ASSIGNMENT: PROJECT APPLIED TECHNOLOGY

Plan a wedding Project.

Background

After completing an excellent course at Mancosa on Project management, your lecturer suggested that one could create wedding plans. You decide to form a Company, decide on the name for your start-up Company and give it a try. To your surprise after some research, you discover that there is a couple willing to do business with you for 2016. However they have requested a proper proposal with times, costs and details before going further. Use the steps below as a foundation for a detailed proposal and execution of the project and all relevant information as annexure. MS Project should be used as software to build and develop the project.

1. Decide upon the Company name, which must be on all final submissions

1.1 Define Project Name and objective.

1.2 Define Completion Criteria (Deliverables)

1.3 Identify Resources

1.4 Define Tasks (mind mapping)

1.5 Define WBS

1.6 Allocate Resources to Task (Activity detail)

1.7 Create Dependency Relations

1.8 Prepare Schedule (Gantt chart)

1.9 Prepare network Diagram and Review Critical path

1.10 Set Milestones and Control Points.

2. Prepare a schedule of the time you will devout to this project. Clearly state when and where you will undertake project planning.

GENERAL PROJECT TASK

Your online advertisement promised to do the following:

3.1 Invitations. Your invitation should cover:

a. Guest list of who will be attending.

b. Local information. Program details of the wedding day, including both Church and reception locations, times and other relevant information.

c. Travel directions, by bus, train or airport directions, from various directions to the location.

d. Local accommodation

e. Reception seating plan ( for a served meal)

f. Speeches by appointed persons

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATE

This is an individual assessment undertaken as a project. Students will be required to complete this project in order to pass this module. There will be no exam for this module; therefore students are encouraged to work very hard on the project. You know The guest list is for 200 possible invites. 60 of these are from overseas, mainly the bride's family. The church is booked, and the reception location, both in Durban for 22 July 2016. The service is to start at 12:00 pm and the reception at 14:00 pm.

You have

You have nothing much really. You will have to buy everything, camera for taking photos, etc.

However, you have a really good team, and decide to charge as follows:

a. Team coordinator and IT Problem solver : (R800/hr.)

b. Web developer and Programmer (1-2) : (600/hr.)

c. Photographer and media expert (1-2) : (R500/hr.)

d. Administrator and liaison : (R350/hr.)

Requirements

5% off for each requirement or sub-requirement not met.

4.1 Report cover page gives all required details

4.2 Each page of the report must have a document header with Company name. Each page footer should have page numbers, headings as in the report format below, table of contents, and spell and grammar checked.

4.3 Charter is signed.

4.4 Main body of the report no more than 10 pages (Annexures can be any length), and writing in non-technical readable style. Annexure reports are readable at a glance (e.g. by being foldout).

4.5 All client information required is asked.

Report Format

Use the following headers (necessary for grading). Annexure printouts must be from MS Project to get that section's points/marks. The two major deliverables for this assignment are MS Project files for each section and the report.

5.1 Introduction

State the problem, i.e. why your help is needed. State the project goal, plus any constraints or Break-down the goal into several general services your company will offer, and the value that each service offers to the clients wedding.

5.2 Assumed Resources

List all resources that will be required, including your staff. Discuss assumed resources, including client information needed. Especially note external resources and requirements, e.g. does the reception need an Internet Connection?

5.3 Cost Estimates

Present the specific tasks you will do as a WBS, and give cost estimates, with sub-totals at each level and total estimated cost. Briefly discuss the estimates, where the costs mainly go, and efforts made to save costs

5.4 Schedule and dependencies

Discuss the project dependencies and list the tasks on the critical path. Discuss the critical path tasks, and methods used to shorten the critical path.

5.5 Milestones and Deliverables

List and discuss the milestones and the deliverables for each. Be very specific about each including the project finish milestone.

5.6 Project Control and Risks

Explain the general strategy that will be used to manage the project to completion. Project must have at least two phases. Discuss how they connect to each other, and the milestones. Explain why you used this strategy. Summarise 10 most important project risks, and how they will be dealt with if they occur.

5.7 Summary

Briefly summarise, giving the overall project cost, the project benefits as bullet points, and the general strategy. Give the client a list of meetings, with details like who, when and where and estimated times, and desired deliverables.