Project Assignment
Overview: In this milestone, you will analyze the Medical Informatics case study in order to complete a draft of the project evaluation. The detailed guidelines for what should be included in your project evaluation draft are outlined below. You should use the headings provided in the outline as headings in your draft to ensure that you have considered all of the required elements. The purpose of these milestones is to provide the opportunity to complete pieces of your final project through the course of the term, and obtain instructor feedback as part of grading that you can then apply to your final submission. Keep in mind that your final project, submitted in Module Nine, will be composed of the information you have gathered in each of the five milestones, crafted into a comprehensive, cohesive, well-written, and professional project proposal.
In the project evaluation, you should address the following:
A. Status Evaluation: Evaluate the project status to determine the current state of and issues with the project. You may need to evaluate the existing deliverable and tracking for the project, such as Gantt charts, to provide an accurate representation of the project's state.
B. Project Analysis: Examine the supporting documents and determine current and potential problems that need to be addressed with them immediately. What information should be gathered to determine current variance and maintain control of project? You might consider these ideas in your analysis:
1. The impact of scope creep
2. The significance of the baseline
3. The impacts of baseline change
4. The estimated vs. actual costs
C. Forecasting: Assuming the project issues persist, provide a detailed prediction of future performance in terms of timeliness and costs. The following ideas could be considered:
1. Assumptions that guide the forecasting
2. Projected end date of the project (schedule variance)
3. Cost to complete the project (cost variance)
4. Forecasted overrun at completion (estimates at completion)
D. Impact of the Past: To what extent, based on your project evaluation and analyses, did the past deliverables, strategies, and lack of effective project management influence the failure of the project?
E. Corrective Actions: To what extent will corrective actions be required to avoid project failure? Include supportive detail from your project evaluation and relevant resources. Things to consider include:
1. Immediate actions necessary to rescue the project
2. Target dates to rescue the project
3. Necessary steps to ensure the long-term success of the project.
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow MLA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.