Project Schedule

This is the core of any project plan used to communicate what tasks are needed and the order of sequence to be done to meet deadlines and deliverables.

Using your project charter completed in Week Two as a guide, complete the following:

• A 1-page Business Requirements Document (BRD) that provides details regarding the expectations (such as user, system, and functional requirements) that must be met for achieving project goals
• A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Gantt chart, developed as an MS Project file, showing discrete work tasks, grouped hierarchically in a way that helps to organize and define the total work scope of the project
• Gantt diagram showing duration estimates for all tasks and their sequencing (including precedence relations) and highlighting any critical path(s) arising from task dependencies ultimately determining the minimal duration of a project

HINT:  Attention to detail is extremely important when creating a project schedule.  All of the key milestones must obviously be accounted for in the schedule, but the smaller detailed items should also be accounted for in the plan.  In addition to meeting the requirements of the bulleted items above, the amount of detail in the plan will have a direct effect on the grade.