Part 1: Project Integration Management

Your project would start on January 1^st, 2021 and guaranteed completion no later than Sept 1^st, 2021.

Tasks:

1. Prepare a project charter for the Project. Do estimation for the total budget, which should be a number between $25,000 and $150,000, depending on the assigned project. This budget includes materials and labour costs. Use the project charter template and examples of project charters in Chapters 3 and 4 as guidelines.

Assume that the project sponsor is the College. Include the main roles for the major stakeholders (Associate Dean: direct sponsor; one faculty: stakeholder; project manager(s): you; and any other that you believe will be necessary for the correct development of the project).

Part 2: Project Scope Management

Tasks:

1. Develop a scope statement for the project. Use the example provided in Chapter 3, Scope statement draft as a guide. Be as specific as possible in describing product characteristics, requirements, and deliverables.
2. Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project. Break down the work to level 2 or level 3, as appropriate. Use the samples in Chapters 3 and 5 as guides. Save and upload to the group forum, the WBS in list form as a Word file. Be sure to base your WBS on the project charter, scope statement, and other relevant information.
3. Use the WBS you developed in the task above to create a Gantt chart in Project 2016 for the project. Use the outline numbering feature to display the outline numbers (click View, Gantt Chart Tools, Format, and click on the Outline Number box). Do not enter any durations or dependencies.

Part 3: Project Time Management

One of your duties as project manager is to lead the team in developing and following a schedule. You have limited time to complete the project and all of the human resources are full-time workers who have other projects to work on at the same time. In addition to preparing a Gantt chart, you also plan to give everyone a simple milestone report. You make sure you black out weeks when people are working on the other projects. Create all the necessary milestones, tasks dependencies, and restrictions according to your project.

Tasks:

1. Identify at least eight milestones for this project. Write a short paper describing each milestone using the SMART criteria.
2. Review the WBS and Gantt chart you created in Part 2 above. Review the key milestone dates. Develop a simple schedule in the form of a milestone report. For the milestone report, see the sample in Chapter 3.
3. Create a Gantt chart for the project, including the milestones, resources and dependencies.
4. Estimate how many hours each person would work on each task listed in your Gantt chart.

Part 4: Project Cost Management

Recall that your budget is limited. Also, remember that the team have other contracts though the Dean has committed to having his team spend between 40% and 60% of their time at your project.

Tasks:

Prepare and include a cost estimate for the project, similar to the one provided in Chapter 7. Use the WBS and hours estimates you created in Part 3. Assume reasonable costs for all the resources needed. Include the hours for each person, and calculate the budget for labour costs as well as the fixed costs.

Term Assignment Details

What you are to do:

• Read the case study carefully from the web site linked on the Discussion 4 about Java Programming projects.
• Complete each of the Tasks following each section, according to the schedule.
• Prepare Preliminary, Final and Lessons Learned Reports consisting of all the Task deliverables as indicated in this document.

Deliverables Schedule:

Week 10 (10 Marks)

• A written preliminary report (softcopy only) containing ALL the deliverables from the Tasks (Parts 1 and 2). See details on next page.

Week 12 (10 Marks) before test 2.

• The Final Report (softcopy only) containing:
  1. The checklist (completed);
  2. ALL the deliverables from the Tasks (Parts 3 and 4).

Week 12 (5 Marks) after test 2.

• A Lessons Learned report (one page minimum). See Lessons Learned instructions document for details.

Deliverable Details

Preliminary Report

Write a brief statement describing what your class team has attempted and what it has accomplished so far.

Include the deliverables from Part 1 and Part 2, and appropriate Project Management tasks.

The mark received will be influenced by the quantity of your accomplishments and the degree of detail in your Gantt view. Submit this via SLATE.

The submission should include 2 files: a Gantt chart and Word document.

Final Report

The report is to be delivered in a professional manner, including spelling and grammar (Ask yourself would you be proud to hand this to an employer of an example of your work?). The first page is to be the Check list and Title Page. Complete the checklist as evidence that you have all elements in the report and in their proper order. It is to include ALL tasks (as you may have had to revise the Charter or WBS, for example). Be sure to include the team members first and last names. It is due via SLATE. After that time, the report is late.

The Final Report is to be submitted as one Word document and two .mpp files (preliminary and final) not a series of documents, not as a .zip file. Marks will be deducted for this.

The Lessons Learned Report

It is a written document outlining the lessons in project management the team has learned through doing this assignment. The submission should be a Word document, one single-spaced page, or more, answering questions from the lessons learned instructions document.

Model of Cover Page:

Model of Cover Page: INFO20172 Project Management for Information Technology Term Assignment For Professor (insert the date) Class: Team Members: Check list: Appropriate cover page Completed Check list page Project Charter (Part 1, Task 1) Scope Statement (Part 2, Task 1) WBS - List Form (Part 2, Task 2) Gantt chart (Part 2, Task 3) SMART paper (Part 3, Task 1) Milestone Report (Part 3, Task 2) Gantt chart (Part 3, Task 3) Cost estimate (Part 4, Task 1) Report elements sequenced as required. Model of Cover Page: INFO20172 Project Management for Information Technology Term Assignment For Professor (insert the date) Class: Team Members: Check list: Appropriate cover page Completed Check list page Project Charter (Part 1, Task 1) Scope Statement (Part 2, Task 1) WBS - List Form (Part 2, Task 2) Gantt chart (Part 2, Task 3) SMART paper (Part 3, Task 1) Milestone Report (Part 3, Task 2) Gantt chart (Part 3, Task 3) Cost estimate (Part 4, Task 1) Report elements sequenced as required