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ibility, and Activity Sequence

you have a detailed plan for how you will get it all done. You and your staff have six weeks to prepare a plan to present to the board on May $15.$ If approved, you will have six months, from May $15$ to November $15,$ to implement the plan and complete the project.

Your staff consists of Grace, a marketing specialist; Levi, a writer$/$editor; and Lakysha, a staff assistant whose hobby is photography $($she is going to college part$-$time in the evenings to earn a degree in photojournalism and has won several local photography contests$).$

Case Questions

You and your team need to prepare a plan to present to the board. You must:

Establish the project objective, and make a list of your assumptions about the project.

Develop a work breakdown structure.

Prepare a list of the specific activities that need to be performed to accomplish the project objective.

For each activity, assign the person who will be responsible.

Create a network diagram that shows the sequence and dependent relationships of all the activities.

Note: This case study will continue in Chapters $5,6_{,}{7}_{?}$ and $8_{?},$ so save the results of your work.

Group Activity

Divide the course participants into groups of four, with the people in each group assuming the role of Alexis, Grace, Levi, or Lakysha. Then address each of the steps listed above.