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RNM1 — RNM1 TASK 1: MANAGING A PROJECT
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS II: PROCESS, LOGISTICS, AND OPERATIONS — D079
PRFA — RNM1
COMPETENCIES
3079.1.1
:
Project Management
The graduate explains how project management concepts can help an organization achieve its goals.
INTRODUCTION
Today’s business environment requires competency in project management. In this assessment, you willexplain how project management concepts can help an organization achieve its goals. You will take on therole of a market owner who goes through all five phases of project management (i.e., initiation, planning,execution, control, and closure) to launch a new catering service. As you complete the assessment, thinkabout past projects you have initiated, planned, executed, controlled, and closed. Your experience in planningpast projects can help you recognize possible risks and functions that will need to be managed in thisperformance assessment.
SCENARIO
You are the owner of a local organic food market in an urban area at the crossroads of four farmingcommunities that supply fresh, organic foods. As the owner of the market, you are interested in growing thebusiness.
Customers in the area have been asking local vendors for more organic and locally sourced fresh foodoptions. You decide to create a catering service for clients within 25 miles of the market to celebrate themarket’s 10-year anniversary. You plan to start this catering business in 30 days to address the increasingmarket need for organic, fresh catering. Catering orders will be prepared and packaged at the organic foodmarket and then driven to the customer’s location. Lunch orders will be delivered within 60 minutes ofreceiving the order. Special event catering orders will require one week to fulfill the order. The cateringcompany has one van that will be used exclusively for catering services.
You have identified the following goals for this catering business:
• The catering business will need to be able to sell the same quality, organic foods that are sold in-storeand supplied daily.
• The catering customers can be no farther than 25 miles from the store so that food can be deliveredwithin an hour.
• The catering business should be profitable within one year.
• The cost of developing the catering business should not negatively impact the in-store retailoperations budget, staffing, events, and farmer partnerships.
TASK OVERVIEW
SUBMISSIONS
EVALUATION REPORT
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You plan to launch the catering business by providing a free catered lunch to the first 10 businesses thatsubscribe to the weekly lunch catering services. The catered lunch for each business will be for up to 30people and will be held at a local conference center ballroom at noon on a day of the customer’s choosing.The budget for this launch of 10 catered lunches is $7,000.
Two weeks before the launch, you are working with catering staff to calculate the costs of the launch to date,review tasks that need to be completed, and assess the overall impact of catering on in-store retailoperations. You learn that the costs associated with the launch of the free catered lunches have alreadyexceeded $7,700. Additionally, a local farmer that provides the fresh lettuce for lunch salads notifies you thatthe lettuce will not be available in time for the catered lunch. No other local farmers have lettuce availablefor purchase, and the only option is to use nonorganic lettuce in order to keep the menu as communicated tothe 10 businesses subscribing to the weekly lunch catering services.
A financial company representative wants to inquire about possibly financing your company for this project.The representative sends a request for information to you as listed in the requirements for this task.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and nomore than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased fromsources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be usedas a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria thatwill be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubricaspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Tasks may
not
be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unlessspecified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submittedas attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).
A. Discuss how you would plan the catered lunch project by completing
each
of the following 5 distinctproject management phases:
1. Project initiation
a. Describe the project and the need for the project. Include information from the provided scenariofor support.
b. Identify
three
relevant stakeholders and discuss how the project impacts
each
stakeholder.
c. Discuss whether the project is feasible by addressing
each
of the three triple constraintcomponents: scope, cost, and timeline.
2. Project planning
a. List
three
milestones for the project plan and provide a timeline for
each
milestone.
b. Write a SMART goal for the project.
c. Identify
two
different potential risks to this project’s success and describe how
each
risk could bemanaged.
3. Project execution
a. Discuss a way to address being over budget by 10 percent. Include information from the providedscenario for support.
b. Discuss a way to address a scheduling conflict that could affect the timeline of the project. Includeinformation from the provided scenario for support.
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4. Project monitoring and control
a. Discuss how scheduling conflicts and budget constraints could affect the scope of the project.Include information from the provided scenario for support.
5. Project closure
a. Discuss
two
ways to change how the project was planned, considering the timeline and budgetconflicts that were encountered.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, orsummarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg,wmv, m4v, svg, tif, tiff, jpeg, jpg, gif, png, zip, rar, tar, 7z
RUBRIC
A1A
:
PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND NEED
A1B
:
STAKEHOLDERS
A1C
:
PROJECT FEASIBILITY
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not de-scribe the project and the needfor the project.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission describes theproject but the need for the pro-ject is not described, or the sub-mission does not integrate in-formation from the providedscenario for support.
COMPETENT
The submission describes theproject and the need for the pro-ject and integrates informationfrom the provided scenario forsupport.
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does notidentify 3 stakeholders and dis-cuss how the project impactseach stakeholder.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission does notidentify 3 stakeholders relevantto the project. Or the submis-sion does not clearly discusshow the project impacts
each
identified stakeholder.
COMPETENT
The submission identifies 3stakeholders relevant to the pro-ject and clearly discusses howthe project impacts
each
identi-fied stakeholder.
NOT EVIDENT
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
COMPETENT
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A2A
:
MILESTONES AND TIMELINES
A2B
:
SMART GOAL
A2C
:
RISKS
A3A
:
BUDGET
The submission does not discussthe project’s feasibility by ad-dressing
any
of the 3 triple con-straint components.
The submission discusses theproject’s feasibility, but the dis-cussion does not address 1 ormore triple constraint compon-ents, or the discussion is incon-sistent with the scenario.
The submission discusses theproject’s feasibility by addressing
each
of the 3 triple constraintcomponents, and the discussionis consistent with the scenario.
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not list 3milestones or provide
any
timelines
.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission lists 3 mile-stones but is missing a timelinefor 1 or more milestones. Or
any
provided component is notplausible for the project.
COMPETENT
The submission lists 3 milestonesand a timeline for
each
mile-stone, and
all
provided compon-ents are plausible for the project.
NOT EVIDENT
A goal for the project is notprovided.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The goal for the project does notinclude
all
5 SMART aspects (i.e.,specific, measurable, achievable,realistic, and time-bound).
COMPETENT
The goal for the project includes
all
5 SMART aspects (i.e., specific,measurable, achievable, realistic,and time-bound).
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does notidentify
any
potential risks ordescribe how risks could bemanaged.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission identifies only 1potential risk, or it identifies 2potential risks that are not dif-ferent. Or 1 or both risks are notplausible or relevant to the pro-ject. Or the description of how
each
identified risk could bemanaged is missing or notplausible.
COMPETENT
The submission identifies 2 dif-ferent potential risks and de-scribes how
each
risk could bemanaged. The identified risks areplausible and relevant to theproject.
NOT EVIDENT
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
COMPETENT
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A3B
:
SCHEDULING
A4A
:
SCHEDULING CONFLICTS AND BUDGET CONSTRAINTS
A5A
:
CHANGES TO PROJECT PLAN
B
:
SOURCES
The submission does not discussa way to address the projectbudget being over by 10percent.
The submission discusses a wayto address the project budgetbeing over by 10 percent, but itis not plausible, or it does notintegrate information from theprovided scenario for support.
The submission discusses a wayto address the project budget be-ing over by 10 percent, it is plaus-ible, and it integrates informationfrom the provided scenario forsupport.
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not discussa way to address a schedulingconflict for the project.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission discusses a wayto address a scheduling conflictfor the project, but the discus-sion is not plausible, or it doesnot integrate information fromthe provided scenario forsupport.
COMPETENT
The submission discusses a wayto address a scheduling conflictfor the project. The discussion isplausible, and it integrates in-formation from the providedscenario for support.
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not discusshow scheduling conflicts orbudget constraints could affectthe scope of the project.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission is missing dis-cussion of scheduling conflictsor budget constraints that couldaffect the scope of the project,or it is not plausible, or it doesnot integrate information fromthe provided scenario forsupport.
COMPETENT
The submission discusses howscheduling conflicts and budgetconstraints could affect thescope of the project. The discus-sion is plausible, and it integratesinformation from the providedscenario for support.
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not discuss2 ways to change how the pro-ject was planned.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission discusses 2ways to change how the projectwas planned, but the discussiondoes not address the timeline orbudget conflicts encountered, orthe discussed changes are notplausible.
COMPETENT
The submission discusses 2 waysto change how the project wasplanned, and the discussion ad-dresses the timeline and budgetconflicts encountered. The dis-cussed changes are plausible.
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C
:
PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not includeboth in-text citations and a ref-erence list for sources that arequoted, paraphrased, orsummarized.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
The submission includes in-textcitations for sources that arequoted, paraphrased, or sum-marized and a reference list;however, the citations or refer-ence list is incomplete
or
inaccurate.
COMPETENT
The submission includes in-textcitations for sources that areproperly quoted, paraphrased, orsummarized and a reference listthat accurately identifies the au-thor, date, title, and source loca-tion as available.
NOT EVIDENT
Content is unstructured, is dis-jointed, or contains pervasiveerrors in mechanics, usage, orgrammar. Vocabulary or tone isunprofessional or distracts fromthe topic.
APPROACHINGCOMPETENCE
Content is poorly organized, isdifficult to follow, or containserrors in mechanics, usage, orgrammar that cause confusion.Terminology is misused orineffective.
COMPETENT
Content reflects attention to de-tail, is organized, and focuses onthe main ideas as prescribed inthe task or chosen by the candid-ate. Terminology is pertinent, isused correctly, and effectivelyconveys the intended meaning.Mechanics, usage, and grammarpromote accurate interpretationand understanding.
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