Case Study: Harbor Printing Database Project

Project Overview
In this project you will essentially go through the stages of project management and knowledge areas (i.e. the project scope, project time, project cost, project resources, project communications, project risk, project procurement, and project stakeholder) for a case study given to you. You will be using the MS Project 2010 management system for the project. Your project grade will be based on your analysis and quality of final report.

Case Study:Harbor Printing Database Project

Harbor Printing,impressed with your DBMS knowledge and skills, has decided to hire you as a project manager to direct this project.They want you to design and build a database system to keep track of the information about their printing products.

You met with their CEO and here are your interview notes:

Harbor Printing is a specialty printing company. We print the foil lids for yogurt, jams, and other food products. Our industry has many regulations and standards that require diligence and care in the type of ink, handling, and packaging of the food products. Harbor Printing prints the food package and then ships the product to the food manufacturer. We do not package the food.

WeWWeweWe want to create a project to establish a database of customer’s electronic artwork, previous print jobs, and statistics on each print job they ran. The goal of the database project is to allow the company to electronically retrieve a customer’s artwork to make revisions, offer new prices, and to electronically archive the artwork for future business. The project deliverable should allow Harbor Printing to offer faster turnaround times on orders. Llate

Jan Elbert, a program manager, worked with the project stakeholders to determine the project objectives and then prioritize the project requirements.You later met her and she told you that the project was scheduled to finish in 3 months and had a budget of $100,000. You also learned from the sales manager, Tom Whitson that he wanted the database to provide more sales automation for repeat customers while Gary Yung, the manager of prepress wanted his designers to be able to retrieve artwork for fast development.

Harbor Printing management would not allow the project to launch until the project integration management plan developed. This requires you to present this plan extensively to the project stakeholders.

As the project manager to direct this project, you need prepare a detail report, as outlined below, and submit for grading. (Your submission should include an electronic copy all files from MS Project and a Word document for your final report).

Final Integrated Project Outline

1. Cover page
2. Table of contents
3. Executive Summary (1/2 page)
4. Introduction (2nd Ed. pages 66-68) or (3rd Ed. page 67-69)
5. Project charter
6. Project scope
7. Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (2nd Ed. pages162-163) or (3rd Ed. page 172-173)
8. Project time including Gantt and network diagrams (2nd Ed. pages 318-320) or (3rd Ed. page 344-346)
9. Project costs (2nd Ed. pages 256-257)or (3rd Ed. page 275-276)
10. Project quality
11. Project procurement (if you need)
12. Project human resources requirement (2nd Ed. page 378) (3rd Ed. page 408)
13. Project communications including outline for monthly progress reports
14. Project risks(2nd Ed. pages 224-225) or (3rd Ed. page 240-241)
15. Project stakeholder management
16. Conclusion
17. References (the text book plus minimum3references)

Good Luck!