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Assignment Details
You are managing the online ordering and billing system upgrade project. In this assignment, you will develop a slide presentation to be given to the project sponsor. The presentation should include the following:
Project Planning
Provide an introduction or overview of the project. Develop the project charter and identify the project sponsor and customer. Describe the components of the project plan, how it will be used throughout the project, and its benefit to the sponsor.
Project Work and Delivery
Define the project scope, including the major deliverables and the items that are not part of the scope. Using your knowledge of a packaged system upgrade project, describe the interim deliverables that will be created as part of the development process. Discuss how the scope will be approved and how changes to the scope will be documented, reviewed, and approved.
Project Team
Describe the roles and responsibilities that need to be filled on the project. Give a rationale for the staff for the project, assign roles, and describe staff involvement with each major deliverable. Decide whether you will use vendors to supplement the team and ascertain their roles and responsibilities as well as your rationale for making the decision. Describe how staffing changes will be identified, escalated, and resolved.
Project Schedule
Use a work breakdown structure (WBS) or a similar tool to explain the major activities that will be completed as part of the project. Describe the major milestones for the project. For each milestone, identify the following:
The associated deliverable
The approximate effort involved in creating the deliverable
The people involved
For 2 of the milestones, detail the activities to be completed to achieve the milestone. Be sure to address dependencies, duration, and resource effort. Describe how changes to the schedule will be identified, processed, or escalated, and resolved.
Project Budget
Describe the budgeting process that will be used for the project. Identify the following:
The components of the budget
The items that will need to have costs associated with them
The mechanisms that could be used to estimate the project
Apply the use of earned value management (EVM) and burn down techniques to monitor and control project budget.
Project Risks
Describe the possible risk events for the project. Identify the high-probability, high-impact risk events. For each of those risk events, identify the possible actions to optimize the risk. Describe how risk optimization will be implemented.
Project Stakeholders
Describe how stakeholders were identified and analyzed, as well as what tools and techniques were used to categorize and understand stakeholder interests. Describe your stakeholders, who they are, and what their interests are in the outcomes of the project. Describe the strategies planned to manage stakeholder engagement.