Work breakdown structure for coffee shop

Course Project

Objectives | Guidelines | Milestones | Deliverables | Grading Rubrics

Objective

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The objective of the course project is to give you an opportunity to practice the skills learned in class regarding the planning methodologies of a project. These skills are directly applicable toward your senior project.

Guidelines

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For this project you may choose one that is of interest to you, or you may choose to begin planning for your senior project. When selecting a project, avoid picking one that is either too big or too small. For example, do not decide to build a new stadium for your local sports team (too big) or to plant your summer garden (too small).

Some successful project ideas:

The opening of a coffee shop
An open house for a local social service agency
A meditation pool and platform
A redevelopment of a local playground
Design and installation of a computer network for a small business
Software development project
A project to build a house is NOT acceptable.

Milestones

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Due Week 2: Project Selection
Due Week 3: Scope Statement
Due Week 4: Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram
Due Week 5: Risk Management Plan
Due Week 6: Resource Management Plan
Due Week 7: Communication Plan
Due Week 8: Final Project Package

Deliverables

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Due Week 2: Project Selection

Provide a one page description of your project which will make it very clear to me, your boss, what you are planning. Keep in mind that you will be using this project for all team activities for this session.

For your new project, please develop a project team (citing names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers) and show how you will manage team dynamics in a project environment.

Be certain to include:

1. How can team leadership be instrumental in ensuring a successful project?

2. Choose from the various organizational formats, including pure project, matrix, and functional structures.

3. How can team dynamics and performance be pivotal in producing deliverables and meeting customers' expectations?

Please put this in proper business writing format. Consider me to be your boss.

If working in a group, include a statement of participation, describing how each person contributed to this project deliverable. Please have each person sign the statement.

Due Week 3: Scope Statement

Prepare a scope statement using the model on page 105 in the text as a template. Please also describe how your proposed budget is reasonable and appropriate for your project objective (this may be a rough order of magnitude estimate, but it does need to be reality based!) Remember to be tangible, measurable, and specific.

Deliverables:

· Project scope statement (in MS Word)

· If working in a group, include a statement of participation, describing how each person contributed to this project deliverable. Please have each person sign the statement.

Due Week 4: Work Breakdown Structure and Network Diagram

According to the PMBOK, "the WBS is a deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team, to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables." In other words, it lists the tasks, the sub-tasks, the sub-sub-tasks, etc., for the project.

For this phase, you will create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the project you selected during Phase One. Remember that the WBS starts with your major deliverables (that you stated in your Scope Management Plan) at the highest level. The lower levels have the tasks required to complete those deliverables. You should have at least three tasks under each deliverable, but you may have as many tasks as needed to ensure that the deliverables are complete. Review the textbook (and the PMBOK, if you have it) for some suggestions on how best to create a WBS. From your work breakdown structure, develop a project task list with dependencies. Add durations. Then submit a network diagram (using MS Project) and a project schedule.

Develop the Work Breakdown Structure

· Your WBS should have a minimum of 25-30 tasks and be three subtasks deep.

· Make sure to use verb/object task names (for example, "Develop software").

o Enter tasks in MS Project.

o Create the predecessor relationships to create a network diagram.

o DO NOT LINK SUMMARY TASKS!

o In the Gantt Chart Tools tab, check the box marked "Outline Number" in the Show/Hide group.

Deliverables:

· In MS Project, print the following:

o Gantt Chart Entry Table on no more than three pages [View > Tables > Entry]

§ Include Task Name, Duration, Start, Finish, and Predecessor columns with Gantt Chart.

o Schedule Table on one page [View > Tables > Schedule]

§ Include only the default columns (Task Mode, Task Name, Start, Finish, Late Start, Late Finish, Free Slack, Total Slack) and do not include the Gantt Chart. Make sure that all columns are wide enough to read completely.

o Network Diagram on one page [Task tab > View group > Network Diagram]

§ Highlight Critical Path and Circle Milestones.

§ Justify why you chose your milestones. (Hint: use milestones from the scope statement or look for key merge or burst activities.)

§ Also print out the network diagram on two to three pages so that task information can be read.

o Using the Resource Sheet (View > Resource Sheet) develop and print a list of resources required for your project. Include Max.Units and Costs (Std. Rate, Ovt. Rate, Cost/Use).

· If working in a group, include a statement of participation, describing how each person contributed to this project deliverable. Please have each person sign the statement.

DO NOT ASSIGN RESOURCES AT THIS TIME!