Assignment 3: Project Proposal – Execution, Control, and Closure Note: This is the third of three assignments which, as a whole, will cover all aspects of the project life cycle relevant to your selec

Assignment 3: Project Proposal – Execution, Control, and Closure

Note: This is the third of three assignments which, as a whole, will cover all aspects of the project life cycle relevant to your selected project.

Now, it is time for you to discuss your project’s challenges (e.g., risks); performance management plan (e.g., earned value management); and proposed plan for closing the project when it is done.

Write a four to six page paper, in which you define the execution, control, and closure aspects of your chosen project. In your paper you must:

1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.

2. Identify and discuss your project’s greatest challenges (at least three) and provide a recommendation for addressing each of the challenges.

3. Examine how you manage your project performance via earned value management. Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.

4. Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.

5. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

· Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

· Develop a process for measuring the progress of a project, providing oversight, coordinating project closure, and determining project effectiveness.

Points: 150

Assignment 3: Project Proposal – Execution, Control, and Closure

Criteria

Unacceptable

Below 70% F

Fair

70-79% C

Proficient

80-89% B

Exemplary

90-100% A

1. Provide a brief summary of your chosen project.

Weight: 10%

Did not submit or incompletely provided a brief summary of your chosen project.

Insufficiently provided a brief summary of your chosen project.

Satisfactorily provided a brief summary of your chosen project.

Thoroughly provided a brief summary of your chosen project.

2. Examine your project’s greatest challenges and provide a recommendation for addressing the challenge in question.

Weight: 25%

Did not submit or incompletely examined your project’s greatest challenge and did not submit or incompletely provided a recommendation for addressing the challenge in question.

Insufficiently examined your project’s greatest challenge and insufficiently provided a recommendation for addressing the challenge in question.

Satisfactorily examined your project’s greatest challenge and satisfactorily provided a recommendation for addressing the challenge in question.

Thoroughly examined your project’s greatest challenge and thoroughly provided a recommendation for addressing the challenge in question.

3. Examine how you manage your project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM). Identify at least three key EVM metrics you will use for your project.

Weight: 25%

Did not submit or incompletely examined how to manage project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM) and less than three key EVM metrics were identified.

Insufficiently examined how to manage project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM) and/or less than three key EVM metrics were identified.

Satisfactorily examined how to manage project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM) and three key EVM metrics were identified.

Thoroughly examined how to manage project performance via Earned Value Management (EVM) and more than three key EVM metrics were identified.

4. Discuss your plan to properly close your project when it is over.

Weight: 20%

Did not submit or incompletely discussed how to properly close the project when it is over.

Insufficiently discussed how to properly close the project when it is over.

Satisfactorily discussed how to properly close the project when it is over.

Thoroughly discussed how to properly close the project when it is over.

5. References

Weight: 10%

References were not provided or the references were not of a quality nature.

Less than 3 quality references were provided.

3 quality references were provided.

More than 3 quality references were provided.

6. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting

Weight: 10%

More than 8 errors present.

7-8 errors present.

3-4 errors present.

0-2 errors present.