Managing Projects

MANAGING PROJECT

TASK 1
1.a Key Characteristic of project
The key characteristic of project are as follows-
 Project has set objectives that need to be achieve in given set of time and cost.
 All projects are unique.
 All the activities are temporary in the project but it has definite starting and ending dates.
 Project pass through an effective procedure.
 Basically, company have something at interest when undertaking a project.
1.b Purpose of project initiation document
Project initiation document (PID) is one of the most important part the project
management as it is said to be the foundation of the project. The purpose of project initiation are
as follows-
It makes clear when the project needs to be delivered, whom to delivered and how it will
be delivered (Joslin and Müller,2015).
To make sire that the base of project has sound basis before asking the program in order
to make any major commitment to the project.
It also helps in making the entire team of project, client and all other stakeholders to
understand about the project.
2.a Scope Statements for a projects.
Scope of the project is the range of the project. Project includes various elements such as
quality used to measure the strength, time undertaken for project completion, cost incurred,
resources required an communication channels used for communicate the information from the
stakeholders. In addition to this, project also include risk assessment where all the possible risk
are identified and evaluated by the project manager (Willar and et.al., 2018 ).
2.b Role of work-breakdown structure.'
Work-breakdown structure is another important element of project management as it is
the key deliverables of the project that organizes the work of team into manageable sections. The
role played by WBS as it helps in dividing the complex activities or task of the into manageable
and simpler (Meredith and et.al., 2017). It makes the readable and accurate project and it also

divide the responsibilities of the team of the project. Further, it also aids in calculating and
estimating the time, cost and risk. In addition to this, it illustrate the scope of the project so that
all the information associated with the project can be understood in more better way.
3. Gantt Chart and Critical path.
Task
Mode Task Name Duration Start Finish Predecessors
Auto
Schedule
d
a 7 wks Fri 8/30/19 Thu 10/17/19
Auto
Schedule
d
b 5 wks Fri 10/18/19 Thu 11/21/19 1
Auto
Schedule
d
c 3 wks Fri 11/22/19 Thu 12/12/19 2
Auto
Schedule
d
d 4 wks Fri 11/22/19 Thu 12/19/19 2
Auto
Schedule
d
e 7 wks Fri 12/13/19 Thu 1/30/20 3
Auto
Schedule
d
f 9 wks Fri 12/20/19 Thu 2/20/20 4
Table 1: Time Scale