CPMGT/303

PROJECT ESTIMATING AND CONTROL TECHNIQUES

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CPMGT 303 Week 1 Project Selection and Estimating Technique Paper

Explain the factors that determine how a company selects a project. 

Differentiate between top-down and bottom-up estimates including when each would be used. 

Determine the methods for estimating project costs. 

Explain the types of costs. 

Format your 700- to 1,050-word paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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CPMGT 303 Week 2 Project Management Plan Proposal Presentation

Resource: The Project Plan Microsoft® PowerPoint® Template

Select an organization in which one of the team members is employed, or one with which the team is familiar.

Identify a project for the organization that must be completed. This project will be used for the remaining Learning Team assignments.

Additionally, the plan will serve as an agreement between the following parties: Project Sponsor, Steering Committee, Project Manager, Project Team, and other personnel associated with and/or affected by the project.

Create a 17- to 25-slide visual presentation of the project plan proposal for the identified project using the template provided. Be sure to provide a definition of the project, including the project’s goals and objectives.

Format your Project Plan Proposal consistent with APA guidelines.

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CPMGT 303 Week 2 Microsoft® Project Painting Exercise and Executive Summary

Perform a search in the UOP Library on the Critical Path Method.

Use Microsoft® Project to complete the Microsoft® Project Painting Exercise.

Include the primary deliverables and the activities associated with them in the Microsoft Project Schedule

Save your work as Microsoft® Project file.

Write an Executive Summary describing the process used for finding the critical path in Microsoft® Project, and lessons learned while completing the Painting Exercise.

Submit the completed Microsoft® Project Painting Exercise and Executive Summary.

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CPMGT 303 Week 3 Project Estimating Schedule and Summary

Review the Microsoft® Project Quick Start guide.

Continue using the organization and project selected in Week 2 for this assignment.

Create the following in Microsoft® Project using the Microsoft® Project 2016 Student Desktop:

• Input the activities in Microsoft® Project needed to complete the project, linking each activity in the order that the activity can be done, regardless of any known resource constraints.
• Ensure activities are linked to project deliverables.
• Identify resources required to complete the project. Input these resources and each resource estimated costs into Microsoft® Project Resource Sheet. For labor this may be done with hourly rate or one-time consultant fee depending on the activity.
• Assign resources to each of the activities in Microsoft® Project.
• Estimate the time it will take each resource, to complete each activity (for example, in hours, days, or weeks) and input into Microsoft® Project.
• Use Microsoft® Project to identify the project’s critical path.

Write a 350- to 700-word summary describing the process you followed in identifying the critical path, as well as any lessons learned.

Submit your Microsoft® Project schedule and Microsoft® Word summary.

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CPMGT 303 Week 3 Review Questions

Resource: A Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control, Ch. 11

Review the JP Phentar Construction: Case Study in Ch. 11.

Complete the following:

• Determine what information-gathering tools would be most effective on this project and what activities would need to be monitored.
• Based on data that would be generated from work activities, what types of analytical tools could be used to determine project status?
• Can any corrective actions be initiated? And if so, how?

Answer the questions in a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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CPMGT 303 Week 4 Tree Trimming Project Analysis Paper

Thomas Johnson is a timber and Christmas tree farmer who attended a Project Management class last year, during his off-season. When the subject of Earned Value came up in class he wondered if he was using EV.

In the summer Johnson hires and trains crews who work to shear fields of Christmas trees for the upcoming Holiday season. When shearing, each worker uses a large machete to shear the branches from the tree into a cone shape tree which is what most customers desire.

Thomas operates his business per the following:

• He counts the number of Christmas trees in the field, which is approximately 24,000.
• He agrees with Tom Jones, a customer, to a $30,000 lump sum contract for shearing all trees in the field.
• He receives a partial payment about 5 days after starting the project. He then estimates the actual number sheared trees to be approximately 6,000 trees. The actual is taken as a percent of the total to be sheared, multiply the percent complete by total contract amount for the partial payment [(6,000/24,000 total trees = 25% of trees trimmed), (.25 * $30,000 total payment = 5 days payment of $7500)].

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that thoroughly answers the following questions based on the case study:

• Is Johnson over, on, or below schedule? Explain.
• Is Johnson using earned value as he was taught in his Project Management course? Explain.
• What can Johnson do to set up a schedule and cost variance?
• What method do you suggest for Johnson to use for any changes in project scope, such as the shape of the tree that Mr. Jones wants?
• It seems that Johnson is using the Traditional method of Project Management. How can he accelerate the completion of this project he has contracted for using the Agile Methodology?
• Analyze Johnson’s project performance on this project assuming the original quote given to the customer was an estimate.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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CPMGT 303 Week 5 Project Performance and Completion Presentation

Continue using the organization and project selected in Week 2.

Create a 10- to 15-slide visual presentation on the team’s Week 2 project, including responses to the following project performance measurement and project closure items:

• Project Performance Measurement
• Explain how the project managers use earned value to monitor project performance.
• Calculate the project’s Budget At Completion (BAC).
• Explain how the Schedule and Cost Performance Indexes are calculated and are used to monitor project performance.
• Explain how agile project performance measurement differs from the traditional methods.

Format the presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

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CPMGT 303 Week 5 Project Oversight Paper

Research project oversight using the UOP Library.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word executive summary to your organization’s leadership team covering the following:

• What is project oversight?
• How will project oversight impact the organization?
• How will project oversight impact the project manager?
• What’s the importance of project oversight to the future of project management?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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