Describe role of project leader in creating a WBS
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Use the following project scope statement:
Riordan Manufacturing is a plastics injection molding manufacturer pursuing a Go Green project with the intent of achieving International Organization for Standardizations 14001 certification. Riordan's main objective is to improve the sustainability of its products and processes. A separate but related component of this campaign is to improve sustainable practices in offices at each plant. Offices are being asked to support this effort by developing green programs, such as generating lower waste, improving energy efficiency, and carpooling.
Scope
o Restricted to offices at Riordan locations
o Does not include external activities
o Restricted to lowering office waste, improving energy efficiency or lowering energy usage, and reducing air pollutants
Deliverables
o Reduce solid office waste volume by 50%.
o Lower energy consumption by 10%.
o Increase carpooling to over 50% of the staff.
o Reduce disposable break room products by 75%.
Write an executive summary in which you describe the role of a project leader in creating a WBS. Explain strategies a project leader would use to interpret the project scope statement, conduct relevant research, and develop the WBS.
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Go Green Project of Riordan Manufacturing
Role of Project Manager in WBS
The project management is a process to manage the work effectively in order to accomplish project objectives. The project manager is responsible to perform all the tasks of a project to accomplish project goals. The work breakdown structure (WBS) is an important tool in project management that is used to organize the project tasks appropriately. The project manager plays an important role in creating WBS of a project (Rosenau & Rosenau, 2006).
The main objective of a project proposal is to provide the basic information about the time and cost of project. So, the project manager is needed to develop a structure of the project in detail. The project manager creates the WBS with the help of other project members to assign the roles, responsibilities and tasks to the project members. The project leader helps to decompose the large activities into small manageable components and that helps to identify major deliverables of the project (Koster, 2009). The project leader plays following roles in creating WBS -
Specify Project Objective:
In the process of developing a WBS of the project; the project manger firstly specifies objective of the project proposal. It is because; the clearly defined objectives of project provide a framework that is important to develop a WBS of the project (Koster, 2009). The project manger also specifies the result and services that will be provided to the end users.
Establishing Project Priorities:
The project leader also defines all the project priorities to the team members that are helpful to create the WBS. It is because; he has the reasonability to manage the tradeoff between project time, cost, and performance. The ...
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