Assignment Description
Your first presentation was excellent, and the project work is moving forward. No project can be managed without a WBS. The CIO now has decided that it is time for you to create the work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project.
This Week's assignment is a group assignment. It consists of two group activities and two group deliverables. You're to actively work with your project group to discuss, prepare, and deliver the two group deliverables that must be submitted to the Dropbox by the due date.
Students who lag in group participation will be granted points based on their level of engagement with their group and may not earn the same grade as the rest of the group members who were very active.
Use the Small Group Discussion Board to determine the following:
The scope of the project
How is the WBS created? Do you use the PMBOK project life cycle phases (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and control, and close out) as the noun or do you use the deliverable or project name as the noun? The noun in a WBS is the deliverable.
The work breakdown structure (WBS) that is representative of the project scope, which should include the following:
Deliverables/Outputs
Activities
Tasks
Products or services
All major tasks should be organized into work packages. A work-package is the lowest level of the WBS.
Do not decide on estimates for the activities or work-packages at this time.
Additional Info:
Your organization has just completed the Initiation Process for implementing an Email System Upgrade.
It was identified in a recent meeting with management leaders from the Sales, Consulting and IT departments that the current email system is causing significant amount of business interruptions and must be updated immediately. You have been assigned the role of project manager to develop the project schedule and budget.
As project manager, you are responsible for implementing and enforcing the project schedule and its estimates, expected costs, and the techniques and methods that will be chosen to execute and control the project. The project is being initiated with the following initial project scope in mind:
There are five email systems currently being used across twelve departments and offices. These will be replaced and consolidated into one email system.
New Email Standards and Protocols will be established and training provided to all departments.
All 2000 current email users will be converted to the new system, and 500 new users that did not have email before will be added.
Users will have both LAN and remote access to email.
Help desk and support infrastructure will be set-up to accommodate the new system.
Equipment will be salvaged.
User PCs will be upgraded to accommodate the new email system.