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PROJ6002 Project Planning and Budgeting - Laureate International Universities.

Vehicle Maintenance Facility Case Study

As the new project manager, you are pondering what to do next. After discussion with your project administrator you realise that you need to do some work in relation to the Project Management Plan that you are busy developing.

Your project administrator emails you the following dependency table (Table 1) as well as cost of activities (Table 2) and the available human resources for the project (Table 3) that should be considered to get your tasks done.

Your tasks:

This case study provides you with an opportunity of drawing on your acquired project planning, scheduling, budgeting and quality management skills and materials covered in this course. Overall, you are responsible for developing a project scope statement document, a project schedule, a cost management plan and a quality management plan for the case study.

Specific tasks:

A group of maximum 2 students is required to perform the following tasks in addition to the descriptions in assessment briefs.

Assessment 1-Part B

1-1) Scope management planning

• Describe the entire scope of the work including project background, a list of specific project goals, deliverables, constraints and assumptions, and additional milestones.
• Create Work Breakdown Structure (at least three levels) for the project. It is pertinent to mention that the project name is considered as the level zero.

1-2) Project scheduling

• Construct an original Gantt chart for the project using project activities given in Table 1.
• Conduct a critical path analysis and carefully apply the 3-point estimate technique on identified critical activities to develop an estimated project schedule. It is assumed that the critical activities can be completed 20% faster in a risk-free environment. On the other hand, without an appropriate risk management, the durations of critical activities creep by 40%
• Perform a final schedule analysis using the results obtained from project scheduling conducted in the previous stages.

Assessment 2-Part B

1) Cost management planning

• Apply a diverse set of cost estimating tools to justify the cost of activities
• Develop and aggregate the cost of resources needed to complete each activity and determine the detailed budget of the project. Your cost estimate must incorporate at least two resources given in Table 3 for each given activity. Both cost estimate and a budget baseline must be produced in alignment with the estimated project schedule.
• Develop the cost management planning components of your Cost Management Plan.
• The cost management plan must include Earn Value Analysis (EVA) as a compulsory cost control tool to be utilised along with other cost control tools in this project. The application of EVA must be clearly demonstrated.

2) Quality management planning

• Develop the quality management planning components of your Quality Management Plan.
• Apply a quality management framework to ensure the project performance is consistent with the quality management plan.

Attachment:- Vehicle Maintenance Facility Case Study.rar