Project Scope and PERT Diagram

Individual Project
Part 1: Project Scope and PERT Diagram
1.
Using the style and
requirements described in course readings, prepare a document that contains two
items: a statement of the project scope, and a project network diagram (PERT)
that will allow your professor to determine whether your proposed project is
both appropriate and achievable.
Concluding Remarks
Control requires the
project manager to use information to steer the project through rough waters.
Control and Gantt charts are useful vehicles for monitoring time performance.
The cost/schedule system allows the manager to have a positive influence on
cost and schedule in a timely manner. The ability to influence cost decreases
with time, therefore, timely reports identifying adverse cost trends can
greatly assist the project manager in getting back on budget and schedule. The
integrated cost/schedule model provides the project manager and other
stakeholders with a snapshot of the current and future status of the project.
The cost/schedule
model is keen in project monitoring and control, its benefits include,
measuring accomplishments against plan and deliverables, providing a method for
tracking directly to a problem work package and organization unit responsible,
alerting all stakeholders to early identification of problems, and allows for
quick, proactive, and corrective action. Other benefits are improving
communication because all stakeholders are using the same database, keeping
customers informed of progress, encouraging customer confidence that the money
spent is resulting in the expected progress, and providing for accountability
over individual portions of the overall budget for each organizational unit.

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Description
The subject of the Project Execution Plan is a project of the student’s own choosing. Students will not physically carry out a project but will use the ideas to develop a project plan and create a status report. Projects may vary widely and may include such areas as construction of a vacation home, installation of a LAN network, starting a new business, organizing a charity event, a marketing campaign, organizing a sports tournament, filming a movie, leading an expedition, and developing a new product. The projects may be the students’ own work in the past or something they anticipate working on in the future or simply a factitious product. The key is that the project provides a vehicle for demonstrating mastery of course concepts. Students will begin work in earnest in Unit 7 with their submission of a project scope statement and a project network (PERT) diagram.

1. The paper is to follow APA rules and guidelines.
2. Effective reference of PM concepts from the course texts and other readings is encouraged and must be properly formatted.

3. The paper must have a title page and a separate page for references (where they are used) at the end. It is expected that the introduction comprises no more than 10% of the paper, the body wherein the project scope, outcomes and objectives are described is to be roughly 70% of the paper, and the remaining 20% to be conclusion with recommendations/solutions/reflection.
Part 1: Project Scope and PERT Diagram
Using the style and requirements described in course readings, prepare a document that contains two items: a statement of the project scope, and a project network diagram (PERT) that will allow your professor to determine whether your proposed project is both appropriate and achievable.

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