Columbia Southern University Restaurant Staff Training Program Proposal

Project Proposal

Throughout this course, you will work in each unit to build a project plan that will ultimately become your final deliverable for Unit VIII. Starting in Unit II, you will begin creating components that will cumulatively make up your final project plan. Your professor will grade each component and offer feedback. The feedback can then be used to make any improvements before submitting all components of the final project plan in Unit VIII.

The outline below represents how your final project plan should be organized.

1.Project Overview (Units II and III)

o1.1 Purpose, Scope and Objectives, and Business Case

o1.1.1 Scope

o1.1.2 Statement of Work (SOW)

o1.1.3 Business Case

o1.2 Project Deliverables

o1.3 Project Organization

o1.4 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

o1.4.1 Task Description Documentation

o1.4.2 Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS)

o1.5 Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)

o1.6 Work Authorization

o1.7 Work Charter

2.Risk Assessment (Unit IV)

o2.1 Risk Identification

o2.2 Assessment of Probability and Consequence (Qualitative)

o2.3 Assessment of Probability and Consequence (Quantitative)

o2.4 Mitigation Strategies

3.Quality Management Report (Unit IV)

4.Project Schedule (Unit V)

o4.1 Activity Duration Estimates

o4.2 Gantt Chart

o4.3 Activity Network

5.Project Budget (Unit VI)

o5.1 Project Resources

o5.2 Other Costs

o5.3 Cost Estimates

o5.4 Time-Phased Budget

6.Communications Management (Unit VII)

7.Tracking and Status Updates (Unit VII)

o7.1 Tracking Method

o7.2 Notification Record

o7.3 Control Systems

8.Project Closeout (Unit VIII)

o8.1 Close Cost Accounts

o8.2 Lessons Learned

In the assignment for Unit I, you will start the project process by providing the professor with your idea for a project. The professor will provide feedback so that you can adjust your project, as needed, for Unit II.

Take the considerations below into account.

1.The project’s timeframe should be about two months in duration. In other words, building a hotel would not be considered an appropriate project for this course because it would likely take at least 6 months to build.

2.The project team should include at least six people from different areas of your chosen organization.

3.The scope of the project should be neither too simple nor too complicated. An information technology (IT) project that involves replacing the desktops in the customer service department would be too simple because it would likely only involve a couple of employees and one or two tasks. An IT project involving an organization replacing all of their legacy systems across its U.S. operations would likely be too complicated. Find some middle ground, and remember that you will need to break down the tasks and assign responsibilities to team members.

4.Your project may be initiated from any functional unit (e.g., IT, operations, accounting, customer service, product development, marketing, sales), but be prepared to create your team using employees from multiple functional units.

For this unit’s assignment, include the components listed below in a minimum of a one-page document using proper APA formatting.

1.Include the title of your project.

2.Provide a description (abbreviated scope) of the project.

3.Specify the project timeframe.

4.Identify those involved in the project.

Once the professor provides you with feedback on your project idea, you can make the needed adjustments for Unit II and begin to develop your project plan.

Unit II Course Project

Weight:10% of course grade

Grading Rubric

Due:Tuesday, 11/17/2020 11:59 PM (CST)

Instructions

Starting Your Project Plan

In Unit I, you were required to develop and submit a project idea. Your instructor should have provided you with either the okay to proceed with your idea or some feedback so that you can make changes. Once you have this feedback, you will be able to make any needed modifications to your project idea, and then you may start putting together your project plan.

Also in Unit I, you were provided with an outline for your final project plan. For the assignment in this unit, refer to your unit lesson and required unit resources to begin to draft your project plan, which should include the components listed below.

1.Project Overview: This section should include a brief background description of the project, including motivation, goals and objectives, success criteria, major project deliverables, and identified constraints.

o1.1 Purpose, Scope and Objectives, and Business Case (In these sections, be sure to include how you will measure project success.)

o1.1.1 Scope: The project scope may be described in general terms. Include a problem statement, detailed steps in requirements gathering, information gathering, project constraints, alternatives analysis, and business case documentation. Be sure to describe the techniques used to derive the requirements for this project.

o1.1.2 Statement of Work (SOW): Include key milestones, resource requirements, risks and concerns, and acceptance criteria.

o1.1.3 Business Case: Include the business needs to be satisfied, the feasibility of the project, a description of internal and external forces likely to affect the project, a comparative analysis of the costs and benefits of this project over alternative solutions, and time estimates to return on investment. Identify how the satisfaction of business needs will be determined.

o1.2 Project Deliverables: List the major items or project features to be delivered to the client.

o1.3 Project Organization: List all project team members, their specific roles, and the project organization hierarchy. Where appropriate, indicate joint responsibilities between the project manager and functional manager. Develop a project team reporting structure.

This assignment should be a minimum of two pages in length, not counting the title page and reference page. Be sure to use proper APA formatting. Citations are not required; however, if outside sources are used, make certain to provide in-text citations and references in APA format. For more elaboration on what you should include in your project plan, refer to pp. 539–542 in your textbook.