Group Brainstorming Exercise 32541 Project Management Managing a Project – Software Purchase Scenario Brightmouth College is a higher education institute which used to be managed by a local government...

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Group Brainstorming Exercise 32541 Project Management Managing a Project – Software Purchase Scenario Brightmouth College is a higher education institute which used to be managed by a local government authority but has now become autonomous. Its payroll is still administered by the local authority and pay slips and other output are produced in the local authority’s computer centre. The authority now charges the college for this service. The college management is of the opinion that it would be cheaper to purchase an ‘off-the-shelf’ payroll package and do the payroll processing themselves. Scenario Source: Hughes B. & Cotterell, M. (2006) Software Project Management, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, Birkshire, UK, Page 7. 1. If you were the Project Manager, bearing in mind that an ‘off-the-shelf’ package is to be used, rather than developing the software from scratch, how would you manage this project?
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Projects in essence shall be undertaken for purposes of fulfilling the objectives in the manner of producing the required set of deliverables (Kerzner and Kerzner 2017; Harrison and Lock 2017; Project Management Institute 2017). The objective in essence can be defined in being the specific outcome towards which the work shall be directed, the strategic position that is to be reached, the specific purpose in being attained, specific result that is to be attained, the end product / service / other deliverable for being produced / performed (Kerzner and Kerzner 2017; Harrison and Lock 2017; Project Management Institute 2017). The deliverable can be stated to be any of the verifiable as well as unique form of product, outcome, or the capabilities that shall perform the service which are required for being produced in completing the phase, project or else process (Kerzner and Kerzner 2017; Harrison and Lock 2017; Project Management Institute 2017). The deliverables could either...
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