Outcome 2 - Project Plan for my friend

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Students will develop an overall project plan to accomplish the project goals that includes a number of project management tools that help manage risk, cost, and communication throughout the Project Life Cycle.


Deliverables include:
Scope or Statement of Work (SOW) of the Project
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - high level hierarchical chart that breaks down the scope/SOW into deliverables. It needs to include 5 out of 10 knowledge areas.
Schedule - either in Excel or MSProject down to 3 levels that include work packages; Schedule must match the WBS, Schedule will need resource assignment; Time and duration determined
Communication Plan - take the audience/competitive analysis outputs and develop a communication plan based on key stakeholders
Budget - Cost Analysis based on the schedule, resources, fixed cost, etc.

Students may propose an alternative project of their own design that shows attainment of the corresponding course outcome. The mentor must approve the alternative project.

This outcome will include several pieces:

  1. Scope or Statement of Work (SOW)
  2. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  3. Schedule
  4. Communication Plan
  5. Budget

You'll likely be submitting 2 different files for this outcome: a Word document and an Excel file. If you want to do your Schedule in Microsoft Project, you're welcome to. If you don't have Microsoft Project, Excel will work just fine.

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1 Project Plan City University 2 Abstract This paper will include a project scope that clearly identifies the statement of work to be done. A work breakdown structure (WBS) will be provided to break the scope into deliverables. 5 of the 10 knowledge areas from (PMBOK) Project Management Book Of Knowledge will be included within the WBS. A schedule that matches the WBS will go to the work package level to show the time and duration of the tasks with the resources needed to complete the tasks. A communication plan will be created to share the competitive analysis results. A product cost analysis will be provided to show monthly expenses and a break even analysis. A projection analysis will be provided to show projected production volume, the costs associated with production and the projected profit for one year of business. 3 Iron Mountain Furniture Company Marketing Project Plan Scope Work that will be performed. This project will be limited to creating the plan to implement the marketing methods outlined in the Iron Mountain Furniture Company Marketing Plan. This includes the setup and implementation requirements for a website, Ebay listing, Craigslist listing, Social Media setup and outlet display setup. Roles and responsibilities The business owner will take full responsibility for the implementation of the marketing plan and will coordinate with outside companies as required. Timeline for work The marketing plan will start in October 2013 and will continue through March 2014. Implementation of each marketing elements are phased to allow product manufacturing to take place concurrently. Performance measurement The plan performance is to be measured by successful completion of the designated tasks within the time frame that has been agreed to. Measures will be put in place to track the method the customers were drawn to the product. This measure will allow for focus in the areas that draw the largest buying customer group. The under performing areas will be evaluated for effectiveness of the marketing type. This may require an adjustment to the under performing marketing method or it may require the under performing method to be discontinued. 4 WBS 5 Schedule 6 Communication plan 7 Budget Analysis 8 Projected costs, sales and profit 9 References
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Reference


Course title
Student name
Institution affiliation

Abstract
This paper provides a business plan for Howard’s Inc., a coffee company that has
identified the market opportunity and is ready to venture in the coffee products business. The
business venture will cover various states of the US as well as international market. The paper
analyzes the Work Breakdown Structure in details, examines the target market, look into
strengths and shortcomings incurred as well as the competitors in the global and local markets.
The communication plan, business schedule and projected costs, sales and profit are well
discussed within this proposal. The company executive is also discussed within the script. in the
analysis process, the success of the implementation process of the marketing plan is determined
in the cost and budgeting plan.

Howard Inc. Marketing strategy
This project is focused to studying and analyzing the marketing strategies of Howard Inc. the
marketing strategies include social media marketing, outlet display, and website. a marketing
plan for all the marketing strategies would be set in this project.
Responsibility
The implementation processes would be done by the business owner. It would also be monitored
by the supervisors who would be led by the business owner.
Duration
The implementation process would kick off on 1st June, 2015 and go all the way to 30th October,
2015. The implementation of the strategies would happen concurrently.
Progress
The progress and the operation of the marketing strategy would be determined by the working of
the plan, its user friendliness and the number of customers attracted by it. The duration set would
also matter in that its success depends on whether it would be completed in time. The more the
customers the more successful the strategies.

Executive Structure
Business Owner

CEO

Board of Director

Mgt Panel

General Admn

ICT drctr

HR manager

Chief engnr

Acc/Fin. mngr

Supply mgr

Marketing

Opertns Mngr

Supervsr

Employees

WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (WBS)
Schedule
Task I.D
1
1.11
1.12
1.13
1.13
1.14
1.2
1.21
1.22
1.23
1.3
1.31
1.32
1.33
1.34
1.35
1.4
1.41
1.42
1.43
1.44
1.45
1.46
1.47

Task discription
Ownership
Implementing Marketing plan
Business Advisor
Website creation
Web developer
Define products and services
Business Owner
Explain fuctioning
Business Advisor
Layout Determination
Web developer
Design website
Web Designer
Social media
Mass media expert
Define products and services
Business Owner
Layout Determination
Web developer
Page Design
Web Designer
Outlet Display
Business Owner
Environment Impact Assessment
Environmentalist
Agreement creation
Management panel
Products display
Business Owner
Chain production
Management panel
Display Setup
Management panel
Physical sales
Marketing officer
Determine environment
Environmentalist
Build stores
Contractor
Analysis of shiping strategies
Transport officer
Chain production
Chain production manager
Risk management
Risk mngt...


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