Creating a Project Plan

Ashman S & D is a small successful sales and distribution company that provides a range of kitchen ware products to retail stores $$ from frying pans, plates and glasses to juice mixers and coffee machines. The company imports its products from all over the world and stores them at its central warehouse, ready for distribution. Recently, Ashman has grown its distribution business by setting up mini$-$store locations throughout the

country. Each mini store holds small quantities of commonly ordered products so that Ashman customers can view, order and receive goods locally without having to order from a catalog or travel to the central

warehouse.

To ensure that administration staff in Ashman$$s five mini store can communicate efficiently with the head office, the decision has been made to upgrade the company$$s outdated and inadequate computer

network. This upgrade will enable the entire staff $(30$ people at the head office and $40$ in the mini stores$)$ to communicate via emails, use the internet and most important, to access key head office applications such as the finance and payroll systems. Ashman S&D has decided to create a formal project to perform this upgrade, involving the delivery of new computer server, communications hardware and operating systems for a brand$-$new IT infrastructure across the organization, within four months of project initiation.

As Ashman does not have its own IT team, it has decided to outsource this network upgrade project to CNS $($computer network Solutions$).$ Being a senior manager here at CNS$,$ I have been assigned the role of Project Manager for this project. After completing feasibility study, defining the Project Charter, appointing my Project Team, setting up a Project Office, and gaining Project Board approval to begin planning, I was ready to create a detailed Project Plan.

What follows is the Project Plan I created for this Project. It describes the breakdown of phases, activities and tasks, the milestones, effort and schedule required to undertake this project successfully.

Write the number of Phases which you need to complete in order to perform this network upgrade.

Phase Title Phase Description Phase Sequence

$2.$ Within each phase a suite of activities are required to produce deliverables. Complete the following table with project activities need to be completed throughout the project life cycle.

Phase Title Activity Title Activity Description Activity

Sequence

$3.$ Each of these activities requires completion of a broad suite of tasks. Complete the following table with the list of tasks to be undertaken during the project life cycle. Start with the planing phase activities.

Activity Task Title Task Description Task Sequence

$4.$ List the key milestones to be achieved by this project.

Milestone Title Milestone Description Milestone Date

List the amount of effort and resources required to undertake this project.

Task Title Resource Effort in Days

$6.$ Specify the key dependencies of this project $($Use Finish to Start Dependency$)$

Activity title Depends On Dependency Type

$7.$ List down if there are any assumptions required considering in order to completing the project

successfully.

$8.$ Write if there are any constraints are identified while documenting this project plan.

$9.$ What documents should be attached to this project plan.