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Project Planning. Wentworth Institute of Technology Electronic Design I Prof. Tim Johnson Chapter 7. Concepts and Principles. What is it that we’re going to do? A list of tasks required to complete a project. To Do list Sequentially listed What is it going to cost? Time Money
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Project Planning Wentworth Institute of Technology Electronic Design I Prof. Tim Johnson Chapter 7
Concepts and Principles • What is it that we’re going to do? • A list of tasks required to complete a project. • To Do list • Sequentially listed • What is it going to cost? • Time • Money • Resources commitment • People, Plant, & Provisions
Benefits of Planning • Framework for communications • Clients • Co-workers • Resource allocations • Benchmark for assessment of progress • Guide for decision making • Proposal to business plan
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun July Sep Oct Nov Dec Planning Tools—Gantt Chart • List of tasks vs. time • Use Microsoft Project
Planning Tools—Critical Path • Network diagram with directed line segments (lines & circles) • Similar to Functional Block Diagram • Looks at: • Activities • Events • Identifies bottlenecks in projects
The Big Picture • Project doesn’t exist in isolation • Let’s look at a Power Point templet used by businesses. • The next 8 slides are the example. • Followed by your assignment.
Project Goals • Ultimate goal of project • Relationship to other projects • High-level timing goals
Description • Describe the project in non-technical terms. • Use following slides for discussing status, schedules, budget, etc. FOR MORE INFO... List location or contact for specification (or other related documents) here
Competitive Analysis • Competitors • (You may want to allocate one slide per competitor) • Strengths • Your strengths relative to competitors • Weaknesses • Your weaknesses relative to competitor
Competitive Analysis, Cont. • Competitors • Strengths • Weaknesses FOR MORE INFO... List location or contact for competitive analysis (or other related documents) here
Technology • New technology being used • Benefits • Standards being adopted • Benefits • Standards specifically being ignored • Drawbacks & benefits DYA: define your acronyms!
Team/Resources • State assumptions about resources allocated to this project • People • Equipment • Locations • Support & outside services • Manufacturing • Sales
Procedures • Highlight any procedural differences from regular projects of this type • Discuss requirements, benefits, and issues of using new procedures FOR MORE INFO... List location or contact for procedures document (or other related documents) here
Current Status • High-level overview of progress against schedule • On-track in what areas • Behind in what areas • Ahead in what areas • Unexpected delays or issues
Your Assignment • Draw up a Gantt chart for the solder iron project. • Use MS Project found on all the computers here at WIT. • Show the time line for the entire project, start to finish. • Remember, we still have to write the user manual & the technical manual.