One of the essential skills great IT Project Managers possess is the ability to craft complex project schedules clearly reflecting critical path while surfacing automated focused views for a variety of stakeholders and the team.
In this exercise, you will present a Project Schedule.
Scenario:
You are a project manager who has been assigned leadership of a managed upgrade for a cloud hosted solution that provides clients a financial model to allocate and manage shared services costs. This solution requires bi-annual updates to the underlying model based on client configurations to tune it's cost model.
Your Assignment:
Create a project schedule.
Instructions:
- Create a modified waterfall project schedule using a trial version of smartsheet.com Leverage the managed upgrade scenario above. Provide a link to the Publish - Read Only Full view.
- Create a smartsheet report for a type of role (e.g. analyst, developer, tester). Provide a link to view.
- Create a smartsheet dashboard for the steering / sponsor committee. Provide a link to view.
- Create and attach to the project schedule a google document of assumptions made while creating the schedule.