Assignment 3 - Assemble Project Team

Assignment 3 - Assemble Project Team

Overview

For Assignment 3, you are the project manager for the GIS contractor chosen to carry out the City of Metropolis Geodatabase Design and Development project. You will assemble a project team (the contractor's project team) for the City of Metropolis Geodatabase Development Project. You can assume that your company has already been selected by the City—that is, your company and other companies have submitted proposals in response to the City’s RFP and your proposal was determined to be the most responsive and was formally selected to do the work. Now you, as the contractor’s project manager, have been asked by the City’s project manager (Lucille Geodata) to present information about your project team—the people and their roles for the project.

Your Submittal for Assignment 3

Take a look at the City of Metropolis RFP--particularly the summary of major work elements (subsection 1.2) and expectations on project team roles in 2.3.5. Use the material that you have reviewed in this lesson to identify team members with positions and skills needed to carry out the project work. Assume that necessary staff are already employees of your firm and are available for work on this project. Since you are taking the role of the contracted company, you should make up a company name and refer to this in your assignment. This assignment identifies and describes members of the contractor's team, NOT any of the City's project team members.

The content for this Assignment consists of a brief introductory explanation of the project. Provide enough information in this summary to give a reader, not already familiar with the project, an understanding of its background and context--including reference to the RFP as the basis for selection of the contractor. Then prepare a table that presents a summary of the contractor’s (your company’s) project team members (not the City’s project team). Content in this table should include:

• Name of the team member
• Project functional title (e.g., “Project Manager”, “Field Data Collector”)
• Hourly billable rate*
• Brief description of project role and duties: one paragraph describing each team member’s assigned work on the project.

*Select hourly billable rates to the best of your ability. In practice, billable rates, which cover all company employee compensation and overhead do vary by company, region of the country, and type of project.  Assume that the project manager rate will be in the range of $100 to $175 per hour and the field data collection personnel will be about $40 to $60 per hour. Rates for other project roles (e.g., database design, application development) will fall between these ranges.

There is no single ideal size for the project team. The number of people on the team and their mix of skills and roles needs to be adequate to carry out all work on the project in a reasonable period of time. As a general rule, it is best to keep the team as small as possible as long as it has enough people with management and technical roles to perform the work. For a project like this, a team size of about 6 to 10 people is appropriate.

Assignment 3 is due at the end of Lesson 4 (this lesson).

Refer to the grading rubric below for guidelines on expected content and format.

Submitting the Assignment

View specific directions for submitting Assignment 3.

Grading

This assignment is worth 40 points. The grading approach is explained in the table below.

 The instructor may deduct points if the Assignment is turned in late, unless a late submittal has been approved by the Instructor prior to the Assignment submittal date.