Statement of the WorkSOW

By: Wilmer Arellano

FIU Fall 2007

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 completing many different tasks.

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.

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

HA011361531033.aspx#Step%201

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

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 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

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

Project Phases Tasks

1. Transmiter1.1 Antenna DesignTheorical Design 5%Antenna Construction 10%

1. Transmiter Antenna testing 5%Antenna Design 25% Antenna Packaging 5%

1. Transmiter Modulator Design 25% 1.2 Modulator Design

Power Amplifier Design 50%

Possible Research (Missing Percentages)

Find Area of InterestFind ArticlesRead Articles

ResearchCreate Content

Research Project Power Point Obtain Graphics

Finalize

DetailsWritten Report

Determine topics to coverWrite Topics

Understanding and Representing Tasks

The tasks are represented by boxes, and the information (data) dependencies among the tasks are represented by arrows.

We refer to this representation as information-processing view or a data-driven perspective of product

Documenting (WBS)

You need to describe the phases 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

Documenting (WBS)

We don’t require it in this course but in real projects a full descriptions of the tasks is required.

Subtask 2c-Technology Research Objective: The criteria from subtask 2b will be used to evaluate the

technologies, but it is necessary to understand each technology properly in order to properly evaluate it. Research will thus be done to attempt to understand each of the technologies in the group’s list.

Approach: Resources such as the internet, library, university faculty, and anything else available to the group will be used to obtain as much information on each technology as possible.

Expected Results: A complete understanding of all the available technologies by each member of the group should result from the research done during this subtask.

This is the right approach. In our case it could make the proposal to long. If that is the case, instead of describing Objective, approach and expected results for the tasks, do it for the phases and list the tasks involved.

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 (Open Workbench)

Milestones

Examples: Prototype Implementation. Testing. Documentation. Demonstration.

Each Milestone should be explained with a sentence or two

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

Review

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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