Defining the tasks:
The planning phase of the project will be composed of three main tasks that will be composed of subtasks. These include meetings for the new project, project requirement analysis and the project budgeting process. The project sponsor will convene the first meeting and its task will be to employ a project manager as well as set the starting date of the project. The next task will be the requirement analysis. The project manager will undertake this. It will involve determining the requirements of the project, allocating resources as well as conducting a feasibility study of the project. Once it has been determined that the project is feasible, the final task will be the budgeting process. This stage will involve setting the budget and seeking funds for the project.
The work breakdown structure for the project-planning phase is as shown below. It shows the baseline start and finish dates for tasks, the optimistic, expected and pessimistic duration as well as the resources allocated to each task.
Resource allocation:
In the planning phase, it is assumed that the available resources will be the project sponsor and the project manager. This is mainly because they are the two project stakeholders who are responsible for the planning of the project.
Dependence among tasks:
Figure 1: Gantt chart showing the dependence of each task.
Pert Analysis:
Based on the estimates provided , using Per analysis, the time required for the planning stage is given by:
= optimistic duration+4expected duration+pessimistic time6
= 28+434+506
= 35.67 days
References:
Kerzner, H. (2006). Project management: A systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. Hoboken, N.J: J. Wiley.
Moder, J. J., Phillips, C. R., & Davis, E. W. (2009). Project management with CPM, PERT, and precedence diagramming. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
