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Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Moderated by: Min Gurung August 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 Group Assessment Assessment Title Assignment 2 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. c) Reflect on current project management ethics, research, theory and practice d)explain projects effectively through planning, leadership, monitoring, teamwork, global awareness Weight 25% of the total assessments Total Marks 100 Word/ Page limit N/A Release Date Week1 Due Date Week 11 (11:55 PM on Thursday 29th September 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 http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-andguidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policies-procedures-andguidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Moderated by: Min Gurung August 2022 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- 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 Task Name: Business Case Purpose: This assignment provides students with practical experience in working in teams to develop a project business case to solve a unique and complex IT business problem. Assessment Details: A business case is the first deliverable in the IT project life cycle. IT provides an analysis of the organization value, feasibility, costs, benefits, and risk of several proposed alternatives or options. A business case helps to determine whether or not a project justifies an organizations investment into a project. The business case defines the problem and its impact and performs a cost benefit analysis for the proposed solution. It also looks at possible alternative solutions. The business case should also provide a check to see that the project aligns with the organization’s strategic plan. For help and guidance on preparing a business case, see: https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/business-cases-project-scope-analysis-6119 Requirements: In this assignment, you will be required to form teams of 3-4 students. On team member is to be elected the project manager for the duration of the project. Teams will prepare a project business case based on an IT project case study (attached or provided with this assignment) and should be creative and use their own initiative regarding assumptions and the scheduling all deliverables. The business case should contain details of the following: Introduction, description of project background Outline of problem / opportunity statement and project objective Current situation and analysis of options and recommendations Details of critical assumption and constraints Preliminary project requirements (preliminary scope planning) and deliverables Cost estimate of required resources (hardware, software, and personnel) Work breakdown structure (shown in MS project Gantt Chart) Risk and communication Plan The report should be professionally presented with cover page, table of contents, references. Each member’s individual contribution towards the business should be presented in the appendix. http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institutepublications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-MisconductPolicy-Procedure http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institutepublications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-MisconductPolicy-Procedure http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institutepublications/policies-procedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-MisconductPolicy-Procedure https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/business-cases-project-scope-analysis-6119 Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Moderated by: Min Gurung August 2022 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. Description Marks Introduction, background, and objectives 10 Current situation and analysis of options and recommendations 10 Project requirements and scope planning and deliverables 20 Work breakdown structure (Gantt Chart) 15 Cost estimate and benefit analysis 15 Risk and Communication Plan, 15 Critical assumption, and constraints 10 Presentation and references 5 Total 100 Reshaping Kiama Café’ Kiama Café is a traditional meet and greet cafe in Kiama, New South Wales. Kiama is a costal town south of Sydney and is traditionally famous for the whale watching, surfing, and swimming. During the last couple of years, the population of the town is growing rapidly, and the town is open for new business opportunities. One of the demands is to have a venue for functions and parties. Kiama Café’s owner Mr David is experiencing the changes in the customer and visitor demography and thinking to harness the opportunity. Owing to the prime location of Kiama Café, he will have comparative advantage whatever business he starts. Mr Wilson, a local IT entrepreneur and owner of ‘Ours IT services’ at Sydney is a regular visitor to Kiama café knows growth aspiration of Mr David. Mr Wilson is aware that many businesses in Sydney want to have a day out at serene place like Kiama for meeting and conferences and proposed to prepare a business case for Mr David. The plan is to extend the business to new services like conferences, family functions and dining services supported by state-of-the-art IT system. ‘Ours IT Services’ at Sydney provides IT consulting services for small and medium business- like Kiama Café including new installation and maintenance services. Mr Wilson is busy in his other commitments at present and hires you as a prospective project manager for this project. If you are successful in this project, you have chance of being a permanent member of Mr. Wilson’s team. Your first task is to prepare a business case for Mr David on behalf of ‘Our IT Services’ and take responsibility of the project once it is accepted by Mr David. Mr David intends to employ 10-20 full time staff to assist him running this club which will be renamed as ‘Kiama Events and Cafe’. Mr David is nostalgic to the history of his café business and does not want to remove the café from the business name. ‘Kiama Events and Café’ expect around 200-300 customers at peak capacity and planning to start service at the beginning of the December 2022. You have three months to complete the project because Mr David want to start the new business before Christmas 2022. There will be one big conference hall, one dining hall and two to three small family function rooms. Your job is to design and roll out a complete IT solution for Mr David. Some of the requirements are online booking, projector and sound system family function and conferences. Mr David wants to keep staff record, inventory etc in computer system. Mr David is flexible to reasonable and justifiable budget, but he is not flexible in time and quality of service and installed system. You anticipate several challenges if this project bid is successful, but Mr Wilson has promised you to provide services of experience team members including sparkies, technicians, system and network engineers who have worked with him for the last ten years. Mr Wilson has suggested you that as this is new business endeavour and have potential for growth you need to consider bare minimum to reduce the cost and modular design for future extensible IT solution. Mr Wilson is confident that you will prepare a convincing business case so that Mr David will agree to contract “Ours IT Services” for this project. The project will be considered a success, if it comes in on time, on budget, within scope and key stakeholders have been pleased with the communication and reporting processes.