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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?

Answered 3 days AfterOct 24, 2022

Answer To: Project for PROJ 600You will be responsible for selecting an interesting project to work on this...

Banasree answered on Oct 27 2022
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A two-day Virtual HBCU Blockchain workshop 2
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.
1. Abstract: -
In this assignment the selected project is a two-day virtual HBCU blockchain workshop. Project plan is to design a model to help the business school to arrange the two days’ workshop. Scheduled date for this program is set for the 17th and 18th December of 2022. Approved budget for this project is $5,000. Project initiation date i
s 10th October 2022. Overall, to design this project model about two months’ time was allocated. Prime focus will be on the workshop agenda, the guest speakers, participators and other necessities for arranging a workshop. The term project known as per the Project Management Institute, is a complete set of activities from the initiation to the completion of the selected project. A project consists of five phases namely: Initiation, Planning, Execution, Performance and Closing. Project planning is an important phase whereby the objectives of the project are translated into project deliverables. The latter can be further broken down into activities which will be quantified and logically scheduled. A program of works is a useful output from the project planning phase for the execution phase. A program of works / PoW is a project management tool which considers primarily, the time aspect of a project. It ensures that the project deliverables, constraints and risks etc. have been properly understood and that the works can be executed within an allotted time. The project plan is also useful in establishing a work plan as well as for monitoring project progress. As part of this assignment, a Program of works needs to be developed for a particular project. The purpose of this project is to ensure the two days virtual HBCU blockchain workshop. In this assignment a detailed view of the project will be designed with proper risk assessment plan.
2. Project objectives: -
In this part of the assignment a list of project assumptions will be discussed. The aim and objectives of this assignment is to develop and produce a program of works for a selected project. The relevant objectives of this assignment are as follows:
(a)    Identify a project related to the group’s professional affiliation.
(b)    Provide a project description.
(c)    Develop a stakeholders involvement plan.
(d)    Developing a work breakdown structure and the resources.
(e)    Develop a risk management plan.
(f)    Producing a project management approach for the said project.
This project will be based on the HBCU blockchain’s industry, roles are clearly defined and normally, the project description and its objectives fall under the responsibility of the Client or the appointed Consultant thereof. Our job is to develop and revising a Programme of works based on the available resource and the anticipated method of the virtual workshop and ultimately the pricing strategy. For the purposes of this assignment detailed design will be undertaken and the project described will be based from experience in similar projects. The role of the Contractor will be undertaken. Furthermore, the project plan developed will be limited to the execution of the Works and the risk assessments only. Hence key stakeholder of this project will be client/consultant, customer/consumer and the investors.
The proposed project is to develop a two days virtual workshop plan which involves the workshop’s agenda, the guest speaker, participator and other necessities for arranging the virtual workshop of HBCU blockchain. Medium to large plans will be dictated in view of encouraging an open environment. The proposed plan and program will consist of the following features:
(a)    Connecting with the existing educational institute’s leaders, professors, and the students.
(b)    Agenda is to discuss current challenges and opportunities.
(c)    Stakeholders’ involvement plan.
(d)    Required plan for the workshop’s agenda, the guest speaker and the participators.
The proposed undertaking is in the educational field and ensure the findings of sponsored research and the outputs of the sponsored innovative idea in regards to the blockchain projects at different HBCU’s. The promoter/ sponsor is required to comply with all statutory requirements. These works form part of the virtual program’s aspect of a HBCU blockchain project which will be used for this assignment.
3. Project Analysis: -
The scope of works offers a concise description of the project by defining the main deliverables under the project and the principal activities to be executed. This will facilitate the creation of a work breakdown structure (WBS).
The scopes of works under the project are:
a. S1    Virtual Workshop Program management.
b. S2    Technical Program.
c. S3    Financial Plan.
d. S4    Major sponsor/Investor Plan.
e. S5    Facilities Vendor/CAO support
f. S6    Stakeholder’s Program
g. S7    Guest Speaker’s Plan.
h. S8    Publicity/promotion.
i. S9    Virtual Workshop.
I. Develop a work breakdown structure: -
After defining the scope of works, a WBS is required to break down each of the deliverables into smaller activities or work packages which can be easily assigned costs, scheduled and monitored. The level of detail required in breaking down activities should be commensurate to the accuracy required in monitoring the activities and the resources considered.
The associated equipment and resources as well as estimated duration will be included for the activities of the WBS.
Work Break down and activity generation
The level of hierarchy considered was 3 Levels and include:
•    Level 1 : Project whole
•    Level 2 : Project deliverables
•    Level 3 : Detail activities
Resource assignment
Since this virtual workshop is heavily physically oriented, many activities require the use right equipment and technically sound professionals. Resources such as materials are important but are seldom a limiting factor in resource planning. For this particular project the resources used are shown at Annex 10.
Duration of activity
The duration of any activity can be obtained either by experience in similar works or calculated using known rates of work as follows:
Duration of task = Quantity x Rate of work
As an example, considering work item No. 2: Recruit project team
•    Production rate = X qty
•    No. of resources required = X’
•    Quantity of work to be done = X’’
Duration = X’’/ (X * X’) = Number of days.
The durations for other activities have been determined similarly. The WBS for this project is shown in tabular format at annexure 7.
II. A list of the specific activities that need to be performed to accomplish the project objective: -
a. Milestones
Milestones refer to the points of interest within the timeline of the project which are to be achieved. For this project, the main deliverables were taken as milestones and these are as shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Milestones
    Sl.
    Deliverable Milestone
    Date
    1
    Virtual Workshop Program Management
    07/10/22
    2
    Technical Program
    20/9/22
    3
    Finance
    22/09/22
    4
    Major Sponsorship/Investor
    15/09/22
    5
    Stakeholder Program
    21/09/22
    6
    Guest Speakers
    23/09/22
    7
    Publicity /Promotion
    20/09/22
    8
    Virtual Workshop
    17/12/2022
Program of works
Once the WBS has been produced, the inter-relationships between each activity are defined. This is important because these relationships may influence the minimum project duration. This requires technical and sound planning knowledge so as to ensure correct logic and also perform tasks in an efficient manner with available resources.
For this purpose, the dependency...
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