DISCUSSION AND GROUP PROJECT CHARTER

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please am looking for someone to assist me with this discussion question and help create the group project charter for my team. attached is the template and the instruction to follow for the project charter. thanks

PMAN WK 4 DISCUSSION

1. Project Business Case, Charter, and Scope Statement. Compare and contrast the project business case, project charter, and project scope statement. Explain how you would use each of these documents as input to the planning of the project? What are project requirements, assumptions, and constraints; how are they formulated; when are they formulated. In regard to a project in which you have been involved (or have knowledge) provide an example of the requirements, assumptions, and constraints of this project.

2. The Work Breakdown Structure. As you have learned from your reading in the PMBOK this week, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a decomposition of all the work necessary to complete a project. A WBS is arranged in a hierarchy and constructed to allow for clear and logical groupings, either by major phases or deliverables. The WBS should represent the work identified in the approved Project Scope Statement and has many benefits when developed properly. Discuss some of these benefits of the WBS, the challenges in developing the WBS, and how it may be used throughout the project.

Group

Project Charter

Template

[Replace the information in the italicized blue font and within the open/close brackets [ ] with the information suggested. Remove this instructional section from your project charter. Review the assigned readings for additional information on developing the project charter.]

Project Charter

[Name of Group Project]

[Group Name]
[Date]

[Course, Section, Semester]

[Group Member Name]

[Group Member Name]
[Group Member Name]
[Group Member Name]

Change History

Date changed

Change details

Reason for change
(if applicable)

Responsible for change

[January 1, 2016]

[Content added, deleted, or modified]

[i.e., edited scope description]

(i.e., John Smith, or other course team member)

Table of Contents

[Project Name]

4

Purpose for the project 4

Project Scope Statement 4

Project objectives 4

Project requirements 5

Project risks 5

Milestone schedule (summary) 5

Budget (summary) 6

Criteria for project approval 6

Project Authority 6

Project manager and authority level 6

Project sponsor or customer and authority level 6

References

7

[Project Name]

[This section provides an introduction to the group project. One to two paragraphs should be sufficient to introduce the project at a high level – more details will follow.

You are now working on this project from the perspective of the performing organization (establish a company name for your group) or contractor and you have a customer/client organization (if you haven’t already, give this customer organization a name). Your organization has won the bid for the project and now your group will develop a project charter for this project. In the following weeks, weeks 5 through 12, your team will develop a project management plan for this project.]

Purpose for the project

[Describe the purpose or justification for the project. The project has already been evaluated for meeting the needs of the customer organization, so there is less need to include benefits to the customer organization.]

Project Scope Statement

[This section will be used to develop your project scope statement. Begin with a high- level description of the project. Discussion the boundaries of the project. What are the key deliverables of the project?]

Project objectives and success criteria

[This section will be used to identify project objectives that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant to the project, and time-bound. Objectives should relate to your group project; not the organizational goals and objectives.]

· [Project objective that is unique to your group project.]

· [Project objective that is unique to your group project.]
· [Project objective that is unique to your group project.]

Project requirements

[Describe the requirements of the project – these requirements will help your project team to measure the success of the project. NOTE: Requirements will characterize or define your project deliverables – these are not project activities.]

· [High-level project requirement that is unique to your group project.]

· [High-level project requirement that is unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project requirement that is unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project requirement that is unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project requirement that is unique to your group project.]

Overall project risks

[Describe what risks might be identified this early in the project – at a high-level. Your group will conduct a detailed project risk management plan later in the course and integrate the risk management plan into your project report. For this charter, list only three to five high-level risks at this time.]

· [High-level project risk that is unique to your group project.]

· [High-level project risk that is unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project risk that is unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project risk that is unique to your group project.]

Milestone schedule (summary)

[Milestones are the start/completion of significant events in a project that can be used to track project progress at a high level. Describe the milestones you would expect to monitor in your group project and then list these summary milestones here. Include a timeframe for the milestones (i.e., a start date, completion date, etc.). This is only a summary at this point; your group will elaborate on the milestones in upcoming weeks.]

· [High-level project milestones unique to your group project.]

· [High-level project milestones unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project milestones unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project milestones unique to your group project.]
· [High-level project milestones unique to your group project.]

Budget or pre-approved financial resources(summary)

[Describe the project’s budget at a high level. This is only a summary at this point; your group will elaborate on the project budget by phase/by resources in upcoming weeks.]

Criteria for project approval

[Describe the criteria for project approval here . What constitutes project success, who decides the project is successful, and who signs off on the project?]

Project Authority

[In this section your team will describe the authority level for this project – performing organization and customer/client.]

Project manager and authority level

[Identify your project manager (a member of your course study group) and outline the authority level assigned to the project manager.]

Project sponsor or customer and authority level

[Identify your project sponsor and/or customer/client and outline the authority level for this person. Your team should have one member serve as the customer for this project.]

References

[You will likely use the PMBOK and assigned readings as resources. Add these references here as needed – in APA format.]