The document outlines a group project focused on managing the renovation of a coffee shop, Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHS), in Milwaukee, WI, including aspects of project human resources, scheduling, budgeting, risks, communication, and stakeholder management. The project aims to complete renovations within six months and has an initial budget of $650,000, with plans to increase sales significantly. Each group member is responsible for developing individual sections of a presentation consolidating their contributions to the overall project plan.

1. Assignment OverviewType:
Group Project
Unit:
Project Quality and Risk Management
Due Date:
Thurs, 1/25/18
Grading Type:
Numeric
Points Possible:
165
Points Earned:
0
Deliverable Length:
7–10 slides per student
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Project Human Resource (to be developed by individual)
Describe the roles and responsibilities that need to be filled on
the project. Give a rationale for the staff for the project, assign
roles, and describe staff involvement with each major
deliverable. Decide if you will use vendors to supplement the
team, and ascertain their roles and responsibilities as well as
your rationale for making the decision. Describe how staffing
changes will be identified, escalated, and resolved.
Project Schedule (to be developed by individual)
Use a work breakdown structure or similar tool to explain the
major activities that will be completed as part of the project.
Describe the major milestones for the project. For each
milestone, identify the associated deliverable, the approximate
effort involved in creating the deliverable, and the people
involved. For 2 of the milestones, detail the activities to be
completed to achieve the milestone. Be sure to address
dependencies, duration, and resource effort. Describe how
changes to the schedule will be identified, escalated, and
resolved.

3. Project Budget (to be developed by individual)
Describe the budgeting process that will be used for the project.
Identify the components of the budget, the items that will need
to have costs associated with them, and the mechanisms that
could be used to estimate the project. Describe how changes to
the budget will be identified, escalated, and resolved.
Project Risks (to be developed by individual)
Describe the possible risk events for the project. Identify the
high-probability, high-impact risk events. For each of those risk
events, identify the possible actions to mitigate the risk.
Describe how changes to the risk management plan will be
identified, reviewed, and approved.
Project Communication (to be developed by individual)
Describe the system that will be used throughout the project for
recording and sharing project information related to schedule,
budget, utilization, and status components. Describe the tools
and techniques you will use to capture and report metrics.
Describe the frequency with which the metrics will be captured
and how the resulting analysis will be applied and
communicated.
Project Stakeholders (to be developed by individual)
Describe how stakeholders were identified and analyzed, what
tools and techniques were used to categorize and understand
stakeholder interests. Describe your stakeholders, who they are
and what their interests are in the outcome of the project.
Describe the strategies planned to manage stakeholder
engagement.

4. This task will be completed as a true group project. The groups
will consolidate the individual responses into a single
presentation. It will be determined by the members of the group
whether the group will have a single member do each section or
merge the responses of each member for the 5 areas of interest
listed above.
Assignment Guidelines:
Individual Portion
Complete your individual portion of the presentation based on
the decision that the group made previously with regard to the
project management areas of interest.
Submit your slides, and allow sufficient time for peer review by
the other group members.
Note:
Each slide must be submitted with 150–200 words of speaker
notes.
If necessary, make any corrections or modifications.
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5. Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs) is a coffee shop that will be
located in Milwaukee, WI. We have been able to purchase our
own building within the city near Milwaukee’s top tourist
attraction site near the Gold Rock Museum. The building is not
renovated. Our market analysis of Milwaukee, WI indicated the
city is the top city for coffee drinking in WI. Because we’re
close to the city’s museum, we plan to become the top
destination for local and American and foreign customers who
visit Milwaukee each year.
Our customers will have a wide range of coffee flavors to
choose from including dark roast to light roast as well as
specialty flavors throughout the year. They will also enjoy
freshly baked low-fat donuts that aren’t available anywhere in
the state. ACHs will hold true to its vision and mission of
providing customers with a premier café experience. By
creating a new twist for the café experience, ACHs will increase
sales by more than $125,000 over the next three years and
maintain a gross margin of 70%. The shop is 5,500 square foot
of open space. Our plan is to have 2 bathrooms, a coffee bar,
and enough tables to seat at least 50 customers. This is a coffee
shop that also makes and sells donuts. The renovation must
account for all that is needed to get the shop ready for both
coffee and donuts. The project has an initial budget of
$650,000. It is now January and Sam and Gloria would like the
new location to be up and running no later on July 4th.
Project Introduction
The Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs) targets the community of
Milwaukee, WI. The main focus on the company is the

6. renovation of the company’s building which is near the Gold
Rock Museum. This is the strategic position and location to
develop the company’s coffee shop. This will help in focusing
on the current market by targeting the Milwaukee community’s
coffee takers. The approach will focus on targeting the
company’s approach into winning the market research and
making the project work within the company’s budget and
market targets.
Project Charter
The project charter will focus on the main and gains on the
project scope, deliverables and objectives of the project. As
specified by the company, the project charter entails:
a) Project Scope
The project targets the renovation of the company’s building at
the community of Milwaukee, WI. This will entails the
development of the coffee shop and donut making bakery. This
will also target the development of bathrooms for staff and
customers. There is also the need for building a consumer seater
which can accommodate over 50 customers at any given time.
The project will also include the completion of the renovation
of the building within the initial 6 months.
b) Project Deliverables
The project should focus on developing the project plans and
requirements. This will be the deliverable focusing on the work
breakdown structure and requirement specifications. Through
the development of the project budget and planning will help in
targeting the project initiation plans. There is also an
opportunity for developing the necessary plans for project
execution and deliverables of renovated building and able to
build a 50 seater free space for customer and staff.

7. c) Objectives
The objectives of the project are to develop a final product
within the first 6 months. This is the timeline which the
company should focus and will focus on increasing and
improving the allocation of support while meeting the
expectations of the company. There also the need for developing
the project to meet the key budget and timeline of the company
by improving production, service delivery and quality standards
for its consumers.
Project Sponsor
The project sponsor will be the project manager of theAmazing
Coffee Houses (ACHs). The project manager will be the
responsible partner in meeting the expectations of the company
through ensuring The Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs) have
implemented the new project development in the Milwaukee
community. The project sponsor will be responsible for
developing the business needs and aligning the project
objectives to meet the needs of consumers.
Project Customer
The project customers include all the parties with the vested
interests on the proposed project and under construction. Based
on the project description, the project customers include the
vested parties for the project of developing the new coffee
house. This includes The Amazing Coffee Houses (ACHs)
company who are responsible for developing the budget and
offering the necessary resources to meet the expectations of the
project. There is also the project team headed by the project
manager and will be responsible in meeting the project scope
and objectives.

8. Components of the Project Plan
The components of a project plan include project scope
management critical in managing the project scope. There is
also scheduling which is essential in focusing on the project
resources and processes. It is also essential in meeting the
expectations of the project while focusing on value and resource
allocations. There is also the resource, budget and cost
management for the project, which evaluates, generates and
maintains the project’s resources for a successful completion of
the project goals and objectives.
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