Assignment:
Part One:
MOV - Measurable Organisational Value
(This is the goal of the project and is utilised to define the value that your team project will bring to your client)
• Identify the desired area of impact - Rank the following areas in terms of importance: Strategy / Customer / Financial / Operational /
Social
• With reference to your project, identify one or two of the following types of value:
Better - is improving quality important to your client?
Faster - does your client want to increase efficiency?
Cheaper - is cutting costs important?
Do more - does your client want to continue its growth?
• Develop an appropriate metric - this sets the target and expectation of all the stakeholders. It is important to determine a quantitative target that needs to be expressed as a metric in terms of an increase or decrease of money.
• Determine the timeframe for achieving the MOV - ask yourselves, when do we want to achieve this target metric?
Part Two:
Define Scope and produce a Scope Management Plan
Define the scope of the project and detail how the scope will be managed.
Provide a list of Resources
Identify and detail the resources for the project using MS Project where appropriate, including:
People (and their roles), plus any extra personnel that is required for the project.
Technology - any hardware, network and software needs to support the team and your client.
Facilities - where will most of the teamwork be situated?
Other - for example, travel, training etc.
Part Three:
Using Project Libre (or MS Project), develop a schedule using a high level Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). It should include:
Milestones for each phase and deliverable
This will tell everyone associated with the project that the phase or deliverable was completed satisfactorily.
Activities / Tasks
Define a set of activities / tasks that must be completed to produce each deliverable.
Resource Assignments
Assign people and resources to each individual activities.
Estimates for Each Activity / Task
Develop a time estimate for each task or activity to be completed.
A summary of the WBS should be clearly provided in the report. The Project Libre file must also be submitted for marking.
Part Four:
Project Risk Analysis and Plan
Document any assumptions you have made about the project
Using the Risk Identification Framework as a basis, identify five risks to the project - one for each of the five phases of the methodology.
Analyse these risks, assign a risk to an appropriate member, and describe a strategy for the management of each specific risk.
Part Five:
Quality Management Plan. It should include:
A short statement that reflects your team's philosophy or objective for ensuring that you deliver a quality system to your client.
Develop and describe the following that your project team could implement to ensure quality;
A set of verification activities
A set of validation activities
Part Six:
Closure and Evaluation
Develop a closure checklist that the project team will use to ensure that the project has been closed properly.
Develop a project evaluation - outline and discuss how your project's MOV will be evaluated.
Rationale
This assessment addresses the following learning outcomes:
Identify and reflect on project stakeholders, communication management, the project management knowledge areas, common tools and techniques, and project success factors.
Critically evaluate how a practising ICT project manager applies ICT project management techniques, skills, methods and software tools in the IT profession.