Submit your answers to the following problems through Canvas as a PDF document by the due date. Also submit any supporting documents such as Excel spreadsheets.
1. Research the following: Project Management Institute (PMI), Association for Project Management (APM), and Projects in Controlled Environments (PRINCE2) and answer the following questions. Remember to cite the references that you use to answer this question. a. What are these? b. How do they differ? c. What sorts certifications do they provide and how can these certifications be useful to a professional? 2. For this question, you'll develop PERT and Gantt charts for a hypothetical project. You can draw the PERT chart using any basic drawing tool, including MS Word. Develop the Gantt chart using Excel as described in the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oD50HSBBBI: How to make a Gantt Chart in Microsoft Excel. You'll use a dice rolling site (http://www.roll-dice-online.com/) in order to select the exact parameters of your project problem and fill in the table below. Task Number Task Duration Dependencies 1 None 2 1 3 1 4 2 5 3 6 5 7 4 8 4 9 6 10 7, 8 11 8, 9 12 10, 11 To fill in the table, use the dice rolling table as follows: For each of the tasks, roll 12 three-sided dice and take the sum as the duration for that task. Once you have fill in the above table, do the following a. Draw the PERT chart for the tasks, using the durations you have created and the dependencies provided in the table above. Identify the critical path. b. Using the date of Monday of the current week, identify the start and end dates for each of the tasks using the duration information and assuming the task 1 begins on the date of Monday of the current week. Put this information in an Excel spreadsheet using the format in the video. c. Using the procedure in the video, develop a Gannt chart for your project. 3. Do research to identify a large IT project that failed and provide the following requested below. Cite the references that you use for your answer a. Briefly describe what the project including who was involved, when the project took place, and what the goal was. b. What was the duration of the project? c. If possible, find this information or estimates of this information, what was the manpower commitment to the project and the project cost? d. What reasons are given for the project's failure and how would you categorize them? (For example, technological (project too ambitious for existing technology), process (referring the processes used to develop the project: SDLC, Agile, etc.), financial, other)
