HOMEWORK 1, Agribusiness Project Management, AGBU 515, Summer 2017

All the problems must be neatly handwritten and stapled together. Sloppy homework
assignments will be penalized.

You MUST submit every homework assignment completed 100% to be eligible to take
the upcoming exam. All homework assignments MUST be done on your own. No
collaboration is allowed. You can talk to the instructor or the TA if you have questions.

Due: 18:25 pm, July 17

Late homework: no credit will be given; however, you still must submit it
Submit to: Teaching assistant
Total points possible: 100

Exercises on project stakeholder management

Problem 1 (25 points)

Background information:
In project office the first kick-off meeting takes place. Project manager is standing by the
screen and giving a presentation about project goals, important data, and project charter. The
following invited attendees participate at the meeting: project sponsor, CEO and heads of six
departments of project performing organization, project managers assistant, head of Project
Management Office (PMO), tree team leaders, two vendor representatives, three journalists,
head of state environmental protection agency, seven members of Green Society and ten
reassigned project management team members.
At the beginning of the meeting members of Green Society unfurled a banner against the
project, though all required permissions are received and project manager worked in close
cooperation with state environmental protection agency. Project manager has been informed
that two of six department heads are going to aggressively criticize the project charter. All
departments of the performing organization should provide active support to the project
manager and his team. The head of PMO retires in three months and does not want to
interfere in anything.
You have to classify the meeting attendees and fill-in the table below:

Group Quantity Attendees Enumeration

Project Stakeholders
37 Project sponsor, PMO, two vendor
representatives, CEO and heads of six
departments of project performing
organization, head of state environmental
protection agency, seven members of Green
Society, Project manager, project managers
assistant, ten reassigned project
management team members. three team
leaders,

Project management team 15 Project manager, project managers

 assistant, ten reassigned project
management team members. three team
leaders,

Supportive stakeholders 24 head of state environmental protection

Non-aware stakeholders
Resistive stakeholders
Neutral stakeholders
Problem 2 (25 points)
agency, two vendor
representatives, Project
manager, project managers
assistant, ten reassigned project
management team members,
three team leaders, four
departments of project
performing organization,
Project sponsor, CEO
3 three journalists,
9 Two departments of project performing
organization, seven members of
Green Society
1 PMO, three journalists,

Proceeding from information provided in the Problem 1 project manager has to distribute
project stakeholders over the four sections of the Power Interest greed. Do that work as a
project manager. Use coloring for stakeholders separation on positive, neutral, negative.
Prepare two versions of that greed:
a) Actual distribution and

PMO Sponsor
head of state environmental CEO
protection agency,
three team leaders,
ten reassigned project management
team members
Project manager
heads of four departments of project
performing organization,
heads of two departments of project
performing organization,

seven members of Green Society two vendor representatives

three journalists, project managers assistant
 b) Desired distribution.

PMO Sponsor
head of state environmental CEO
protection agency, heads of six departments of project
performing organization,

three team leaders,

ten reassigned project management
team members
Project manager

seven members of Green Society two vendor representatives

three journalists, project managers assistant

Exercise on Project Scope Management

Problem 3-Scope management process groups definition (18 points)

The table below provides a set of meanings or definitions in column 2, for the terms stated in
column 1. Match up the meaning (column 2) with its term (column 1) and insert your answer
from the first column, into the space provided in the third column.

Process Process Meaning Answer

(number)
1. Collect A. Monitoring the status of the scope of the project and C
Requirements deliverables and managing changes to it
2. Define Scope B. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project F
deliverables
3. Validate Scope C. Defining and documenting the project and product B
features and functions needed to fulfill identified
stakeholders needs and expectations
4. Plan Scope D. Subdividing project deliverables and project work into E
Management smaller, more manageable components without showing
the sequence of their production
5. Control Scope E. Identifying and documenting how the project scope will A
be defined, validated and controlled
6. Create WBS F. Developing a detailed description of the project and D
product deliverables in a structured way
Problem 4- Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (32 points)

Background and action request:

A decision was taken to build a dedicated Agribusiness Training Centre in Kapan.

After you were appointed as the PM and the Project Sponsor also appointed your initial team
which you have with you, you held a planning workshop with your team during which you
identified the following:

There is a suitable 10 hectares site very close to Kapan city.

A site survey was carried out which showed that all facilities of the Training Centre
could be built there.
The appropriate design and building permissions will need to obtain.
This site is 5 km away from the closest A road and a new connecting asphalt road will
need to be incorporated in the project.
As soon as the Training Center has to serve the whole Syunik region of Armenia it
will be necessary to include an accommodation construction for the training centre
management, training and support staff, and the trainees.
Isolated location of the project site requires security service establishment.
The ATC Board of Directors has already approved the $5 million and has given
authority to the Project Sponsor for its commitment to the project.
A deadline has been set for 17 months from today for it to be up and running

Using the above presented information:

1. Identify the key deliverables of the project

2. Use the deliverables to produce a Work Breakdown Structure for the regional ATC
project both in table and in tree-like structure forms.

Level WBS code Element name

1 1 Project Agribusiness Teaching

Centre in Kapan

2 1.1 Site Survey

2 1.2
Permissions

3 1.2.1. Building Permission

3 1.2.2. Planning Permission

2 1.3. Infrastructure

3 1.3.1. Roads

4 1.3.1.1 Main Road

4 1.3.1.2 motor way

3 1.3.2. Utilities

4 1.3.2.1. Gas supply

4 1.3.2.2. Electricity supply

4 1.3.2.3. Water supply

4 1.3.2.4. telecoms

3 1.3.3. Training Centre

2 1.4. people resource

3 1.4.1. Project team

3 1.4.2. Security personal

2 1.5. Funding

3 1.5.1. project funding