Orientation Manual. It Has 2 Sources. In

¶ … Orientation Manual. It has 2 sources. In the following 2 months, our team will be dedicated to producing Whatever firm's Orientation Manual. The aim of this Manual is to welcome new hires, orient them about the organization, acquaint them with the policies and procedures as well as provide resources/documentation that they would require throughout their tenure at Whatever. The project development plan is divided as follow: Determination of activities The project will include the following phases: Quotation of costs involved for development of a Manual.

Approval from client initiate the first phase of data gathering from the client including company background, policies and procedures, resources for new employees and study the organizational layout. Phase 2 - Initial construction of Manual content. First draft to be sent for approval to project manager. After internal revision, the Manual is sent to client for approval till final approval. Phase 3 - Designing of layout, including insertion of pictures and approval of graphics and logos. Send for approval.

Phase 4 - Manual sent to the publisher for mass publication and distribute to the client. There are three members to this project: Project manager [John Smith] - responsible for client dealing; devising project layout; delegation and approval of activities; relay effective communication from the client to the team members and to troubleshoot and implement contingency plans should the team face bottlenecks. Instructional designer [Margaret Jones] - Responsible for gathering and organizing content. Production Specialist [Steve Scully] - Responsible for final layout and "beautification" of manual.

Duration It has been estimated that the duration of the above activities are divided as follow: Phase 1 - Week 1 -2. Phase 2-Week 3-4 Phase 3-Week 5 Phase 4-Week 6 Problems anticipated The project manager has placed 2 weeks leeway in anticipation of possible problems. Some of the problems that the manager anticipates include illness of one of the team members which could delay the workflow to a maximum of 1 week and incur employee productivity cost.

Furthermore, the client might not be able to produce the required material for the team to work on at the initial stage might hinder the workflow by approximately 2 -3 days. Aside from that the manager also anticipates problems in delay by the publisher due to backlog and abundance in publication scheduled. This would only incur cost in remittance from the client but not labor productivity as the team would have embarked on new projects.

Contingency Plans To avoid the above from occurring, the manager plans to divide the content information into several parts and scheduling dates for its delivery by the client. In not meeting the deadline the client has to bear the cost of.