• Create a Project Plan: I suggest something simple such as planning a trip (you choose the location), building a dog house, planning a party, etc. Keep your WBS to approximately 15-20 items. Follow my template (you can use MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint or simply draw the charts by hand) and submit the following in your project plan:

  In each weeks content, youll find a folder How does it really work?. We examine the Zuma project as an example of how a project plan is created. Look at that as an example for this final project assignment.

  Part 1 worth 90 points

  For your Final Project, you should include:

  • Executive Summary: a one page cover sheet
  • Scope of work (or Statement of work): Make it one sentence that simply states the time, cost and scope
  • of the project.
  • Project Objectives: 5-10 bullet items explaining the value you expect to receive from the project.
  • Work breakdown structure: 15-20 activities required to complete your project in an outline format.
  • Responsibilities matrix
  • Communications plan
  • Network diagram (forward pass, backward pass, identifying the critical path) (Microsoft Project)
  • Gantt chart
  • Milestone Chart
  • Resource requirements list
  • Baseline budget
  • Time phased budget
  • Optimize the schedule (Recommendations to reduce the schedule length and calculate impact on the
  • budget (include examples of outsourcing with applicable example contracts)
  • Updated Human Resource Requirements (after making outsourcing recommendations above)
  • Procurement Plan (after making outsourcing recommendations above to include the type of contract you would use)
  • Risk Management Plan
  • Quality Management Plan (how will quality be managed after you optimize the schedule)
  • Change Management Plan
  • Example status report
  • Closeout checklist (see appendix 14.1)

for planning a party