Statement of the WorkSOW

By: Wilmer Arellano

FIU Spring 2008

Overview

Strategy Plan of Action Statement of Work (SOW) Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Project Milestones Results Evaluation

References

Some Excerpts from the book: Karl T Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger. (2004). Product Design

and Development. Third Edition. Mc Graw Hill, Irwin. ISBN-13: 978-0-07-247146-5.

Some Excerpts from the book “Engineering Design, a Project Based Introduction”, second

edition by Clive I. Dym and Patrick Little. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25687-0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement_of_workhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structurehttp://www.maxwideman.com/musings/wbswar.htm

http://www.inforapid.com/ http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/

HA011361531033.aspx#Step%201http://www.openworkbench.org/

Project management

Project development involves: many people many different tasks.

Successful Project development projects result in: high-quality; low-cost products efficient use of time, money, and other resources.

Project management is the activity of planning and coordinating resources and tasks to achieve these goals.

Statement Of Work (SOW)

A statement of work (SOW) is a document used in the Project Development Life Cycle. Certain areas that need to be addressed are as follows: Scope of Work, Describes the work to be done in detail and

specifies the hardware and software involved and the exact nature of the work to be done.

Location of Work, Describes where the work is to be performed. Specifies location of hardware and software and where people will meet to perform the work.

Period of Performance, This specifies the allowable time for projects, such as start and finish times.

Deliverables Schedule, This part list the specific deliverables, describing what and when it is due.

Who is responsible for what.

Statement Of Work (SOW)

Example you need to repair your home after damages by a hurricane: Scope of Work, Repair roof tiles, plant trees, paint house. Location of Work, In your home, the roof, backyard and

external walls. Period of Performance, One week starting 01/28/08. Deliverables Schedule, 50 roof tiles will be change, new water

proofing installed, 3 trees will be planted, 2000 sqf. of surface will be painted.

A crew of three will repair the roof in two days, a crew of two will paint the home in three days and plant the trees in one day.

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

The WBS is the hierarchical list of the project's phases, tasks and milestones Phase: A group of related tasks that completes a major step in a project. Task: An activity that has a beginning and an end. Project plans are made up

of tasks. Milestone: A reference point marking a major event in a project and used to

monitor the project's progress. The WBS is critical because it drives the scope Scope: The combination of all project goals and tasks, and the work

required to accomplish them. The scope translates into the timeline and budget.

Budget: The estimated cost of a project. Taking the time to map out the WBS will save you significant time later

by helping you to avoid rework and false starts. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/

HA011361531033.aspx#Step%201

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

The WBS may describe: the activities of the project or

Activities speak to the work involved in the project, of its deliverables.

Deliverables speak to end results. If activities, then the WBS is expressed by sentences

commencing with verbs, but if deliverables, then the entries are expresses as

nouns. http://www.maxwideman.com/musings/wbswar.htm We will base our WBS on deliverables. Please make

that clear in your WBS

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

The 100% rule is one of the most important principles guiding the development,

decomposition and evaluation of the WBS. The rule applies at all levels within the hierarchy: the sum of the work at the “child” level must equal 100% of the work represented by the “parent” and the WBS should not include any work that falls outside the actual scope of the project, that is, it cannot include more than 100% of the work

If the WBS designer attempts to capture any action-oriented details in the WBS, he/she will likely include either too many actions or too few actions. Too many actions will exceed 100% of the parent's scope and too few will fall short of 100% of the parent's scope. The best way to adhere to the 100% Rule is to define WBS elements in terms of outcomes or results.

The Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures (Second Edition), published by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_breakdown_structure#Example_of_a_work_breakdown_structure

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

This is what we want Deliverables based WBS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Work_breakdown_structure#Example_of_a_work_breakdown_structure

1.1 Antenna DesignTheorical Design 5%Antenna Construction 10%Antenna testing 5%

1. Transmiter Antenna Packaging 3%Antenna Design 25% Monitoring 2%

1. Transmiter Modulator Design 25% 1.2 Modulator DesignAudio interface 10%

Power Amplifier Design 50% Mixer 10%Output Stage 5%

1.3 Power Amplifier Design

Documenting (WBS)

Phase 1.1-Antenna Design Objective: To produce a 50 Ohm input impedance antenna with

a power handling capability of 100 Watts with minimum cost and a minimum power gain of 3 dB

Approach: Two method will be used and compared to select the more economical design. Method 1 will consist of the recently acquired Antenna Design Software and method 2 will be based on newly published formulas by A. Jones [4]

Expected Results: A fully functional transmit antenna with accompanying literature and mounting hardware.

This phase will consist of the following tasks: Antenna Design Antenna Construction Antenna Testing

Remember this is a deliverable based description

Project Timeline/ Sequential Tasks

Tasks are sequential when they are dependent on the output of another task. These because the dependencies impose a sequential order in which the tasks must be completed.

We do not necessarily mean that the later task cannot be started before the earlier one has been completed

Project Timeline/ Parallel task

Two tasks are parallel when they are both dependent on the same task but are independent of each other.

Project Timeline/ Coupled tasks

Coupled tasks are mutually dependent; each task requires the result of the other tasks in order to be completed. Coupled tasks either must be executed simultaneously with

continual exchanges of information or

must he carried out in an iterative fashion.

Gantt Charts The traditional tool for representing the timing of tasks is the

Gantt chart. The filled-in portion of each bar represents the fraction of the task that is complete. The vertical line shows the current date, so we can observe directly that task D is behind schedule, while task E is ahead of schedule.

Gantt Charts

Milestones

Examples: Prototype Implementation. Testing. Documentation. Demonstration.

Each Milestone should be explained with a sentence or two

PERT Charts (program evaluation and review technique)

PERT (program evaluation and review technique) charts explicitly represent both dependencies and timing, in effect combining some of the information

contained in the DSM and Gantt chart.

The Critical Path

The dependencies among the tasks in a PERT chart, some of which may be arranged sequentially and some of which may be arranged in parallel, lead to the concept of a critical path. The critical path is the longest chain of dependent events.

BUDGET (Task Cost)

Task Design Input Amplifier Cost Duration Ext.Location Fiu Lab $10 3 $30Personnel RF Expert $15 4.5 $68Equipment Standard P $20 3 $60DurationMaterials $50 $50

TOTAL $208

BUDGET

Class Assignment 1

Elaborate SOW of your Senior 1 Project Include:

Follow Style Guidelines Include TITLE PAGE AND CONTENTS WBS (using 100% Rule) Design Structure Matrix Gant Chart Pert Critical Path

Review

Intellectual Property Considerations Standards Considerations

Strategy Plan of Action Statement of Work (SOW) Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Project Milestones Results Evaluation

Software

Primavera Open Workbench MS Project

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