SEMESTER Spring 2013

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT NO. 03
DUE DATE: 09 April, 2013
MARKS: 10

Scenario:

You are Public Relations Manager of XYZ Company and are assigned the task to organize the
Annual Dinner Party of the company this year. Actually this party is a traditional ceremony of
the company in which all of the employees are invited by the CEO and have dinner with him.
The dinner would be on 10th of next month and, as you are in-charge of the organizing
committee, you have started working and are meeting with other people. You found that
employees are too enthusiastic and want to perform skits/ parodies and sing songs along with
other party-games in annual function. You also want to make the party a memorable event for all
and are deciding a suitable venue along with planning other activities. The CEO also has given
you the free hand to do whatever you want for the function. Being a knowledgeable person of
Project Management, you consider the party as a project and are planning it in the same way.
Question:
Identify all of the activities for the Annual Dinner Party Project and develop a Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS) for it.
Instructions:
This is a practical assignment in which you have to make a proper WBS. The purpose is to
hand on you a practice of understanding a project, identifying its deliverables and specific
activities, and developing its WBS.
You have to identify major deliverables and break them down into supporting deliverables,
work packages and specific activities.
Use your observation, experience, creativity and intuition to identify various activities
involved in this Dinner Party Project and then prepare an appropriate WBS.