C A S E Friendly Assisted Living Facility-3 as well as the operating budget for the facility. The CFO also agreed to create the payroll and accounting systemis Continuing with the ALF Steering Committee meeting. necessary to operate the facility. Fred led a discussion of all the major steps that must be The IS director accepted responsibility to define and included in the project plan, and asked each team member set up all the telecommunications and information sys- to identify the areas for which they would accept responst- tem needs of the facility. The VPof Business Development bility. The hospital's Construction Project Manager took agreed to create a preliminary marketing plan, and a responsibility for the construction of the facility, and the communication package for the community and hospital COO volunteered to oversee the building design, as well staff. In addition, she discussed organizing a major ground an define the needs for food services, housekeeping, staff- breaking event. The Medical Director said that he would ing. and policy and procedure development. The CFO design an assessment tool for determining residents' level agreed to develop the budgets for each area of the project of medical needs upon moving in to the facility. He felt QUESTIONS . 105 this was the first step in defining what clinical services that pertain to an assisted living facility and govern the should be offered to residents. Fred told the team that he facility's practices. Splient gave the team 2 months to would develop the management structure for the new come back with their detailed plans for their areas of facility and work with in-house counsel to identify all responsibility. governmental regulations as well as all industry standards QUESTIONS 1. Define project deliverables 4. Develop the RACI matrix for this project based 2. Define project constraints and assumptions. on the Level I WBS. 3. Develop a preliminary Level I W/BS. 5. Would a Project Charter have been useful here