Individual Assignment Project Management (ITPM chapters 1-3) - Answer the questions below thoroughly and completely (one sentence answers will not be sufficient). Submit answers for the assignment in one Word document and one Project file via BlackBoard assignments. Also, include the 2 .pdfs (Gantt and Network for question 5). Be sure to include your name, course.section and assignment # in the Word document. 1. What is a project? What are its main attributes? How is a project different from day-to-day operations? 2. What is project management? Briefly describe each of the five process groups. 3. What is a project constraint? Discuss the triple constraint in project management. 4. What is the SDLC? Describe, compare and contrast the predictive (traditional waterfall) model and the adaptive (agile) model. 5. Use Microsoft Project to set up a project based on the list of tasks and precedence relationships shown in the table below. Address the questions below. Organize the project into 4 main phases: Analysis (1-4), Design (5-7), Construction (8-9) and Implementation (10-11) (this will change task numbers listed below). Task 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Description Preliminary investigation Problem analysis Data requirements analysis Process requirements analysis Database design Interface design Process and program design Programming and unit testing System testing Installation Configure Duration (days) 2 2 3 6 3 4 4 7 3 2 1 Predecessor 1 2 3 3 3, 4, 5 3, 5, 6 5, 6, 7 8 9 10 Provide answers here to the questions below (do not tell me to see your Project file). • • • • • • • • • • • Set the project start date for February 10, 2020 What will be the end date of the project? How many days will it take to complete the Analysis phase? How many days will it take to complete the Design phase? How many days will it take to complete the Construction phase? How many days will it take to complete the Implementation phase? How many days will it take to complete the entire project? What tasks are on the critical path? Explain the critical path Save Gantt chart view as .pdf – be sure to include task name, duration, start, finish, predecessors and calendar (submit .pdf along with Word document) Save Network diagram view as .pdf (submit .pdf along with Word document) 6. Something has changed in the above project. Interface design assumed of a Windows user interface, but now management has decided the system should also support a web browser interface. You estimate that the web screen will require an additional two days to design, prototype, and test. Make this revision to your original duration estimate for “Interface design” in Microsoft Project. • • Review the Gantt chart, Network diagram and critical tasks report Explain what this change does to the schedule and projected project completion date? Be specific.
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