Chapter 1 Review Question 1. Define a project. What are five characteristics that help differentiate projects from other function carried out in the daily operations of the organization? A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product‚ service‚ or result. Five characteristics: 1. An established objective. 2. A defined life span with a beginning and an end. 3. Usually‚ the involvement of several department and professionals. 4. Typically‚ doing something that has never
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The Project Charter Project Name: Ellis Household Home Improvement Project Project Manager: Project Tracking Number: EHHI 001 Date: April 2‚ 2013 Project Justification: This project will address the severe design flaws and the renovation needed to make the Ellis Household a more comfortable living place. The severe lack of quality materials has shown through in our first couple months here and we need to change that. The house needs to be renovated‚ but to save money we will only
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Airport (DIA) Automated Baggage Handling Project Project Charter Lisa Romero March 11‚ 2011 Version 2.0 Table of Contents 1.0 Revision History 2 2.0 Statement of Purpose 2 3.0 Project Information 3 4.0 Project Overview 3 4.1 Overview of the Organization 3 4.2 Current Situation and Problem/Opportunity Statement 3 4.3 Project Objectives 3 5.0 Roles and Responsibilities 4 6.0 Project Constraints 4 7.0 Assumptions 4
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You are the project manager for the project you selected and identified in the prior assignments. Using your Microsoft Project software‚ sketch out your action plan. Use the action plan to develop the work breakdown schedule (WBS) as follows: • Create a list of between 5–10 major deliverables that need to be undertaken and completed‚ in the general order of how they would occur. This is Level 1 of the action plan. • Next‚ break out each of the Level 1 deliverables into 5–10 activities. This is
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Project Plan Forecast "A project monitoring system involves determining what data to collect; how‚ when‚ and who will collect the data; analysis of the data; and reporting current progress. Gray and Larson (2006)." A communications plan. addressing how progress will be reported to the various project sponsors and executives "When giving a status report to superiors‚ project managers must present the most positive image possible without stretching the truth. They should adapt their communication
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Programme Diploma Project Management Name of Paper DPM103 Facilitator Dennis Crewe-Brown Assignment No. 2 Unit Standard No. (If Applicable) N/A Total No. of pages (including cover) 9 Submission Date 12/11/2012 Date received by facilitator Date returned to student ____________________________________________ DPM103 CASE STUDY 2 THE NIGHTINGALE PROJECT BY JARRED THOMAS 2012004738 NIGHTINGALE PROJECT - A 1. Will
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Project plan for opening an upscale fashion boutique General introduction and description of project This is a project for opening an upscale fashion boutique‚ the duration of the project is 2012/4/15—2012/6/30. The boutique is located on Orchard road‚ the decorations of the boutique is important as it aims at the ladies from middle-class‚ it sells the the informal dress from Italy‚ and two female staffs are needed. The boutique must be equipped with a television to play the fashion shows from
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Short answer questions – write one or two paragraphs (no bullet points) 1. Project managers frequently face competing constraints. Identify these common constraints and describe approaches that project managers can use to make the trade-offs required to succeed The time constraint refers to the amount of time available to complete a project. The cost constraint refers to the budgeted amount available for the project. The scope constraint refers to what must be done to produce the project’s end result
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Project Management 1. Activity Based Costing (ABC) Introduction: There are a number of costing models used in the domain of business‚ and Activity Based Costing is one of them. In activity based costing‚ various activities in the organization are identified and assigned with a cost. When it comes to pricing of products and services produced by the company‚ activity cost is calculated for activities that have been performed in the process of producing the products and services. In other words
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EXAMPLE PROJECT CHARTER |Project Name: Relocation Study |Version No.: 1 | | |Date: September 5‚ 2010 | | |Number: 10-111 | |Current Name Phase: None
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