Define and discuss scope and scheduling as they each relate to project management and provide a statement of importance to your project team so they know the relevance of each task.

Week 7 Assignment – Planning
Considerations for the HR Project
Overview
At this point, you have organized your HR project team
and you are familiar with the importance of leading and managing the project
and team. It is now time to plan your project, which happens to be a large and
critical part of project management. Project planning tends to be collaborative
and integrative in that many factors, such as scope, resourcing, budgeting, and
risk, need to be considered.
Write a 5–6 page paper in which you:
Define
and discuss scope and scheduling as they each relate to project management
and provide a statement of importance to your project team so they
know the relevance of each task.
Select
four behavioral skills, associated with project resourcing, that you
consider to be critical and explain your rationale.

Review
the behavioral skills associated with project resourcing listed in the
textbook in Section 9.1. (See at the end of the instructions)

Explain
to the management team and your project team how you have determined the
budget associated with project costs.

Include
how costs are aggregated.
Explain
how you determined cash flow for separate activities.
Be
specific with your responses.

Discuss
at least three ways the project manager is able to identify possible
project risks.
Create
a budget for the project using the WBS file created in the Week 4
Formative Activity, Schedule, and Budgeting Exercise for Project Scenario.

Insert
the WBS form into the body of the paper.
Use
the following resource as needed: Insert a Chart From an Excel
Spreadsheet Into Word.

Use
three sources to support your writing. Choose sources that are credible,
relevant, and appropriate. Cite each source listed on your source page at
least one time within your assignment. For help with research, writing,
and citation, access the library or
review library guides.
This course requires the use of Strayer Writing
Standards (SWS). For assistance and information, please refer to the
Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.
The specific course learning outcome associated
with this assignment is:
Review
project management tasks and skills, including project scope, scheduling,
resourcing, and determining costs and risks.

9-1 Abilities Needed When Resourcing Projects
Project managers need two types of abilities to
resource a project effectively and efficiently. The first type of skill is
technical. Various techniques can be used to estimate resource demands, assess competencies
required, create a staffing management plan, assign one or more persons for
each activity, ensure that each team member’s workload is at an optimum level
(no less or excess workload), schedule a project with optimum resources, and
compress (speed up) a project schedule.
The second type of skill needed is behavioral. As you
might guess, many behavioral issues are involved in completing project
resourcing tasks, such as:
·
Selecting the right people
·
Identifying exactly what each person needs
to accomplish
·
Ensuring that each person has the
capability needed (or develops that capability)
·
Dealing with difficult individual work
schedules
·
Getting people to work overtime when there
are schedule conflicts
·
Making honest and open estimates of the
amount of work required
·
Assembling an effective team Dealing with
people from diverse backgrounds
·
Deciding where each person will work
·
Deciding how a geographically dispersed
team can work effectively and virtually
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Kloppenborg, T., Anantatmula, V. S., & Wells, K.
(2018). Contemporary Project Management (4th Edition). Cengage Learning US. https://strayer.vitalsource.com/books/9781337670500

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