Project Management
Tony Prince is the
project manager for the Recreation and Wellness Intranet Project. Team members
include you, a programmer/analyst and aspiring project manager; Patrick, a
network specialist; Nancy, a business analyst; and Bonnie, another
programmer/analyst. Other people are supporting the project from other
departments, including Yusaff from human resources and Cassandra from finance.
Assume that these are the only people who can be assigned and charged to work
on project activities. Recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete
the project in six months for under $200,000.
Tasks
1. Review the WBS and Gantt chart attached. Propose three to five additional
activities that would help you estimate resources and durations. Describe these
new activities.
2. Identify at least eight milestones for the Recreation and Wellness Intranet
Project. Write a short description of each milestone using the SMART criteria.
Discuss how determining these milestones might add activities or tasks to the
Gantt chart. Remember that milestones normally have no duration, so you must
have tasks that will lead to completing the milestone.
3. Using the Gantt chart attached and the new activities and milestones you
proposed in Tasks 1 and 2 above, create a new Gantt chart using Project 2010.
Estimate the task durations and enter dependencies as appropriate. Remember
that your schedule goal for the project is six months. Print the Gantt chart
and network diagram, each on one page.
4. Summarize how you would assign people to each activity from Tasks 1, 2, and
3. Include a table or matrix listing how many hours each person would work on
each task. These resource assignments should make sense given the duration
estimates made in Task 3 above. Remember that duration estimates are not the
same as effort estimates because they include elapsed time.
