UOP CPMGT305 Week 2 Project Selection and Preliminary Project Plan

Week 2
Project Selection and Preliminary Project
Plan
Resources: Preliminary Project Charter Worksheet, and the Preliminary Project
Plan Individual Assignments from each Learning Team member
Role: Put yourself in the role of a
customer, client, or project selection board. Identify four to five criteria
this person or group would use to select which project to proceed with. Using
the selection criteria, select one of the individual projects for your team to
use for the rest of this course.
Select one project
from among your Learning Team members’ Preliminary Project Charters and
Preliminary Project Plans. Make sure the project you select is one that all of
the team members can understand and have the ability to develop a comprehensive
project plan and implementation plan.
Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper
composed of the following sections:
Project
Selection Criterion: Describe the selected project and the criteria used in the
selection process.
Final
Project Charter: Provide
a final project charter for the selected project as defined in the
Preliminary Project Charter Worksheet Week One Assignment.
Preliminary
Project Plan:
Provide the preliminary project plan for the selected project.
Note: the team will finalize the preliminary project plan in week
three.Includethe following information in
the preliminary project plan:Overview: The objective of this
section is to provide an overview of the scope and nature of the project
to help enable the team to select one project to work on for the rest of
the course.Preliminary
project schedule: The objective of this section is to
show a preliminary summary project schedule with the project tasks
including the primary deliverables and the activities associated with
them as shown in section 6.5.3 ofA Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge.Preliminary
budgetary plan: The
objective of the budget section is to capture cost estimates, which
include resources, capital expenses, materials, and miscellaneous. The
cost analysis must consider the following elements (at a minimum): labor,
subcontractors, rental or purchase of equipment or facilities, travel,
telecommunications, supplies and materials, and documentation. The output
for this step is calledproject funding requirements.
Format your project
plan in a word document AND any standard project management application, such
as Microsoft® Project, Open Workbench, or Excell to
support the paper.. The paper can use tables screen shots to communicate
various sections. The tables can be within the main body of the paper even
though APA guidelines normally require them in the appendix.