Essays on Work Breakdown

Microsoft Project is a tailor-made computer application that aids project management right from the planning stage to the implementation phase. In my view, Microsoft Project is an easy tool to use even for the first-timers. The application has carefully built fields which a user can read and interpret what is required. It is designed in tabular form where a user can enter data about the project and create interdependencies. In these fields, the user can easily create tasks, sub-tasks, and milestones. The application also has a column for predecessors where a user can indicate which activities are dependent on ...

Our project scope is the implementation of the Time off Request System to the existing site of VIH Aerospace to improve response times and track holiday request. Our project has the following milestones:

■100% Requirements Gathering

■100% design ■100% Coding ■100% Testing and debugging ■100% transition to production The Work Breakdown Structure and the schedule baseline are related and depend on of each derivable of the project. The execution of tour project requires progress logic, and the project manager uses a Change Management Plant and a Communication Management Plant to guarantee a smooth advance of the project avoiding errors and miscommunications, considering ...

Tools and Concepts Of Project Management

Project management is an increasingly important discipline in today’s business environment. By definition, project management refers to the discipline that involves the application of knowledge and skills in the initiation, planning, execution, control, and closing of a work process or activities set to accomplish specific goals under very specific criteria (Tayntor 2010). According to Charvat (2002), for organization to gain competitive advantage, they must focus on project management as a key driver for growth. When speaking of project management, many people get the idea of managing large projects, such as the construction of a house, road, or even ...

Introduction

The case examines the project for construction of a Business School for the University of Exeter, which was completed on time and within the forecasted budget by 2011. The objectives of the University involved (1) delivering a world-class research and teaching facilities to the University, (2) satisfying the needs and expectations of the student during and after construction, (3) enhance the School's position in the international educational arena. The objectives of the project team, however, included a variety of more complex elements. The core goal of the project was to deliver the facility according to the University’s project, ...

Introduction

The report is aimed to develop the plan for project management of developing upscaled and advanced annual report of Young at heart. It is a national non for profit medical research center that conducts researches on the diseases related to aging. The center, for now, develops simple and easy annual report in black and white color. As the center works as a nonprofit organization, therefore, it is very important for it to provide more accurate and clear reporting of where it utilizes the funds provided by thegovernment, corporation and foundations and other donors. Therefore, the director of the external ...

Final Project Package

Executive Summary The project in question is dubbed the Palliative Care Program. The Palliate Care Program will run concurrently with other operation of the hospital. The aim of the program is to alleviate the pain of the patients in palliative care.

Summary overview of project description

The Project will be called The Palliative Care program. This program will ensure quality, nurturing care is given to all patients and that the employees will be trained to do so. This project will ensure that patients do not suffer even when they are sure of dying. The implementation of the program will require in-depth research on palliative ...

Revised Documents

Work Breakdown Structure of Wedding The project of wedding include three main activities like invitations, food and bridal. The factors of invitations will include the activities, such as creating of guest list, printing of invitations, mailing of invitations, and waiting for RSVPs. On the other hand, food include the activities like finding of caterer, finalization of menu and catering the wedding. In addition, bridal activities include shopping of bridal’s dress and shoes, choosing the banquet, and tailoring and fitting. Work breakdown structure of the wedding provides an overview of the activities of the project that are needed to ...

Introduction

Project management proves to be a fundamental process for any organization that wants to initiate, launch and complete a project (Guide, 2001). Provision healthcare technologies aim at using the principles, methods and tools of project management in undertaking the technological changes project designed to ensure that treatment of patients uses the most recent and advanced technology to ensure that more lives are saved every day. The paper aims at critically evaluating how provision healthcare manages the project on installing new technology by assessing factors such as the budget cost components, develop a work breakdown schedule (WBS) of the deliverables ...

1.0 Introduction of the project This paper provides a business plan for carrying out a company dinner and dance party for 100 employees. The company dinner and dance will help in appreciating the employees that have been striving to help the company in realizing its mission and vision. Most companies hold corporate dinners and dances every year. In most cases the duration of the events lasts between two to three hours (Nelson, 2012). The events do not consume the staff's personal time, and they are carried after the office hours or in the evenings. Company dinners and dances are ...

Executive Summary

Main Body Scope Management Plan Work Breakdown Structure Project Constraints Time Management Human Resource Management Risk Management

Reference Page

Executive Summary In this report the technological as well as management activity of Engineering Industrial Products (hereinafter E.I.P.), specialist in the sphere of aluminum systems, located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, is analyzed. The accent is put on the specific products and services which make E.I.P. different from those which are produced in the similar way by other legal entities on the market. The point is to define the main goal E.I.P. is to achieve in order to play sufficient role as ...

The work breakdown structure is an important aspect of a project management, without it, the project management becomes quite difficult. To effectively manage a project, project managers need to apply the concept of project management, in so doing, they would be able to effectively track the progress of the project activities; usually indicated in the project schedule. Furthermore, the work breakdown structure has well defined limits, project management can be used to show how advanced the project is. To check the level at which a project has advanced to, one simply needs to check which tasks have been finished, ...

Executive Summary

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Digital Media Initiative (DMI) was terminated in the year 2013 because of lack of progress and many problems. The National Audit Office reported that the project had failed because there was no adequate planning, and there was confusion in the objectives and governance of the project. This report introduces the story of BBC and its failure in the DMI Project. The background of the BBC DMI project is explained as well as the reasons why the project failed. The report explains the importance of project management, and evaluates the major areas of project management ...

A work breakdown structure was indeed required to be prepared so as to assist Barage Construction Company in coming up with a budget for the entire project. The WBS would provide a framework of the cost estimates along with the schedule and control for the project . A work breakdown structure is hierarchical in nature whereby the project has been broken down into phases or rather work packages from the beginning to the end of the entire venture. The structure shows how efforts will be subdivided in order to achieve the objectives-which in this case are the Barage garages. Sean’s ...

Assignment 1:

The main learning objective for this past week was to study the process involved in planning the procurement of materials that are meant to be used for the completion of a certain project. During the study, a detailed analysis was carried out on each individual process that comprises the the procurement process of a certain project. Before delving into discussions on what factors are considered when coming up with plan for procuring the materials required for a project, we began by understanding the meaning of a project’s procurement process. The discussion on the broad meaning of what is a project procurement process, was ...

Technology

Wirth (2009) defines the five main ingredients included in a general strategic plan for an organization: (a) mission, (b) positioning paper, (c) strategy, (d) vision and (e) performance measures. IT projects usually have a (a) project charter, (b) project scope, (c) management plan which includes the work breakdown structure (WBS), staffing management plan, resource calendar, and (d) a final assessment report is written at the end of the project to determine what went right and what went wrong. This paper will review the similarities and differences between what is needed for a general strategic plan and what is needed for an Information Technology (IT) strategic plan. IT ...

This is a historically challenging project management responsibility, hence, in designing it I must keep in mind significant aspects related to the time and the reason for building this ark. In the “Book of Genesis” an episode is dedicated to Noah’s Ark. God was disappointed by the grieve and the artfulness of his own creation, the humankind, that he decided to throw upon them the Great Flood. He also decided to let one man and his family alive, because they were dedicated to Him, considering in the same time to preserve the mankind species. God also intended to keep ...

Information systems project management plan for implementing

This assignment is being submitted on July 19, 2015 Project Definition The project definition phase is further classified into stating the project scope, establishing project priorities in terms of time to be taken, costs to be incurred and performance quality and creating a work breakdown structure, along with cost estimate for the project implementation.

Project Scope

Project objective: To implement the Electronic Medication management (EMM) at the district health centre, within next 6 months and assuring overall costs to not exceed $1, 00,000.

Key Deliverables: The key deliverables from the chosen product can be classified as:

Post implementation EMM coverage across the complete medication cycle of the centre, comprising of doctor’s ...

Work Breakdown Structure or WBS, as we call it in Project Management is an important and handy tool used by Project Managers to break down a large or complex piece of work into smaller manageable. In order to achieve this, the project managers follow a technique called decomposition which is used to break down the workload and tasks into units that form the Work Breakdown Structure.

Software Services Company - WBS

Let us consider a Software Services Company. Here a Software Application is created according to the client’s requirements and delivered once all the checks on requirements and functionality are met. These two teams work on a project – a ...

FMEA.

Failure mode effects analysis forms part of the activity of product and process design. The analytical methodology ensures that all upcoming problems are considered and solved all through the product, service or process development cycle. The nine steps in the failure mode effects analyses are as follows. The first step is assembling a team of experts with detailed knowledge on the process, product as well as the requirements of the customer. The second step is identifying the scope of the analysis. The third step involves the filling in of the identifying information that shows the format of the study. The ...

The Business Context

As per the earlier discussions by the Senior Management Executives of the company, it has been decided to launch an 1100cc touring bike (country not specified). Touring bikes has its own characteristics. A brief, about a‘touring bike’ the company is going to manufacture, will very much help in project planning. A ‘focus group’ by the design and marketing team with the prospective customers indicates that there exists no relationship between fast straight line speed and rider skill. In pure and simple terms bigger bikes have higher top speeds. Because they have more horsepower. Straight line speed is the ...

Life-cycle Project Diagram

Abu Dhabi Pharma Executive Summary Project Management’s relevance across industry is tested and tried. The Pharmaceutical industry has lately undergone rapid changes. It is demonstrated, however, that project management can add benefits when applied to the new product development in the pharmaceutical industry. The industry is specific for its rigorous regulatory compliance and product quality. Clinical research and drug development is not only key to managing newer infections but also staying ahead of the pack with newer and innovative molecules. Project management techniques can help the planning, scheduling, managing the project phases risks and ultimately assure ...

- INTRODUCTION - Overview of the topic Project management has become an integral part of organizations in today’s competitive world. Managing projects is important if the organization wants to achieve success (Lewis, 2006). Organizations that are not able to manage their projects effectively and efficiently are likely to fail in this competitive world (Munns, & Bjeirmi, 1996). Therefore this highlights the importance of managing projects. In order to manage projects effectively; businesses have started using the services of project managers. Project managers are the person responsible for managing the overall project. Project manager can solely focus on ...

A Statement of Work (SOW) describes the work to be carried out, outlines the time-period within which the task must be completed and permits contractors and vendors to offer an in-depth response along with a rational estimate of costs. The objective of SOW is to improve the understanding of the other group as to what is expected of them and what they must include in the final product.

Critical elements of SOW include the following-

- Background- This contains a description of the project and its purpose along with copies of relevant background matter. It also encompasses a summary of the legal authorities or pertinent regulations. - Objectives- ...

Tactical Planning

Tactical Planning 3. Managerial process plans. This sections entails the management priorities and objectives of team Foxtrot as well as the process management plans. There will be addition of more plans as the document evolves 3.1 management priorities and objectives. The primary objectives of team Foxtrot is to make sure that the project is completed successfully. The following must be performed by the team for the project to be considered successful: - Utilize good engineering techniques in product development by applying the methods learned in class, putting reflective learning in practice and experiencing a new ...

- Introduction Project management is practiced by organization to achieve to temporary goal associated with the completion of the underlying project (Meredith & Mantel, 2012). The concept can be further elaborated as project management refers to manage and complete an assigned task to achieve unique outcomes with given resources, (Lewis, 2002). The project is developed and undertaken to achieve the goal of expansion in the company’s product by producing larger touring motorcycles with larger motors to cater new markets abroad. Aligning with proposed strategies to the management for producing larger motorcycles, the paper presented below will solely consider ...

Project Scope and Management Plan

Concentrated on the desire to create a new line of motorcycle for selling purposes, this project shall redefined the path by which an organization thrives in the market. As a distinct course of determining the developmental options open for the business, this project shall open the opportunity for the business to improve the way it influences the market to appreciate what it has to offer. Notably, it could be realized that through time, the emergence of such adjustments in the industry is necessary especially that the concept of project-development becomes a common trend for expansion among business organizations today. In this ...

- Project Name: BBC Digital media Initiative (DMI) - Version: 1st - Revision History - Overview: The Digital Media Initiative (DMI) is a transformational project which has been designed specifically for the staff and partners of the BBC to create develop makes and share the videos content over the desktop. BBC would like to initiate a strong collaboration with Siemens to maintain the level of efficiency in the DMI project, and to present the project to the end users in an effective and organized manner. According to the project, BBC had faced some serious issues and problems while ...

Abstract

The doctor friendly global company is a mobile health care service provider that seeks to integrate medicine with cloud computing intelligent applications. It is important to have some strict measures in place that help prevent the occurrence of disease and measures that can detect the advent of symptoms whether mild or those that need immediate medical attention. The doctor friendly global company is based in Taipei, Taiwan with the main focus being distant medical and health services it is for this reason that the company was formed. They have heavily invested time and resources into the research and development ...

The budget of the project will be an analysis of all the tangible or non-tangible products or services including the cost of the labor and other workforce and the cost of operations required in the course of project development. The following table gives an estimate of the budget required for different employees, project deliverables, project steps, and all the monitoring or maintenance tasks. The budget of labor internal to the organization is around $ 450,000 and for the external labor it will be $150,000. The external labor would comprise of outsourcing labor which would comprise of some ...

Project management is a term that has two words; project and; management. For a clear understanding and definition of project management, we must start by defining these two building words; According to Method123 (2003), a project is a unique endeavor that is set to achieve a set of deliverables within a specified time, resources among other constraints. Every project is unique in that it has its specific and unique goals to achieve within a defined timescale, limited resources, budget and associated risks. At the end of it all, each and every project is usually aimed at achieving a beneficial change. Management can be defined as the process ...

Executive Summary

This project is based on the combinational network design of the XYZ private school. Currently, the school has deployed hard-wired network connections, but now due to outgrown school network requirement, the administration has realized to upgrade the system. For this purpose, it needs a reliable, larger, and a unique setup for the school’s network. This project is meant to resolve the issues of students, teachers, and administration staff. The centralized database system will make it easier for the staff and students to communicate and share information with each other in the school campus. It will enforce CIPA standards to secure ...

1.1 Network Diagram The activity on node diagram is represented by the node, whereas the direction in which the activities will be fulfilled is represented by an arrow (Field and Keller). The activity on node diagram for Fencefall Limited is as follows: 1.2 Timing of activities and float time

Timing of activity:

The timing of the activities was determined by forward pass and backward pass: Forward pass In the forward pass method, every activity is assumed to begin right after the predecessor activity ends, thus, the early start time of the project is zero and the early finish ...

- General introduction and description A project reveals a unique effort that has straightforward objectives, a beginning point, a finishing point, and generally a budget . The project manager has the project to launch of a new product line for a company including a marketing program. A line of product denotes a bunch of products that mutually cater a certain segment of market or accomplish a particular mission but, the software products line on the basis of inter-product harmony is a new phenomenon that is instantly rising, and reflects a feasible and significant paradigm of software development. The origination of news from Magdeburg, Germany through Vertical-News researchers on software product line ...

Introduction

Any Project should be managed by experienced and well equipped people who have the technical knowhow on how to handle and integrate the different activities that pertain to a specific project. Project management is essential in achieving the set time limits, goals and objectives of the project. It also makes sure that proper time management is installed when carrying out a project. For timely and successful completion of a project, work plans, packages and the breakdown of the different activities have to be put into consideration. All these are essentials when it comes to proper implementation and completion of the project.

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Introduction

UAE Federal Government is managing an aid program for the Engineering education in third world countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Laos. As part of this aid program, Government is inviting submissions for proposal to setup required for Engineering labs in 15 major universities of third world countries. This report is the proposal for a new Engineering Lab. It will discuss, the scope, procedure, and the risks involved in carrying out this project plan and how this plan will help students’ learning and teaching of a Bachelor Degree studies in particular engineering specialization, i.e. Electrical Engineering in Third World ...

Evidently, similar to any other task or rather project, the above sequence of events ought to top happen subsequently and dependent on each other. From the above Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), the main objective of the project been analysed herein is to essentially Move headquarters of the Coca Cola Company from Atlanta, GA to Dallas, Texas. For this to happen a series of interrelated activities and events ought to take place. For the concerned parties to accomplish the objective mentioned above, two major tasks should be accomplished. The first task is to Prepare New facility for corporate operations while the ...

Project Scope:

The purpose of this project is to shift to manufacturing of motorcycles. Introducing this to the market will enhance broader market for the motorcycles. The project will also open up markets for the company abroad and as such will be an important course for the company. The management of the company as well as the stakeholders will together bring out the success that is expected of the project. The finances for the projected program will be allocated as well as having the right human resource that has the expertise and the competence required for the job. This will make ...

Critical path identification for any project- planning phase is a necessary requirement. Project managers can also apply the critical path methodology to determine the amount of float on various paths. The critical path is simply all the tasks that determine the end date in a project schedule. If one of those tasks is late by one day, your project end date extendeds by one day. Often, there will be tasks that are not on the critical path; this is due to slack in the project schedule. Referring to your current schedule, quickly identify the tasks that have some float ...

Changes in my perspective regarding project management

Project management is a task that is constituted by proper integration of a number of interrelated activities. The different portions that are combined to build up a complete project are referred to as the work breakdown structure. Initially, I viewed project management as one huge task that a project manager has to carry out single-handedly. Considering of my perspective, the project manager would be involved in all the stages that a project had been scheduled follow. Provided the project manager has the vision and motivation, the project would terminate successfully in respect of time and objectives. However, after the simulation, I have acquired further ...

Memorandum for Department of Employee compensation and benefits packaging Team

As a committed team leader of the Department of employee compensation and benefits package, I would like to bring to your attention a number of issues that require immediate action. The consideration and recommendations outlined in this memo are to the best interest of all stakeholders, employees, clients and the general public. I would like to draw attention to the fact that the project is off track by six weeks due to a number of factors. This considerably affects the operational effectiveness of the team and the success of the overall goal of employees. As you know, the pace of project execution ...

Revamp Planning Document

Project Charter (Piscopo, 2013). Executive Summary Employee compensation and benefits packages have been found to be central components of the employee decision-making process to accept offers and remain in current positions. The company recognizes the need for an update and review of the current compensation and benefits package due to recent company growth and maturity. This project will undertake this revamping process in order to bring the company better in line with its business competitors in order to promote employee alignment, engagement and stronger business results (Yates and Sejen, 2011).

Project Purpose/Justification

The redevelopment of the compensation and benefits ...

- INTRODUCTION

ASEAN Ministerial Conference in Singapore for ASEAN leaders

The main task of this project is to conduct a meeting of ASEAN leader in Singapore. The project aims at providing professional reception and 9rganisation of the meeting of the ministers. The preparations for the arrival of the leaders are important to avoid the last minute rush or jeopardizing the meeting due to technical faults which can be avoided through careful planning. Ministers are high profile leaders and hence their arrival has to be taken seriously by conducting necessary arrangements. The team of organizers is to receive the leaders at the airport immediately after arrival to the hotel ...

Introduction

The following is a project proposal to build a theme park at Dubai Festival City. The project proposal features details of contract terms, procurement guidelines, documentation, and project organization structure.

Contract terms

Location of the project: Dubai Starting Date: 3rd April 2013 Completion date: 3rd January 2014 Total calendar days: 302 days The following are the terms of the contract: - Any inconsistency and ambiguity in the contract documents shall be determined by all the parties involved in the project through consensus provided that the project does not stall. - The contract documents are written in English ...

Introduction

In a project to assess the stunting levels in children less than five years initiated by an international Non-Governmental Organization in partnership with the government, I was contracted as a project manager. The project belonged to the healthcare industry and was supervised among others by the provincial medical officer of health. The project run for eight concurrent months and was done in phases. The healthcare industry is mostly involved in the provision of healthcare services to the citizenry. The government is one of the players in the industry and among other roles; it acts to oversee the activities of the other ...

Fully Integrated Network System Company will have to develop a work breakdown structure that will be used to define the tasks that will be undertaken in the Chase Bank project. There will be many activities that will be undertaken in the system upgrade project that will be undertaken. The following is the work breakdown structure of the project activities that will be undertaken. The following are the tasks that will be taken. This is a summary of the WBS of the project (Kerzner, 2009). - Assessment, appraisal and completion of the all project inventory requirements The project manager will ...

PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN

Version 1.0

VERSION HISTORY The development and distribution of this project management plan will be controlled and tracked using the table below. The table below will provide information regarding any revisions made on the original project plan. Information such as name of the person that authorized the revision, date of revision, the person authorizing the revision, reason for changes and date the revision was approved. The importance of tracking the revisions on this project management plan is to ensure that all the personnel involved in the process of the project development are aware of the changes made during ...

EASY PAY: Integrating New Payroll and Human Resource Management (HRM)Records

Project Manager:

Home Sweet Home, Inc. Lily in the Valley, USA

Project Scope

The project scope has the main objective of updating the payroll software application at Home Sweet Home, Inc. After careful consideration of the customer’s requirements, the old payroll system and the availability of new applications a software package has been chosen. The deliverable will include an integrated payroll and Human Resource Management (HRM) system that will allow access to both employer and employees. Key passwords will be assigned so each person using the system can only access the appropriate portion of the data. The payroll ...

Abstract

The paper details the managerial approach by the finance director for collating budget data for the company ABC Pty Ltd. The paper further discusses the effectiveness of the budgeting methods and the significance of flexible budget for the company.

1. Introduction Budgeting is the most important function of financial managers as its effects are visible for years and it is used to define strategic direction which helps to move the company into new products, markets, services which must be preceded by expenses. The budgeting process involves collection and consolidation of contributor revenue projections and expense resources. The main ...

Introduction

Project management is a temporary program of activities or tasks to be undertaken to achieve a certain objective. There is usually a team is appointed to oversee the whole process. It is a delicate process that should be handled well due to the time constraints and project risks.

Project Planning and Scheduling (PERT)

There are several tools used for project management. Pert which stands for project planning and scheduling is network-based tools that assists in coordinating and scheduling the interrelated tasks for a project. It uses a network pictorial representation to show the precedence and other relationships of the activities. In the project, there is the starting activity that will ...

Use of WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) worksheet as an aid to determining staffing level requirements for a project team

A WBS provides a detailed breakdown of a variety of tasks that must be completed for a given project. Estimates of a project in terms of skills and resources needed are easier to understand at the smallest level. The level of detail provided by WBS is useful in determining estimates as well as project staffing. The work packages also make it easier to identify the risks that are likely to be encountered during execution.

WBS offer many business benefits. Given the fact that work is ...

Introduction

Research Publications Information Systems (RIS) is used for storing data on current research by organisations and people. It helps to improve the quality of research produced.

a. Who is currently using RIS?

There are several Universities in Australia who are currently using the RIS system. The system is also used at researchers, students, research groups, faculties and at University levels in Australia. Oz University is also considering implementingg the RIS.

b. How does it work?

RIS is a central location used for storing information on all past and current research activities throughout an Institution. The RIS captures information about publications ...