RACI charts can be used as a tool to manage the key roles and responsibilities of a project. Creating a RACI chart can be a challenge and takes practice. In this assignment, you will create and submit a RACI chart. As the project manager, you have been tasked with determining the roles of team members. There are no “right” or “wrong” answers, but several ways to interpret how the tasks and resources should be allocated.

Create a RACI chart for a website reveal based on the tasks listed below. You may use the provided RACI Excel template.

Project: Launching new website at company picnic

Task: Taylor, the company’s Senior Vice President (SVP), told you that you’ll be surprising the 100+ employees of your company with the launch of the new website at the company picnic next month. She said she trusts your judgement but would like to run the final plan across A.J., the head of HR, who is in charge of the picnic. Everyone in the company has been working on some part of the website for over a year. You need to work the exciting reveal into the company picnic. Your committee – made up of project managers from across the company – needs to complete the following tasks:

• Create signage.
• Create a fun way to reveal the new website.
• Write up FAQs about the new website.
• Create a teaser to send out prior to the picnic.
• Schedule time to work together.
• Create a timeline for the reveal.

Committee Members: You, Zarina, Erika, Jonas, and Mike

Assignment Content

1. Project Cost Management

   Open a new Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel document, or use the provided template to complete the following tasks.
   Tony Prince and his team are working on the Recreation and Wellness Intranet Project. They have been asked to refine the existing cost estimate for the project so they can evaluate supplier bids and have a solid cost baseline for evaluating project performance. Recall that your schedule and cost goals are to complete the project in 6 months for under $200,000.
   Use the Cost Estimate template and Cost Baseline template to assist with this assignment.
   Tasks

   • Prepare and upload a 1-page cost model for this project using spreadsheet software. Use the following work breakdown structure (WBS), and document your assumptions in preparing the cost model. Assume a labor rate of $100 per hour for the project manager and $60 per hour for other project team members. Assume that none of the work is outsourced, labor costs for users are not included, and there are no additional hardware costs. The total estimate should be $200,000.

   1. Project management
   2. Requirements definition
   3. Website design
   4. Registration for recreational programs
   5. Registration for classes and programs
   6. Tracking system
   7. Incentive system
   8. Website development
   9. Registration for recreational programs
   10. Registration for classes and programs
   11. Tracking system
   12. Incentive system
   13. Testing
   14. Training, rollout, and support

   • Using the cost model you created in the first task, prepare a cost baseline by allocating the costs by WBS for each month of the project.
   • Assume that you have completed 3 months of the project. The BAC was $200,000 for this 6-month project. You can also make the following assumptions:
   • PV=$120,000
   • EV=$100,000
   • AC=$90,000

   1. What is the cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index (CPI), and schedule performance index (SPI) for the project?
   2. Use the CPI to calculate the estimate at completion (EAC) for this project. Is the project performing better or worse than planned?
   3. Use the SPI to estimate how long it will take to finish this project.

   
   After completing your charts, write a 150-word follow-up in which you complete the following:

   • Explain how the project is doing based on the CPI and SPI. Is it ahead of schedule or behind? Is it under budget or over?
   • Describe the strategies or steps that should be taken for human resource management to avoid additional costs.
   • Describe the strategies or steps that should be taken for resource activity management to avoid additional costs.
   • Recommend 2 tools to support these strategies and explain why these tools would be beneficial.