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Project Management Final Assignment

Select a business project from the UAE (or another country) and evaluate it through the techniques studied. A project is "a temporary attempt undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result." A project ends when its objectives have been reached, or the project has been terminated. Projects can be large or small and take a short or long time to complete. The project must have a well-defined objective composed of a series of interdependent tasks, utilizing various resources, have a specific time frame, have a customer and should involve a degree of uncertainty. Your case project should be planned, but maybe not started, or started but un- finished or completed to its delivery stage; providing it meets the project criteria and has material that meets this project content requirement.

Project Characteristics

• Temporary - definitive start and end dates
• Unique - create new product or service
• Completed when goals are achieved
• Successful when meets or exceeds expectations of stakeholders

Assignment structure: The research project report should cover the following main content:

1- Scope management plan

• Scope statement
• Project justification
• Project's product
• Project deliverables
• Quantifiable objectives

2- Work Breakdown Structure

• Deliverables
• Down to the level of work packages
• Unique identifier
• WBS dictionary including cost accounts mapped to both work packages and organizational functions (units)

3- Project Constraints

• Analyzing possible project constraints and how to manage them.
• Identifying (with rationale) whether the project is time-constrained, resource-constrained (or both) , and how to manage the situation

4- Time management

• Activity list description with duration
• The project network using AON method, showing all forward pass computations , backward pass computations, slack, critical path and project duration

5- Human resource management

• Project Role & responsibility assignments
• Project Organization chart
• The optimum project organization structure to manage this project.

Give rationale of selecting this project structure

• The source organization's OBS
• Project communication channel(s)

Report Structure:

• Cover page
• Table of Content
• Executive Summary
• Main Body of Report, covering main content parts 1 - 5
• Reference page
• Appendix
• Report word count: approx. 1500 words