MIS7540 MiniProject #2

Do one of the following four exercises:

1. Select and describe an ongoing systems development or procurement project at your company. Create a project plan that contains between 10 and 30 tasks using Microsoft Project. It is not necessary to allocate resources to the tasks for this exercise. Save this project as project1. Identify the critical path. Determine if any of the tasks along that path could have been performed in parallel.
   1. If so, redefine the precedence relationships to reflect the plan with parallel tasks. Save this as project2.
   2. If not, redesign the project so that, if it currently follows a waterfall approach it would instead follow a prototyping or spiral approach. If it doesn't currently follow a waterfall approach, redesign it to follow a waterfall approach. Save this as project2.
   Submit a diskette containing your projects.
2. Select either the Riverview or Travelers case. Assume you were the project manager at the start of the project. Create a plan using Microsoft Project for the analysis, design, development, and implementation of the originally-planned system. Submit a diskette containing your project plan. It is not necessary to allocate resources to the tasks for this exercise.
3. Do the assignment at http://www.kogod.american.edu/MOGIT/sam/ms-project.htm, developed by Professor Erran Carmel of American University.
4. Do the exercise found at http://faculty.babson.edu/gordon/mis7540/msprojex.htm. (This exercise was downloaded from New Horizons Courseware at http://www.nhboston.com/xwin95.htm.)

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