Rasmussen College Organizational Influences on Project Management Report

Competency

Evaluate organizational influences on project management and methods utilized for staffing, managing, and executing projects.

Scenario Information

You are assuming the role of the project manager for a company calledSuperPacks to provide a new backpack product with a built-inrefrigeration pouch and radio module. Your customer for this project isthe U.S. Army, Ground Forces and Special Operations. As the projectmanager for your team, you will be submitting to your manager a project management report.

Instructions

Work Breakdown Schedule

As the project manager, your role is to track and manage theprojects you are working on; creating a Statement of Work and a WorkBreakdown Structure are tools that can help you manage a project orprojects. Below you will create a Statement of work consisting of thebasics of the project(s) you are working on. Consider this similar to abusiness or marketing report, but this will define the project, projectscope, and overall strategy of the project.

Part One
Statement of Work (SOW) Document:

Develop the project Statement of Work document to include the following information:

• Business need
• Product scope description
• Strategic plan

Part Two
As part of your Statement of Work for your project, you will create aWork Breakdown Structure (WBS). The WBS allows for project managers tocompose all tasks of the projects into smaller components to ensure amore manageable project(s).

Develop the project Work Breakdown Structure using the WBS Template.