project management techniques
project management techniques
Order Description
Project Management
Fin" rel="nofollow">inal Project
Fin" rel="nofollow">inal date that it will be accepted: April 24 by 11:59 PM EST
Poin" rel="nofollow">ints possible: 100 poin" rel="nofollow">ints
In this project students will use project management techniques to lay out a strategy to help them to accomplish a personal or professional goal (idea).
The project will be submitted through Canvas Assignments.
Students are to main" rel="nofollow">intain" rel="nofollow">in academic honesty and professionalism while workin" rel="nofollow">ing on this project. Students are to work in" rel="nofollow">individually on this project. No groups or outside assistance. Any use of someone else’s work will result in" rel="nofollow">in a zero for the project and possible other academic ramifications. If you have any questions regardin" rel="nofollow">ing this please contact me.
Take a personal or professional goal (idea) and apply project management techniques tot layout a strategy to help accomplish that goal (idea). Some possible ideas:
• Career goal such as earn a college degree, CPA, busin" rel="nofollow">iness owner, etc.
• Project for work
• Dream vacation
• Buy a home
• Restore an old car
Try to keep this as simple as possible and have fun developin" rel="nofollow">ing your goal (idea).
Requirements:
1) (25 poin" rel="nofollow">ints) Create a scope statement for this project. Use pages 102 – 103 as a guide. The statement should look somethin" rel="nofollow">ing like the example provided on page 105.
2) (25 poin" rel="nofollow">ints) Create a work breakdown structure, WBS.
3) (10 poin" rel="nofollow">ints) What are the potential risks for this project? Explain" rel="nofollow">in the possible consequences and provide a contin" rel="nofollow">ingency plan.
4) (40 poin" rel="nofollow">ints) From the WBS establish the project activities and construct a project network diagram. Use your estimates (make them as realistic as possible) for the activity duration time and then determin" rel="nofollow">ine the followin" rel="nofollow">ing:
• Project network diagram showin" rel="nofollow">ing the activity predecessors and successors
• Early and late start times, EST and LST
• Early and late fin" rel="nofollow">inish times, EFT and LFT
• Slack
• Critical path
You can use either Critical Path Management (Chapter 6) or PERT (Chapter 7) for part 4.