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The following topics are covered in this
Demonstrate module on Introductory Site Development. At the
end of the module, the student should have a firm grasp of each of
these topics.
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Developing a SOW for ACME Books
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Developing a Set of Tasks and a Baseline Schedule
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Organizing the Team Effort with Microsoft TeamManager
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Utilizing Microsoft Project to Control the Tasks and Schedule
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- Developing a SOW for
ACME Books
- The Statement of Work (SOW) provides a starting point for any project. A
general SOW can be developed through interviews with a perspective client.
This can then be highly specialized as the needs of the client and the
technologies available to meet these needs are further defined.
For example, a preliminary SOW, shown in Figure
0.2.2, can be developed from the initial description of needs provided for
ACME Books, which is shown in Figure 0.2.1. This SOW should be
expanded in throughout the modules as more is learned about the technology
available to meet needs.
- Developing a
Set of Tasks and a Baseline
Schedule
- Now that you have a preliminary SOW, a team should
be established who will meet the needs identified in the statement. Part of
the baseline schedule is developing the team and the overhead associated
with getting organized. By utilizing team management tools such as Microsoft
Project and TeamManager, a team's efforts can be more efficiently
coordinated.
To establish a schedule, a team should split the
SOW into tasks which may need to be broken down further. At this point, the
SOW may need to be expanded to meet more customer needs. For example, the
above SOW states that ACME will have some sort of online, internet-ready
format. The team would identify this task and decide upon the best
technology and resources needed to approach it.
An example set of baseline tasks and schedules is
shown in Figure 0.2.3. This information will then be tracked through
TeamManager and Project, as demonstrated below.
- Organizing the Team
Effort with Microsoft
TeamManager
- TeamManager can be used to organize team dynamics such as people
tracking and task allocation. After a team leader has been chosen,
TeamManager will need to be initialized and team information entered.
A tutorial is supplied with TeamManager for this
purpose. To access the tutorial, select Help -> Quick Tutorials
from the menu. For practice with TeamManager, you may wish to use the sample
data shown here. (This file, sample.mtp, is shipped with TeamManager and is
also available for download in the
required
files section of this site.) Figure 0.2.4 demonstrates the Profile
Information which is kept for each team member. By clicking on the Add
People button, additional team members may be entered into the overall
team profile.
Once the team has been established, tasks should be entered. By choosing
the Tasks tab on the left-hand side of the open TeamManager window,
the view shown in Figure 0.2.5 will appear. To add a new tasks, select
Insert -> Tasks from the menu.
- Utilize Microsoft
Project to Control the
Tasks and Schedule
- Once you have established tasks in TeamManager, you will want to use
these generalized tasks as a starting point for separate projects. If a task
is very large and can be easily broken down into many separate smaller
tasks, it should be assigned its own project to make it more manageable. For
example, if the task from the SOW was to create an intranet, this would need
to be a new project in MS Project.
To create a new project from within Microsoft Project, select File ->
New from the menu. Once you have created a project, you may enter tasks
and allocate resources. These tasks can be viewed in a calendar format
similar to Figure 0.2.6, or in the form of a Gantt Chart or PERT chart.
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The following topics have been covered in
this Demonstrate module on Introductory Site Development.
At the end of the module, the student should now have a firm grasp
of each of these topics.
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Developing a SOW for ACME Books
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Developing a Set of Tasks and a Baseline Schedule
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Organizing the Team Effort with Microsoft TeamManager
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Utilizing Microsoft Project to Control the Tasks and Schedule
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