This document provides critiques and reviews of several project templates in Microsoft Project 2007, including a software development template, marketing campaign planning template, customer relations template, and vendor request for proposal template. The critiques note what elements are clear and effective in the templates as well as potential areas of improvement, such as breaking tasks down by hours instead of days and including payment rates to develop a project budget.

1. Microsoft Project 2007 Template
Project
Chapter 5 - #5
• Ala’a Abu Tabanjha
• William Evans
• Brian Barkowski
• Eric Crump
• Ahmad Atiq

3. Critique
• The template is very clear in what needs to be done.
• It includes the duration (start to finish dates), Who
does what, and when it needs to be done by.
• The template breaks down tasks, and allows people to
work on smaller parts of the whole project.
• On a side note – I did not like the fact that Microsoft
forces you to have cookies enabled in your web
browser to download templates (booo!)

4. Software Development Template
Calendar – Clear and straightforward
Gant Chart – Thorough but unrealistic
Network Diagram – Great workflow,
detailed and easy to follow
Resource Usage – Poor, missing key
personnel

5. Marketing Campaign Planning
•Well Organized
•Meticulous
•Too time consuming for
certain campaigns

6. Customer Relations
•Feedback from
customers should be
evaluated at an earlier
stage

7. Create Buzz
•With the influence of
today’s blogosphere,
generating “buzz” at an
earlier stage may be
beneficial in certain
marketing campaigns.

8. Customer feedback monitoring

9. Customer feedback monitoring
• Very clear template.
• Includes follow up procedure for customer
satisfaction
• Limited focus on how the data is collected.

10. Vendor Request For Proposal (RFP)
Solicitation
• Suggestions to make template better
– The template should broke down by hours instead
of days.
– This will allow the project manager see where the
most time is being the allocated.
– The payment rate of wages for each employee
should be add.
– This allows the project manager to develop a
budget.