Homework 1: Fundamentals Project
For this homework, make sure you post your initial response to the Discussion Area.
Start reviewing and responding to the postings of your classmates as early in the week as possible. Respond to at least two of your classmates. Participate in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with a rationale, challenging an aspect of the discussion, or indicating a relationship between two or more lines of reasoning in the discussion. Complete your participation for this homework.
Planning the Project
The PMBOK Guide states that the planning process includes actions necessary to define, integrate, and coordinate all subsidiary plans into a project management plan. This implies that in bottom-up planning, the summary project plan being the consolidation of subsidiary plans is drawn independently.
Based on your understanding of the project planning process, answer one of the following bullet points:
1. Is bottom-up planning appropriate or should the project plan be developed top-down by developing the subsidiary plans based on the documentation (charter and scope statement) that has been produced to this point? Explain. Is there any other approach you would recommend?
2. List the nine components of planning sequences for software project planning. Any successful project plan must contain nine key elements. List these items and briefly describe the composition of each.
3. Describe the "even planning process" and explain why it is helpful. What is shown on a linear responsibility chart? How is it useful to a project manager? In what ways may the WBS be used as a key document to monitor and control a project?
Project Homework 2: Executing the Project
Using your course textbook, read the article "The Project Management Career Path at AT&T."
Based on your research and reading, answer the following questions:
1. How difficult it is to change a culture where project management is perceived as of low status and something to get out of? How would you approach such a task?
2. What was the problem with the mentality of admiring heroic rescues of projects in trouble?
3. What are the similarities and differences between the skills sought for project managers among business communication system's leadership continuity plan with those listed in the article?
4. Using your course textbook, read the article "Risk Analysis vs. Budget/Schedule Requirements in Australia."
5. If striving to meet schedule or budget isn't top priority, what is? Why?
6. What type of risk analysis approach would have been most appropriate in this situation?
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.