Project Charter and Project Plan
Business Finance
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.
