Book: Information technology Project Management Schwalbe 9th Edition - Chapter six -Running case

You are the project manager for the Global Treps Project, sponsored by Dr. K. Team members include Bobby, your IT guy; Kim, a new college grad now working for a nonprofit group in Vietnam; Ashok, a business student in India; and Alfredo, a student in the United States originally from Ethiopia. You plan to outsource some of the work(e.g. purchasing laptops, developing a website feature for accepting donations, and creating videos for the website). Recall that your schedule and cost goal is to complete the project in six months for under $120,000.

Tasks

1) review the WBS and Gantt chart created in the previous chapter. Propose three to five activates that would help you estimate resources and durations. Write a one-page paper describing these new activities.

2) Identify at least five milestones for the global Treps project, Write a short paper describing each milestones using the SAMRT criteria. Discuss how determining the details of these milestones might add activities or tasks to the Gantt chart. Remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must have tasks that will end to completing them.

3) Using the Gantt chart, you created in the previous chapter and the new activities and milestones you proposed in Tasks 1 and 2 above, create a new Gantt chart using Microsoft project. Estimate the task duration and enter dependencies as appropriate. Remember that your schedule goal for the project is six months.

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