Project initiation dp | BUS | Capella University

CHOOSE A PROJECT SCENARIO

Select a case study to use throughout the course to complete the assessments.

Review the parameters for choosing your own case study and for selecting a predetermined case study. Once you have read through the material, decide which you will do.

1. Destination Wedding: You have been tasked with creating a project to manage a destination wedding. You will be required to figure out the destination. You have been given a budget 25,000 dollars. You will have to determine all costs and resources. The project must be completed in six months.
2. Data Integration Software Tool for Communications ‘R’ Us Phone Company: You have to build a software tool that enables data to be used by a variety of software applications for a telephone company. The team consists of an unknown quantity of personnel for the design, development, building, deployment, and operation and maintenance of the system. The team members may be located in different time zones. The sponsor, Ted Telee O’Phone, has asked that the tool should also be available in the cloud so stakeholders can access it through an Internet browser. The budget for this project is 50,000 dollars.
3. Website for Dee Dee’s Pawn Star Shop: You are leading a team of three people to deliver an e-commerce website for a small local pawn shop. You are working with a suggested budget of 10,000 dollars to deliver the development of the site, all hardware, and hosting services. The sponsor, Dorothy Deal, would like the site to highlight “Deals of the Day,” as well as items she is looking for to complete collectible collections.
4. Construction Project: You are your own general contractor and will do an expansion and renovation of your small kitchen. Your budget is 75,000 dollars and you want to complete it as rapidly as possible. In addition to costs, you will need to determine the schedule, resources, and potential risks on the project.

Project Plan Template

Project managers work with project management plans tailored to each specific project. You will be using a Project Plan Template [DOCX] to complete project management tasks throughout this course, for the project you chose for this assessment.

Using the Project Plan Template as your guide, complete the following sections. While you will not submit this work yet, it will be the basis for the PowerPoint presentation you will create below and will be submitted later in this course.

1. Project charter.
2. Project scope. Make sure you note what is not in scope for your project.
3. Stakeholder register,
4. WBS. 
   • Using MS Project, Excel, Visio or other software, develop a WBS based on your selected business or IT project.
   • WBS should include, at a minimum, three levels.

Create Your Presentation and Deliverables

Create a 5–7 slide PowerPoint presentation with detailed notes. Your presentation should include the following:

1. Project summary.
2. Summary of the project charter, including a project management methodology.
3. WBS: 
   • Using Microsoft Project, Excel, Visio or other software, develop a WBS based on your selected business or IT project.
   • WBS should include, at a minimum, three levels.

Begin the project initiation phase by selecting a project scenario to work with throughout the course. Then, create a 5-7 slide PowerPoint presentation containing a project summary, a summary of the project charter, including a project management methodology, and a work breakdown structure (WBS).