Course Project Part 3:
Plan Schedule Management: Define Activities, Assess Activity Duration, and Sequence Activities
The home-building project continues in Unit III with the development of the project schedule. In this assignment, refer to the scope elements developed in Unit II. After reviewing the scope, complete the schedule documents below.
Plan schedule management: Document in one to two pages your strategy for developing and controlling the project schedule for your home-building project. Feel free to draw upon templates for this purpose by searching external websites you may find. After completing the project schedule management document, perform the following additional requirements.
Part A:
Define activities: Identify at least 25 activities associated with your home-building project.
Part B:
Assess activity duration: Use the weighted average of three-point estimates based upon the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) formula to assign duration for each activity.
Part C:
Sequence activities: Identify predecessors for each of your activities. Then, employ the network diagram and calculate the schedule duration using the forward and backward pass methods.
The plan schedule management document along with the three parts (Parts A, B, and C) must be at least three pages. Submit your assignment as ONE combined document into Blackboard for grading
APA Style will not be required for this assignment.
PM-J3
Assume that the home you are building will require you to sell your existing apartment, and you have been asked to prepare the house for showing by rearranging the furniture, painting the living room, and cleaning the garage. You do not have much time. How long do you estimate it would take? Also, what activities could be done in parallel to reduce the home preparation schedule duration?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
PM-P2
The home-building project continues in Unit II with the development of the project scope. Before completing this unit’s assignment, refer to the requirements developed in Unit I. After reviewing the requirements, complete the following scope management documents.
Part A:
Plan the scope management: Document in one to two pages your strategy for defining, verifying, and controlling project scope for your home building project. Feel free to draw upon templates for this purpose by searching external websites you may find. In your plan scope management document, include the quality objectives for your project along with your strategy for managing it.
Part B:
Simple scope statement: Draft one to two paragraphs distilling the essence of the project. Upon reading the scope statement, the reader should be able to clearly understand what is both in and out of project scope.
Part C:
WBS: Take the scope statement and requirements and complete a WBS for your project. You may create the WBS in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel. Both graphical as well as indented outlines are acceptable.
The three parts (Parts A, B, and C) must be at least three pages. Submit your assignment as ONE combined document into Blackboard for grading.
APA Style will not be required for this assignment.