Project managers plan, schedule, and control activities to satisfy project

requirements and to meet business needs. Some of these activities include

business analysis, requirements gathering, project planning, budget estimating,

development, testing, training, and implementation. Throughout the duration of

this course, you will work through the stages of a typical project lifecycle to produce

common project documents and technical communications such as wireframes,

mockups, quick reference guides and a user manual plan using the scenario below

as a baseline for your project.

Project Scenario:

Your company has determined there is a need for an employee portal website to

simplify access to commonly used information and resources to allow employees to

become more informed and to increase the ability for employees to complete their

own transactions. Areas of focus for this new website include a number of

personalized self$-$service tools, information about onboarding, knowledgebases,

work$/$life balance resources, benefits information, employee handbooks, and other

searchable on$-$demand content. These resources must be available $24$x$7$ and

accessible from anywhere $($home$,$ work, mobile devices, etc.$).$ Your company has

approximately $5000$ employees geographically dispersed around the globe. This

global audience must factor into your design considerations; network and

infrastructure requirements; training; usability design; user acceptance testing; and

other implementation requirements. Additionally, your project team members are

also located in a number of locations meaning you will have to consider varied time

zones and virtual technologies to facilitate the project work. These resources do

not report directly to you and come from a number of organizations across the

company. This means you will need to identify strategies for dealing with conflict,

managing work in a virtual environment, dealing with competing priorities, and

managing performance when the resources do not report to you from an

organizational perspective.

You will be expected to incorporate the items below into your website design,

keeping in mind that content management strategies should be employed to

minimize clicks and keep core content categories together in an organized fashion.

You may also add other features to your design:

$$ Employee expense report forms

$$ Tuition Reimbursement

$$ Electronic time cards

$$ Employee handbook

$$ Knowledgebase $($Ask an expert$)$

PROJECT CHARTER TEMPLATE BELOW

$1.$project Information

Project Title:

Project Description:

$2.$ Project Team

Name Department Telephone E$-$mail

Project Manager:

Team Members:

$3.$ Stakeholders $($e$.$g$.,$ those with a significant interest in or who will be significantly affected by this project$)$

$4.$ Project Scope Statement

Project Purpose Describe the need this project addresses$-$

Objectives $($in business terms$)$ Describe the measurable outcomes of the project, e$.$g$.,$ reduce cost by xxxx or increase quality to yyyy$-$

Deliverables List the high$-$level $$products$$ to be created $($e$.$g$.,$ improved xxxx process, employee manual on yyyy$)-$

Scope List what the project will and will not address$-$

Project Milestones Propose start and end dates for Project Phases $($e$.$g$.,$ Inception, Planning, Execution, Closing$)$ and other major

milestones$-$

Major Known Risks $($including significant Assumptions$)$ Identify obstacles that may cause the project to fail.

Risk

Constraints List any conditions that may limit the project team$$s options with respect to resources, personnel, or schedule $($e$.$g$.,$

predetermined budget or project end date, limit on number of staff that may be assigned to the project$).$

Assumptions Will project success depend on coordination of efforts between the project team and one or more other individuals or groups?

Has everyone involved agreed to this interaction?

$5.$ Communication Strategy $($specify how the project manager will communicate to the Executive Sponsor, Project Team members and

Stakeholders, e$.$g$.,$ frequency of status reports, frequency of Project Team meetings, etc.