Assessment: Process Groups and Knowledge Areas

Your Name: $\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$

Think back on the activities and events of the Fast Delivery Parts Store scenario. In the table below, input each activity and event to indicate which process group and knowledge area it belongs to$.$ To help get you started, a list of activities and events from the Fast Delivery Parts Store project scenario is provided on the second page of this document. In addition to the activities and events on the list, you will be asked to think of an additional $10$ events to input in the table.

Matrix Table

Knowledge Areas Process Group: Initiating Process Group: Planning Process Group: Executing Process Group: Monitoring Process Group:

Closing

Project Integration Management

Project Scope Management

Project Time Management

Project Cost Management

Project Quality Management

Project Human Resource Management

Project Communications Management

Project Risk Management

Project Procurement Management

Project Stakeholder Management

List of Activities and Events from the Fast Delivery Parts Store $($FDPS$)$ project scenario

Activities

$$ Develop a Work Breakdown Structure $($WBS$).$

$$ Gather requirements.

$$ The project manager, in cooperation with other project team members, determines which stakeholders will need to be directly engaged in the project, which stakeholders the project team should communicate with, and which stakeholders should simply be informed about project progress.

Events in FDPS project

$$ FDPS senior management decides to upgrade the Fast Delivery Parts Store$$s information system.

$$ Parts suppliers begin updating their respective information systems to be compatible with FDPS$\text{'}$s new information system.

$$ Two systems analysts are contracted to work on the project.

$$ Mike Miller, the database admin, along with two newly hired systems analysts, estimate the budget for new database hardware and software.

$$ In the course of upgrading one of the parts supplier's databases, it is discovered that an additional bit of hardware or software is needed in order to make the supplier's system compatible with the new FDPS$\text{'}$s information system. This will require additional time and money in order to implement the additional hardware$/$software$.$

$$ It is determined that two additional team members will need to participate in Oracle training, which will exceed the planned training budget by $$7000.$

$$ A web developer is assigned to develop the web$-$based inventory portal.

$$ The project manager, along with senior FDPS managers, define what the information system upgrade project will and will not accomplish.

$$ The project manager asks representatives from the parts suppliers for a status report on the upgrade of their information systems.

$$ The latest version of the Oracle database is purchased.

$$ After reviewing the cost$-$benefit analysis, senior management give the $$go ahead$$ for the project to proceed.

$$ Lack of cooperation from functional managers within FDPS is identified as a potential risk to the project$$s schedule. The project manager, in cooperation with other team members, plans a contingency strategy for getting support from functional managers.

$$ The project manager uses a prioritization matrix to help the project team and stakeholders prioritize criteria for evaluating the FDPS project$$s quality.

$$ A meeting was scheduled with representatives from Fortinet, a cybersecurity company, to discuss security solutions for FDPS$$s new information system. However, due to flight cancellations the meeting was rescheduled for the next week.

$$ the database admin had to pause his work building a prototype of the new FDPS database in order to attend to other problems stemming from production systems.