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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
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Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
This assignment may be done by yourself. Once complete, please submit your MPP file via Blackboard. It
is worth 15% of your final grade. You work as part of a project management team. Your team has been asked to manage a new
project for your company: the project is code named “Get good marks.” The first project meeting
is with the project sponsor and that meeting starts now.
Your company has a new CEO and she has decided to change the company’s tactics in a very
significant way. Your project is necessary as the outcome of your project will assist the company
in developing the new skills required to implement the revised strategy.
The new CEO is your project sponsor. In the project charter, she has given your team the
responsibility of managing the project within the general guidelines provided. Those guidelines
are as follows:
1. Your company is a producer of hand-made lighting fixtures. Profit margins have been
declining and the decision has been made to automate as much production as possible.
2. The goal of this project is to train ALL the company’s 135 production staff on the proper
use of the company’s new CNC machines. The training takes five days.
3. The production staff have an hourly cost of $35 per person
4. Only 10% of staff may be in training at any one time
5. The training provided by the vendor providing the CNC machines is not adequate and it
must be revised for your company: the revision cost is $50,000 and the work will take 10
days.
6. The success criterion is that trained staff have a successful production rate of 98%. It will
take two months to review production output to evaluate the success rate. To review the
production output and evaluate the success rate will cost $2,000 per day.
You will have to make some assumptions to complete this assignment. Please note these
assumptions in your project file. (Hint – double click on any task and enter your assumptions
into the Notes field.)
Please use MS Project to create an estimate schedule and budget for this project. You will need to
create a WBS and then determine the required tasks. Estimate task durations and resources using
your best judgement.
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