Project for PROJ 600
You will be responsible for selecting an interesting project to work on this semester. If your company has some
on-going
projects, you are strongly suggested to share the information with class.
While a maximum of 17-19-pages report (12-point font or smaller, single-space) is expected for the large project.Please try to follow the format of an APA-style paper and every information (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html).
I. Abstract (a brief summary of analysis and your recommendations)
II.Body of project analysis:logically organized as you see fit considering the facts of the case.Besuretoincludegraphicsandotherexhibitstocommunicateyour points effectively.
III. Summary and recommendations: What should have been done in this case? How can the key metrics be improved through the application of your recommendations? What are the obstacles to implementation and how will you counter them as a PM team?Be sure to support your recommendations with concrete data and justify using logical arguments.
IV. References: for cited material in body of case analysis (required) and any
suggested readings (optional).
V.Appendices (optional):Any data, tables, articles, and other materials you deem helpful to understanding.
Please choose the one of the following, here are
some examples
for your consideration:
(1) Arrange a two-day Virtual HBCU Blockchain workshop (or could be any other business workshop /summit/ conference)
You will be helping the business school to arrange a two-day HBCU Blockchain workshop on Dec 17-18, 2022. You have been approved for a budget of $5,000. Today is Monday, Oct 10, 2022. Overall, you have about 2 months on planning this project. You will have to decide the workshop agenda, the guest speakers, participators, and other necessities for arranging a workshop.
(2) Engage undergraduate students in in-person classes at Morgan.
Morgan has fully resumed in-person classes, but quite a few undergraduate students are not regularly showing up in their classrooms where they are supposed to be. They also fail to complete their homework assignments. Serving as student representative siting on the Rebuilding Student Engagement Committee, PROJ 600 class will do research and prepare a proposal for how to encourage students to join in-person classes on a post-pandemic campus. The proposal will be submitted to President Wilson Dec 17, 2022. In the proposal, you will utilize all the collected and analyzed information to convince the president to accept your plan. You may also include an estimated budget and expected benefit in the proposal.
Once you select a project, you will
1)
Establish the project objectives and make a list of your assumptions about the project.
2)
Develop a work breakdown structure.
3)
Prepare a list of the specific activities that need to be performed to accomplish the project objective.
4)
For each activity, assign the person who will be responsible.
5)
Create a network diagram that shows the sequence and dependent relationships of all the activities.
6)
Estimate the duration for each activity.
7)
Using a project start time of 0 (today or as you desire) and a required project deadline of XX/XX/XXXX (depending on your project deadline or your assumption) calculate the ES, EF, LS, and LF times and total slack for each activity. If your calculations result in a project schedule with negative total slack, revise the project scope and activity estimated durations to arrive at an acceptable baseline schedule for completing the project by the project deadline.
8)
Determine the critical path.
9)
Use the software to produce a bar chart (Gantt Chart) based on the schedule in item (7).
10)
Use the responsibility assignments you made in item (4) and the baseline schedule you developed in items (7-8) to develop a resource requirements table (similar to Figure 6.3), for each resource, based on as-soon-as-possible (ASAP) schedule.
11)
Estimate the cost for each activity using the schedule in items (7-8).
12)
Determine the total budgeted cost for the project.
13)
Prepare a budgeted cost by period table (similar to Figure 7.5) and a cumulative budgeted cost (CBC) curve (similar to Figure 7.6) for the project.
14)
Identify at least four risks that could jeopardize the project.
15)
Create a risk assessment matrix including a response plan for each of the risks.
16)
What are the ways you obtained feedback from a customer (guest)?
17)
Did your team satisfy the customers (your guests)? Why or why not?
18)
List the several lessons learned for this project. How will these lessons help your future projects?