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CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 1 of 7 Assignment 2 ITECH 2250 IT Project Management Techniques Task Individual assignment: Project Management Plan Due Date Week 11 – Friday, 5:00 pm Worth 30% (60 marks) Course Objectives This assessment task relates to the following course objectives: • Identify traditional and agile approaches and lifecycles for managing information technology projects; • Employ systems thinking approach to identify critical roles and stakeholders in information technology projects; • Explain the basic components of a project management plan and its importance in improving the success of information technology projects; • Adopt a project management framework to write a project management plan, for a simulated real world contemporary information technology project; • Apply the process groups model to manage information technology projects of various complexities and scales; • Demonstrate decision-making processes to solve a range of information technology project issues; • Classify and discuss current issues in information technology project management; • Value the importance of effective communication to solve problems on information technology projects; and • Value the significance of software quality in IT projects. CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 2 of 7 Assignment 2 ITECH 2250 IT Project Management Techniques Overview As stated by Schwalbe (textbook) a project management plan (PMP) is a document used to coordinate all project planning documents and helps to guide a project’s execution and control. She also states that a good PMP is vital to the coordination and integration of information across project management knowledge areas and across the organisation. In this assignment, you are required to produce a PMP for the WOWS project at the end of this document. There will be activities in the tutorials/laboratories related to work on this assignment. You are NOT required to produce ‘product related deliverables’ as part of this assignment. The focus is primarily on ‘project management related deliverables’. However, a good understanding of how the product is developed will help you produce a practical and implementable PMP including the process and tools to make the product. . CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 3 of 7 Assignment 2 ITECH 2250 IT Project Management Techniques Requirements PMP Deliverables: It is recommended to use the structure as suggested by Schwalbe (textbook) as a guide for preparing and creating your PMP: • Introduction • Organisation • Management and Technical approaches • Work to Perform • Schedule • Budget You may need to break down the major sections above and refer to the IEEE PMP template shown in lecture 3 for any specific info and tools to be included in each of the above sections. You may use Microsoft Project or other tools to plan the project and include screen shots in your report. A quality PMP will demonstrate a synthesis of plan content, templates and ideas acquired from project management professionals and academic authors with details from the case study provided. Your PMP document must be between 10 to 15 A4 pages including references, do not include any appendix in your PMP document. Academic Presentation: The PMP should be presented as business reports in accordance with the above structure, and adhere to academic writing presentation standards and be consistent with Federations University’s referencing requirements, see General Guide for Referencing. For help on report writing, see Federation University’s Writing Skills. For PMP content presentation in particular, consider the following writing formats as your top priorities: • dot lists or numbered lists • key words • tables • graphs or images https://federation.edu.au/current-students/learning-and-study/online-help-with/referencing https://studyskills.federation.edu.au/student-skills/writing/ CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 4 of 7 Assignment 2 ITECH 2250 IT Project Management Techniques Submission: PMP document should be submitted in electronic format via Moodle. Please refer to the “Course Description” for information regarding late assignments, extensions, special consideration, and plagiarism. You need to refer to the marking guide in the following page on how to prepare your work and score. CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 5 of 7 Assignment 2 ITECH 2250 IT Project Management Techniques Assessment Feedback Student: Criteria Marking Scale Poor Excellent 0 ................. 10 1. Introduction o purpose, objectives, deliverables, schedule & budget summary, assumptions & constraints 2. Organisation o Organisational chart, roles and responsibilities, RACI 3. Management and technical processes o control plans such as risk and scope control o process model, tools and techniques related to product development 4. Work to be done o requirements, WBS 5. Schedule o Gantt chart, network diagrams 6. Budget o resource sheet, cost baseline Total [60 marks] 0.0 Total Worth [30%] Comments Marked by Date CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 6 of 7 Assignment 2 ITECH 2250 IT Project Management Techniques CASE STUDY—THE WOWS PROJECT Refer to the WOWS project specifications in Assignment 1. WOWS executives believe in hiring highly talented and motivated individuals who can work well on self-managed teams. Smart and Bright formed a search committee to find the best candidate for managing the project. After reviewing many strong candidates, they decided to hire you to manage this critical project. You have previously worked for a system development firm and had successfully implemented several multimedia application development projects in large organizations. Since this was a high priority project that should be completed in 6 months, they felt it was appropriate to pay a premium for your contract at $140 p/hr for 2 d/wk. But a lot was at stake, therefore, Smart and Bright agreed to be joint project sponsors, and they also hand-picked Lance Sweets to be the main internal IT liaison. They would let you form the rest of the project team. You proposed that you would like to use some form of hybrid SCRUM project management methodology, particularly by incorporating SCRUM in the software development. However, after meeting with Smart, Bright and Sweets, you all agree that both the goal and solution are clear (since they are leveraging their existing expertise). You also agree that you will be able to clearly establish the requirements and that WOWS executives knows the technology well. For all these reasons you decide to use a more traditional predictive project management methodology including a traditional waterfall model for the SDLC. You predict that they will need to provide new hardware for the development team and upgrade the test bed for system and acceptance testing. You will also need to eventually a team of 6 analyst programmers to work on the system. Two will be hired for the Requirements/Analysis and Design SLDC phases and the remaining four will be hired for the remainder of the project. The programmers will spend the equivalent of half a day a week on project management related activities and the remaining four and a half days on development. They will be paid at a rate of $80 per hour. To use the existing knowledge of the organization, you hope to second some existing programmers to the project and use some of the hired programmers to backfill the vacated positions. The existing programmers may be charged at a higher rate than the $80 per hour. You also hope to use two existing employees in some capacity to help with Acceptance Testing of the apps – at this stage you budget for three days per week for seven weeks at $80 per hour. For all team members excluding the sponsors and externally hired consultants, an indirect cost rate of 25% is applied. You will also need to access a machine learning scientist and network security specialist consultant. Their pay rates are negotiable. CRICOS Provider No. 00103D Page 7 of 7 Assignment 2 ITECH 2250 IT Project Management Techniques After looking at the Business Case and creating a Stakeholder Register, you have completed the Project Charter and hold a Project Kick-Off Meeting. The estimated project budget on the Project Charter is listed at $1,000,000 (including reserves) and states that you will have the final versions released to market 8 months after commencing the project. From your knowledge of previous projects and PMBOK you think it best to understand the project in a traditional project management sense i.e. as a series of four sequential phases: • Starting • Organizing and preparing • Carrying out • Finishing. You realize you have completed the required processes for the starting phase and now must focus on the organizing and preparing phase of this project. A key process group in this phase is the planning process group. You must understand and produce the appropriate outputs from the core and facilitating knowledge areas relevant to the planning process of this phase and integrate these into the Project Management Plan (PMP). You must then perform progressive elaboration of the PMP over the life of the project and particularly with respect to the situations that follow. Based on the project specifications, you should make assumption wherever it is necessary.