At this point, you have organized your HR project team and you are familiar with the importance of leading and managing the project and team. It is now time to plan your project, which happens to be a large and critical part of project management. Project planning tends to be collaborative and integrative in that many factors, such as scope, resourcing, budgeting, and risk, need to be considered.
Instructions
Write a 5–6 page paper in which you:
- Define and discuss scope and scheduling as they each relate to project management, and provide a statement of importance to your project team so they know the relevance of each task.
- Select four behavioral skills, associated with project resourcing, that you consider to be critical and explain your rationale.
- Review the behavioral skills associated with project resourcing listed in the textbook in Section 9.1.
- Explain to the management team and your project team how you have determined the budget associated with project costs.
- Include how costs are aggregated.
- Explain how you determined cash flow for separate activities.
- Be specific with your responses.
- Discuss at least three ways the project manager is able to identify possible project risks.
- Create a budget for the project using the WBS file created in the Week 4 Formative Activity, Schedule and Budgeting Exercise for Project Scenario.
- Insert the WBS form into the body of the paper.
- Use the following resource as needed: Insert a Chart From an Excel Spreadsheet Into Word.
Resources to use:
Kyriakos Panagiotidis. 2020. HC-4-PM: A Heterarchical Communication Framework for Project Management. http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.8fbe8de9fb4aa1bdd1b08c07913c56&site=eds-live&scope=site
Project-management.com. 2020. Project Charter Example With a Sample Template. https://project-management.com/an-example-of-a-project-charter/
Ionel Sergiu Pirju. 2018. The Importance on Communication in Project Management Strategy. http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.9e235932344609a68b82632ef8103b&site=eds-live&scope=site
Nermina Durmic. 2020. Factors Influencing Project Success: A Qualitative Research. http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=145705061&site=eds-live&scope=site
Kate Eby. 2017. The Ultimate Guide to Project Cost Estimating. https://www.smartsheet.com/ultimate-guide-project-cost-estimating
Jason Westland. 2019. Cost Estimation for Projects: How to Estimate Accurately. https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/cost-estimation-for-projects
Project Management Institute. 2019. Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures – Third Edition. http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2192224&site=eds-live&scope=site
Ben Aston. 2019. Ultimate Guide to the Project Budget Process With Examples. https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com/project-budget-cost-estimation-guide/
Microsoft. No date. Insert a Chart From an Excel Spreadsheet Into Word. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-a-chart-from-an-excel-spreadsheet-into-word-0b4d40a5-3544-4dcd-b28f-ba82a9b9f1e1
Elena Doval. 2019. Risk Management Process in Projects. http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=141427487&site=eds-live&scope=site
Martha Buelt. 2018. Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams. http://libdatab.strayer.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1903111&site=eds-live&scope=site
William Malsam. 2018. How to Write an Executive Summary: A Quick Guide. https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/write-an-executive-summary
Template.net. No date. 12+ Best Executive Summary Templates & Samples – PDF. https://www.template.net/business/word-templates/best-executive-summary-samples/
