Project Management and Schedule

Order Instructions

Please use Excel to create both the budget and Project Management Gantt Chart. Please use the Attachment Work Break Down Structure to complete these steps.

Part 1 – Schedule

Use Microsoft Excel to develop a detailed milestone and deliverables schedule that identifies required human and capital resources. Do the following:

Include a minimum of twenty steps (tasks).

Link related tasks that must follow in order; and create sub-groups with activities where applicable.

Enter the duration and start and finish times for each task.

Activity duration can be estimated in hours, days, weeks, or months, depending on the time scale of your project.

Project start and finish times can be entered as specific calendar dates if you wish.

Assign named resources to each task in the timeline of your project.

Part 2: Budget

For this assessment, develop your projected project budget by allocating costs to each of your required resources (include human, capital, and materials). Use Microsoft Project or an Excel spreadsheet.

Complete the following items:

Create the initial budget estimate.

Imagine that the client has requested that the project be done in a 20 percent shorter timeframe. Add two more columns to your budget. One should reflect the new costs and the other should depict the variance between the original and amended budgets.