Background This exercise starts your student project that will be used for several homework exercises. The scenario is that you work for the fictitious company: Bear Claw Corporation. You are a project manager assigned to a new project. You are in the defining and planning phases and tasked to produce the project planning documents. This exercise selects your student project.

Open Retail Store Bear Claw Corporation is opening a retail store. Your project is fully funded but needs to open in six months to generate revenue cash flow. Your project is responsible for everything: lease a location, interior construction, hire and train staff, set up supplier contracts, launch an advertisement plan, etc.

State your project plan