New Century Health Clinic offers preventive medicine and traditional medical care. In yo...

New Century Health Clinic offers preventive medicine and traditional medical care. In your role as an IT consultant, you will help New Century develop a new information system.

Background

To ensure the quality, cost, and timeliness of the new information system, New Century is considering a project management approach. To obtain a better understanding of project management, Dr. Jones contacted Precision Planning, a consulting firm that specializes in managing projects of this type. He invited the company to deliver a brief presentation on project management concepts and advantages, and to submit a proposal for project management consulting services.

You joined Precision Planning two years ago as a project assistant, after working two summers as a student intern. Your supervisor, Charlie West, asked you to develop the presentation for New Century and you are excited about the opportunity. Charlie said that the main objective is to provide a clear, informative presentation.

Charlie wants you to include the following topics in your presentation: an overview of project management and its history, a description of the process, and an explanation of the most important terms and concepts. Charlie also wants you to describe task identification, various types of relationships among tasks, and schedule development. He says you should show how Gantt and PERT/CPM charts are developed, and how they can be used to plan, track, and control projects. Charlie also said that your presentation should include a specific example to illustrate all the main points.

Assignments

1. Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that will meet the requirements that Charlie outlined to you.

2. Create a Microsoft Word handout that will meet the requirements that Charlie outlined to you.

3. Create a project management example with at least six tasks. Assign durations and task dependencies. At least three of the tasks should be dependent on other tasks. Use this example to display a Gantt chart.

4. Use the same data as Assignment 3 to display a PERT/CPM chart.