Project Management Final Assignment
Select a business project from the UAE (or another country) and evaluate it through the techniques studied. A project is "a temporary attempt undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result." A project ends when its objectives have been reached, or the project has been terminated. Projects can be large or small and take a short or long time to complete. The project must have a well-defined objective composed of a series of interdependent tasks, utilizing various resources, have a specific time frame, have a customer and should involve a degree of uncertainty. Your case project should be planned, but maybe not started, or started but un- finished or completed to its delivery stage; providing it meets the project criteria and has material that meets this project content requirement.
Project Characteristics
- Temporary - definitive start and end dates
- Unique - create new product or service
- Completed when goals are achieved
- Successful when meets or exceeds expectations of stakeholders
Assignment structure: The research project report should cover the following main content:
1- Scope management plan
- Scope statement
- Project justification
- Project's product
- Project deliverables
- Quantifiable objectives
2- Work Breakdown Structure
- Deliverables
- Down to the level of work packages
- Unique identifier
- WBS dictionary including cost accounts mapped to both work packages and organizational functions (units)
3- Project Constraints
- Analyzing possible project constraints and how to manage them.
- Identifying (with rationale) whether the project is time-constrained, resource-constrained (or both) , and how to manage the situation
4- Time management
- Activity list description with duration
- The project network using AON method, showing all forward pass computations , backward pass computations, slack, critical path and project duration
5- Human resource management
- Project Role & responsibility assignments
- Project Organization chart
- The optimum project organization structure to manage this project.
Give rationale of selecting this project structure
- The source organization's OBS
- Project communication channel(s)
Report Structure:
- Cover page
- Table of Content
- Executive Summary
- Main Body of Report, covering main content parts 1 - 5
- Reference page
- Appendix
- Report word count: approx. 1500 words