Create your final project management plan, including the project budget and schedule.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
- Competency 2: Evaluate the significance of project management benefits to business and IT projects.
- Explain the importance of a project management plan.
- Competency 3: Explain project management documentation to support business or IT projects.
- Develop a project budget.
- Construct a project schedule.
- Competency 4: Communicate effectively.
- Communicate effectively in a professional manner consistent with the standards and conventions of project management.
In this assessment, you use Microsoft Project to create a project budget and a project schedule. You first develop your project schedule. Then, you include the budget for all the project-related costs. You also include tasks for a minimum of five phases in your project schedule, with at least three levels of tasks beneath each of the phases.
Context
Executing the project is the third out of five process groups as defined in the PMBOK® Guide. The PMBOK® Guide defines executing processes as those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project requirements. This is where the work gets done, and knowledge and skill sets are applied. As execution is occurring it is important for the project manager to manage all tasks, schedules, and resources.‹
Instructions
Complete the following steps for this assessment:
- Create your project schedule in Microsoft Project. Include tasks, durations, dependencies, resources, and a Gantt chart.
- Develop a budget in Microsoft Project or Excel that includes the cost for each task, as well as subtotals for each of the five phases and a total cost.
- Add references to your project budget and schedule, in the Project Plan Template.
- Submit your final project plan, including your budget and schedule.
