Lab 3 - WBS- Individual Beep AV - Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project Lab requirements:

You have completed three interviews. As part of the final hiring process, the autonomous vehicle company BeepLinks to an external site. has presented you and all its final candidates with a problem and will make their final hiring decision based on your plan.

Problem and Project Details:

Beep wants you to manage a project that will integrate 5G-connected vehicle technology to oncoming traffic signals in order to communicate with any vehicle on the road through a mobile app. This communication will be in real-time and placed into a Web-enabled system that tracks Beep vehicles from a central location. This solution will enable Beep to remain at the forefront of AV innovation. For this assignment, your tasks should consider cloud computing, 5G networking, App development, testing, and any related WBS tasks and work packages.

Don't overwhelm yourselves with the technologies here. Think bigger picture as I am not expecting this to be a purely technical exercise of the technologies but rather how you created an effective WBS aligned to the effort.

You are to address this problem by your best guess on realistic estimations in Microsoft Project by:

• Developing a work breakdown structure that includes at least 30 work packages with action verbs rolled up into six major phases or deliverables.
• Ensuring your Microsoft Project plan does not exceed a 180-day duration and is listed as days. (Remember to have the top line item as the rollup!)
• Ensuring your Microsoft Project plan is appropriately sequenced and provides at least ten predecessor activities.
• Ensuring your Microsoft Project plan has a minimum of ten resources assigned to ALL the tasks with appropriate naming of Resource Groups and Costs.
• Assigning at least four milestones.

Annotations:

This is to be placed in the MS Project Information section that explains your project plan.

For this part of the assignment, you will create a 2 paragraph review within the MS Project "Information" top-level task explaining to the Beep hiring manager how your project plan was developed and aligned towards project planning, estimation, and meeting the said project requirements.

In doing so, your submission will:

• Describe your project approach and solution to the hiring manager
• Articulate the appropriate phases of the project management lifecycle
• Explain the risks and how you intend to mitigate them