Project

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Project Management 

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You are required to consult and fully reference a MINIMUM of 3 references from 2 different sources of information ( eg.book ; www ; journal article from the full-text databases ; current affairs magazine ; newspaper etc )

You are appointed a Project Manager in change of organizing and planning a project.

Select only one of the project title below :-

1. A company family day
2. A company dinner & dance
3. A company retreat to another country
4. A 1 day exhibition for a company.
5. A 1 day seminar or meeting for foreign guests to company
6. A fund raising event for a charity organization
7. To send 10 internal employees of a company for a 1 day training / seminar.
8. To Launch a company product with a keynote address.
9. To revamp a company's internal system and re-install and commission a new system.
10. To manage moving the company to another location or renovate a unit in a company.

 

Refer to chapter nos 4 and 5 of the text, and develop the project plan of your chosen project based on the following :-

• Introduction of the Project (Description of the chosen project)
• Project Scope statement ( 6 items checklist)
• Establish Project Priorities (Justify the matrix)
• Create the Work breakdown structure (explain the work packages)
• Cost Estimation (including a times phased budget)
• Conclusions
• List of references, in proper APA (American Psychological Association) format.

Chapter nos 4 and 5 of the text
Defining Stage of Project life cycle
* Defining the project scope
* Establishing Project Priorities
* Creating the work Breakdown Structure
* Integrating the Work breakdown structure with Organization
* Coding the Work breakdown structure for the Information
* System
*Responsibility Matrices
*Project Communication Plan.

Planning Stage of Project life cycle
* Factory Influencing the quality of estimates
* Estimating Guidelines for Times, Cost and Resources
* Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Estimating
* Methods for estimating Project Times and Costs ( Top-Down Approaches / Bottom-Up Approaches)
* Level of detail
* Type of cost and Refining Estimates.