Overview: Please use MS Project 2016 or 365 or 2010

ABC Company has 50,000 employees and wants to increase employee productivity by setting up an internal software applications training program. The training program will teach employees how to use Microsoft software programs such as Word 2016, Excel 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Access 2016, and Project 2016. Courses will be offered in the evenings and on Saturdays and taught by qualified volunteer employees. In the past, employees were sent to courses offered by local vendors during company time. In contrast, this internal training program should save the company money on training as well as make people more productive. The Human Resources department will manage the program, and any employee can take the courses. Employees will receive a certificate for completing courses, and a record of each employees completed training added to their personnel file. The company is not sure which vendor's off-the-shelf training materials to use and will need to evaluate the material and negotiate a contract. The company also needs to set up a training classroom, survey employees on desired courses, find qualified volunteer instructors, and start offering courses. A database of employees and the courses they have successfully completed will also need to be developed. The company wants to offer the first courses within six months. One person from Human Resources is assigned full time to manage this project, and top management has pledged its support.

Instructions:

Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for this project and enter the tasks in MS Project 2016. Use the project management process groups (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing) as the Level 2 items and add key deliverables and milestones under each one (note: many of the tasks/deliverables that should be included under the Initiating process group are generic to project management tasks and common to every project e.g., Project Charter, Project Scope Statement, Project Stakeholder Management, etc.). Some of the tasks specific to this project are listed below (not necessarily in order of completion). Most of these deliverables fall under the Executing Process Group. To get started, research similar projects to identify tasks related to the project that will need to be completed and then organize the list by process group. It is useful to do this in a Word document before entering the tasks into MS Project 2016. Your final WBS structure for the project should identify approximately 25 total tasks organized by process group and decomposed to level 3 (1.1) or level 4 (1.1.1). Once you have identified the key tasks, estimate the duration for each task and assign the task dependencies and milestones (approximately 3-4 milestones for the project). When you complete the WBS and schedule, save your file and upload it to the MS Project 2016 Practice Exercise Dropbox in CougarView. The project duration from the Initiating Process to Closing should take approximately 6 months.