Learning Team: Project Schedule

This is the core of any project plan used to communicate what tasks are needed and the order of sequence to be done to meet deadlines and deliverables.

Using your project charter completed in Week Two as a guide, complete the following:

• A 1-page Business Requirements Document (BRD) that provides details regarding the expectations (such as user, system, and functional requirements) that must be met for achieving project goals

• A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Gantt chart, developed as an MS Project file, showing discrete work tasks, grouped hierarchically in a way that helps to organize and define the total work scope of the project

• Gantt diagram showing duration estimates for all tasks and their sequencing (including precedence relations) and highlighting any critical path(s) arising from task dependencies ultimately determining the minimal duration of a project

Learning Team: Project Charter

This is a consolidated source of information which lays the foundation for successful completion of any project by identifying your project vision and communicating the overall approach for a project to all key stakeholder audiences.

The charter will contain the following:

• Background of the organization and any information or statement of needs that helps explain how the project came to be

• Goals and objectives of the project in language that is both concise and explanatory

• Project scope delineated so that all parties involved are aware of what the project includes as well as what it does not

• Budgetary limitations Write 1 to 2 pages on your findings.