Project Management: Wedding Planning
After completing the course on project management, your class professor suggested one could offer electronic support for weddings. You form a small group, decide on a name for your start-up company, and give it a try. To your surprise, your online ad is answered by a busy working couple planning a wedding in 2014. However they want a proper proposal with times, costs and details before going further. Fortunately from your project management course you know the 10 steps to a project proposal:
Background
After completing the course on project management, your class professor suggested one could offer electronic support for weddings. You form a small group, decide on a name for your start-up company, and give it a try. To your surprise, your online ad is answered by a busy working couple planning a wedding in 2014. However they want a proper proposal with times, costs and details before going further. Fortunately from your project management course you know the 10 steps to a project proposal:
1. Define Project Name and Aim
2. Define Completion Criteria (deliverables)
3. Identify Resources
4. Define Tasks (mind mapping)
5. Define WBS
6. Allocate Resources to Task (Activity Detail)
7. Create Dependency Relations
8. Prepare Schedule (GANTT)
9. Prepare Network Diagram and Review Critical Path
10. Set Milestones and Control Points
General project tasks.
Your online ad promised to do the following things:
1. E-invitations. Based on a guest list of 200 you will prepare an attractive wedding electronic invitation, with a link to the wedding site, record the responses, and update the web site guest list accordingly.
2. Wedding Website. You will create an attractive and tasteful web site, with graphics and sound, and will include:
a. Full face photos of the bride, groom, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and parents, taken for this purpose.
b. Guest list of who will be attending, regularly updated with names spelt correctly.
c. Local
Background
After completing the course on project management, your class professor suggested one could offer electronic support for weddings. You form a small group, decide on a name for your start-up company, and give it a try. To your surprise, your online ad is answered by a busy working couple planning a wedding in 2014. However they want a proper proposal with times, costs and details before going further. Fortunately from your project management course you know the 10 steps to a project proposal:
1. Define Project Name and Aim
2. Define Completion Criteria (deliverables)
3. Identify Resources
4. Define Tasks (mind mapping)
5. Define WBS
6. Allocate Resources to Task (Activity Detail)
7. Create Dependency Relations
8. Prepare Schedule (GANTT)
9. Prepare Network Diagram and Review Critical Path
10. Set Milestones and Control Points
General project tasks.
Your online ad promised to do the following things:
1. E-invitations. Based on a guest list of 200 you will prepare an attractive wedding electronic invitation, with a link to the wedding site, record the responses, and update the web site guest list accordingly.
2. Wedding Website. You will create an attractive and tasteful web site, with graphics and sound, and will include:
a. Full face photos of the bride, groom, bridesmaids, groomsmen, and parents, taken for this purpose.
b. Guest list of who will be attending, regularly updated with names spelt correctly.
c. Local