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MS Project 2010 Exercise 
Complete Exercise A-3 Software Training Program 1-3 on pages A.74- A.76 of the textbook. Use the suggested task list as a guide, and use your own judgment for entering task durations. Submit one or more screen shots of your MS Project 2010 file including tasks, durations, predecessor tasks, and completed resource sheet with costs for grading as one Word document.
Scenario
ABC Company has 50,000 employees and wants to increase employee productivity by settingup an internal software applications training program. The training program will teach employees how to use Microsoft software programs such as Vista, Word 2010, Excel 2010,
PowerPoint 2010, Access 2010, and Project 2010. Courses will be offered in the evenings and
on Saturdays and taught by qualified volunteer employees. Instructors will be paid $40 per
hour. In the past, employees were sent to courses offered by local vendors during company
time. In contrast, this internal training program should save the company money on training
as well as make people more productive. The Human Resources department will manage the
program, and any employee can take the courses. Employees will receive a certificate for com-
pleting courses, and a copy will be put in their personnel files. The company is not sure which
vendor s off-the-shelf training materials to use. The company needs to set up a training class-
room, survey employees on desired courses, find qualified volunteer instructors, and start offer-
ing courses. The company wants to offer the first courses within six months. One person
from Human Resources is assigned full time to manage this project, and top management has
pledged its support.
Project Scope Management
1)	Create a WBS for this project and enter the tasks in Project 2010. 
2)	Create milestones and summary tasks. Assume that some of the project management tasks you need to do are similar to tasks from the Project Tracking Database example. Some of the tasks specific to this project will be to: 
3)	Review off-the-shelf training materials from three major vendors and decide which materials to use.
4)	Negotiate a contract with the selected vendor for its materials.
5)	Develop communications information about this new training program.
6)	Disseminate the information via department meetings, e-mail, the company s intranet,and flyers to all employees.
7)	Create  a  survey  to  determine  the  number  and  type  of  courses  needed  andemployees  preferred times for taking courses.
8)	Administer the survey.
9)	 Solicit qualified volunteers to teach the courses.
10)	Review resumes, interview candidates for teaching the courses, and develop alist of preferred instructors.
11)	Coordinate with the Facilities department to build two classrooms with 20 personal computers each, a teacher station, and an overhead projection system(assume that Facilities will manage this part of the project).
a.	Schedule courses.
b.	Develop a fair system for signing up for classes.
c.	Develop a course evaluation form to assess the usefulness of each course andthe instructor s teaching ability.
d.	Offer classes.
Project Time Management
i.	Enter realistic durations for each task and then link appropriate tasks. Be surethat all tasks are linked in some fashion to the start and end of the project. 
ii.	Usethe Project Tracking Database as an example. Assume that you have six monthsto complete the entire project.
12)	 Attach the Gantt chart view and Network Diagram view for the project.
13)	 Attach the Schedule table to see key dates and slack times for each task.