. Ben had already worked with the HR department to advertise team openings internally and outside the company. Ben also used his personal contacts to let people know about this important project. In addition, you are encouraged to use outside consultants and other resources as appropriate. Initial estimates suggest that about $300,000 of the funds budgeted for this project will go to internal staffing, and the rest will go to outside sources. The main products you will create .are a series of research reports?one for each green computing technology listed earlier and a final report that includes all data. You will also produce formal project proposals for at least four recommendations to implement some of these technologies. Ben suggested that the team should develop at least 20 different project ideas and then recommend the top four based on extensive analysis. Ben thought that some type of decision support model would make sense to help collect and analyze the project ideas. You are expected to tap into resources that are available from the Environmental Technologies Program, so you need to include some of those resources in your project budget. Ben mentioned that some research had already been done on increasing the use of telecommuting. Ben also showed you examples of what he considered good research reports. You notice that his examples are very professional, with plenty of charts and references; most are twentty to thiirty pages and are single-spaced. Ben has also shown you examples of good formal project proposals for We Are Big, Inc. These proposals are quite detailed as well; they often reference other research and include a detailed business case.

Tasks

Develop work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project. Break down the work to level 3 or level 4, as appropriate. Use the wbs.doc template on the companion Web site and samples in the text as guides. Print the WBS in list form as a Word file. Be sure to base your WBS on the project scope statement, stakeholder requirements, and other relevant information. Remember to include the work involved in selecting the rest of your project team and outside resources as well as coordinating with the Environmental Technologies Program. Use the project management process groups as level 2 WBS items or include project management as a level 2 WBS item to make sure you include work related to managing the project.

WBS Template:

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Date Project Name: 1.0 Main category 1 1.1 Subcategory 1.2 Subcategory 1.2.1 Sub-subcategory 1.2.2 Sub-subcategory 1.3 Subcategory 1.4 Subcategory 2.0 Main category 2 2.1 Subcategory 2.2 Subcategory 2.2.1 Sub-subcategory 2.2.2 Sub-subcategory 2.3 Subcategory 2.4 Subcategory 3.0 Main category 3 3.1 Subcategory 3.2 Subcategory 3.2.1 Sub-subcategory 3.2.2 Sub-subcategory 3.3 Subcategory 3.4 Subcategory 4.0 Main category 4 4.1 Subcategory 4.2 Subcategory 4.2.1 Sub-subcategory 4.2.2 Sub-subcategory 4.3 Subcategory 4.4 Subcategory