COURSE:

NR632: Nurse Executive Concluding Graduate Experience II

Assignment Overview

In this assignment, students complete three documents that describe the current state of the project in preparation to hand the project off to another team or PM.

1. Completion Document: This document lists as many project deliverables and milestones that you feel are important for the new PM to know about. For each milestone or deliverable, list the estimated (current or initial) completion date and then the actual completion date if it has been completed.
   1. Complete the project information.
   2. Milestones: Identify as many major milestones or deliverables for the project and list them here. Consider referring to your WBS and/or Gantt chart for the list of milestones.
   3. Estimated completion date: Your Gantt chart should provide you with completion dates. If the milestone has been completed, the estimated completion date will be date the milestone was actually completed. If the milestone is still in progress, estimate the projected date it should reasonably be completed. You may need to update your Gantt chart at this point if a new completion date for a milestone is set here.
   4. Actual completion date: If a task or milestone has been completed, it should be easily evident on the Gantt chart and list the actual date. If the milestone is still in progress leave this cell blank. The estimated date will already be listed in the previous cell.
2. Lessons Learned: At the end of an initiative, every team should have a “hot wash” or debriefing meeting to discuss the lessons learned in the process. What went well? What didn’t go as expected? What could be improved? What will we do differently in the future?
   1. Complete the project information
   2. Provide answers, in narrative format, to each of the seven questions
3. Project Sustainability Worksheet: Just because a change has had a successful initial implementation does not mean that the change will endure. As the saying goes…old habits are hard to break. If hard-wiring of change is not properly planned for, end-users have a tendency to revert back to the old status quo. The sustainability worksheet prompts the PM to reflect on four key areas that address hard-wiring or refreezing the change.
   1. Complete the project information.
   2. Complete the table by answering the questions for each of the four areas.

Assignment Instructions

• Complete the completion document, lessons learned form, and sustainability worksheet.
• Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing and APA format as expressed in the current edition.