Provide the Following Deliverables for the described scenario below: - Initial Project Solution.mpp - Final Project Solution.mpp
Question:
Provide the Following Deliverables for the described scenario below:
- Initial Project Solution.mpp
- Final Project Solution.mpp
- Budget Report
- To Do List
NOTE: these are tasks for you to include on your task list but you do NOT have to actually perform the tasks for the project: so you do not review training materials, create a survey etc. for this project.
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 Windows 10, Office 365, and Project 2016. Courses will be offered in the evenings and on Saturdays and taught by qualified volunteer employees. Instructors will be paid $40 per hour. 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 copy will be put in their personnel files. The company is not sure which vendor's off-the-shelf training materials to use. The company needs to set up a training classroom, survey employees on desired courses, find qualified volunteer instructors, and start offering courses. 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.
- Project Scope Management Create a WBS for this project and enter the tasks in Project 2016. Create milestones and summary tasks. Assume that the process of determining the project management tasks you need to document are similar to the process you used in the Global Treps Project. Some of the tasks specific to this project that you need to document will be to:
a. Review off-the-shelf training materials from three major vendors and decide which materials to use.
b. Negotiate a contract with the selected vendor for its materials.
c. Develop communications information about this new training program. i. Disseminate the information via department meetings, e-mail, the company's intranet, and flyers to all employees.
d. Create a survey to determine the number and type of courses needed and employees' preferred times for taking courses.
e. Administer the survey.
f. Solicit qualified volunteers to teach the courses. g. Review resumes, interview candidates for teaching the courses, and develop a list of preferred instructors.
h. Coordinate with the Facilities department to build two classrooms with 20 personal computers each, a teacher station, and an overhead projection system (assume that Facilities will manage this part of the project).
i. Schedule courses.
j. Develop a fair system for signing up for classes.
k. Develop a course evaluation form to assess the usefulness of each course and the instructor's teaching ability.
l. Offer classes.
- 2 Project Schedule Management
a. Make sure that you address all of the phases of a project- from initiation to closeout.
b. Enter realistic durations for each task and then link appropriate tasks. Be sure that all tasks are linked in some fashion to the start and end of the project. Use your work in the Global Treps Project as an example. Assume that you have six months to complete the entire project.
c. Provide a MS Project file that allows the reader to see the project requirements in the forms of a Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, and Resource Graph.
- 3. Project Cost Management
a. Assume that you have four people from various departments available part time to support the full-time Human Resources person, Terry, on the project. Assume that Terry's hourly rate is $40. Two people from the Information Technology department will each spend up to 25% of their time supporting the project. Their hourly rate is $50. One person from the Marketing department is available 25% of the time at $40 per hour, and one person from Corporate is available 30% of the time at $35 per hour. Enter this information about time and hourly wages into the Resource Sheet. Assume that the cost to build the two classrooms will be $100,000, and enter it as a fixed cost.
b. Using your best judgment and assign personnel and resources to the tasks.
c. View the Resource Graphs for each person. Make schedule adjustments if anyone is over allocated. d. Provide the budget report for the project. Use a format similar to those completed for the Global Treps Project.
- 4. Project Resource Management
Assume that the Marketing person will be unavailable for one week, two months into the project, and for another week, four months into the project. Make adjustments to accommodate this unavailability so the schedule does not slip and costs do not change. Document the changes from the original plan in the new plan (e.g. Initial Project Solution.mpp without schedule changes and Final Project Solution.mpp with schedule changes).
- 5. Project Communication Management
a. Adjust the timescale on your final Gantt chart to enable the chart to fit on one page.
b. Provide a master â??To-do Listâ? report that shows the tasks for each team member, ordered by team member (e.g. show all the tasks for Terry, then the two IT people, then the marketing representative, and then the corporate representative).
Income Tax Fundamentals 2013
ISBN: 9781285586618
31st Edition
Authors: Gerald E. Whittenburg, Martha Altus Buller, Steven L Gill