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Team
Members Name: 1.
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Create a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Objective: (Identify the main objective)

The main objective of this project is to develop a Web Filtering Device Implementation WBS
Planning and Installing of hardware and software that will address the issue regarding Sequential Label and
Supply with employees surfing the Web.

Steps to Follow:

1. Work to be accomplished (activities and deliverables)

2. Individuals (or skill set) are assigned to perform the task.
3. Start and end dates for the task (when known)
4. Amount of effort required for completion in hours or workdays.
5. Estimated capital expenses for the task.
6. Identification of dependencies between and among tasks
7. Review and Refine:
8. Review the WBS to ensure that it comprehensively covers all project activities.
9. Refine the structure as needed to improve clarity and coherence.
10. Finalize WBS. Once satisfied with the WBS, finalize it for use throughout the project lifecycle.

Create a first draft of a WBS from the scenario below. Make assumptions as needed based on the
section about project planning considerations and constraints in the chapter. In your WBS, describe the skill
sets required for the tasks you have planned.

Scenario
Sequential Label and Supply is having a problem with employees surfing the Web to access material
the company has deemed inappropriate for a professional environment. The technology exists to insert a
filtering device in the company Internet connection that blocks certain Web locations and certain Web
content. The vendor has provided the company with some initial information about the filter. The filter is a
hardware appliance that costs $18,000 and requires a total of 150 effort-hours to install and configure.
Technical support on the filter costs 18 percent of the purchase price and includes a training allowance for
the year. A software component that runs on the administrator’s desktop computer is needed for
administering the filter, and it costs $550. A monthly subscription provides the list of sites to be blocked and
costs $250 per month. The administrator must spend an estimated four hours per week on ongoing
administrative functions.

Items you should consider:

• Your plan requires two parts, one for deployment and another for ongoing operation after
implementation.
• The vendor offers a contracting service for installation at $140 per hour.
• Your change control process requires a seventeen-day lead time for change requests.
• The manufacturer has a fourteen-day order time and a seven-day delivery time for this device.
 DEPLOYMENT

INDIVIDUALS ESTIMATED ESTIMATED

START & END EFFORT
ITEM TASK (OR SKILL SET) CAPITAL NON-CAPITAL
DATES HOURS
ARE ASSIGNED EXPENSES EXPENSE
1 Purchasing a Web
Purchasing group 04/22 – 04/23 1 $18,000 0
Filter
2 Purchasing Additional
Software Purchasing group 04/23 – 04/24 1 $800 0
Components
3 Purchasing Technical
Purchasing group 04/24 – 04/25 1 $3240 0
Support
4 Contacting the
Network
network team to
Architect, IT 04/25 – 04/26 2 0 0
Ensure Hardware
Specialist
Compatibility
5 Submit Request for Purchasing,
Implementing the Network 04/26 – 04/27 2 0 0
hardware Engineer
6 Conducting a System IT Specialist, IT
Testing & User Education 04/27 – 05/04 40 0
0
Training Training Center
7 Installing of
Outsourced
hardware and 05/04 – 05/23 150 0 $18,800
Vendor
software

ON-GOING OPERATION

INDIVIDUALS ESTIMATED ESTIMATED

START & END EFFORT
ITEM TASK (OR SKILL SET) CAPITAL NON-CAPITAL
DATES HOURS
ARE ASSIGNED EXPENSES EXPENSE
Managing of Finance, Project $250 per
1 On-going 2 0
Subscription Fee Manager month
System Monitoring
2 IT Specialist On-going 4 hours / week 0 0
and Maintenance
Administration of
3 Administrator On-going 4 hour / week 0 0
Device
4 User Support IT Helpdesk On-going 4 0 0
Rubrics:
Criteria Excellent (4) Good (3) Fair (2) Needs
Improvemen
t (1)
Works to be Identifies Some major Major Major
Accomplished all major deliverables may deliverables are deliverables
deliverables be missing or unclear or are not
accurately unclear incomplete identified
Breakdown of Thoroughl Breaks down Breakdown Deliverables
Deliverables y breaks most of are not broken
down deliverables deliverables down into tasks
each into tasks is incomplete
deliverabl or
e into unclear
tasks
Organization of Tasks are Some organization Organization Tasks are
Tasks logically evident, but may of tasks is disorganized or
organized lack coherence unclear or poorly structured
in a inconsistent
hierarchic
al
structure

Resource Clearly Resource Some resources Resource

Assignment identifies assignment or assignment
and resources and and dependencies and
Dependencie dependencies dependencies are may be missing dependencies are
s for mostly clear or unclear not addressed
each task
Review Demonstrates Review and Limited Little to no
and thorough refinement are evidence of evidence of
Refinem review and evident but may be review and review or
ent refinement incomplete refinement refinement
process
Finalization WBS is WBS is mostly WBS WBS is not
of WBS finalized finalized, but finalization is finalized or lacks
with clear roles/ incomplete or clarity in
roles and responsibilities lacks clarity roles/responsibili
responsibiliti may be unclear ties
es assigned