Objective: To develop a simple project plan using a desktop application. Use the software to characterize task sequences, resource assignments, and to determine the completion time and critical path.
Instructions: You have been tasked with planning a project. The project relates to one of the following two end objectives (you select one of these):
1. Develop an App to help not for profit organizations create a business plan.
2. Organize a regional Bossaball (Links to an external site.) tournament (note: you can switch the sport).
As the project manager you must:
• Estimate the activities required to complete the project (your best guess). There should be at least 10 activities.
• Estimate their duration in days and their precedence relationships. Activities should not be all in sequence. At least three activities must have 2+ direct predecessors. See the table below as an example: activity C has 3 predecessors, activities M, O, and have two each, while F has three. The figure shows a Gantt chart of this project data (activities in pink are in the critical path). Your project plan should have several activities not in the critical path.

• Establish resources (you and your team + external) and assign resources to activities.
• Use MS Project to setup the project and to determine the project completion time, the critical path, and the utilization of resources. Contact the professor if you prefer to use a different type of PM software.
Develop a report with the following elements:
• Short introduction.
• Table with activities, durations, precedences, and resources.
• Outputs from software (as images).
• A written analysis of the outputs/graphs which includes an estimate of the completion time of the project and the activities the project manager must focus on.
Students in this class have been granted professor requested access to MS Project. To access MS Project go to the FAU Virtual Apps siteLinks to an external site. and review the instructions. If a first time user of Virtual Apps, you need to download the Citrix workspace client. If you already have Citrix installed in your PC, then to login into Virtual Apps just click hereLinks to an external site.. Review this tutorial on the use of MS Project ( / ).
Format: Use this Template: and review the example . Five page maximum. Upload as a pdf.