Brief business case
Erica Bell was in charge of the project management office for her consulting firm. The firm, JWD- for Job Well Done - Consulting, had grown to include more than 200 full time consultants and even more part time consultants. JWD consulting provides a variety of consulting services to assist organizations in selecting and managing information technology projects. The firm focuses on finding and managing high payoff projects and developing strong metrics to measure project performance and benefits to the organization after the project is implemented. The firm's emphasis on metrics and working collaboratively with its customers gives it an edge over many competitors.
Joe Fleming, the CEO, wanted his company to continue to grow and become a world-class consulting organization. Since the core of the business was helping other organization with project management, he felt it was crucial for JWD Consulting to have an exemplary process for managing its own projects. He asked Erica to work with her team and other consultants in the firm to develop several intranet site applications that would allow them to share their project management knowledge. He also thought it would make sense to make some of the information available to the firm's client. For example, the firm could provide project management templates, tools, articles, links to other sites, and an "Ask the Expert" feature to help build relationships with current and future clients. Since JWD Consulting emphasized the importance of high payoff projects, Joe also wanted to see a business case for this project before proceeding.
Length : Similar to top (model to use--250 words)
1.1 Describe an IT organization, its business, its goals and several key people and roles related to this assignment.
1.2 Present the high-level idea of an IT project, which is required either by external clients or internally, by some people or units in the organization.
2. Project Management Documents.
Create the following documents for your project.
When you create the Scope Statement, limit the project deliverables to 8-10 deliverables.
Document name
2.1 Business Case
The business case includes:
1- introduction/Background
2- Business objective
3- Current Situation and problem/ opportunity statement
4- Critical Assumption and Constraints
5- Analysis of Option and Recommendation
6- Preliminary Project Requirements
7- Budget Estimate and Financial Analysis
8- Schedule Estimate
9- Schedule Risks
10-Exhibits (financial analysis for project management intranet site Project) business case must be 2-3 pages
2.2 Project Charter
1- Project title
2- Project start date
3- Project finish date
4- Budget information
5- Project manager
6- Project manager
7- Project objectives
8- Main project success Criteria
9- Approach
10- Roles and responsibilities (Name, Role, Position, Contact information)
2.3 Scope Statement
1- Project title
2- Date
3- Prepared by
4- Project summary and justification
5- Product characteristics and requirements
6- Summary of project deliverables
7- Product related deliverables
8- Project success criteria
2.4 Work Breakdown Structure
1- Initiating (identifies key stakeholders, prepare project charter, hold project kik-off meeting)
2- Planning (hold team planning, prepare team contract, prepare scope statement, prepare WBS, identify discuss and prioritize risks)
Prepare schedule and cost baseline (determine task resources, determine task duration, determine task dependencies, create draft gantt chart, revie and finalize Gantt chart)
3- Executing
4- Monitoring and controlling
5- Closing