In this group assessment you are expected to demonstrate your understanding of the following key areas:

ASSESSMENT: DESCRIPTION

In this group assessment you are expected to demonstrate your understanding of the following key areas:

Project Charter

1, Ability to perform a literature review/research

2, Detailed WBS,

3Project schedule development

4, Time control processes

5, Budgeting and cost baseline etc.

In addition to covering the learning outcomes, you are expected to demonstrate your leadership and effective teamwork skills and to provide self-assessment and peer review.

At first phase, you need to develop a draft project plan in your pre-assignment. In pre-assignment you would need to cover the following:

1. Project Charter Outline

Create an outline of the Project Charter for the project case by focusing about the project, project deliverables, project cost, project time, and project roles and responsibilities.

2. Scope

Provide a scope statement for the project case, deliverables, and milestones.

3. Work Breakdown Structure

Prepare a WBS for the project case, outlining the first three levels of the structure only. Foreach phase/work package and high-level activity provide a brief description.

4. Time

Construct a high-level visualisation of project time management (e.g. Gantt Chart) and provide an explanation of each milestone

5. Costs

Identify the type of costs for the project case. Outline the direct and indirect project cost etc.

An example of the project case is provided, and you expected to find another similar project case to work with your group.

Based on your plan and structure outlined in the pre-assignment, you need to develop a more detailed project plan in your final assignment, covering the following elements:

1. Project Charter

Please reuse these -project title, project background, and key deliverables from draft project plan in your pre-assignment.

2. Literature Review

In the literature review, you need to follow the appropriate literature selection, identification of knowledge gaps, analysis and consolidation, citation (appropriate, extensive use).

3. Detailed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

You need to define, outline and clearly describe the Structure of WBS (logic, coverage, level of detail). Please outline the six levels of the structure that should be in line with the first three levels of the structure outlined in the pre-assignment.

4. Detailed Project Schedule

Please provide proper sequencing and task Dependencies.

5. Cost Modelling

Please provide detailed budget table and cost baseline

6. Communication

Please provide your communication plan in details.

7. Quality Management

Please provide your quality management plan in details.

8. Risk Management

Please provide risk register

You are required to submit an executive brief outlining the details of your project proposal. Try to find a real project and then prepare a brief proposal of this project. The nature of the project (i.e. type, field area) is the groups choice. You and/or your group are to demonstrate the ability to use the structures and processes of professional project management.

The approximate word limit forpre-assignmentis 1000 words andfinal assignmentis 2000 words excluding references and appendixes.

Format:The report should use Calibri Body (Font size 11) as the normal text and have margins of 2.5cm all around. Please use reasonable font sizes for headings.

SAMPLE CASE STUDY -Project for Town of Eden Bay

Background:

Eden Bay is a medium-sized municipality. The town has grown rapidly, and so has the demand for town services. Eden Bay currently own 90 vehicles, which the towns equipment department maintains. The fleet includes police cars, sanitation trucks, and other vehicles assigned to town employees. The maintenance budget has risen sharply in recent years, and people are asking whether the town should continue to perform its own maintenance or outsource it to private firms.

Your role:

You are assigned as an IT project manager reporting to Dawn, the towns IT manager. This morning, Dawn called you into her office to discuss the situation. A summary of her comments follows:

Dawn (IT manager):When I came here two years ago, I was told that Eden Bay had a computerised information system for vehicle maintenance. What I found was a spreadsheet designed by a part-time employee as a quick answer to a complex problem. Its probably better than no system at all, but what we really need is a new information system to meet our current and future needs. I want you to develop a proposal for a new system.

(Case adapted from Tilley and Rosenblatt 2017)

Scope: Identify a list of scope and discuss with IT manager.

Timeline: No timeline is given, could be 3 6 months, need to discuss with the manager.

Cost: Budget needs to be prepared.