Week 1 – Assignment

ProjectCharter [CLOs: 1, 2]

Scenario: Roto Air
You will be working with the following scenario throughout this course. You arefree to make reasonable assumptions when facts have not been provided, but dostate them as you complete the assignments.

You are a project manager for Roto Air, Inc., a successful manufacturer ofautonomous rotorcraft (drone helicopters) headed by CEO Jackie Copperfield. Youwork at the research and development facility in central New York and have beengiven the assignment of transitioning the manufacturing processes for thenewest product, the Quick Drop 100, to its permanent manufacturing site incentral Florida. The Florida plant is non-union, has lower property taxes, andlower utility costs than the New York location. You will be sharing an existingbuilding owned by Roto Air and used for assembly of other similar products.While floor space has been allocated for your product, the specializedmachinery and tools must be procured. One of these machines is to be custombuilt and has a lead time of 5 months. Normal support functions such as humanresources, facility maintenance, and manufacturing engineering are alreadyavailable in Florida. A manual with the product assembly instructions andspecifications is needed for training the new manufacturing technicians andwill remain your responsibility to complete. An appropriate budget of $1M hasbeen approved for first year transition costs. Annual savings from the move areexpected to be $250,000 per year. The budget is controlled by John Golden,plant manager in Florida. Manufacturing is scheduled to start in the newlocation six months from today. You have a well-qualified team of four otheremployees that are free to travel as needed from their New York home toFlorida. Although the team members have worked on many projects, they have notworked together before. Team members are Jackie, Ken, Jose, and Shawn. Upon successfultransition you will return to your responsibilities in New York.

Assignment:
This week you will complete the project charter. Various publications andorganizations have differing contents for a charter; however you will beworking with the outline preferred by Roto Air. Using the information provided,complete the steps below.

1.Compose a business case for transitioning the product toFlorida.

2.Prepare a scope statement for the transition project.

3.Identify the most logical project sponsor and justify yourchoice with at least two supporting reasons.

4.Identify the top level project schedule.

5.Identify the overall budget.

6.Specifies at least one state or national safety standard thatthe manufacturing operation must comply with and explain the reason for itsselection.

Your paper must be 900 to1200 words in length (not including title and reference pages) and must beformatted according to APA style as outlined in the approved APA style guide.Contextual (Level One) headings must be used to organize your paper and yourthoughts. You must cite at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford OnlineLibrary in addition to the textbook.

The required textbook is Modern Project Management By BruceT Barkley.