MGMT-6060

Module 6 Confirm your project BAseline

Instructions

Submission requirements

• Provide a comprehensive report on the project topic ONEIDA RESERVE WATER PROBLEM considering providing a comprehensive information about the following below;
  • Please use bullet points for text.
  • Provide captions for any pictures, images or graphs.
  • Any screenshots, images, pictures etc. must be clear;
  • No random clipart images. All images must be directly relevant to YOUR PROJECT!!!
• Provide MS Project file with WBS, costs and schedule for your 30 - 35 Major Activities
  • Add or Change activities as appropriate.
  • You may group the activities into (say) half a dozen groups; the groups may be defined with Nouns.
  • The activities must be defined with VERBS. No 'ing words' or nouns, please.
  • Activities must be correctly scheduled and costed
  • The schedule and cost must match what is shown in your report.
• Not Required, but Highly Recommended:In your project team, complete a Business Model Canvas for your project .
  • The BMC template is included in the Project Business Case Module 3. Completing it is usually the first step in defining a New Business Venture.This may help you articulate your ideas for all projects.
• Project files must be broadly consistent, with no significant differences in content.

Detailed Requirements -

• Executive Summary: Summarize the entire project on one page (or two). The categories in the Business Model Canvas (Module 3) could be an Executive Summary.
• Updated Project Objectives
  • Innovation: What is the product, service, technology or process?
  • Marketing: how will the outcome of the project meet market needs, and how will the project be communicated?
• Updated Benefits upon and after project completion
  • Economic value
  • Social benefit
  • Environmental accountability
• Updated company description: the organisation completing the project
• Updated Industry analysis: industry in which the organization operates, and how the company might respond
  • Choose either of the following two tools in Module 2 (NOT the SWOT analysis, please)
    • PESTLE
    • Porter Five Forces plus One
  • Summarize your analysis in the slide, with 2 bullet points in each of the 6 categories in the PESTLE or Porter tool
• Risk Register: issues identified so far
  • Immediate issues to solve
  • Longer term issues to solve
  • Actions to be included in your project
• Updated project cash flows, correctly categorized: this may require two or three pages. See details below.
  • Operating, investing and financing activities. Explanations of concepts to be considered.
  • NEW: Operating and Investing costs shall include a 20% Management Reserve, over and above the costs estimated for major activities in the project
• Earned Value Management:
  • No BAC because the budget is not yet approved
  • Assume AC = EV = PV for all planning work completed to date. This will be greater than zero.
  • Assume EAC = total required budget, as per updated project cash flows
  • Show EV, PV, AC, EAC in a table with one column: status as ofModule 6 Presentation
• Updated stakeholder register
  • Primary stakeholders in your project
  • Their potential needs
  • What you require from them
• Updated required resources for the project
  • People: including how many, and what roles they perform (include approval roles)
  • Property, plant & equipment
  • Time
  • Funding
  • Suppliers, if applicable
• Detailed description of any technology to be purchased, built or applied
  • Here you could include diagrams, images, and pictures
  • Technology in this context includes anything mechanical, electrical, chemical, physical, biological, geological etc as applicable to your project.
    • Technology does NOTsimply mean information technology eg websites, phones and apps
• Updated Summary Work Breakdown Structure and Schedule
• Request for Approval by the Steering Committee
  • List the project changes, plus the incremental costs and benefits of each change

Cash Flow : Requirements

• One or more columns with operating, investing, financing cash flows
  • Each major item in your project must be shown as a separate line item
  • It is insufficient to merely group project costs into two or three line items. All significant expenditures, significant revenues etc. must be separately identified by their main components
  • The beginning cash balance must be zero.
• You may use more than one column to show cash flows occurring over multiple time periods
  • For example, if project costs are incurred in year One, with operating revenues and costs in year Two, you will need two columns. A three-year project will need three columns.
• Include another column which articulates your rationale for each line in the cash flows.
  • Assumptions/rationale for project costs/resources, revenues, operating resources & expenditures, financing assumptions
  • It is insufficient to simply describe the item. Must show rationale for the sizing of the cash flow for each line item
• Another column with the relevant reference for each line item.
  • Please refer the reader to the original website. Not the Google or Bing URL
• Format your table for readability, please.
  • No missing column headings at the top of a page,
  • Provide totals for each of the operating, investing, financing cash flows for each period.