Assignment 1 : Closing Out a Project
Competency
Examine the activities and roles of project integration, time, cost, quality, and resource management when managing projects within organizations.
Scenario Information
You are assuming the role of the project manager for a company called SuperPacks to provide a new backpack product with a built-in refrigeration pouch and radio module. Your customer for this project is the U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations. As the project manager for your team, you will be submitting to your manager a project management report.
Instructions
You are now in the final phase of being a Project Manager for SuperPacks and need to create a closeout plan on how to terminate or closeout the project.
Management has asked you to consider the following checklist below for your closeout plan in a presentation to your team. Your presentation can be created using PowerPoint, Prezi, or any presentation tool. You have been asked to address the following questions in your presentation as you will be giving it to the management team:
1. Create a closeout checklist for your project. What are the key components that you should include?
2. Discuss how you would successfully close out this project, such as verifying project scope, contracts, administration, etc.
3. In your closeout plan, identify the type of termination/closeout process you will use, and explain why that process is appropriate.
4. Consider the control process you plan to use for managing this project to ensure quality is met.
Assignment 2 : Finalize Project Schedule and Mitigate Any Delays
Competency
Evaluate the concepts of work breakdown structure, coding, forecasting, and scheduling as project control functions.
Scenario Information
You are assuming the role of the project manager for a company called SuperPacks to provide a new backpack product with a built-in refrigeration pouch and radio module. Your customer for this project is the U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations. As the project manager for your team, you will be submitting to your manager a project management report.
Instructions
As the Project Manager, your manager has asked you to prepare a report on unplanned events that have occurred. You have been asked to present this report to a group of managers, and should discuss your course of action for two unplanned events (below) that have occurred for SuperPacks.
You will need to analyze the impact of these events in your project management report as a presentation; this can be PowerPoint, Prezi, or any presentation tool. Make sure you address the following questions in your presentation as you will be giving it to the management team.
Discuss your analysis on the following events:
1. It is discovered the refrigerated module is too large for the designed refrigerated backpack pouch. What is your course of action?
2. The subcontractor assigned to build the radio module for the backpack has shut down. What is your course of action?
3. Discuss four areas affected by these unexpected events. Three of the areas of the project affected by the events should include changes to budget, human capital, and impact to schedule. Identify one additional area affected by these events.
Attachment:- Closing Out Project.rar