What contingency plans do you have for your current project? State one issue that may come up and describe the contingency plan.
There is a possibility that my skills as a web developer are not good enough to produce a professional looking and working e-commerce site. In this eventuality, althought expensive, a professional developer would have to be contracted to create the initial site.
What is the success criteria for your current project? Is the team in agreement on this subject?
The project will be successful when the first sales have been shipped and recieved by customers. All are in agreement with this.
Do you have post implementation plans? Will you have a debriefing? Will you propose a follow on phase of work? If so, what is your timeframe for doing this proposal?
Although the project will be finished, the website will go on and there will be more work to do in routine maintenance, keeping the data up to date etc. I will be drawing up a list of things which must be done on a regular basis to keep the site and business operating in a fresh and exciting way. Timeframe is in question at the moment due to problems with the project manager's time schedule.
What are you thoughts on pursuing a project management certification? Have you investigated any options? What is your timeframe for pursuing this?
I would like to, however my main constraint is money. I simply don't have the money to undertake anymore courses.
In addition to eclasses.org, do you currently participate in any other networking groups?
This depends very much on what you define as "networking groups". I play on an online game, which could very well be considered networking as my project is to do with the game world, I also participate in many forums on the subject.
Please post the link to your final templates for your project plan, issues list and status report.
Due to lack of communication with the project manager, I do not currently have any changes to the originals of my project plan. However I am going to keep the template Status Reports from week3.