The Martial Arts Academy (MAA)—School Management System

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON

MIS 419 – IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Assignment 4: Work Breakdown Structure
(Be sure to upload your Microsoft Project file as a .mpp file through Entropy.)

Now that you have defined the project's scope, it's time to start the process of determining how the
work will be accomplished. This will require that you draw upon work you did in several previous
assignments.

Note: This case assignment will require you to use Microsoft Project®, a popular project management
software tool. You should work through the Microsoft Project® Tutorial 1: Creating the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS) at the end of this chapter before beginning this case assignment.

Please provide a professional-looking document that includes the following:

1. The phases of your project. Using Microsoft Project®, list all of the project life cycle and systems
development life cycle phases and the associated deliverables that you defined in the Project
Scope assignment.

2. Milestones for each phase and deliverable. Achieving a milestone will tell everyone associated
with the project that the phase or deliverable was completed satisfactorily.

3. Activities/Tasks. Define a set of activities or tasks that must be completed to produce each
deliverable. At this time, just list the tasks for your project. You will link these tasks to create a
project network in the next assignment.

4. Resource Assignments. Based on the project infrastructure that you developed, assign people to
each activity. Keep in mind that adding resources to an activity may allow the activity to be
completed in a shorter amount of time; however, it may increase the cost of completing that
task or activity.

5. Estimates for Each Activity/Task. Based on the tasks or activities and the resources assigned,
develop a time estimate for each task or activity to be completed. For the purposes of this
assignment, you should use a combination of estimation techniques such as time-boxing and
bottom-up estimation.