PM598 Week 3 Apply Signature Assignment Project Management Plan

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Continue working on the individual project you started in Week 1 and 2 to accomplish the assignment below: 

Write a paper of no more than 2,100 words and include the following components:

Project Risk Management Plan 

• Examine at least 5 risks applicable to your project.
• Create a table in Microsoft^® Word for your risk assessment matrix. For each risk, analyze its likelihood and probability, its effect, an overall risk assessment score, when it could occur, and your response. 

Project HR Plan

• Analyze HR needs, how they are acquired, and when they will occur.
• Examine your training approach and how you plan to recognize and reward the team's efforts.

Project Communication Plan

• Examine key stakeholder groups and their project information needs.
• Create a table in Microsoft^® Word, evaluating the following information that is produced during the project's lifecycle: status and issue reports; the target audience for each information type, including senior management and customers; when each information type is available (weekly or biweekly); how information is communicated (e-mail or hard copy); and who is responsible for producing information.

Project Procurement Plan

• Examine the methods that will be used to manage procurements in the project.
• Examine at least one contract vehicle that might be used.

 

Incorporate your facilitator's feedback into the plans and include the revised versions in your final project.

Submit your assignment.

  

PM598 Week 6 Discussion - Project Closure and Ethical Considerations

What are the key decisions and steps for project closure and what are the ethical considerations in project management. Are they the same or do they vary in different regions of the world? Please explain and cite examples.

  

PM598 Week 6 Apply Final Project Management Plan

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Resource: Final Project Management Plan Grading Guide

Write a paper of no more than 1,400 words, addressing the following items:

• How changes to the project scope, timeline, and budget are managed and reported.
• How project cost and schedule performance is measured and reported.
• How project quality is managed and reported.
• Reasons why your project could be closed.
• Closure processes you use for normal completion, such as having objectives met.
• Ethical considerations you may have to make through the project lifecycle and ways to respond.

 

Explain the processes that must be in place to effectively manage each aspect of the project and your rationale for selecting techniques you plan to use.

 

Include scholarly references in addition to textbooks used in the Project Management concentration.

 

Include components produced in earlier weeks and shown above.

 

Assemble your final project plan to include deliverables from Weeks One, Two, Three, and Six into a final, coherent document. Be sure to revise the plan deliverables to reflect your facilitator's feedback from the assignments.

 

PM598 Week 5 Discussion - Tracking Gantt Chart

How does a tracking Gantt chart help communicate project progress? Why is it important for project managers to resist changes to project baseline? Under what conditions would a project manager make changes to a baseline? When would a project manager not allow changes to a baseline. Please explain with examples.

  

 

PM598 Week 5 Apply Earned Value Analysis

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Resources:

• Project Management: The Managerial Process, Ch. 13
• Electroscan, Inc. Student Table Spreadsheet
• Earned Value Analysis Grading Guide

Evaluate the Earned Value Management (EVM) Case Study found on p. 499 in Ch. 13 of Project Management: The Managerial Process.

Calculate EVM information from the data provided using the Electroscan, Inc. Student Table spreadsheet, and draw conclusions regarding the project's status in the case study.

Draw conclusions regarding project health from the Earned Value analysis. 

Analyze the effects of given schedule variances, as well as SPI, CPI, EAC, TCIP, and any other EVM analytical products they deem valuable.

Write your findings in a 350- to 700-word memorandum.

 

PM598 Week 4 Team - Apply Acquiring and Managing Project Teams

Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation with a 2- to 4-minute video that captures at least six best practices your team has identified with regard to acquiring, developing, and managing high-performance project teams.

 

Explain the similarities and differences between managing local and virtual teams.

 

Analyze the benefits and strategies of managing high-performance project teams.

 

Evaluate all considerations for outsourcing or keeping a project local.

 

Submit your assignment.

 

PM598 Week 4 Discussion - Best Practices for Acquiring and Developing a Project Management Team

What do you consider are the top five best practices in project management related to acquiring and developing a project management team. Which of these have you successfully applied? Please explain. 

PM598 Week 3 Team - Apply Blog Critical Success Factors in Project Management

Create a 1,050-word blog using the template provided.

 

Research best practices in assisting project managers overcome challenges.

 

Identify critical factors in project management. 

 

Explain the relationship between the project sponsor and manager and how it is analyzed throughout the project management lifecycle. 

 

Provide a minimum of 6 reasons for project success and failure. 

 

Include four to six scholarly references in addition to texts used in the Project Management concentration. 

 

Provide examples of how organizations overcome challenges associated with project failure. 

 

Illustrate best practices of project management.

 

Note: All Learning Team members must write a minimum of four detailed, substantive blogs.

 

Submit your assignment.

  

PM598 Week 3 Discussion - Project Risk

Project risks can/cannot be eliminated if the project is carefully planned. Explain. What is the difference between mitigating a risk and contingency planning. What are the likely outcomes if a change management process is not used? Why. Please share examples from your professional experience. 

 

PM598 Week 2 Discussion - Accurate Estimates

Why are accurate estimates, WBS critical to effective project management? Explain the risks associated with leveling resources, compressing or crashing projects, and imposed durations or "catch-up" as the project is being implemented. How is this applied in your industry? Please explain and cite examples.

  

 

PM598 Week 2 Apply Project Scope, Schedule, and Budget

Create a project schedule and budget.

Use the following guidelines to complete your assignment:

• Project scope: Refine the project scope statements from the scope statement in the charter from Week 1.
• Develop a work breakdown structure (WBS) from the refined scope statement.
• Project schedule: Using Microsoft^® Project and the WBS you developed above, create a schedule for your project's lifecycle. Include specific tasks and milestones, with time and resource estimates, to meet organizational objectives in 350 words.
• Project budget: Using Microsoft^® Excel^® and the project schedule, WBS, and scope statement, create a time-phased budget containing cost estimates. Include direct and indirect costs for labor, machinery, equipment, supplies, and other elements applicable to the project.

 

Incorporate your facilitator's feedback into the schedule and budget and include the revised versions in your final project due in Week 6.

  

PM598 Week 1 Project Management Plan Project Charter

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Resource: Project Management Plan: Project Charter Grading Guide

Develop a project charter.

Obtain faculty approval of the topic for this project.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper featuring the following elements:

• Narrative project description
• Problem and result statement
• Mission justification
• Project scope statement
• Major deliverables
• High-level milestones for significant events
• Applicable technical requirements, assumptions, or constraints

Incorporate your facilitator's feedback into the charter and include the revised version in your final project.

   

PM598 Week 1 Discussion - Approaches to Managing Projects

What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of the functional, matrix, and dedicated team approaches to managing projects? Please explain and cite examples. Does your organization or one your familiar with have Project Management Office and how does it support effective project management.