Objective 5:
Initiate, lead, facilitate and advocate for positive change and innovation.
To demonstrate my ability to initiate and facilitate positive changes in remote workplaces, I developed a project plan to document and improve a business process.
The process to solicit highly-skilled vendors for fast, accurate translation services can be difficult to navigate, especially when little to no specific documentation exists to capture the details of each step in the workflow. The goal of this project was to build a project plan that captured the budget, costs, schedule, risks, and key quality indicators for a hypothetical project to deliver a process document that would solve this issue.
I used Lucidchart to develop a visual for the work breakdown structure. I developed the project schedule in Smartsheet, using the dependencies feature to show the workflow connections between the key deliverables. I used Excel to calculate the project budget and show the line item cost breakdown by month, including a 10% overage allowance.
Most estimates for this project were based on labor hours, which required that I carefully evaluate which stakeholders could be involved with gathering information, documenting processes, and reviewing results, as opposed to which should be consulted for input or informed for their awareness.
This project meets Objective 5 . . .