This milestone will allow you to evaluate the project manager's management of team members, resources, conflict, and engagement with project stakeholders.

2. Project Planning

   1. Determine the business requirements for the successful development of the project. Justify your choices.

   2. Establish who will provide the business requirements. What approach will be used to solicit the requirements from the subject matter experts?

   3. Categorize and organize the business requirements in a standard requirements template.

   4. Explain why the format for capturing requirements is important to the overall success of the project. Why would we consider requirements

      traceability?

   5. Leveraging the business requirements, translate these requirements into a project schedule using project management software through the

      provided template.

   6. Estimate the duration of project tasks using common business knowledge, and assign resources to complete each task.

   7. Refine your estimate of the project cost based on the duration of tasks and resources needed.

3. Project Execution

   1. Determine the best implementation approachagile or waterfall projectfor the organization based on its organizational structure. Provide

      examples to support your rationale.

   2. Explain how the project schedule can be resource leveled, fast-tracked, or crashed if needed based upon execution results.

   3. Propose communication approaches and the frequency that should be used to keep leadership apprised of the project execution. Include

      examples to support your claims.