You work as a project manager for a hospital system that has just decided to replace an aging, mainframe-based, emergency room system with a modern, standalone computer system. The replacement project has been named the Emergency Room Stand Alone Initiative (ER-SAI). Another project manager was assigned to plan this effort, but has unfortunately gotten ill and youve been asked to essentially pick up from where they left off. Youve been asked to ensure three (or four) items are prepared and ready for stakeholder review: A Project Charter A Work Breakdown Structure A Network Schedule Diagram A Stakeholder Register (for project teams with four people only) After sifting through the previous project managers notes, youve found the following documents (that are obviously work in progress). The information collected includes: 1. A rough outline of Critical Tasks 2. A Risk Assessment Critical Tasks (in no particular order): Issue Development (7 days) Requirements gathering for: Hardware (22 days), Software (19 days) and Network (20 days) Identifying System Interfaces (10 days) Identifying Software Team Staffing Requirements (2 days) Determine & Purchase Hardware (15 days) Determine & Purchase Software (30 days) Determine & Purchase Network Equipment (30 days) Build Interfaces (60 days) Install & Test Hardware (30 days) Install & Test Software (14 days) Install & Test Network Equipment (30 days) Test System (5 days) Train Hospital Staff on system (5 days) Risk Assessment (preliminary): The most critical factor in this initiative is meeting the projects delivery date. A recent audit has pointed out the inadequacies of the current legacy emergency room system and the hospital may now have liability issues if they do not correct this situation. Since the software is being purchased from one of three reputable vendors the only consider with whether the current IT staff can build the required interfaces from this new ER System to other existing hospital systems. Project Mechanics: There is a Group Project 1 - Weekly Feedback Form which must be submitted by everyone, every week on Sunday by 11:59pm to provide your perspective on status. (this counts towards your total pts.) You must upload 2 Feedback Forms (1 by 10/8 & 1 by 5/15) to D2L > Submissions > Group Project 1 Feedback - Oct 8th and D2L > Submissions > Group Project 1 Feedback - Oct 15th Each team has a designated communication lead (*) responsible only for initially communicating with the others. You can work asynchronously or together synchronously, but must determine: who will provide which of the three deliverables (everyone must pick one) designate someone to pull all three deliverables into a single document and upload it to D2L > Submissions > Group Project 1 Deliverables Since you are divided up into groups of three or four to work on Group Project 1. Each of you is accountable for delivering ONLY ONE of the 3-4 deliverables to get credit on the project. Grading: 6 Pts for your portion + 1 Pt for each Feedback Form + 2 Points for continuity of the final deliverable. Do this ASAP: Step 1: The designated person (*) sends an e-mail to the other parties to initiate the conversation on who will deliver which deliverable and how you will share documents. The deliverables are mostly independent of each other but sharing what youve done may (will) help the others on your team understand their assignments better and ensure you dont expend more effort than might be required. This is NOT just about the deliverables, its also about using your information from Week 1 Lecture - Empathy, Team Dynamics and the Four Role Model. Step 2: Just as in real life, not all the information has been neatly packaged for you (after all the previous project manager was taken ill suddenly). Look at what youve been given, look at what you need to deliver AND then look at the Discussion Forum - Group Project 1- Additional Information to ask questions of any of the personas that are mentioned in the forum. They will happily respond to you with information that you may be looking for. This leverages your ability to work with a team to share information AND analyze thats being asked of you. You are being evaluated on your ability to sort out what you have been given, ask for whats missing (in a conversational mode like youd encounter in a work situation) and pull the pieces together into a requested deliverable