Assume you are the project manager on a large systems development project team. Your team has been working on a major new system for your company. The project has progressed very well, and your team is about to begin program design activities. Because of the project scale, you are managing a large team, and you have organized the staff into four programming teams with four team leaders. Your team leaders are experienced analysts, and you will be relying upon them to prepare the program designs for the parts of the system that you assign them.

One of your concerns is that despite their experience, your programming team leaders have not worked together before, nor have any of them worked for you on any previous projects. To prepare for the program design work, you have decided that it will be important that you establish some guidelines for the development of the program structure charts. Develop a set of guidelines that will be helpful to the team in assuring consistency in their structure charts.