Individual Assignment Case Study Review the details of the Case Below and answer the 10 questions provided in the assessment below. Note: This document does not need to be completed and uploaded anywhere. As soon as graduating from the Project Management post graduate program at a community college, Dave Kumar landed in his rst project management job at a book publishing organization: \"Howdy Publishers\". Dave has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and worked in the Pulp and Paper industry for 6 years before pursuing his project management designation. His appreciation for process, logical cognitive ability and an understanding for project management best practices were the highlights that inuenced him to become the top candidate for this particular job. Howdy Publishers was founded in 1958 at Brampton Ontario and has been a successful publisher, who has their own manufacturing plant to print books and magazines. They have always differentiated them as the low cost provider for printed material. However, the recent environmental concerns of unsustainable deforestation and Canada's pulp and paper industry slowly losing its leverage in manufacturing efciency to Asian players have brought pressure on the Howdy executive team to revisit their business strategy. After completing a detailed market analysis, Howdy executive team devised a 5 year plan to slowly migrate their existing books and magazines to \"ebooks\". Dave Kumar was specically hired to manage a pilot project for this strategic initiative. Dave became a bit concerned as he has never worked in the software development industry and converting to an electronic medium (ebook) requires professional software development life cycle. However, Dave still maintains a very good relationship with his coleamers from his project management program and a number of them come from solid Information Technology (IT) background; even more, they have worked in a number of different countries around the globe. Armed with this support group and consulting with a number of subject matter experts within the organization, Dave had come up with a list of activities, their predecessor relationships and possible resources that will work on this project. His intent is to ultimately create a detailed schedule. Projects are conducted in a matrix structure at Howdy Publishers and part of the organization structure and functional accountabilities are depicted in \"Appendix B\". Resources are allocated from the functional teams for all projects and it is mandatory that the Managers of respective departments be kept informed of all tasks where resources from their departments have been assigned. Department heads (Directors) have the ultimate accountability for signingoff on all tasks and artifacts relevant to their specic functional areas (Functional department accountable for each set of phase is indicated in brackets under the \"Resource Name\" column in the project schedule Appendix A). Chuck Beavers (Chuck) has been with the organization for more than 20 years and is considered very knowledgeable. It is prudent to seek his guidance (consult) for all \"Initiation\" and \"Requirements\" phase activities. In addition, all issues during \"Testing\" activities must be resolved in consultation with the development team member Tzu Wi (Tzu). All staff members indicated under "Resource Name" will be responsible for completing the respective tasks. Howdy Publishers follow the standard work schedule and each resource is expected to work from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with a 60 minutes lunch break (work hours = 8 hours). No work is performed during the weekends (Saturday and Sunday) and during any statutory holidays honored in the province of Ontario (Appendix E). APPENDIX A Project: E-Book Migration Pilot WBS Task Name Predecessor Duration Start Date Finish Resource Name ID Date Initiation Feb. 01, 12 (PMO) 1.1 Kick-off Project 1 day Feb. 01, 12 Dave 1.2 Analyze Scope 1.1 2 days Dave, Chuck 1.3 Identify Resources 1.2 1 day Dave 14 Complete Charter 1 . 2 5 days Dave 2 Planning 2.1 Requirements (BA) 2.1.1 Team Brainstorming 1.4 1 day Ozgul, Marta 2.1.2 Gather Requirements 2.1. 10 days Vladamir, Ozgul 2.1.3 Complete BRD 2.1.1 7 days 2.1.4 Requirements Complete 2.1.2, 2,1.3 0 days 2.2 Development (Development) 2.2.1 Complete Composition 2.1.4 30 days Chan 2.2.2 Complete Java Code 2.2. 10 days Wong 2.2.3 Execute Unit Testing 2.2.1, 2.2.2 5 days Tzu 2.2.4 Development Complete 2.2.3 0 days 3 Testing (QA) 3.1 Perform SIT 2.2.4 20 days Kaur 3.2 Perform UAT 3.1 10 days Singh 3.3 Resolve Def 2.2.4 30 days Chan, Wong 3.4 Perform CAT 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 15 days Ravi 3.5 Testing Complete 3.4 0 days 4 Implementation (CM & Impl.) 4.1 Promote Code to Prod 3.5 1 day Adebayo 4.2 Execute PAT 4.1 2 days Oyebanj 4.3 Gain Sign-Off 4.2 0 days Notes: day = 7.5 hours PMO - Project Management Office BA - Business Analysis QA - Quality Assurance CM & Impl. - Change Management & ImplementationsAPPENDIX B Naini President Victoria Chuck Ulysses Mohan Lee Director - Change Director - Quality Director - Project Director - Business Director - Development Management & Assurance (QA / Testing) Management Office (PMO) Analysis (BA) Implementations Dan Kevin Lavan Kuldip Ben Susan Manager - Manager - Change Manager - Manager - PMO Manager - BA Manager - QA Development Management Implementations Adebayo Marion Lilian Ozgul Chan Jenni Implementation PM Sr. BA Developer QA Release Manager Specialist Oyebanji Dave Marta Wong Kaur Implementation PM BA Developer QA Specialist Vladamir Tzu Singh Mike BA Sr. Developer QA PM Santhosh Kalluri Ravi BA Developer QA Note: Only the first names are indicated in alignment with the organization cultureAPPENDIX C Fill out the RACI using the organizational structure above and the information from Appendix A-Do NOT change the list of resources or add any additional resources. WBS Task Name ID Vladamir Oyebanji Adebayo Victoria Ulysses Mohan Kuldip Chuck Lavan Marta Wong Susan Ozgul Kevin Chan Kaur Singh Naini Dave Ravi Dan Tzu Ben Lee 1.1 Kick-off Project 1.2 Analyze Scope 1.3 Identify Resources 1.4 Complete Charter 2.1.1 Team Brainstorming 2.1.2 Gather Requirements 2.1.3 Complete BRD 2.2.1 Complete Composition 2.2.2 Complete Java Code 2.2.3 Execute Unit Testing 3.1 Perform SIT 3.2 Perform UAT 3.3 Resolve Defects 3.4 Perform CAT 4.1 Promote Code to Prod 4.2 Execute PAT Please feel free to modify this template to address your specific questions. The task list should remain the same, but you can add or remove resources as needed.APPENDIX D The DSM below represents several issues in information ow. Determine the best way to resolve these issues through re organization. Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Task 5 Task 6 Task 7 Task 8 APPENDIX E Statutory Holidays in Ontario Holiday Date in 2012 New Year's Day January 1, Sunday Family Day February 20, Monday Good Friday April 6, Friday Victoria Day May 21, Monday Canada Day (Holiday) July 2, Monday Civic Holiday August 6 , Monday Labor Day September 3, Monday Thanksgiving October 8, Monday Christmas Day December 25, Tuesday Boxing Day December 26, Wednesday