Present a project issue and denote the issues with planning, the SOW issues, the WBS concerns, any team management issues, and anything else of interest that could cause issues with the planning process and ultimately the success of the project.

Welcome to the week 8 course assessment assignment. This assignment reviews all of the material that was learned in the course and assesses student understanding in the key concepts of project planning management that were reviewed in this course:

• Project Planning
  • Project Budgeting
  • Project Team Resource Management
  • Project WBS Creation
  • Project Risk Management
  • Project Contract Management

Review the following project outcomes and note potential issues that most likely occurred (or factors that were neglected) in the project planning process. Please be thorough in your response to each of the sections in this assignment.

• We are in week 11 of a 12 week project and the following items were discussed in our project team meeting. Review the person who noted the issue and their title is listed in the comments:

• Green: Project Manager: We budgeted 12k for the project, and have spent 15k to date (we are 3k over budget), we estimate another 3k of costs before the project is completed
• White: Finance Manager: The reason behind the extra 3k is cost is that the project needs to be extended for 3 more weeks and our average cost per week rate is about 1k per week
• Colonel Mustard: IT Delivery Manager: (in response to a non-IT task that will impact IT work) We fell behind because we really didn't know who was assigned to specific tasks and now that we only have a few tasks left we are managing these outstanding tasks to complete in 3 weeks
• Scarlett: New Manager in charge of department performing non-IT work: Additionally, the first three weeks we spent training the staff on how to perform the work as we didn't know they didn't have the skills to perform the work
• Green: Project Manager: Our project may also be another week behind schedule due to a contract that is at risk for non-delivery which will impact our delivery date by one day. If we receive the item prior to the last day, we should be able to make our delivery. For every day the project slips, we will fall one day behind on delivery of the product. We don't know who in the organization is managing this contract. Also, the agreed upon price is not available and we've looked everywhere.

What is missing or could have been missing in each area for this assignment.

• Overview of the potential concerns in paragraph form
• A table noting each of the areas below and the concern in the following column

• Project Budgeting
• Project Team Resource Management
• Project WBS Creation
• Project Risk Management
• Project Contract Management

Project Planning Specific Area	Possible Concerns	Actions that should have taken place in the Planning Phase
Budgeting	1. 2. 3. Etc...	1. 2. 3. Etc...
Team Resource Management	1. 2. 3. Etc...	1. 2. 3. Etc...
WBS Creation	1. 2. 3. Etc...	1. 2. 3. Etc...
Risk Management	1. 2. 3. Etc...	1. 2. 3. Etc...
Contract Management	1. 2. 3. Etc...	1. 2. 3. Etc...