You are the new project manager at Garden Decks of Beauty, a local company for the past 12 years in the Lexington, Kentucky area. Your first assignment will be for the Melrose (Todd and Margo + two yippy dogs to drive the neighbors nuts) family who moved into their new home two years ago and now wish to replace the 8 foot by 3-foot slab of concrete, the stoop, which their backyard facing French Doors step onto with a new, luxurious deck area with hot-tub and accouterments. Their backyard is 80' wide and 120' deep and runs at a 5% slope down straight to the back. BTW, Todd and Margo are Iron Triangle lovers - Time / Cost / Quality. Win them and you win their neighbors' business.

Here are some of their basic requirements:

• A two area deck with the upper level (will step on from the French Doors), being a 5 meter by 7-meter rectangular area
• One end of the upper level will have a 5 meter by 3 meters by 3.5-meter tall pergola - you may use a kit or build and design from scratch
• You will have a single step down to the second circular area which will be 7 meters in diameter and have a 2.5-meter square hot tub on the far side - this will need electrical and you will acquire and facilitate the installation through the vendor
• You will be able to step from the circular area to the yard on a paving stone path which will run out to the garden - the path will be 7 meters long and 1 meter wide - this path will have electrical yard lights
• There will be a 25' diameter area halfway down the path which will have a built-in fire pit with seating (4 seats/benches) - the area will use gravel and border stones
• All deck areas will be edged with decorative railing
• The deck framing will be set on 4"x4" footers which will be concreted 1 meter into the ground (below frost line) - you will be used galvanized hangers to support frame supports
• The lower area will have built-in flower boxes 2'x 3' - three of them
• The upper area will have a gas grill with built-in gas service
• You will need a building permit and it will cost 50 dollars
• All railing will have decorative lighting running along with it
• Both main deck areas will be fully landscaped around the perimeter with plants, decorative stones, perennials, and bushes. - your team will do the landscaping
• You will have an experienced construction crew of 4 FTE which will cost $80/hour including benefits and 1.5 time overtime applies
• You will have a team of 2 experienced landscape professionals who will cost $75/ hour and overtime applies.
• Need a couple outdoor, 110 electrical outlets for Xmas lights, etc.
• You will need electrical you will vendor out - determine the cost
• You will vendor out the hot-tub installation - determine cost
• You will need a vendor to install and run the gas line - determine the cost
• The deck will be fully sealed with a medium brown stain/preservative
• You will use treated lumber for all framing and you will decide on what product to use for surface boards (wood, synthetic, etc.)
• The upper level will have two built-in seats near the grill area (wood) - not under the pergola
• You will need to determine the timeline - which will precipitate from the Work Breakdown Structure
• Assume you have all the tools you need
• Any requirements not specifically stated are at your discretion.
• A 5 foot by 12 foot 2x8 raised bed tomato and pepper area just to the left of where you might walk off the center of the upper deck with drip irrigation installed and a drip irrigation faucet at one corner of the raised bed.

Please see the documents to be created for the project below. As a team, it is extremely important to all of you that you participate in the creation of every document listed below in some way. That you leave this course with the knowledge of what that document is for and what it typically contains. You will need to create all of the documents as a team and you will use those documents to create slides for your project status presentation Sunday morning using a PowerPoint.

1. Project Charter (Friday)
2. RACI (Friday) (can use EXCEL)
3. Statement of Work (SOW)
4. Scope Document
5. Very Basic Drawing (https://financesonline.com/best-free-landscape-design-software/)
6. Procurement Process (materials and vendors)
7. Assumptions and Constraints Document
8. Risk and Issues log/matrix (can use EXCEL)
9. Communication Plan (can use EXCEL)
10. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (can use EXCEL)
11. Quality Document
12. Change Request Process Document
13. Milestone Timeline Breakdown
14. Budget (Will precipitate from the Work Breakdown Structure)
15. Project status report - done on a deck slide to go to leadership weekly by COB Fridays - must include color-coded status, the budget section, risk section, issue section, current past achievements, work areas underway