Schedule and Cost Control Techniques
This is the first time that the CIO has had a project manager directly reporting to him. He wants to make sure that you follow best practices in project management. However, he has a very biased view of project management (he is PMP® certified and exclusively favors A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)-Fifth Edition), so he tends to hinder you rather than help you. You are seeking to educate him about the variety of project management methodologies so that he can best help and evaluate your work. He has asked that you develop a presentation comparing several different project management models, such as Agile, Waterfall, Critical Path Method (CPM), Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), Six Sigma, Scrum, etc.
Your presentation must be 7-10 slides (with 150-200 words of speaker notes per slide).Additionally, include a title and reference slide. The title slide (including topic title, your name, etc.) makes your presentation look and appear professional. The reference slide at the end with correctly APA style formatted references ensures your information and positions are substantiated and that credit for others' work is acknowledged with correctly APA style formatted in-text citations in your speaker notes.
Assignment Guidelines
• Research the library for information about 2-3 different project management models for you to compare.
One of the selected models should be the model that you believe would be best for this course's project.
• Develop a PowerPoint presentation of 7-10 slides that includes the following:
Explain the value that each selected project management model offers to a project manager.
Explain which project settings are ideal for their use.
Use credible sources to support your arguments.
Explain why one of your selected models is ideal for the current course project.
• Each slide must be accompanied by 150-200 words of speaker notes.
• For more information on creating PowerPoint Presentations, please visit the Microsoft Office Applications Lab.
• All sources must be referenced using APA style.
Submitted Assignment
• The PowerPoint presentations must adhere to the Assignment Guidelines listed above and must contain the following:
o A title slide with the course name, phase number, topic title, and your first and last names
o A reference slide using APA style to ensure that credit for others' work is acknowledged
• The title and reference slides do not count as part of the 7-10 content slides.
• Each slide must contain 150-200 words of speaker notes.
Contracting and Procurement in Project Management
You have decided to buy the scheduling tool. In addition to purchasing the software, you need to procure additional goods and services to implement and deploy the tool. Specifically, you will need to do the following:
• Hire technicians to install and configure the software for your environment.
• Hire a training entity to teach the student PMs the mechanics of using the new tool.
• Buy a new server and software to run the tool and house the project database.
• Hire tool usage experts to transfer knowledge to the student PMs about the use of the tool on the job for the first 60 days after going live.
• Plan for the removal and disposal of the scheduling tool software and hardware that are no longer to be used.
Your manager has scheduled an afternoon meeting with you to discuss your strategic plan to procure these different goods and services.
Examples of the contract types include the following:
• Firm fixed price
• Fixed price with targets
• Fixed price at cost
• Time and materials
• Cost sharing
• Cost plus
Assignment Guidelines
• In 7-10 PowerPoint slides, address the following for each of the five bulleted items listed in the assignment description:
o What strategy will you use to procure this product or service?
o Why did you select this strategy? Explain.
o Were all of the other options inadequate, or was it a difficult selection? Explain why.
o What barriers will need to be overcome when implementing the selected procurement strategy? Why?
o How do you plan to overcome these barriers?
• Compile your responses to the above information listed in the assignment description into a PowerPoint presentation of 7-10 slides.
o Each slide should contain 150-200 words of speaker's notes.
o Include additional slides for your title and reference slides.
• Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.