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Microsoft Word - 2022 T2 BN205 Formative Assignment 1 v1.docx Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Moderated by: Min Gurung July 2022 Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines School SITE Course Name Bachelor of Networking (BNet) Unit Code BN205 Unit Title Project Management Assessment Author Krishna Paudel Assessment Type Individual Formative Assessment Assessment Title Formative Assignment 1 Unit Learning Outcomes covered in this Assessment After completion of this Assignment students are expected to be able demonstrate their achievements towards the following unit learning outcomes: a) Apply project management skills as a strategic tool, framework, or methodology for business development. b) Demonstrate project leadership skills; identify and assess risk in design and executing a major project. Weight 5% of the total assessments Total Marks 50 Word/ Page limit N/A Release Date Week1 Due Date Week 3 (11:55 PM on Sunday 7th August 2022) Submission Guidelines  All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a completed assignment cover page (identifying student name and ID, teaching staff and assignment).  The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings.  Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style Extension  If an extension of time to submit work is required, a special Consideration Application must be submitted directly to the School’s Administration Officer, in Melbourne on Level 6 or in Sydney on Level 7. You must submit this application three working days prior to the due date of the assignment. Further information is available at: http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies- procedures-andguidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment Academic Misconduct  Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make themselves familiar with the full policy and procedure available at: http://www.mit.edu.au/about- Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Moderated by: Min Gurung July 2022 mit/institutepublications/policies-procedures-and- guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-MisconductPolicy-Procedure. For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity Section in your Unit Description. Assignment Description All projects are launched to be successful, but some projects fail. Information Technology Projects have higher failure rate than other projects. It is important to learn from the past failures and use the lesson learnt to improve the success rate of future projects. In this assignment you are required to research major Information Technology failure and critically analyse them to find out the shortcoming so that successful IT project can be delivered in future. You are further required to research and discuss stakeholder management and need of the technical skills for a successful project manager. 1. Do some research and list five Information Technology project failures in the last decade. 2. Discuss what determines the success or failure of a project. 3. Critically explain the reason of the project’s failure in one of the failures examples in Q1. 4. Stakeholder management is one of the many project management tasks. Describe with an example project who are the stakeholders and what the project manager needs to do to make them satisfied. 5. Explain the importance of technical skills for a project manager with an example project. Marking Criteria The marking points are mapped with the questions. Full marks are awarded for the correct answer with analysis, description, examples and when the answer responds clearly to the question asked. Criteria Description Marks Q1 Five major IT project failures examples 5x1=5 Q 2 Criterion discussion for project success and failure 10 Q3 Why IT project fails? discussion with one example from Q1. 10 Q4 Stakeholder Management with example 10 Q5 Importance of Technical Skill of Project Manager 10 Referencing IEEE References at least 5 references 5 Total 50
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1. Do some research and list five Information Technology project failures in the last decade.
There are different IT failures that have affected the organization in a negative manner such as PSA Airlines’s crew scheduling and tracking system failure, Fiat Chrysler (cruise controller problem) Telstra softw
are problem, a ransomware attack, and Heathrow disruption. All these IT failures affect the different stakeholders that are involved in the products. There are a number of reasons behind the failure of a project such as poor communication, underestimating the consequences of change, lack of leadership and lack of strong executive sponsorship or the failure of technology. Any kind of dependency that resides in the project affected the success of the project such as the problems that are listed in this discussion has technology dependency and dependency upon the different stakeholders or the communication between the different stakeholders that is why the consequences were worse [1]. The officials of the organisation come into play when the implementation of the IT project is planned in the organisation. Such as the decision to bring the change in the organisation is the foremost responsibility of the executives who are responsible for bringing a change in the organisation. In this section the different values related to the IT has been discussed the very first failure is it related to the failure of scheduling and tracking system at airlines that affected the millions of customers of this airlines nearly 3000 flights were cancelled or seven days in the year of 2018 and the cost of US $35 million was wasted due to this failure in the technology. According to the officials there was an issue in the connectivity and thousands of customers suffered due to the failure of the through scheduling and tracking system. The second failure related to the technology that is discussed in this discussion is the failure of the cruise controller system of Fiat and to combat the negative consequences of this failure the owner of this company recalled 5.3 million multiple car models to fix the bug on the cruise control issue. 1,54,000 minivans were also recalled by this glitch in the system and coding and it was supported in the system. The third failure that is discussed under this section is related to the software problem at Telstra that affected the 3G and 4G services nationwide for millions of customers who are interested in the services of Telstra. This problem was reported in the year of 2018 and it affected the brand image of the organisation in a negative manner. Another problem related to IT that is discussed is the Ransomware attack that was a famous attack which affected different continents and the hackers were asking for Ransom to provide control over the desktop. At last the Heathrow disruption is discussed, that is the failure related to the IT system more than hundred flights to and from London Heathrow airport were impacted in the year of 2020 after a technical issue affected the departure board and check in system of...
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