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/anal
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Description
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.
Propose three to five additional activities
that would help you estimate resources and durations. Write a one-page paper
describing these new activities.
2.
Identify at least eight milestones for the
Recreation and Wellness Intranet Project. Write a short paper describing 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 you created for Task 4
in Chapter 5 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.
Write a short paper summarizing 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.
