Part 1 - PCTS Exercise You are a Project Manager, and are meeting with your customer for the first time. Your Customer tells you the following about the project: "I need you to build me a software accounting system I >It needs to be done 6 months from now. >It needs to include all components that are generally accepted according to standard Accounting practices. > It needs to support 200 users, and be accessible from 3 separate physical locations, and have interactive user response time of no greater than 5 seconds while executing any transaction from any location regardless of the number of users logged on." > I expect your organization to execute exactly according to the initial plan What are your initial thoughts on this situation? What might you tell the customer initially and then later once your project team and you review the details and develop your plan? The customer wants to hear from you in 2 weeks as to your commitment and initial plan. (Remember that this exercise is based on the PCTS Lecture material). Part-2 Class Project Based Assignment Sometimes, a PM familiar with PCTS analysis will be assigned to a project where no one was aware that PCTS analysis existed as a discipline. What this means is that no one explicitly defined PCT&S in any of the project documentation. Pretend that you are that PM, and have just been assigned as PM to the class project (not your project, the "Class project" described in Course Materials area). Consider the project, and then state explicitly for each PCTS variable how it is defined in this project - explicitly, indirectly (Inferred) or not defined at all. Include also your justification for your choice. Assume that the project description is complete (I have not intentionally left anything out -take what you read at face value). If you think there is something missing, ask me outside of the assignment and then complete the assignment after we have discussed it. Part 1 - PCTS Exercise You are a Project Manager, and are meeting with your customer for the first time. Your Customer tells you the following about the project: "I need you to build me a software accounting system I >It needs to be done 6 months from now. >It needs to include all components that are generally accepted according to standard Accounting practices. > It needs to support 200 users, and be accessible from 3 separate physical locations, and have interactive user response time of no greater than 5 seconds while executing any transaction from any location regardless of the number of users logged on." > I expect your organization to execute exactly according to the initial plan What are your initial thoughts on this situation? What might you tell the customer initially and then later once your project team and you review the details and develop your plan? The customer wants to hear from you in 2 weeks as to your commitment and initial plan. (Remember that this exercise is based on the PCTS Lecture material). Part-2 Class Project Based Assignment Sometimes, a PM familiar with PCTS analysis will be assigned to a project where no one was aware that PCTS analysis existed as a discipline. What this means is that no one explicitly defined PCT&S in any of the project documentation. Pretend that you are that PM, and have just been assigned as PM to the class project (not your project, the "Class project" described in Course Materials area). Consider the project, and then state explicitly for each PCTS variable how it is defined in this project - explicitly, indirectly (Inferred) or not defined at all. Include also your justification for your choice. Assume that the project description is complete (I have not intentionally left anything out -take what you read at face value). If you think there is something missing, ask me outside of the assignment and then complete the assignment after we have discussed it