Project management, management homework help

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Part 1

Using the downloadable software, templates provided, or other preferred software, such as Microsoft Excel:

This list of activities needs to contain enough detail so you can effectively plan and schedule your event.

  • Using the completed WBS as a reference, next complete a Gantt chart of your project using the template provided. If you discover in the process you overlooked activities make sure to include them in the WBS.
    Gantt Chart
  • In a paper that is a minimum of 2 pages long, identify the Critical Path for your project. Using the WBS and the Gantt chart you constructed for this project analyze how much longer you will need to start planning in advance of your event in order to complete the project? Your submission should follow the essentials of APA (i.e., cover page, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, reference section at the end, in-text citations, etc.).

    Would you like information about how to format in APA? Click here.
  • Papers should be spell-checked and submitted to Grammarly prior to submitting your paper to the drop box. "Grammarly" is a free service for Rasmussen students. Once you've made all of your suggested grammar corrections, submit your paper to the Drop Box, along with your Grammarly PDF report as a separate attachment. Your goal is to obtain a Grammarly score of 90 - 100%.

Part 2

For this part of the Course Project, you will put together a Quality Plan. In order to provide the highest quality experience possible, attendees of the event were surveyed to determine what was most important to them when attending such an event. The result of this survey is listed below:

- 90% of those completing the survey felt that having engaging and dynamic speakers is key to a successful event
- 90% felt that it was important that the accommodations were physically located where the convention is being held; they didn't want to have to take a bus or a shuttle from their hotel to the convention.
- 85% stated the food provided should be wonderful and meet any dietary restrictions, such as vegetarian or gluten-free.

For your assignment, you will need to do the following:

Complete a scope statement for your project (Use may use the templates for Project Scope and Business Objective Worksheet provided). Your project Scope should be at one page in length.

Project Scope and Business Objective Worksheet

Using the WBS for your project, identify which of the Work Activities listed could potentially impact those items identified by attendees as critical for the success of the project.

Complete a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. Only include those activities that impact the four issues identified by your customers as critical to producing a quality event. For each of the activities listed:

- Based on your knowledge of the activity analyze the severity of the impact on the project if the activity failed to produce a quality result as Low, Medium, or High
- Also based on your knowledge of the activity analyze the probability of the poor quality result occurring as Low, Medium, or High
- For the three activities that were evaluated as having the most severe quality consequences AND having the highest impact generate an action plan to reduce or eliminate these failures from occurring
  • In a paper that is a minimum of 2 pages long, clearly and concisely summarize the action items identified through the FMEA that will increase the probability of your project being considered a success with your customers.
  • Your submission should follow the essentials of APA (i.e., cover page, double-spaced, 12 pt. font, reference section at the end, in-text citations, etc.).

    Would you like information about how to format in APA? Click here.
  • Papers should be spell-checked and submitted to Grammarly prior to submitting your paper to the drop box.
    "Grammarly" is a free service for Rasmussen students. Once you've made all of your suggested grammar corrections, submit your paper to the Drop Box, along with your Grammarly PDF report as a separate attachment. Your goal is to obtain a Grammarly score of 90 - 100%.
    *Grammarly instructions can be accessed by clicking on this link
    Grammarly handout
    Grammarly Student User Guide

Submit your completed assignments to the drop box below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

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Explanation & Answer

WBS , how do you want it.. I put in word at the moment till you let me knowI can do in MS project with Gantt chart and pdf the file for you let me know

Running Head: CRITICAL PATH

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Critical path
Name:
Institutional Affiliation:
Date:

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CRITICAL PATH
Critical path
A critical path method is commonly used in almost all the different types of projects that

each and every company and organization undertake. The basic way strategy (CPM) is a venture
displaying method created in the late 1950s by Morgan R. Walker of DuPont and James E.
Kelley Jr. of Remington Rand. Kelley and Walker related their recollections of the advancement
of CPM in 1989. Kelley ascribed the expression "basic way" to the engineers of the Program
Evaluation and Review Technique which was produced at about a similar time by Booz Allen
Hamilton and the U.S. Naval force The forerunners of what came to be known as Critical Path
were produced and incorporated by DuPont in the vicinity of 1940 and 1943 and added to the
achievement of the Manhattan Project (Santiago & Magallon, 2009).
CPM is generally utilized with all types of tasks, including development, aviation, and
guard, programming advancement, examine ventures, item improvement, designing, and plant
upkeep, among others. Any venture with related exercises can apply this technique for numerical
examination. The first run through CPM was utilized for real high rise advancement was in 1966
while building the previous World Trade Center Twin Towers in NYC. Despite the fact that the
first CPM program and approach is no longer used, the term is for the most part connected to any
approach used to break down a venture arrange rationale outline. Different project managers
have been found to be using this technique in the determination of the overall time that can be
taken in the completion of each and every project that they undertake. With the help of other
crucial aspects of measuring the total time that a project can take, the project manager can then
decides on which of the activities in the whole project can be foregone for the optimum
utilization of the available resources.

CRITICAL PATH

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CPM computes the longest way of arranged exercises to intelligent end indicates or the
finish of the venture, and the most punctual and most recent that every movement can begin and
complete without making the venture longer. This procedure figures out which exercises are
"basic" (i.e., on the longest way) and which have "add up to coast" (i.e., can be postponed
without making the venture longer). In venture administration, a basic way is the grouping of
venture system exercises which indicate the longest general span, in any case, if that longest term
has coast or not. This decides the briefest time conceivable to finish the venture. There can be
'add up to coast' (unused time) inside the basic way.
For instance, if a venture is trying a sun-powered board and assignment "B" requires
'dawn', there could be a planning imperative on the testing movement with the goal that it would
not begin until the booked time for dawn. This may embed dead time (add up to skim) into the
timetable on the exercises on that way before the dawn because of expecting to sit tight for this
occasion (Chanas & Zieliński, 2001). This way, with the imperative created, add up to buoy
would really make the way more and with aggregate buoy being a piece of the briefest
conceivable span for the general venture. As such, individual assignments on the basic way
before the limitation may have the capacity to be deferred without prolonging the basic way; this
is the 'add up to buoy' of that undertaking. In any case, the time added to the venture term by the
limitation is really basic way drag, the sum by which the venture's span is stretched out by each
basic way movement and requirement.
Considering this project that has been presented in the attached paper, it can be seen that
all the available activities can only be carried out in a sequential manner. The outcomes of one
activity become the input for the following activity. Following this brief description, it can be
seen that the total time taken in terms of weeks is, therefore, the total time that all the activities

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CRITICAL PATH
take from the first to the last. Therefore, the critical path for the project is 22 weeks. This can be
represented in a Gantt chart as shown below.
Week

Activities
Planning

Requirements
collection
Requirements
analysis
System design

Implementatio
n

Testing

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

2

2

2

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

0

1

2

CRITICAL PATH
Documentation

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CRITICAL PATH
References
Santiago, J., & Magallon, D. (2009). Critical path method. CEE320, Winter 2013.
Chanas, S., & Zieliński, P. (2001). Critical path analysis in the network with fuzzy activity
times. Fuzzy sets and systems, 122(2), 195-204.

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Project Scope and Business Objective Worksheet
A. General Information
Provide basic information about the project including: Project Title – The proper name used to identify this project;
Project Working Title - The working name or acronym that will be used for the project; Project Manager- The
Project Manager who is responsible for the entire project; Other Agency – Other agency that will be responsible for
the management of the project; Prepared by – The person(s) preparing this document; Date/Control Number – The
date the plan is finalized and the change or configuration item control number assigned.
Project Title:

Project Working Title:

Proponent
Secretary:

Proponent Agency:

Prepared by:

Date / Control
Number:

B. Project Scope
1. Deliverables
Analyze the project scope and objectives outlined in the Project Proposal and Charter to understand the Project
Deliverables. Answer these questions:

a) What are the Project Deliverables?
The project should have delivered the following during the completion;
One, the project that has been undertaken should enable the users to get into the system, check
for their placed order statuses and edit or cancel any placed orders.
The project should provide an easy way for the selected business entity to manage their overall
sales as well as inventory services. Lastly, the project should make work easier by providing
an automated method of saving and accessing the corporate data.

b) Where, when, and to whom are the Deliverables provided?
The deliverables are presented to different users of the completed project. One is the
management. The management should be able to track all their overall performance in...


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