Reference no: EM132364094

Competencies

Examine communication, human resources, procurement, and stakeholder management as project management functions.

Analyze project management processes, scope, and the project management lifecycle within a range of projects.

Evaluate organizational influences on project management and methods utilized for staffing, managing, and executing a project.

Analyze approaches to project risk management and techniques used to assess and control project risks.

Evaluate the concepts of work breakdown structure, coding, forecasting, and scheduling as project control functions.

Examine the activities and roles of project integration, time, cost, quality, and resource management when managing projects within organizations.

Scenario Information

You are assuming the role of the project manager for a company called SuperPacks to provide a new backpack product with a built-in refrigeration pouch and radio module. Your customer for this project is the U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations. As the project manager for your team, you will be submitting to your manager a project management report.

Instructions

Having been recently hired by the company, you will assume the role of the assigned project manager overseeing the design, development, production, and delivery of the new product. The details below provide a summary of your company's project:

Company type (name your company): A small defense contractor located in the United States of America

Company size (employees): 100

Product: Backpack with built-in refrigerated pouch and radio module

Awarded quantity: 200 units - 100 assigned to Ground Forces / 100 assigned to Special Operations

Program Budget: Proposed award: $1,500,000

Customer: U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations Unit

Award date: Current Date

Completion date: Two years from current date

Delivery schedule: 100 units, 12months ARO (after receipt of order). 50 units every 3 months after first delivery

Milestone Schedule:

First delivery:

Second delivery:

Last delivery:

First milestone payment (from the customer):

Second milestone payment:

Final milestone payment:

Initial program review (at the customer's site):

Subsequent program reviews: 6 months after the initial review

Expected Result from Senior Management

On-time delivery for the three stated product deliverables

Desire to complete the total program under the stated budget of $1,500,000

All milestones accomplished by due dates listed

Supplemental contract for future additional units (backpacks)

You will be submitting to your manager, using the Final Project Report Template in Microsoft Word or similar, a project management report, which will include the following:

Executive summary

Project background/project overview

Major activities/milestones

Project closure synopsis

Project metrics performance

Project management issues

Project closure recommendations