Overview
In the final project, you will develop a complete project plan for a hypothetical organization. Each milestone assignment will help you complete portions of the final project. In this milestone, you will evaluate the project manager’s management of team members, resources, conflict, and engagement with project stakeholders to further improve project implementation using Part Two of the case study that is available in MindEdge. If you do not have access to project management software, use the templates provided in the Supporting Materials section. Review this module’s resources for links to more template options.

Prompt
The goal of this milestone is to delve more deeply into the project planning and project execution areas of project management. As mentioned above, you are to use Part Two of the case study in MindEdge to complete this milestone.

Specifically, address the following critical elements:

Project Planning
Business Requirements: Determine the business requirements for the successful development of the project. Justify your choices.
Subject Matter Experts: Establish who will provide the business requirements. What approach will be used to solicit the requirements from the subject matter experts?
Standard Requirements Template: Categorize and organize the business requirements in a standard requirements template.
Format: Explain why the format for capturing requirements is important to the overall success of the project. Why would you consider requirements’ traceability?
Project Schedule: Leveraging the business requirements, translate these requirements into a project schedule using project management software through the provided template.
Estimate: Estimate the duration of project tasks using common business knowledge and assign resources to complete each task.
Refine Estimate: Refine your estimate of the project cost based on the duration of tasks and resources needed.
Project Execution
Implementation Approach: Determine the best implementation approach—agile or waterfall project—for the organization based on its organizational structure. Provide examples to support your rationale.
Project Schedule: Explain how the project schedule can be resource leveled, fast-tracked, or crashed if needed based upon execution results.
Keep Leadership Apprised: Propose communication approaches and the frequency that should be used to keep leadership apprised of the project execution. Include examples to support your claims.
What to Submit
Your draft of the Project Planning and Project Execution portions of your final project should adhere to the following formatting requirements: 3–4 pages, double-spaced, using 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins. You should use the most recent APA-style guidelines for your citations and a reference list with a minimum of two sources.

Supporting Materials
The resources support your work on the project.

Template: Standard Requirements Template
If you do not have access to project management software, use or modify this template to complete Project Planning Part C of this assignment.

Template: Project Schedule
If you do not have access to project management software, use or modify this template to complete Project Planning Part E of this assignment.

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