Prerequisites — Classes or Knowledge Required for this Course Successful completion of Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices Coursera Specialization courses: Initiating and Planning Projects, Budgeting and Scheduling Projects, and Managing Project Risks and Changes. Course Objectives Upon completing this series, you should be able to: • Write a narrative charter statement • Create a work breakdown structure • Sequence project activities • Build a project schedule • Create a project budget • Create a responsibility assignment matrix • Identify project risks and define responses for those risks *>Sample Projects for Use If a student does not have access to a viable project to use for this capstone, then any one of the ideas below may be used. Please note that students are meant to take these ideas and build upon them. Each student is to take the idea and come up with his or her own full project scope and boundaries. 1) A new CEO has arrived. She believes that the current company structure is ineffective. You are to be the project manager who leads her executive team in a company-wide reorganization. This reorganization includes some work to determine how the new structure will be identified, the work to gain support for this new structure at the executive level, the communications about the new structure to the entire company and a transition plan to take the company from the current structure to the new one. 2) Your company is celebrating 50 years in business. The executive team would like to take an opportunity to recognize this milestone. Their purpose is to reward employees, build morale and also let customers; future customers and competitors know about the longevity of the company and adopt a ‘we are here to stay’ type of campaign. This milestone is definitely a marketing event. The celebration should include customers and employees. Definitely there should be a big celebration, but the executive team wants more than that. They want events and announcements and campaigns going throughout the entire year. You will project manage this effort. 3) You have joined a start up company whose goal is to create an iPhone knockoff or copy. The idea is to out ‘iPhone’ the iPhone, but at 50% of the cost to the customer. You are the project manager of the team who will identify what features will go into this iPhone copy, determine how to manufacture the phones for less than the real iPhone and determine how to market this new copy. The project ends once the idea has either been abandoned or the new copy phone has been available for sale for 45 days.............. #1 Narrative Charter Statement (13 Points) Description and Directions Develop a narrative charter that includes the following sections: a. Project purpose or justification – A good project purpose or justification statement explains why this project is important and why resources should be spent on this project. What critical problem will this project solve or what will b.

1. Prerequisites — Classes or Knowledge Required for this Course
Successful completion of Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices Coursera
Specialization courses: Initiating and Planning Projects, Budgeting and Scheduling Projects, and
Managing Project Risks and Changes.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this series, you should be able to:
• Write a narrative charter statement
• Create a work breakdown structure
• Sequence project activities
• Build a project schedule
• Create a project budget
• Create a responsibility assignment matrix
• Identify project risks and define responses for those risks

2. *>Sample Projects for Use
If a student does not have access to a viable project to use for this capstone, then any one of the
ideas below may be used. Please note that students are meant to take these ideas and build upon
them. Each student is to take the idea and come up with his or her own full project scope and
boundaries.
1) A new CEO has arrived. She believes that the current company structure is ineffective. You
are to be the project manager who leads her executive team in a company-wide reorganization.
This reorganization includes some work to determine how the new structure will be identified,
the work to gain support for this new structure at the executive level, the communications about
the new structure to the entire company and a transition plan to take the company from the
current structure to the new one.
2) Your company is celebrating 50 years in business. The executive team would like to take an
opportunity to recognize this milestone. Their purpose is to reward employees, build morale and
also let customers; future customers and competitors know about the longevity of the company
and adopt a ‘we are here to stay’ type of campaign. This milestone is definitely a marketing
event. The celebration should include customers and employees. Definitely there should be a big
celebration, but the executive team wants more than that. They want events and announcements
and campaigns going throughout the entire year. You will project manage this effort.
3) You have joined a start up company whose goal is to create an iPhone knockoff or copy. The
idea is to out ‘iPhone’ the iPhone, but at 50% of the cost to the customer. You are the project
manager of the team who will identify what features will go into this iPhone copy, determine
how to manufacture the phones for less than the real iPhone and determine how to market this
new copy. The project ends once the idea has either been abandoned or the new copy phone has
been available for sale for 45 days..............
#1 Narrative Charter Statement (13 Points)

3. Description and Directions
Develop a narrative charter that includes the following sections:
a. Project purpose or justification – A good project purpose or justification statement explains
why this project is important and why resources should be spent on this project. What critical
problem will this project solve or what will be different when this project is completed and why
is that important?
b. Measurable project objectives and related success criteria – What will the project accomplish.
Be as clear as possible and include qualitative and quantitative information. List the objectives
(have a minimum of three) and how that objective will be
measured................................................................
#2 Work Breakdown Structure (10 Points)
Description and Directions
Create a work breakdown structure that includes all of your project scope. You may use either
the graphical depiction or the indented list approach.
The top level or level one is your completed project, the second level is your deliverable, and
after that you will break down the work to the appropriate level. If you prefer to create a phase
based work breakdown structure that is acceptable. You will want to ensure that each phase
depicts the work that must be completed in order for that phase to be declared finished. It would
be unusual for your work breakdown structure to have sufficient detail if it has less than 3
deliverables or phases.

4. Your work breakdown structure does not need to be symmetrical. What does that mean? It means
that each deliverable might be broken down into different numbers of levels. Perhaps a
deliverable that is fairly straightforward can be handled in three or four levels. A deliverable that
is more complex may take ten levels. Remember you are seeking to break the work down into
manageable pieces or work packages. You want each work package to represent work that can be
clearly assigned and estimated.
If you are uncertain as to how to complete the Work Breakdown Structure, either review your
optional textbooks, Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, The Fast Forward
MBA in Project Management, your previous course materials and feel free to reach out to your
classmates using one of the discussion forums created just for this purpose
...................................................................
#3 Sequence Project Activities ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions
Take at least 10 activities from your work breakdown structure and determine their sequence.
What happens first, what happens next? You can accomplish this by creating a network diagram
if you like. That diagram does not have to show any time estimates YET; you will do that when
you create your schedule. If you are ready to included estimates that is absolutely acceptable. If
you opt to create a diagram, your diagram will show the WBS ID, The name of the activity and
will be a flowchart of the work.
You may opt to create a list to reflect the sequence of your activities. If you create a list, your list
must contain at least this information:
Again, estimates are not required at this point, but you may certain add them if you are ready to
do so.

5. .................................
#4 Build a Project Schedule (5 Points)
Description and Directions
If you have access to scheduling software, then of course use scheduling software. If you do not,
it is OK. This is not a class on scheduling software. You can use excel or some other means to
depict your project schedule. Here is what you must include:
Your schedule must show the project start and end dates.
Your schedule must show all of the high level deliverables from your WBS.
For the work packages that you included in your WBS you must show:
Task Name
Predecessor (when applicable)
Duration
Start
Finish
Resources
...........................................................
#5 Create a Project Budget ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions
Create a project budget which shows how much will be spent by time period and by category.

6. Examples of categories include: labor, materials, travel, training, overhead. Use the categories
that make sense for your specific project. If you are using a project from your work and certain
categories are typically used within your organization or your industry, use those categories. Be
sure to include totals by time period and for the entire project. This may best be displayed in a
table of spreadsheet. Also include some brief discussion about your budget. How did you arrive
at your numbers, what type of estimating did you use, if you were presenting this budget to your
executive management, what would you want to tell them about your budget?
...................
#5 Create a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (3 Points)
Description and Directions
Identify the responsible person and organization for at least six work packages or activities from
your project and create a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM). You do not have to provide
the actual names of some of your coworkers if this is a work related project. Nor do you have to
provide the actual names of family or friends if this is a personal project. You may use the RACI
format per the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and
discussed throughout the specialization or design your own designations. If you come up with
your own designation then include a legend that describes what each letter used represents.
................................
#7 Identify Project Risks with Responses to those Risks ( 7 Points)
Descriptions and Directions
For a minimum of 7 project risks:
Describe the risk using if this, then that language. For example: If it rains for more than 5% of
the days designated as days when the construction crew will work outdoors, then construction
activities will fall behind schedule at a rate of one day for every day of rain.

7. Describe the mitigation, what will you do to make the risk less likely and less impactful.
Describe the contingency, what will you do if the risk occurs?
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high impact.
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high possibility of
occurring.
Select and use a method to rate the overall priority of the risk.
Remember that a risk can either be a threat or an opportunity.
Prerequisites — Classes or Knowledge Required for this Course
Successful completion of Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices Coursera
Specialization courses: Initiating and Planning Projects, Budgeting and Scheduling Projects, and
Managing Project Risks and Changes.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this series, you should be able to:
• Write a narrative charter statement
• Create a work breakdown structure
• Sequence project activities
• Build a project schedule

8. • Create a project budget
• Create a responsibility assignment matrix
• Identify project risks and define responses for those risks
*>Sample Projects for Use
If a student does not have access to a viable project to use for this capstone, then any one of the
ideas below may be used. Please note that students are meant to take these ideas and build upon
them. Each student is to take the idea and come up with his or her own full project scope and
boundaries.
1) A new CEO has arrived. She believes that the current company structure is ineffective. You
are to be the project manager who leads her executive team in a company-wide reorganization.
This reorganization includes some work to determine how the new structure will be identified,
the work to gain support for this new structure at the executive level, the communications about
the new structure to the entire company and a transition plan to take the company from the
current structure to the new one.
2) Your company is celebrating 50 years in business. The executive team would like to take an
opportunity to recognize this milestone. Their purpose is to reward employees, build morale and
also let customers; future customers and competitors know about the longevity of the company
and adopt a ‘we are here to stay’ type of campaign. This milestone is definitely a marketing
event. The celebration should include customers and employees. Definitely there should be a big
celebration, but the executive team wants more than that. They want events and announcements
and campaigns going throughout the entire year. You will project manage this effort.

9. 3) You have joined a start up company whose goal is to create an iPhone knockoff or copy. The
idea is to out ‘iPhone’ the iPhone, but at 50% of the cost to the customer. You are the project
manager of the team who will identify what features will go into this iPhone copy, determine
how to manufacture the phones for less than the real iPhone and determine how to market this
new copy. The project ends once the idea has either been abandoned or the new copy phone has
been available for sale for 45 days..............
#1 Narrative Charter Statement (13 Points)
Description and Directions
Develop a narrative charter that includes the following sections:
a. Project purpose or justification – A good project purpose or justification statement explains
why this project is important and why resources should be spent on this project. What critical
problem will this project solve or what will be different when this project is completed and why
is that important?
b. Measurable project objectives and related success criteria – What will the project accomplish.
Be as clear as possible and include qualitative and quantitative information. List the objectives
(have a minimum of three) and how that objective will be
measured................................................................
#2 Work Breakdown Structure (10 Points)
Description and Directions
Create a work breakdown structure that includes all of your project scope. You may use either
the graphical depiction or the indented list approach.
The top level or level one is your completed project, the second level is your deliverable, and

10. after that you will break down the work to the appropriate level. If you prefer to create a phase
based work breakdown structure that is acceptable. You will want to ensure that each phase
depicts the work that must be completed in order for that phase to be declared finished. It would
be unusual for your work breakdown structure to have sufficient detail if it has less than 3
deliverables or phases.
Your work breakdown structure does not need to be symmetrical. What does that mean? It means
that each deliverable might be broken down into different numbers of levels. Perhaps a
deliverable that is fairly straightforward can be handled in three or four levels. A deliverable that
is more complex may take ten levels. Remember you are seeking to break the work down into
manageable pieces or work packages. You want each work package to represent work that can be
clearly assigned and estimated.
If you are uncertain as to how to complete the Work Breakdown Structure, either review your
optional textbooks, Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, The Fast Forward
MBA in Project Management, your previous course materials and feel free to reach out to your
classmates using one of the discussion forums created just for this purpose
...................................................................
#3 Sequence Project Activities ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions
Take at least 10 activities from your work breakdown structure and determine their sequence.
What happens first, what happens next? You can accomplish this by creating a network diagram
if you like. That diagram does not have to show any time estimates YET; you will do that when
you create your schedule. If you are ready to included estimates that is absolutely acceptable. If
you opt to create a diagram, your diagram will show the WBS ID, The name of the activity and
will be a flowchart of the work.
You may opt to create a list to reflect the sequence of your activities. If you create a list, your list
must contain at least this information:

11. Again, estimates are not required at this point, but you may certain add them if you are ready to
do so.
.................................
#4 Build a Project Schedule (5 Points)
Description and Directions
If you have access to scheduling software, then of course use scheduling software. If you do not,
it is OK. This is not a class on scheduling software. You can use excel or some other means to
depict your project schedule. Here is what you must include:
Your schedule must show the project start and end dates.
Your schedule must show all of the high level deliverables from your WBS.
For the work packages that you included in your WBS you must show:
Task Name
Predecessor (when applicable)
Duration
Start
Finish
Resources
...........................................................

12. #5 Create a Project Budget ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions
Create a project budget which shows how much will be spent by time period and by category.
Examples of categories include: labor, materials, travel, training, overhead. Use the categories
that make sense for your specific project. If you are using a project from your work and certain
categories are typically used within your organization or your industry, use those categories. Be
sure to include totals by time period and for the entire project. This may best be displayed in a
table of spreadsheet. Also include some brief discussion about your budget. How did you arrive
at your numbers, what type of estimating did you use, if you were presenting this budget to your
executive management, what would you want to tell them about your budget?
...................
#5 Create a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (3 Points)
Description and Directions
Identify the responsible person and organization for at least six work packages or activities from
your project and create a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM). You do not have to provide
the actual names of some of your coworkers if this is a work related project. Nor do you have to
provide the actual names of family or friends if this is a personal project. You may use the RACI
format per the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and
discussed throughout the specialization or design your own designations. If you come up with
your own designation then include a legend that describes what each letter used represents.
................................
#7 Identify Project Risks with Responses to those Risks ( 7 Points)
Descriptions and Directions

13. For a minimum of 7 project risks:
Describe the risk using if this, then that language. For example: If it rains for more than 5% of
the days designated as days when the construction crew will work outdoors, then construction
activities will fall behind schedule at a rate of one day for every day of rain.
Describe the mitigation, what will you do to make the risk less likely and less impactful.
Describe the contingency, what will you do if the risk occurs?
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high impact.
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high possibility of
occurring.
Select and use a method to rate the overall priority of the risk.
Remember that a risk can either be a threat or an opportunity.
Prerequisites — Classes or Knowledge Required for this Course
Successful completion of Introduction to Project Management Principles and Practices Coursera
Specialization courses: Initiating and Planning Projects, Budgeting and Scheduling Projects, and
Managing Project Risks and Changes.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this series, you should be able to:
• Write a narrative charter statement
• Create a work breakdown structure

14. • Sequence project activities
• Build a project schedule
• Create a project budget
• Create a responsibility assignment matrix
• Identify project risks and define responses for those risks
*>Sample Projects for Use
If a student does not have access to a viable project to use for this capstone, then any one of the
ideas below may be used. Please note that students are meant to take these ideas and build upon
them. Each student is to take the idea and come up with his or her own full project scope and
boundaries.
1) A new CEO has arrived. She believes that the current company structure is ineffective. You
are to be the project manager who leads her executive team in a company-wide reorganization.
This reorganization includes some work to determine how the new structure will be identified,
the work to gain support for this new structure at the executive level, the communications about
the new structure to the entire company and a transition plan to take the company from the
current structure to the new one.
2) Your company is celebrating 50 years in business. The executive team would like to take an
opportunity to recognize this milestone. Their purpose is to reward employees, build morale and
also let customers; future customers and competitors know about the longevity of the company

15. and adopt a ‘we are here to stay’ type of campaign. This milestone is definitely a marketing
event. The celebration should include customers and employees. Definitely there should be a big
celebration, but the executive team wants more than that. They want events and announcements
and campaigns going throughout the entire year. You will project manage this effort.
3) You have joined a start up company whose goal is to create an iPhone knockoff or copy. The
idea is to out ‘iPhone’ the iPhone, but at 50% of the cost to the customer. You are the project
manager of the team who will identify what features will go into this iPhone copy, determine
how to manufacture the phones for less than the real iPhone and determine how to market this
new copy. The project ends once the idea has either been abandoned or the new copy phone has
been available for sale for 45 days..............
#1 Narrative Charter Statement (13 Points)
Description and Directions
Develop a narrative charter that includes the following sections:
a. Project purpose or justification – A good project purpose or justification statement explains
why this project is important and why resources should be spent on this project. What critical
problem will this project solve or what will be different when this project is completed and why
is that important?
b. Measurable project objectives and related success criteria – What will the project accomplish.
Be as clear as possible and include qualitative and quantitative information. List the objectives
(have a minimum of three) and how that objective will be
measured................................................................
#2 Work Breakdown Structure (10 Points)
Description and Directions

16. Create a work breakdown structure that includes all of your project scope. You may use either
the graphical depiction or the indented list approach.
The top level or level one is your completed project, the second level is your deliverable, and
after that you will break down the work to the appropriate level. If you prefer to create a phase
based work breakdown structure that is acceptable. You will want to ensure that each phase
depicts the work that must be completed in order for that phase to be declared finished. It would
be unusual for your work breakdown structure to have sufficient detail if it has less than 3
deliverables or phases.
Your work breakdown structure does not need to be symmetrical. What does that mean? It means
that each deliverable might be broken down into different numbers of levels. Perhaps a
deliverable that is fairly straightforward can be handled in three or four levels. A deliverable that
is more complex may take ten levels. Remember you are seeking to break the work down into
manageable pieces or work packages. You want each work package to represent work that can be
clearly assigned and estimated.
If you are uncertain as to how to complete the Work Breakdown Structure, either review your
optional textbooks, Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, The Fast Forward
MBA in Project Management, your previous course materials and feel free to reach out to your
classmates using one of the discussion forums created just for this purpose
...................................................................
#3 Sequence Project Activities ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions
Take at least 10 activities from your work breakdown structure and determine their sequence.
What happens first, what happens next? You can accomplish this by creating a network diagram
if you like. That diagram does not have to show any time estimates YET; you will do that when
you create your schedule. If you are ready to included estimates that is absolutely acceptable. If

17. you opt to create a diagram, your diagram will show the WBS ID, The name of the activity and
will be a flowchart of the work.
You may opt to create a list to reflect the sequence of your activities. If you create a list, your list
must contain at least this information:
Again, estimates are not required at this point, but you may certain add them if you are ready to
do so.
.................................
#4 Build a Project Schedule (5 Points)
Description and Directions
If you have access to scheduling software, then of course use scheduling software. If you do not,
it is OK. This is not a class on scheduling software. You can use excel or some other means to
depict your project schedule. Here is what you must include:
Your schedule must show the project start and end dates.
Your schedule must show all of the high level deliverables from your WBS.
For the work packages that you included in your WBS you must show:
Task Name
Predecessor (when applicable)
Duration

18. Start
Finish
Resources
...........................................................
#5 Create a Project Budget ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions
Create a project budget which shows how much will be spent by time period and by category.
Examples of categories include: labor, materials, travel, training, overhead. Use the categories
that make sense for your specific project. If you are using a project from your work and certain
categories are typically used within your organization or your industry, use those categories. Be
sure to include totals by time period and for the entire project. This may best be displayed in a
table of spreadsheet. Also include some brief discussion about your budget. How did you arrive
at your numbers, what type of estimating did you use, if you were presenting this budget to your
executive management, what would you want to tell them about your budget?
...................
#5 Create a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (3 Points)
Description and Directions
Identify the responsible person and organization for at least six work packages or activities from
your project and create a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM). You do not have to provide
the actual names of some of your coworkers if this is a work related project. Nor do you have to
provide the actual names of family or friends if this is a personal project. You may use the RACI
format per the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and
discussed throughout the specialization or design your own designations. If you come up with
your own designation then include a legend that describes what each letter used represents.

19. ................................
#7 Identify Project Risks with Responses to those Risks ( 7 Points)
Descriptions and Directions
For a minimum of 7 project risks:
Describe the risk using if this, then that language. For example: If it rains for more than 5% of
the days designated as days when the construction crew will work outdoors, then construction
activities will fall behind schedule at a rate of one day for every day of rain.
Describe the mitigation, what will you do to make the risk less likely and less impactful.
Describe the contingency, what will you do if the risk occurs?
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high impact.
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high possibility of
occurring.
Select and use a method to rate the overall priority of the risk.
Remember that a risk can either be a threat or an opportunity.
*>Sample Projects for Use
If a student does not have access to a viable project to use for this capstone, then any one of the
ideas below may be used. Please note that students are meant to take these ideas and build upon
them. Each student is to take the idea and come up with his or her own full project scope and
boundaries.
1) A new CEO has arrived. She believes that the current company structure is ineffective. You
are to be the project manager who leads her executive team in a company-wide reorganization.
This reorganization includes some work to determine how the new structure will be identified,
the work to gain support for this new structure at the executive level, the communications about
the new structure to the entire company and a transition plan to take the company from the
current structure to the new one.

20. 2) Your company is celebrating 50 years in business. The executive team would like to take an
opportunity to recognize this milestone. Their purpose is to reward employees, build morale and
also let customers; future customers and competitors know about the longevity of the company
and adopt a ‘we are here to stay’ type of campaign. This milestone is definitely a marketing
event. The celebration should include customers and employees. Definitely there should be a big
celebration, but the executive team wants more than that. They want events and announcements
and campaigns going throughout the entire year. You will project manage this effort.
3) You have joined a start up company whose goal is to create an iPhone knockoff or copy. The
idea is to out ‘iPhone’ the iPhone, but at 50% of the cost to the customer. You are the project
manager of the team who will identify what features will go into this iPhone copy, determine
how to manufacture the phones for less than the real iPhone and determine how to market this
new copy. The project ends once the idea has either been abandoned or the new copy phone has
been available for sale for 45 days..............
#1 Narrative Charter Statement (13 Points)
Description and Directions
Develop a narrative charter that includes the following sections:
a. Project purpose or justification – A good project purpose or justification statement explains
why this project is important and why resources should be spent on this project. What critical
problem will this project solve or what will be different when this project is completed and why
is that important?
b. Measurable project objectives and related success criteria – What will the project accomplish.
Be as clear as possible and include qualitative and quantitative information. List the objectives
(have a minimum of three) and how that objective will be
measured................................................................
#2 Work Breakdown Structure (10 Points)

21. Description and Directions
Create a work breakdown structure that includes all of your project scope. You may use either
the graphical depiction or the indented list approach.
The top level or level one is your completed project, the second level is your deliverable, and
after that you will break down the work to the appropriate level. If you prefer to create a phase
based work breakdown structure that is acceptable. You will want to ensure that each phase
depicts the work that must be completed in order for that phase to be declared finished. It would
be unusual for your work breakdown structure to have sufficient detail if it has less than 3
deliverables or phases.
Your work breakdown structure does not need to be symmetrical. What does that mean? It means
that each deliverable might be broken down into different numbers of levels. Perhaps a
deliverable that is fairly straightforward can be handled in three or four levels. A deliverable that
is more complex may take ten levels. Remember you are seeking to break the work down into
manageable pieces or work packages. You want each work package to represent work that can be
clearly assigned and estimated.
If you are uncertain as to how to complete the Work Breakdown Structure, either review your
optional textbooks, Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, The Fast Forward
MBA in Project Management, your previous course materials and feel free to reach out to your
classmates using one of the discussion forums created just for this purpose
...................................................................
#3 Sequence Project Activities ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions

22. Take at least 10 activities from your work breakdown structure and determine their sequence.
What happens first, what happens next? You can accomplish this by creating a network diagram
if you like. That diagram does not have to show any time estimates YET; you will do that when
you create your schedule. If you are ready to included estimates that is absolutely acceptable. If
you opt to create a diagram, your diagram will show the WBS ID, The name of the activity and
will be a flowchart of the work.
You may opt to create a list to reflect the sequence of your activities. If you create a list, your list
must contain at least this information:
Again, estimates are not required at this point, but you may certain add them if you are ready to
do so.
.................................
#4 Build a Project Schedule (5 Points)
Description and Directions
If you have access to scheduling software, then of course use scheduling software. If you do not,
it is OK. This is not a class on scheduling software. You can use excel or some other means to
depict your project schedule. Here is what you must include:
Your schedule must show the project start and end dates.
Your schedule must show all of the high level deliverables from your WBS.
For the work packages that you included in your WBS you must show:

23. Task Name
Predecessor (when applicable)
Duration
Start
Finish
Resources
...........................................................
#5 Create a Project Budget ( 5 Points)
Description and Directions
Create a project budget which shows how much will be spent by time period and by category.
Examples of categories include: labor, materials, travel, training, overhead. Use the categories
that make sense for your specific project. If you are using a project from your work and certain
categories are typically used within your organization or your industry, use those categories. Be
sure to include totals by time period and for the entire project. This may best be displayed in a
table of spreadsheet. Also include some brief discussion about your budget. How did you arrive
at your numbers, what type of estimating did you use, if you were presenting this budget to your
executive management, what would you want to tell them about your budget?
...................
#5 Create a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (3 Points)
Description and Directions
Identify the responsible person and organization for at least six work packages or activities from
your project and create a responsibility assignment matrix (RAM). You do not have to provide
the actual names of some of your coworkers if this is a work related project. Nor do you have to

24. provide the actual names of family or friends if this is a personal project. You may use the RACI
format per the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and
discussed throughout the specialization or design your own designations. If you come up with
your own designation then include a legend that describes what each letter used represents.
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#7 Identify Project Risks with Responses to those Risks ( 7 Points)
Descriptions and Directions
For a minimum of 7 project risks:
Describe the risk using if this, then that language. For example: If it rains for more than 5% of
the days designated as days when the construction crew will work outdoors, then construction
activities will fall behind schedule at a rate of one day for every day of rain.
Describe the mitigation, what will you do to make the risk less likely and less impactful.
Describe the contingency, what will you do if the risk occurs?
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high impact.
Select and use a method to rate whether or not a risk has a low, medium or high possibility of
occurring.
Select and use a method to rate the overall priority of the risk.
Remember that a risk can either be a threat or an opportunity.
Solution
Project Description:
Our project is to come up with sanitary napkins for women of rural areas for a cheaper affordable
cost and with longer duration.
Narrative Project Statement:
About Kalap:
Product Name: Nari Swastha Napkins
Project Theme:

25. We aspire to establish a low cost sanitary napkin making facility in Kalap. We would make
Kalap the centre for distribution to all areas as resources viability is highest here. The napkins
would be transported to all areas in and around Uttarakhand. The primary reason for this
business is the product is a running product with high shelf.
Differentiation:
The special feature of this napkin is its long duration usability as women are majorly employed
in fields and cannot keep spares in place.
Resource Requirement:
The resources to make sanitary napkin are:
In Kalap wool and pine trees are available in plenty hence its the most feasible place for the
project.
Vision: To introduce the importance of hygiene during periods to women in rural areas.
Mission: Our mission is to make low cost sanitary napkins and bring self sustainability in
sanitary care available to women in rural areas.
Business Goal: We aspire to make Kalap the centre for low cost sanitary napkins for the rural
areas across India.
Objectives:
Importance:
Women in rural areas do not have much education about sanitary napkins they always follow the
traditional method of using old cloth during menstruation which is very unhygienic. Educated
women on the other hand cannot afford the costs of sanitary napkin brands which are too much
even for the middle class consumption. Kalap being the most remote village of India and lowest
population, the reach to sophisticated products is very low in this area and women here cannot
afford much for sanitary napkins because of their social mindset. In order to address this issue
we have followed the steps of ArunanchalamMuruganantham, a social entrepreneur who is the
inventor of low-cost sanitary napkins. Arunachalam has developed a low cost sanitary napkin
machine using fiber from pine wood and wool as its major resources. With additional research
we have found out that on a right combination the machine can be made for a lower cost and a
more durable product can be produced.
Advantages:
Cost of production:
The advantage of these sanitary napkins is that the cost of production is very low and one napkin
is available for a very cheap price and can be used for one whole day which will have higher
absorbent and hygienic properties.
Increased durability and absorption during heavy work schedule:
Owing to the fact that agriculture in Kalpa is the main source of income and involves hard

26. manual labor, it is difficult for women in such conditions to keep changing their napkins.
Increased physical work also increases the flow of menstruation, hence for which our product
serves right to adhere the needs of these women with a sanitary napkin with an increased
durability and absorbent properties.
Abundant availability of pine and wool:
Abundance availability of pine and wool in Kalpa village makes it easier for the production of
the sanitary napkins.
Employment to women:
Women can be employed for the manufacturing and production process of these napkins so as to
increase the employment of women in that area.
Outreach to rural areas across India:
These napkins can be sold to rural areas across India to adhere to the needs of rural women all
over the country.
Project Activities:
Project Schedule:
Project Budget and Operations:
FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS:
Operations:
Process:
Project Risks and Evaluation of Problems:
FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS:Costs:Day 0 month1 month6 monthsYear 1Year 2Year 3Year
4Year 5No. Of locations11114101530 Fixed Costs:No. of
workers551015800300045009000Direct wage per
worker25002500250025003000300035003500Total
Wages125001250015000037500240000090000001575000031500000Administrative
Expenses60000007800000930000013800000MachineNumber2-14400150022504500Cost of
machine50000500005000050000500005000050000Total Cost of
Machine100000500002000002000000075000000112500000225000000Warehouse
Rent20002000120001440005760002440000360000720000Electricity100010006000720002880
00120000180000360000Furniture & Other Equipment500015000250002500075000 Total
Fixed Costs120500155002180004535002927900094385000138115000271455000 Variable
Costs:Total units
produced577.51270.57623099099069369300208107900312161850624323700Raw
materials173.25381.1522869297297208107906243237093648555187297110Distribution
cost577.51270.57623099099069369300208107900312161850624323700Selling
Expense288.75635.253811549549534684650104053950156080925312161850 Total Variable

27. Cost1039.52286.913721417837821248647403745942205618913301123782660 TOTAL
COST121539.517786.935521422372821541437404689792207000063301395237660
RevenueTotal units
sales577.51270.57623099099069369300208107900312161850624323700Cost per
napkin22222.52.533Revenue115525411524601981980173423250520269750936485550187297
1100Operating Margin-120384.5-15246-202754-
2553021927951051290530236479220477733440ROI-99.0496917-85.714-57.0794-
11.411312.50748810.93663233.782440234.2402914Population (
Women)231254.1304.92396.396554.9544832.4316832.4316832.4316Required number per
women55555555Number of Villages12100100050000100000150000300000Production per
woman per day240Price per unit22.52.533Variable cost per unit1.81.81.81.81.8Total Fixed
cost4535002927900094385000138115000271455000BEP Unit
sales226750041827143134835714115095833226212500