Project
Overview

Please go through the stages of project
management and knowledge areas (i.e. the project scope, project time, project
cost, project resources, project communications, project risk, project
procurement, and project stakeholder) for a case study given to you. Use the MS
Project 2010 management system for the project.

Add a note hereHarbor Printing Database Project

Harbor
Printing,impressed with your DBMS knowledge and
skills, has decided to hire you as a project manager to direct this project.
They want you to design and build a database system to keep track of the
information about their printing products.

You met with their CEO and here are your
interview notes:

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Harbor Printing is a specialty printing
company. We print the foil lids for yogurt, jams, and other food products. Our
industry has many regulations and standards that require diligence and care in
the type of ink, handling, and packaging of the food products. Harbor Printing
prints the food package and then ships the product to the food manufacturer. We
do not package the food.

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Add a note hereWeWWewe We want to create a
project to establish a database of customer’s electronic artwork, previous
print jobs, and statistics on each print job they ran. The goal of the database
project is to allow the company to electronically retrieve a customer’s artwork
to make revisions, offer new prices, and to electronically archive the artwork
for future business.Add a note hereThe
project deliverable should allow Harbor Printing to offer faster turnaround
times on orders. Add a note hereLlate

Jan
Elbert, a program manager, worked with the project stakeholders to determine
the project objectives and then prioritize the project requirements. You later
met her and she told you that the project was scheduled to finish in 3 months
and had a budget of $100,000.Add a note hereYou
also learned from the sales manager, Tom Whitson that he wanted the database to
provide more sales automation for repeat customers while Gary Yung, the manager
of prepress wanted his designers to be able to retrieve artwork for fast
development

Add a note hereHarbor
Printing management would not allow the project to launch until the project
integration management plan developed. This requires you to present this plan extensively
to the project stakeholders.

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manager to direct this project, you need prepare a detail report, as outlined
below, and submit for grading. (Your submission should include an electronic
copy all files from MS Project and a Word document for your final report).

Final Integrated Project Outline

1.
Executive Summary (1 page)

2.
Introduction (2nd Ed. pages 66-68)
or (3rd Ed. page 67-69)

3.
Project charter

4.
Project scope

5.
Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (2nd
Ed. pages162-163) or (3rd Ed. page 172-173)

6.
Project time including Gantt and network
diagrams (2nd Ed. pages 318-320) or (3rd Ed. page 344-346)

7.
Project costs (2nd Ed. pages
256-257) or (3rd Ed. page 275-276)

8.
Project quality

9.
Project human resources requirement (2nd
Ed. page 378) (3rd Ed. page 408)

10.
Project communications including outline for
monthly progress reports

11.
Project risks (2nd Ed. pages 224-225)
or (3rd Ed. page 240-241)

12.
Project stakeholder management

13.
Conclusion

14.
References (the text book plus minimum 3 references)

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Text: Pinto, Jeffrey, Project
Management: Achieving Competitve Advantage
, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2010. (ISBN 13:
978-0-13-606561-6)