Developing the Portfolio of the ‘Course Project’
Select the Project:
Select small and ‘practical’ project you are familiar with. Preferably from a real scenario that may involve the career, social, or logistical interests.
Use the specifics of your project to construct and submit a portfolio that comprise the below project management documents. Templates for these documents are uploaded (attached), PLEASE INSURE IT’S INCLUDE ALL THE FOLLOWING:
- Business case
- Adopt system approach to analyze business initiative
- Select appropriate business initiative using ‘quantitative’ approach
- Project charter
- Assumptions and constraints
- Stakeholders register
- Stakeholders management grid(s)
- Project scope statement
- Work breakdown structure
- Milestone list
- Activity duration estimates (PERT)
- Network diagram using CPM
- Gantt chart
- Basis of cost estimation
- Activity cost estimates
- Project funding requirements
- Quality matric
- Quality checklist
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Resource breakdown structure
- Responsibility assignment matrix
- Progress report
- Status report
- Earned value report
- Selection criteria for project procurement activities
- Risk management plan
- Risk identification
- Risk breakdown structure
- Risk register with risk response
- Change request form
- Change register/Log
- Issue log
- Closure report
- Lessons learned
The templates supplied are meant to get you started and support this exercise from educational perspectives. In practice, the project manager has more flexibility to change the contents of these templates as per the project specifics and any constraints imposed by the organizational, environmental or the local PMO practices.