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Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented. Be sure you have completed Assessments 1 through 5 before beginning this assessment.You have had a chance to learn about and practice managing the time, costs, and quality of a business or IT-type project. You clarified a scope, created a WBS, designed a project schedule, identified project costs, produced a project budget, and researched and applied project quality tools and strategies.For this assessment, you will combine all of these components in a final project management plan. If you had developed this project for a real business, your plan would now be submitted to the project sponsor for review. If approved, the next step would be to implement the plan.Here at Capella, there are several types of quality accreditations that provide external recognition for demonstrating the criticality and importance of project quality management strategies. You will research various Capella accreditations and evaluate the standards for quality and external recognition. You will provide a reflection on your course experiences that include project lessons learned and executive summary. In your reflections, do not hesitate to provide input about the course. Describe what direction you will take with project management in the future.Note: Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
OVERVIEW
This assessment brings everything together for your final time, costs, and quality management plan. After you have completed the other assessments as well an evaluation of two quality accreditations, you will provide the final version of your project management plan and your final project schedule in Microsoft Project. It is also recommended that you incorporate any changes as a result of instructor's comments. You can use the Project Management Plan Template to import your samples.
INSTRUCTIONS
Quality Accreditation Evaluation
Here at Capella University, we have the following quality accreditations:
Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).
Project Management Institute (PMI).
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
Using the Capella library, research two of the four accreditations and conduct an evaluation that includes:
Description of the accreditation.
Application of the accreditation to the quality discipline.
Benefits and value of an accreditation to the institute.
Benefits and value of an accreditation to the learner.
Include this evaluation in the Project Lessons Learned and Reflection - Quality Accreditation Evaluation section of the Project Management Plan Template.
Project Management Plan
Create a final version of your project management plan and your final project schedule in Microsoft Project, after incorporating any changes required after receiving instructor feedback. Your final plan should be in the following format.
Table of Contents.
Executive Summary (u06a1).
Scope Management Plan (u01a1).
Time Management Plan (u02a1, u03a1).
Cost Management Plan (u04a1).
Quality Management Plan (u05a1).
Project Lessons Learned / Reflection (u06a1).
Quality Accreditation Evaluation.
Lessons Learned.
Reflections.
Reference List
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Your assessment should meet the following requirements.
Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. Complete assessments in a detailed, comprehensive, and error-free manner.
Documents:
Updated Project Management Plan template.
Updated project schedule in Microsoft Project.
References: Include a list of references, including books, Web sites, articles, and other resources.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
COMPETENCIES MEASURED
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Apply the project time management strategies, tools, and techniques.
Develop an appropriate time management plan that exhibits the steps of the time management, activity estimation, schedule development, and control processes.
Develop a Microsoft Project schedule with associated tasks and milestones.
Competency 2: Apply the project cost management strategies, tools, and techniques.
Develop an appropriate cost management plan that exhibits the steps of the cost management, cost estimation, budget determination, and costs control processes.
Competency 3: Apply the project quality management strategies, tools, and techniques.
Develop an appropriate quality management plan that exhibits the steps of the quality management process, monitoring and reporting quality process, quality control process, and quality assurance process.
Competency 4: Communicate effectively.
Develop a project management plan that balances the competing demands of time, costs, and quality.
Evaluate the quality accreditations at Capella.
Communicate effectively in a professional manner consistent with the standards and conventions of project management.