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Assessment Information COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Kaplan Business School pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (‘Act’). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Kaplan Business School is a part of Kaplan Inc., a leading global provider of educational services. Kaplan Business School Pty Ltd ABN 86 098 181 947 is a registered higher education provider CRICOS Provider Code 02426B. Assessment Information 1 Subject Code: MBA 641 Subject Name: Strategic Project Management Assessment Title: Length: Statement of Work (SOW) 2000 words (+/- 10% allowable range) Weighting: 30% Total Marks: Submission: 30 Online via Turnitin Due Date: Monday of Week 5, 23.55 pm (AEST) . Your task You are required to read the following case study and prepare a Statement of Work (SOW) based on the information contained in the case study - Pashendale Holdings Ltd (PHL) Assessment Description – Case Study . You are required to read the following case study and prepare a Statement of Work (SOW) based on the information contained in the case study. PHL is an Australian construction company with a strategic plan to enhance marketing and customer service. This involves a multi-tiered approach to winning new clients and capturing additional market share. To help achieve this strategic objective, Virna Pashendale, the Chief Executive Officer of PHL, has approved the Website Redevelopment Project. The project is an update of the current PHL website: www.pashendale.weebly.com The purpose of the Website Redevelopment Project is to build a new website rich in content including new building developments, client testimonials, recent company news, an affiliate network platform, and other industry information, but with a simplified and user-friendly interface for clients. The website must help PHL work more closely with clients to develop tailored construction solutions. The website must also facilitate the delivery of more timely feedback to prospective clients and generally improve customer interaction with the company. As PHL has no internal IT department, the design, testing, implementation, and training for the new website must be outsourced. The scope of work for the project, therefore, includes all planning, execution, implementation, and training for the new website but does not include any work on PHL’s internal intranet site. For this reason, the website design contractor ultimately chosen by PHL to perform the work must ensure it has adequate resources for designing, building, testing, and implementing the new website and is properly staffed for the training of PHL personnel as well. http://www.pashendale.weebly.com/ Assessment Information COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Kaplan Business School pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (‘Act’). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Kaplan Business School is a part of Kaplan Inc., a leading global provider of educational services. Kaplan Business School Pty Ltd ABN 86 098 181 947 is a registered higher education provider CRICOS Provider Code 02426B. For each phase of the project, there are a range of specific tasks that the website design contractor must perform. For the planning phase, the contractor must create and present to PHL a detailed project plan including schedule, work breakdown structure, testing plan, implementation plan, training plan, and transition plan. The contractor is required to present this project plan to PHL for review and approval. For the definition and design phase of the project, the contractor must initially work with PHL to gather requirements and establish metrics, create a website design based on collected requirements, and develop a website design proposal for PHL review and approval. The contractor must then complete all coding for the approved website design, provide PHL with a detailed testing plan, include all content provided by PHL on the redesigned web site, conduct testing in both the contractor’s iLab as well as in a limited beta release, resolve any coding and site issues identified in testing, and compile a testing report to present to PHL for review and approval. During the definition and design phase, the contractor is required to provide PHL with a written status update in weekly meetings to be held between the contractor and PHL. For the implementation phase, the contractor must first implement the newly redesigned web site on PHL servers then begin providing 24x7 website support from this point forward until the end of the project. The contractor must then provide training in accordance with the approved training plan. As with the definition and design phase, the contractor is required to provide PHL with a written status update in weekly meetings to be held between the contractor and PHL during the implementation phase. For the conversion phase of the project, the contractor will provide PHL with all documentation in accordance with the approved project plan and present a project closure report to PHL for review and approval. The contractor must then complete the project requirements checklist showing that all project tasks have been completed. At this point, the contractor will conclude 24x7 web support at 11:59 pm on the final day of the project. The contractor is required to provide PHL with a written status update in weekly meetings to be held between the contractor and PHL during the conversion phase. The first milestone for the project is the release of the Statement of Work on 6 September 2019 followed by a website design contractor selection review process that should last no more than three weeks with a contractor being selected for the project by 27 September 2019. The project is to begin a week later. The website design review is to be finalised three weeks after project commencement and the website implementation review is to be finalised six weeks after project commencement. Implementation must then be completed by 6 December 2019 with the training of PHL personnel to be completed a week later. The project completion review must be performed a week before Christmas Day and the project formally closed on Christmas Eve. The cost structure for the project is on a fixed fee basis. Initial estimates for the cost of each phase of the project are planning - $30,000, definition and design - $145,000, implementation - $60,000, and conversion - $30,000. PHL’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Sennveasna Naveen, will be responsible for the acceptance of all deliverables from the website design contractor. The CMO and her team of three advisors must ensure each project task has been properly completed. At the conclusion of each project phase, the contractor must provide the CMO with a report for her review and approval. The CMO will either sign off on the project phase completion and grant approval for the next project phase to commence or advise the contractor in writing of the project tasks that remain outstanding. At the completion of the project, the website design contractor must provide the CMO with a project Assessment Information COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Kaplan Business School pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (‘Act’). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Kaplan Business School is a part of Kaplan Inc., a leading global provider of educational services. Kaplan Business School Pty Ltd ABN 86 098 181 947 is a registered higher education provider CRICOS Provider Code 02426B. closure report and project tasks checklist. The CMO will either sign off on the project closure report or advise the contractor in writing of the project tasks that remain outstanding. If the CMO does sign off on the project closure report, this will represent acknowledgment by PHL that all project deliverables have been accepted and the contractor has met all assigned tasks. Should a disagreement arise between the website design contractor and PHL over the completion of project tasks or a project phase, the matter will be referred to the contracting officers of both organisations for review and discussion. Assessment Instructions You are required to read a case study based on a fictional company and prepare a Statement of Work (SOW) based on the information contained in the case study. You will be required to include a minimum of 15 references in your Statement of Work at least 5 of which must come from academic journals or textbooks. You are required to use at least 15 sources of information and use Kaplan Harvard Referencing Style. Wikipedia and other ‘popular’ sites are not to be used. Assessment Submission This file must be submitted as a ‘Word’ or ‘PDF’ document to avoid any technical issues that may occur from incorrect file format upload. Uploaded files with a virus will not be considered as a legitimate submission. Turnitin will notify you if there is an issue with the submitted file. In this case, you must contact your lecturer via email and provide a brief description of the issue and a screenshot of the Turnitin error message. 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Statement of Work
Statement of Work
    Date
    10th August 6, 2019
    Project Name
    Redevelopment of PHL’s website
    Prepared by
    XYZ
Introduction/Background
The current project is based on redevelopment or redesigning of PHL's (Pashendale Holdings Limited) website. While talking about the company's background it can be stated that the company PHL is an Australian company involved with construction and providing a strategic plan to different organ
isations. In recent times, it has been observed that both individual and corporate customers are very much concerned over checking the digital content of a company. In other words, the digital presence of a company generates more trust from the customers (Nilashi et al. 2015). The current project is aimed to redesigning the website in such a way so that it shows each and every detail about the company to its customers. Details are here referring to client testimonials, current company news, industry information and current position of the company and others.
This project is aimed towards getting maximum possible clients and generates maximum possible revenue. However, these are some secondary objectives, primary objectives of this study are to build a revised version of the website or implementing a new look on the website. Earlier company's website was not that attractive and domain traffic was very low hence, this project is aimed towards achieving more traffic or customers in the company's site.
Project Scope
Scope of a project can be segmented into two different parts (Mirza, Pourzolfaghar and Shahnazari, 2013). The first one is in-scope that is nothing but the sections that will be covered by the project and the other one is out-scope that is the sectors, which will not be covered, by the project.
In scope
· Developing coding and implement those coding into website design is a huge scope of this project
· Integrated HTML code
· The project will be completed within $ 265,000
· The project will be completed within 2 months of time
· This project has aimed to deliver a one-stop solution for all its client
· The website must be accessible from both computers as well as smartphones
Out scope
· The domain of the website will not be changed through this project
· The project will be rejected if it is not completed within 2 months
· Maximum budget for this project estimated to $ 265,000, if the requirement is increased then the project will be rejected
Work Requirements
Despite being a short-term project still, it can only be completed after following some works. In case of project management, these small tasks are called as project milestone. However, discussion of project phases and project milestones will be discussed in a later section. Currently, work associated with the project is presented.
The first work that is required to be completed is nothing but designing the basic plan, here the basic plan is nothing but how the website will be look-a-like. In other words, the blueprint of the website will be developed.
Identification of resources will be the second task and that is required to take into account. Here, resources can be segmented into two different parts, the first one is technical resource or technical requirement and the other one is non-technical requirements. Technical requirements are nothing but technology and tools required for re-designing the website (McWilliam, 2013). On the other side, non-technical resources are nothing but website designer, coder, testers and others. Through this task, how many testers and designer is required for completion of the whole project will be identified (Benyon, 2014).
Based on the website design criteria and resource requirement, the budget of a project is required to be done. Preparation of the budget is the most crucial part of this project because if the management of PHL fails to crosscheck every segment of the project then the total budget will cross $ 265,000. Auditor and finance executives required to hire for preparation of the budget.
Next task that is required to complete is procuring the resources, here, procurement of resources refers to a selection of supplier that offers ‘technologies' and ‘tools' that is required for designing the new website of PHL.
Recruitment of executives is the next task that is required to be conducted by the management team of PHL. Here, recruitment should be done from an end-to-end perspective. In other words, the recruitment will be done from the internal Human resource department of the...
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