Project description
The best way to ensure you learn and can apply the project management strategies, techniques, and tools from this course is to use them to a specific project. Below is a business situation description that requires a project to achieve the objectives.
You are hired by Fred Controls, the CFO and project sponsor, to lead a project to improve the sales and operations data for DCB Pharmaceuticals. This is an extremely important project for the company’s future.
As the first phase, you need to develop a project plan for this project (code named: DCB Trial).
The best way to ensure you learn and can apply the project management strategies, techniques, and tools from this course is to use them to a specific project. Below is a business situation description that requires a project to achieve the objectives.
You are hired by Fred Controls, the CFO and project sponsor, to lead a project to improve the sales and operations data for DCB Pharmaceuticals. This is an extremely important project for the company’s future.
As the first phase, you need to develop a project plan for this project (code named: DCB Trial).
Situation Data
DCB Pharmaceutical company generated $100 million revenue; one product in a few different packaging configurations; product sold to doctors or doctor practice groups
Management and team members – CEO (Janet Sales) and CFO/Project Sponsor (Fred Controls); IT resources – Manager, ERP application analyst, database analyst; sales operations resource – analyst
Product distribution:
US: via single distributor
Canada: via single distributor
EU: via three distributors (Germany/Netherlands, Italy , Israel)
Demand data:
US: received by distributor at doctor/doctor practice group level (mixed) for sales data (moderate data integrity)
Distributor manages doctors/doctor practice groups relationship
Company satisfies product orders from distributor
Canada: nothing received, only product order data from distributor
EU: nothing received, only product order data from distributors
ERP software captures product order data for distributors in SQL database; US distributor data sent by distributor
DCB Pharmaceutical company generated $100 million revenue; one product in a few different packaging configurations; product sold to doctors or doctor practice groups
Management and team members – CEO (Janet Sales) and CFO/Project Sponsor (Fred Controls); IT resources – Manager, ERP application analyst, database analyst; sales operations resource – analyst
Product distribution:
US: via single distributor
Canada: via single distributor
EU: via three distributors (Germany/Netherlands, Italy , Israel)
Demand data:
US: received by distributor at doctor/doctor practice group level (mixed) for sales data (moderate data integrity)
Distributor manages doctors/doctor practice groups relationship
Company satisfies product orders from distributor
Canada: nothing received, only product order data from distributor
EU: nothing received, only product order data from distributors
ERP software captures product order data for distributors in SQL database; US distributor data sent by distributor
Management Need
Management desires a dashboard for sales management by market to support decision making including identifying impact of the following:
Marketing promotions launched by market are known
Competition is providing alternative solution to doctors that uses new technology and does not require DCB Pharma’s product
Operations/supply chain performance can be volatile given complex product formulation and complex packaging requirements
Fred Controls (CFO/Project Sponsor) has budgeted $250,000 for the DCB Trial project with a desired implementation date of six months for the entire project from planning through implementation; DCB Trial is an important project and management is very keen on timely implementation
The project manager (you) is reporting to the Executive Oversight Committee (EOC) with Janet Sales, CEO, as the chairman. The EOC includes Janet Sales, Fred Controls, and at least three other stakeholders whom Janet Sales asked you to identify.
Management desires a dashboard for sales management by market to support decision making including identifying impact of the following:
Marketing promotions launched by market are known
Competition is providing alternative solution to doctors that uses new technology and does not require DCB Pharma’s product
Operations/supply chain performance can be volatile given complex product formulation and complex packaging requirements
Fred Controls (CFO/Project Sponsor) has budgeted $250,000 for the DCB Trial project with a desired implementation date of six months for the entire project from planning through implementation; DCB Trial is an important project and management is very keen on timely implementation
The project manager (you) is reporting to the Executive Oversight Committee (EOC) with Janet Sales, CEO, as the chairman. The EOC includes Janet Sales, Fred Controls, and at least three other stakeholders whom Janet Sales asked you to identify.
answers these questions:
What is the Project Classification? Strategic, Infrastructure, or Compliance
What Business problem does the project solve?
How does this project align with the organization strategy?
What are the major deliverables in the project?
What is the impact of not doing this company?
‘What are the three major risks for this project?
How will we measure success?
Who will be the internal resources?
What is the cost of the project and how long will it take?
Any Oversight action?
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What Business problem does the project solve?
How does this project align with the organization strategy?
What are the major deliverables in the project?
What is the impact of not doing this company?
‘What are the three major risks for this project?
How will we measure success?
Who will be the internal resources?
What is the cost of the project and how long will it take?
Any Oversight action?
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