Itm 423 - Module 1 Session Long Project

To plan your research project (P4) complete the project proposal form (include a consent form)

In Unit 7, you learned about forming a company purpose, making a business plan, and doing a SWOT analysis. Now, you'll apply what you learned to analyze real companies and develop your own business idea.

Before creating a new project, if you need the instructions for Smithville, click on “Open Instructions.” To create a new project, click on “Create New Project” in opening window. The Create New Project dialog will appear, as shown below.

Congratulations! You have just completed the project charter, scope statement, and WBS. Now that you know what needs to be done, as the Project Manager, you are now ready to begin planning your project.

This course provides the foundation for successful project planning, organization, and implementation within the realm of information technology. The course uses real-world examples and identifies common mistakes and pitfalls in project management. Topics covered include project scoping, estimating, budgeting, scheduling and staffing, tracking and controlling, and software tools for project management.

1. Understand the product that you are working with prior contacting the consultant company to set a clear objectives and expectations for the outcome expected at the end of the project.

On the day of your Recitation 12 November 12, 2014 or November 13, 2014 Submit

Stage two of the process is research proposal, in my situation the proposal was oral, during the first stage my wife and I discussed the cost of conducting research for the program and we discussed the pros and cons of the program, the decision was made that the benefits to the business and the customers outweighed the cost. Our instructors were included in the decision concerning the plan of conducting research, at this point a lot of my instructors volunteered to assist. The initial proposal like mentioned before was oral, in the proposal we explained the primary question of the research, would a boot camp style program fit our current training schedules and thinking, the overall answer was yes it did. The cost of the research was going to be minimal, the reason for this was that we decided to conduct the research ourselves and not hire a firm, some of my instructors have conducted research activities at work and we decided to use some of their expertise, this saved the business some initial cost.

All the other elements of a professional design fall into place quite readily when you start with excellent imagery. Her website has a vibrant blue colour that reflects her personality and clear and professional message. The eye catching display has all the most important tools including our automated listing service (with our VREB Listings Administration), automated newsletter and mortgage calculator.

The specific plan design will incorporate each of the personnel above into our project that we have started in the previous Module. With Basecamp this is accomplished by creating a project and then selecting the Team and/or Client tabs. From there we can add individual team members or even a group account. Once added you have

According to "Prairie Waters Project Receives Project Management Prestigious 2011 PMI Project Of The Year Award" (2011), “Its exemplary innovation and completion, two months ahead of schedule and $100 million under budget, has made it the 2011 recipient of the Project Management Institute’s prestigious PMI(R) Project of the Year Award. ” (para. 1).

You have volunteered to help create an ITT Technical Institute student project management group. You have been asked by the chair of the business school to develop a simple project plan to show the intended activities, to ensure a student group will be active by the first quarter of the year. Think of a minimum of six activities that need to be completed in that timeframe, ensuring that each task has a title, duration, start and end dates, and a resource assigned to the task. Refer to p. 60 of the textbook Project 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide and make sure to include at least two of the tasks as

With this ability I could now allocate my resources and factor in time and training to my overall plan. One important step in project planning is not only having the personnel on-hand, but understanding where everyone sits as far as training and what steps you as the project manager need to take to ensure everyone is trained up to begin working as a successful team toward the overall goal.

Their website, smallstudio.com.au, exhibits a simple yet very visually appealing design. The site uses an interesting and convenient horizontal scrolling layout, allowing the user to access the different pages by scrolling left or right. There is also a static menu bar at the top where one may click on a link to be brought directly to a specific page. The website uses a pleasing color scheme of dark gray, white, and orange, and is easy on the eyes. Information is simple to find and access. Small Studio offers an impressive variety of services as well. An excerpt from the company's “Work” page reads, “We help our clients with

To set up the Project Charter, Casey would first need to produce a Statement of Work (SOW) which is a narrative description of the products, services or results to be delivered by the project (PMBOK 5, p.68). This SOW would reference the Business Need, Project Scope Description and the Strategic Plan. The next input would be the Business Case, which would probably contain the cost benefit analysis and business need in order to justify and establish the necessary boundaries for the project (PMBOK 5, p.69).