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Project Management Assignment - Final Project

The final project is designed for you to apply the concepts learned in the course and allows you to apply concepts that you may experience when you are working as a Project Management professional.

Purpose: Create a Project Proposal that ensures all parties have a shared understanding of the proposed project and allows effective prioritization against other initiatives based on the strategic direction of the company overall. This document also facilitates approval of timeline, budget and resources required to further define and plan the project and develop the Project Charter and other Phase deliverables.

Instructions:

1. Using the course content and the Sample Project Proposal.

2. Select one of the three project areas.

I. Information Technology-Software Upgrade.

i. A single-operator business is upgrading from XP to Windows 2016.

ii. 500 desktops and laptops.

II. Construction-Deck and Landscaping Upgrade.

i. Replace a deck and the front yard landscape for a private golf club recreation center.

ii. There are 2000 members of the golf club recreation center.

III. Disaster Recovery-Flood in High River.

i. Write a project proposal to resume the services for a single-operator business who was flooded during the flood in High River.

ii. The business has 50 employees that work in one single location.

iii. The office is a ground level floor.

iv. The office has four private offices, 40 work stations, two bathrooms and one large kitchen. There is no oven in the kitchen.

v. The business has an external IT Service Provider.

vi. The businesses database and application resided at an external location (e.g. iCloud).

vii. Exclude any essential service that is provided by the Municipal government; e.g. water, electricity, sanitation, etc.

3. Provide a high level summary of the proposed project and ensures a standard and transparent format for review by the sponsor, the Executive Sponsors, and other Executives. This document should be kept at a reasonable level of detail.

FINAL PROJECT FRAMEWORK -

OVERVIEW - This document will provide a high level executive summary of the proposed project and ensures a standard and transparent format for review by the sponsor, the Executive Sponsors, and other Executives. This document should be kept at a reasonable level of detail. Additional details will be provided later in the Project Charter.

1. Project Background and Description - The Initiative Proposal ensures all parties have a shared understanding of the proposed project and allows effective prioritization against other initiatives based on the strategic direction of the company overall. This document also facilitates approval of timeline, budget and resources required to further define and plan the project and develop the Project Charter and other Phase deliverables.

2. Project Scope - Describe how the objectives of the project will be achieved. It may be that the proposed project is part of a larger undertaking. If this is the case, then this section should describe how the proposed project fits into the broader undertaking and related your current company projects that are planned for the future.

The proposed scope should define the high-level boundaries of the project. If approved, the project team will be able to further define and plan the project and develop the Project Charter and other Phases deliverables.

3. High-Level Requirements - What are the high-Level requirements? For example, The new system must include the following:

• Ability to allow both internal and external users to access the application without downloading any software.
• Ability to interface with the existing data warehouse application.
• Ability to incorporate automated routing and notifications based on business rules.

4. Deliverables and Milestones - Deliverable: a tangible or intangible product or service produced as a result of the project that is intended to be delivered to a customer. A deliverable could be a report, a document, a software product, a server upgrade or any other building block of an overall project.

Milestone: time in point to mark specific points along a project timeline. These points may signal anchors such as a project start and end date, a need for external review or input and budget checks, among others. In many instances, milestones do not impact project duration. Instead, they focus on major progress points that must be reached to achieve success.

5. Affected Parties

6. Affected Business Processes or Risks

7. Specific Exclusions from Scope

8. Implementation Plan - Implementation is the carrying out, execution, or practice of a plan, a method, or any design, idea, model, specification, standard or policy for doing something. As such, implementation is the action that must follow any preliminary thinking in order for something to actually happen.

9. High-Level Budget and Timeline/Schedule - A table or Gantt chart that depicts the work streams which make up the project schedule. Detailed planning is summarized in the sections that follow. These work streams will be reported on as an integrated plan. Dates presented in this chart will be updated to align with the final project schedule.

The start date is dd-Mmm-yy and the end date is dd-Mmm-yy.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar