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Statement of the WorkSOW
By: Wilmer Arellano
FIU Fall 2007
Overview
Strategy Plan of Action Statement of Work (SOW) Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Project Milestones Results Evaluation
References
Some Excerpts from the book: Karl T Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger. (2004). Product Design
and Development. Third Edition. Mc Graw Hill, Irwin. ISBN-13: 978-0-07-247146-5.
Some Excerpts from the book “Engineering Design, a Project Based Introduction”, second
edition by Clive I. Dym and Patrick Little. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25687-0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement_of_workhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structurehttp://www.maxwideman.com/musings/wbswar.htm
http://www.inforapid.com/ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/
HA011361531033.aspx#Step%201http://www.openworkbench.org/
Project management
Project development involves many people completing many different tasks.
Project management is the activity of planning and coordinating resources and tasks to achieve these goals.
Statement Of Work (SOW)
A statement of work (SOW) is a document used in the Project Development Life Cycle. Certain areas that need to be addressed are as follows: Scope of Work, Describes the work to be done in detail and
specifies the hardware and software involved and the exact nature of the work to be done.
Location of Work, Describes where the work is to be performed. Specifies location of hardware and software and where people will meet to perform the work.
Period of Performance, This specifies the allowable time for projects, such as start and finish times.
Deliverables Schedule, This part list the specific deliverables, describing what and when it is due.
Who is responsible for what.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
The WBS is the hierarchical list of the project's phases, tasks and milestones Phase: A group of related tasks that completes a major step in a
project. Task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. Project plans
are made up of tasks. Milestone: A reference point marking a major event in a project
and used to monitor the project's progress. Scope: The combination of all project goals and tasks, and the
work required to accomplish them. The scope translates into the timeline and budget.
Budget: The estimated cost of a project. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/
HA011361531033.aspx#Step%201
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structure
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
The WBS may describe: the activities of the project or
Activities speak to the work involved in the project, of its deliverables.
Deliverables speak to end results. If activities, then the WBS is expressed by sentences
commencing with verbs, but if deliverables, then the entries are expresses as
nouns. http://www.maxwideman.com/musings/wbswar.htm We will base our WBS on deliverables. Please make
that clear in your WBS
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
The 100% rule The rule applies at all levels within the hierarchy: the
sum of the work at the “child” level must equal 100% of the work represented by the “parent” and the WBS should not include any work that falls outside the actual scope of the project, that is, it cannot include more than 100% of the work
The best way to adhere to the 100% Rule is to define WBS elements in terms of outcomes or results.
The Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures (Second Edition), published by the Project Management Institute (PMI)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structure#Example_of_a_work_breakdown_structure
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
This is what we want Deliverables based WBS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Work_breakdown_structure#Example_of_a_work_breakdown_structure
Project Phases Tasks
1. Transmiter1.1 Antenna DesignTheorical Design 5%Antenna Construction 10%
1. Transmiter Antenna testing 5%Antenna Design 25% Antenna Packaging 5%
1. Transmiter Modulator Design 25% 1.2 Modulator Design
Power Amplifier Design 50%
Possible Research (Missing Percentages)
Find Area of InterestFind ArticlesRead Articles
ResearchCreate Content
Research Project Power Point Obtain Graphics
Finalize
DetailsWritten Report
Determine topics to coverWrite Topics
Understanding and Representing Tasks
The tasks are represented by boxes, and the information (data) dependencies among the tasks are represented by arrows.
We refer to this representation as information-processing view or a data-driven perspective of product
Documenting (WBS)
You need to describe the phases Phase 1.1-Antenna Design
Objective: To produce a 50 Ohm input impedance antenna with a power handling capability of 100 Watts with minimum cost and a minimum power gain of 3 dB
Approach: Two method will be used and compared to select the more economical design. Method 1 will consist of the recently acquired Antenna Design Software and method 2 will be based on newly published formulas by A. Jones [4]
Expected Results: A fully functional transmit antenna with accompanying literature and mounting hardware.
This phase will consist of the following tasks: Antenna Design Antenna Construction Antenna Testing
Remember this is a deliverable based description
Documenting (WBS)
We don’t require it in this course but in real projects a full descriptions of the tasks is required.
Subtask 2c-Technology Research Objective: The criteria from subtask 2b will be used to evaluate the
technologies, but it is necessary to understand each technology properly in order to properly evaluate it. Research will thus be done to attempt to understand each of the technologies in the group’s list.
Approach: Resources such as the internet, library, university faculty, and anything else available to the group will be used to obtain as much information on each technology as possible.
Expected Results: A complete understanding of all the available technologies by each member of the group should result from the research done during this subtask.
This is the right approach. In our case it could make the proposal to long. If that is the case, instead of describing Objective, approach and expected results for the tasks, do it for the phases and list the tasks involved.
Remember this is a deliverable based description
Project Timeline/ Sequential Tasks
Tasks are sequential when they are dependent on the output of another task. These because the dependencies impose a sequential order in which the tasks must be completed.
We do not necessarily mean that the later task cannot be started before the earlier one has been completed
Project Timeline/ Parallel task
Two tasks are parallel when they are both dependent on the same task but are independent of each other.
Project Timeline/ Coupled tasks
Coupled tasks are mutually dependent; each task requires the result of the other tasks in order to be completed. Coupled tasks either must be executed simultaneously with
continual exchanges of information or
must he carried out in an iterative fashion.
Gantt Charts The traditional tool for representing the timing of tasks is the
Gantt chart. The filled-in portion of each bar represents the fraction of the task that is complete. The vertical line shows the current date, so we can observe directly that task D is behind schedule, while task E is ahead of schedule.
Gantt Charts (Open Workbench)
Milestones
Examples: Prototype Implementation. Testing. Documentation. Demonstration.
Each Milestone should be explained with a sentence or two
BUDGET (Task Cost)
Task Design Input Amplifier Cost Duration Ext.Location Fiu Lab $10 3 $30Personnel RF Expert $15 4.5 $68Equipment Standard P $20 3 $60DurationMaterials $50 $50
TOTAL $208
BUDGET
Review
Strategy Plan of Action Statement of Work (SOW) Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Project Milestones Results Evaluation
Software
Primavera Open Workbench MS Project
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