Assignment 1
Assignment Specification:
Your job is to take the initial project proposal and undertake the following tasks that must be submitted weekly. Each task must be submitted online via the submission system on CloudDeakin. A discussion forum is set up on the unit website. Use this forum to ask any related questions.
Total marks for the tasks are 30. Read the chapters of the textbook relating to the tasks (see Submission Schedule). Apply the concepts within the textbook to the project and related tasks.
The assignment tasks build on the previously submitted task, culminating in a COMPLETED Project Proposal. You will be required to update the Project Proposal to reflect the knowledge you will gain over the weeks and to include the new information you will be creating for each task. The final product of this assignment will be a complete Project management plan.
Notes: The purpose of the project management plan is to communicate in a clear, informative and professional manner to your client and to your team what the project is, what will be needed to complete it, and how you expect to complete it. It will contain everything there is to know about the project.
The document will be completed in pieces, one week at a time by following the tasks below.
Workshops are designed to assist in doing the tasks. Read the workshop documents for more details, and complete the workshop tasks of each week.
Task 1: Project Charter
Develop a project charter using template available in the template folder outlining the purpose, background, justification, definitions and abbreviations, and objectives.
Task 2: Software Development Life Cycle
Outline the project life cycle methodology you expect the project will need to follow in order to succeed. Be sure to justify why you feel the chosen project life cycle methodology best suits this project.
Task 3: Organisational Chart
Develop an organisational chart to reflect the organizational structure of the project, the departments you need to get involved, informed and work with, and how they fit into the project.
Task 4: Project Stakeholders Register
Identify project stakeholders you think exist within the organization and associated with the project, and document them in the stakeholders' register (check the templates folder). Provide a brief explanation why they are stakeholders and what stake they have within the project.
Task 5: Project Scope Management (WBS)
Develop the project time management plan to reflect:
- Details of the project scope management plan
- Business requirements
- Articulate which requirements are in scope and which are not
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) of the project.
The WBS is a draft of the work that will be undertaken and put in an order to reflect the methodology you chose. The work order ensures each work task or subtask is logically organized with proper predecessor and successor tasks, as well as the resources and information required for completing the tasks.
The WBS should reflect the project life cycle methodology that you have chosen, and follow its phases accordingly. This also allows you to think about dependencies (eg. certain tasks cannot start until a certain other task has already competed).
The more detailed, thought out and flowing your WBS, the better planned your entire Project Proposal will be.
Task 6: Project Time Management
Develop the project time management plan to reflect:
- Details of the project time management plan
- The project Gantt chart from the WBS using a planning software tool of your choice (e.g. Microsoft Project). Include the links between tasks' predecessors and successors.
- Estimates (with thought and research) of each task will take. Also provide reference material and justifications where necessary (not for every single task, but for the major groups of tasks).
- Add the estimated time durations to the Gantt chart.
- Identify the milestones of the project, include them within the Gantt chart, and update the milestones section in the project plan to outline the expected delivery date, deliverables, and explain why each milestone was selected.
Task 7: Project Cost Management
Update the Project management plan to reflect:
- The project cost management plan
- Estimates of the costs of each task, and develop a report that outlines the major project tasks and estimated cost. This report will be presented to management, so be sure you present the information in a manner that can be easily interpreted and potentially experimented with. Include charts or graphs.
Note: Similar to the time estimations, costs can also be estimated when planned for and researched correctly. Using information extracted from the department heads, or from your own research online, how much a particular task may cost can be justified.
- In your report, include explanations on how you arrived at these figures or indicate assumptions of the estimates. You must provide references to where your cost estimates came from.
- Determine the cost baseline / budget of the project.
- Add the cost estimations to your Gantt chart.
Task 8: Project Risk Management
Update the project management plan to reflect:
- The project risk management plan
- The project risk register document showing key risks, description of each, probability, impact, status, risk owner, and potential risk responses.
Attachment:- template.zip