Project Charter and Project Plan Prepare a Project Charter and Project Plan for any ONE of the above projects. Choose the one you think you can most easily

Project Charter and Project Plan Prepare a Project Charter and Project Plan for any ONE of the above projects. Choose the one you think you can most easily plan – where you can come up with a high-level list of tasks, and reasonable time and cost estimates for them. You are NOT expected to know everything the project needs. You DON’T have to develop detailed requirements — you don’t have that much information. But you should be able to identify the most obvious 10 or 20 Information Technology tasks for at least one of the options. Prepare your Charter as if you are an IT consulting team coming in to help a small business. Keep the Charter simple, but include the most important components. Feel free to create additional stakeholders that you think should be involved in the project, and give them any names you like. Just be clear about who they are and why you are including them as stakeholders! The Charter should not be longer than one page.In your Plan, include only the knowledge areas we have addressed so far: Scope, Schedule, Cost, and Quality. (We will get to the others in the last half of the class). Include the most important components needed for each knowledge area, and organize this a single Project Plan, with appropriate sections for each knowledge area. Do not exceed 1,500 words overall in the Plan. This word limit does not include any charts, tables, etc. that you would like to show in an Appendix. Oak Mountain Furniture Designs
It started as a hobby for Sue. She grew up helping her grandfather in his garage
workshop, making beautiful things from wood –grandfather clocks, rolling pins, lamps
and of course a doll house when Sue was young. She helped come up with ideas for
unique features – a small drawer in the base of a lamp, and a way to hide cookies inside
the rolling pins.
When she grew up, Sue went to business school and started a career in finance. But she
never lost her love of design, or her abilities with a band saw, planer and drill press. She
built small furniture pieces for friends and family at first. Then Sue started working on
even more unique designs and selling them at the occasional craft show. This is where
her hobby took a new turn. Customers not only bought the items, but they also asked her
to create custom items – a different stain or type of wood, a little bigger or smaller, one
more drawer in the table, etc. Soon Sue had so many people asking for her work that she
took a big risk, quit her finance job, and began Oak Mountain Designs.
What started as a one-woman operation soon flourished into a business. The company
grew from one store to fifty stores and five different furniture-building locations. The
organization had grown enough for Sue to have managers in each of the stores and
woodworking shops, plus a small administrative staff and a part-time marketing manager.
Currently, there are two computers in each store – one for completing sales transactions
and another in the manager’s office for doing the accounting and payroll for the store.
There is no internet in the stores.
Sue knew it was time to grow — but that meant deciding how to compete with larger and
more technologically enabled furniture companies. Oak Mountain had a basic web site,
with the store locations and contact information, pictures of her major products, and basic
“About Oak Mountain” marketing material. The site had been available for years, but
needed to be brought into a more advanced digital age.
Sue began thinking about the strategic direction of the company, and the IT needed to
support a choice of strategic initiatives. Some of the business ideas Sue had were:
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Move to on-line sales for her standard products. In addition to the technology to
support a larger operation, Sue would need a full suite of e-commerce technology
to make this happen.
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Get the word out! Sue could expand the business with a new push on social
media. With a more impressive web presence, and a larger geographic reach, her
custom business could become the focal point of Oak Mountain. Setting up new
social media platforms and getting the Oak Mountain name in the right places
could mean substantial increases in what people were willing to pay for custom
work.
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Add a Corporate Furnishings division. This would include office design
consulting. She will need to have software that can create 3D models showing
her furniture in the client’s specific office space, and additional software to
manage large purchases from various vendors. Software packages are available
that do these things, but the different packages need to be evaluated so she can
find the best ones. Then there will be a need to buy more computers and
networks to run them on, and training for a new design consulting staff.
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Build-it-yourself. Sue likes the idea of letting customers put together custom
furniture out of high quality component parts. They could choose not only the
wood, but also component features like the number of drawers (for dressers and
tables), the style of the legs (for tables and chairs) or arms (chairs), or add things
like mobile charging stations, and then Sue’s skilled staff will make and assemble
the components. Sue has even considered the idea of a “virtual workshop” where
the customer could assemble parts visually. This idea has the potential to work in
the store locations or on-line! But there aren’t any packages that do this that Sue
knows about, so some custom development will be needed.
Prepare a Project Charter and Project Plan for any ONE of the above projects. Choose the one
you think you can most easily plan – where you can come up with a high-level list of tasks, and
reasonable time and cost estimates for them. You are NOT expected to know everything the project
needs. You DON’T have to develop detailed requirements — you don’t have that much information.
But you should be able to identify the most obvious 10 or 20 Information Technology tasks for at
least one of the options.
Prepare your Charter as if you are an IT consulting team coming in to help a small business. Keep
the Charter simple, but include the most important components. Feel free to create additional
stakeholders that you think should be involved in the project, and give them any names you like. Just
be clear about who they are and why you are including them as stakeholders! The Charter should not
be longer than one page.
In your Plan, include only the knowledge areas we have addressed so far: Scope, Schedule, Cost, and
Quality. (We will get to the others in the last half of the class). Include the most important
components needed for each knowledge area, and organize this a single Project Plan, with appropriate
sections for each knowledge area. Do not exceed 1,500 words overall in the Plan. This word limit
does not include any charts, tables, etc. that you would like to show in an Appendix.

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