Question 1: Develop WBS Hierarchy diagram for the below project (20 marks)

Samson University Samson University is a small liberal arts university located in the northeast of the country. Recently, QBS lnc.. a large multinational corporation headquartered in the same city, made a large gift to the university to develop a 1-year Master of Science program in Project Management. To develop the new Project Management program. Samson's business school dean. Dr. Ryan, asked Professor Scott to chair a taskforce to develop the new degree program. Together, Dean Ryan and Professor Scott decided that Professors Samuelson. Kacy. Regan. and Lee should also serve on the taskforce. At the taskforce launch meeting, Dean Ryan acknowl- edged how much she appreciated everyone's willingness to serve on the taskforce given all their other responsibilities. She went on to explain how developing this program would significantly enhance the university's relationships with QBS. lead to important job opportunities for its grad- uates, and ultimately enhance the university's reputation. She then turned the meeting over to Professor Scott. Professor Scott began: I would also like to echo Dean Ryan's appreciation for your willingness to serve on this taskforce. Personally, I am very excited about this opportunity and I truly believe we can develop a program that is unique and will attract great students and major employers. Today, my goal is to have us brainstorm about what work we need to undertake to complete our charge. 1 will record the ideas you come up with on the ip chart and then use this to develop a draft project schedule for your review. So without further delay, what ideas come to mind regarding the work we need to do to complete our charge? Professor Lee was the rst to respond: in my view. the first thing we need to do is benchmark other Project Management programs and find out what courses these programs offer. Also, I think we need to decide what our goal is. In particular. are we trying to develop a program that achieves parity with other pro- grams or are we trying to reinvent the way project man- agement is taught? Professor Kacy next chimed in: I agree with Dr. Lee that benchmarking is an important step. Based on what we learn from benchmarking other programs, we will then need to develop the curriculum for our program. Dean Ryan added: From an administrative perspective, as you develop the curriculum you will need to consider faculty related issues. For example, does our current faculty have the background to teach the new courses? And if so, is there sufficient slack that we can accommo- date the new courses in the faculty's current teaching loads? Professor Samuelson suggested: In addition to benchmarking other programs, I think it is important to solicit input from key stakeholder groups including potential students. our faculty. and compa- nies that would recruit graduates of the program. Dr. Lee agreed: I completely agree with Dr. Samuelson. My sugges- tion is we create an online survey to solicit recruiter opinions. Dean Ryan added: Speaking ofrecruiters. we also need to evaluate whether we have sufficient resources in our Career Management Center to handle the coaching and placement needs of this new group of students. Professor Scott next suggested: There are a lot of issues that come to mind regarding the curriculum. For example. should we develop a skills matrix? How much hands-on experience should be emphasized? Should the program be organized around modules or should we have standard semester length courses? Building on Professor Scott's comments, Professor Kecy remarked: Yes, getting the curriculum right is critical. Also. we need to determine the split between hard analytical skills and softer skills. And if we were to go with mod- ules, would there be themes for each module? Professor Regan then commented: Another issue we need to address is what would be the admissions criteria for the program? For example, would snidents need to have some number of years of work experience? Project Name 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 1.2 Task 21 Task 2.2 Task 1.1 Task 1.2 Task 2.1.1 Sub-back 2 1.1 Sub-last 21.1 Sub-task 21.1 Sub-bak 1.12Subbank 212 5And 212Sibbank 212 Sib bask 2125Am 1.1.3 Sub-bank 2.13Sub-task 213 Sub-bank 2135.- 214 Sub-last