For this assignment, you will develop the project plan for your professional project. The project plan will be created using the “MSN-Health Informatics Clinical/Practicum Schedule (work plan)” Excel workbook. Use the example tab to view what a project plan should look like. Use the Blank Form tab to create your project work plan. You may revise, add, and delete rows to modify the Blank Form to meet your project workplan specifications. You will use this project plan for all subsequent assignments.
To successfully manage a project, a project plan is required to organize and control the tasks and process strategically to guarantee the project is successfully completed. The project plan is designed to help you develop strategies for the successful and sustainable implementation of your informatics solutions. Your informatics solution will include using appropriate analytical methods and processes in the design of informatics and implementation of your project.
Your project plan should include at minimum the milestones below. You will add additional tasks and deliverables as you plan and complete each section of the plan as your project proceeds.
- Research the proposed project idea
- Identify the business need
- Conduct stakeholder interviews
- Gathering the initial project data
- Define the scope of the project
- Identify the problem
- Conduct a root cause analysis
- Elicit project requirements and additional data needed for your solution
- Develop the solution
- Test the solution
- Develop an implementation plan
- Communicate the solution
- Implement the plan
- Evaluate the solution
- Resolve problems found during implementation
- Present the final project
Meet with your preceptor/mentor and any appropriate stakeholders to review your project plan created in the MS-Health Informatics Project Schedule Excel workbook. Ensure the project plan supports the proposed informatics solution and is appropriate for the organization.
Include the time it takes to complete these tasks as part of the practicum hours.