Assignment OverviewType Group ProjectUnit Project Quality
- 1. Assignment OverviewType: Group Project Unit: Project Quality and Risk Management Due Date: Thurs, 1/25/18 Grading Type: Numeric Points Possible: 165 Points Earned: 0 Deliverable Length: 7–10 slides per student View objectives for this assignment Go To: Assignment Details Scenario Learning Materials Reading Assignment My Work: Online Deliverables: Submissions
- 2. Discussion Board Group Live Chat Looking for tutoring? Go to Smarthinking Project Human Resource (to be developed by individual) 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 if 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 (to be developed by individual) Use a work breakdown structure or 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 associated deliverable, the approximate effort involved in creating the deliverable, and 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, escalated, and resolved.
- 3. Project Budget (to be developed by individual) Describe the budgeting process that will be used for the project. Identify the components of the budget, the items that will need to have costs associated with them, and the mechanisms that could be used to estimate the project. Describe how changes to the budget will be identified, escalated, and resolved. Project Risks (to be developed by individual) 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 mitigate the risk. Describe how changes to the risk management plan will be identified, reviewed, and approved. Project Communication (to be developed by individual) Describe the system that will be used throughout the project for recording and sharing project information related to schedule, budget, utilization, and status components. Describe the tools and techniques you will use to capture and report metrics. Describe the frequency with which the metrics will be captured and how the resulting analysis will be applied and communicated. Project Stakeholders (to be developed by individual) Describe how stakeholders were identified and analyzed, 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 outcome of the project. Describe the strategies planned to manage stakeholder engagement.
- 4. This task will be completed as a true group project. The groups will consolidate the individual responses into a single presentation. It will be determined by the members of the group whether the group will have a single member do each section or merge the responses of each member for the 5 areas of interest listed above. Assignment Guidelines: Individual Portion Complete your individual portion of the presentation based on the decision that the group made previously with regard to the project management areas of interest. Submit your slides, and allow sufficient time for peer review by the other group members. Note: Each slide must be submitted with 150–200 words of speaker notes. If necessary, make any corrections or modifications. Other Information
- 5. Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs) is a coffee shop that will be located in Milwaukee, WI. We have been able to purchase our own building within the city near Milwaukee’s top tourist attraction site near the Gold Rock Museum. The building is not renovated. Our market analysis of Milwaukee, WI indicated the city is the top city for coffee drinking in WI. Because we’re close to the city’s museum, we plan to become the top destination for local and American and foreign customers who visit Milwaukee each year. Our customers will have a wide range of coffee flavors to choose from including dark roast to light roast as well as specialty flavors throughout the year. They will also enjoy freshly baked low-fat donuts that aren’t available anywhere in the state. ACHs will hold true to its vision and mission of providing customers with a premier café experience. By creating a new twist for the café experience, ACHs will increase sales by more than $125,000 over the next three years and maintain a gross margin of 70%. The shop is 5,500 square foot of open space. Our plan is to have 2 bathrooms, a coffee bar, and enough tables to seat at least 50 customers. This is a coffee shop that also makes and sells donuts. The renovation must account for all that is needed to get the shop ready for both coffee and donuts. The project has an initial budget of $650,000. It is now January and Sam and Gloria would like the new location to be up and running no later on July 4th. Project Introduction The Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs) targets the community of Milwaukee, WI. The main focus on the company is the
- 6. renovation of the company’s building which is near the Gold Rock Museum. This is the strategic position and location to develop the company’s coffee shop. This will help in focusing on the current market by targeting the Milwaukee community’s coffee takers. The approach will focus on targeting the company’s approach into winning the market research and making the project work within the company’s budget and market targets. Project Charter The project charter will focus on the main and gains on the project scope, deliverables and objectives of the project. As specified by the company, the project charter entails: a) Project Scope The project targets the renovation of the company’s building at the community of Milwaukee, WI. This will entails the development of the coffee shop and donut making bakery. This will also target the development of bathrooms for staff and customers. There is also the need for building a consumer seater which can accommodate over 50 customers at any given time. The project will also include the completion of the renovation of the building within the initial 6 months. b) Project Deliverables The project should focus on developing the project plans and requirements. This will be the deliverable focusing on the work breakdown structure and requirement specifications. Through the development of the project budget and planning will help in targeting the project initiation plans. There is also an opportunity for developing the necessary plans for project execution and deliverables of renovated building and able to build a 50 seater free space for customer and staff.
- 7. c) Objectives The objectives of the project are to develop a final product within the first 6 months. This is the timeline which the company should focus and will focus on increasing and improving the allocation of support while meeting the expectations of the company. There also the need for developing the project to meet the key budget and timeline of the company by improving production, service delivery and quality standards for its consumers. Project Sponsor The project sponsor will be the project manager of theAmazing Coffee Houses (ACHs). The project manager will be the responsible partner in meeting the expectations of the company through ensuring The Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs) have implemented the new project development in the Milwaukee community. The project sponsor will be responsible for developing the business needs and aligning the project objectives to meet the needs of consumers. Project Customer The project customers include all the parties with the vested interests on the proposed project and under construction. Based on the project description, the project customers include the vested parties for the project of developing the new coffee house. This includes The Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs) company who are responsible for developing the budget and offering the necessary resources to meet the expectations of the project. There is also the project team headed by the project manager and will be responsible in meeting the project scope and objectives.
- 8. Components of the Project Plan The components of a project plan include project scope management critical in managing the project scope. There is also scheduling which is essential in focusing on the project resources and processes. It is also essential in meeting the expectations of the project while focusing on value and resource allocations. There is also the resource, budget and cost management for the project, which evaluates, generates and maintains the project’s resources for a successful completion of the project goals and objectives. References Burke, R. (2013). Project Management: Planning and Control Techniques . New Jersey, USA. Fitzsimmons, J., & Fitzsimmons, M. (2013). Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology . Mcgraw-Hill Higher Education. Kerzner, H. R. (2013). Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling . John Wiley & Sons. Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information Technology Project Management . Cengage Learning. Walker, A. (2015). Project Management in Construction . John Wiley & Sons.