Project Charter, Plan, and Time

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Assignment – Project Charter, Plan and Timeline – (Gantt chart) – MS Project document and Word Document

Each student will facilitate project management by developing a project charter and project plan/Gantt chart for selecting and implementing a patient falls monitoring system for your hospital. The plan should be thorough and detailed to ensure efficient work sequencing and appropriate outcomes.

Develop a project charter that includes the following content and is formatted in a professional manner using MS Word:

a. Project Name, Executive Sponsor(s), Department Sponsor; Impact of the project

b. Project Team: Project Manager, team members and role/department

c. Stakeholders (e.g., those with a significant interest in or who will be significantly affected by the project)

d. Project Scope Statement: Project Purpose/Business justification. Describe the business need this project addresses

e. Project objectives: In business terms, describe the measurable outcomes of the project (e.g., reduce cost by xxx or increase quality to xxx)

f. Project deliverables: List the high-level “products� to be created (e.g., improved xxx process, employee manual on xxx).

Develop a realistic project plan using actual tasks and estimated due dates. This should be presented in the form of a Gantt chart. You may use MS Project, Excel and/or Word.

a. Estimate time units, resources, task dependencies and milestones.

b. Calculate the duration of the entire project.

c. Develop a timeline for the overall project with key milestones and dates. Imbed the timeline within a PowerPoint slide for future presentations.