1. Wentworth Institute of Technology
Project Planning
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Electronic Design I
Prof. Tim Johnson
Chapter 7

2. Concepts and Principles
What is it that we’re going to do?
A list of tasks required to complete a project.
To Do list
Sequentially listed
What is it going to cost?
Time
Money
Resources commitment
People, Plant, & Provisions

3. Benefits of Planning Framework for communications Resource allocations
Clients
Co-workers
Resource allocations
Benchmark for assessment of progress
Guide for decision making
Proposal to business plan

4. Planning Tools—Gantt Chart
List of tasks vs. time
Use Microsoft Project
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
July
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3

5. Planning Tools—Critical Path
Network diagram with directed line segments (lines & circles)
Similar to Functional Block Diagram
Looks at:
Activities
Events
Identifies bottlenecks in projects

6. The Big Picture Project doesn’t exist in isolation
Let’s look at a Power Point templet used by businesses.
The next 8 slides are the example.
Followed by your assignment.

7. Project Goals Ultimate goal of project Relationship to other projects
High-level timing goals

8. Description Describe the project in non-technical terms.
Use following slides for discussing status, schedules, budget, etc.
FOR MORE INFO...
List location or contact for specification (or other related documents) here

9. Competitive Analysis Competitors Strengths Weaknesses
(You may want to allocate one slide per competitor)
Strengths
Your strengths relative to competitors
Weaknesses
Your weaknesses relative to competitor

10. Competitive Analysis, Cont.
Competitors
Strengths
Weaknesses
FOR MORE INFO...
List location or contact for competitive analysis (or other related documents) here

11. Technology New technology being used Standards being adopted
Benefits
Standards being adopted
Standards specifically being ignored
Drawbacks & benefits
DYA: define your acronyms!

12. Team/Resources
State assumptions about resources allocated to this project
People
Equipment
Locations
Support & outside services
Manufacturing
Sales

13. Procedures
Highlight any procedural differences from regular projects of this type
Discuss requirements, benefits, and issues of using new procedures
FOR MORE INFO...
List location or contact for procedures document (or other related documents) here

14. Current Status High-level overview of progress against schedule
On-track in what areas
Behind in what areas
Ahead in what areas
Unexpected delays or issues

15. Your Assignment Draw up a Gantt chart for the solder iron project.
Use MS Project found on all the computers here at WIT.
Show the time line for the entire project, start to finish.
Remember, we still have to write the user manual & the technical manual.