Reference no: EM133930035
Assessment Item: Overview
Introduction
This is a group assessment to be completed in a team of maximum 4 students. A group participation form, which is available in LMS, needs to be completed, signed by all group members, and submitted before Session 5. Once submitted, all teams will remain fixed, and no member additions or deletions will be allowed unless approved by the unit facilitator. Get expert online assignment help in the Australia.
As a group, you have to choose any one of the following projects.
implementation of a Cloud-Based ERP System for Supply Chain Optimization
Identity and Access Management (IAM) System Deployment for Cybersecurity Enhancement
AI-Powered Chatbot Development for Customer Support Automation
Migration of Legacy Systems to a Cloud Infrastructure in a Financial Institution
Development of a Data Analytics Dashboard for Real-Time Business Insights
Development and Deployment of a Learning Management System (LMS) for Online Education
IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning for a Banking System
Implementation of an Agile Project Management Framework in a Software Development Team
Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategy Implementation for an E-Commerce Platform
You are required to prepare a project plan document, including a comprehensive scope statement, a Gantt chart demonstrating interdependencies between activities, risk and issues management strategy, and a change request management process. You are also required to investigate and use a configuration management tool such as GitHub for version control purposes.
Team collaboration needs to be demonstrated using industry standard tools such as Jira. Screenshots demonstrating the use of such tools need to be attached to the report. An oral presentation will be conducted during Session 12, where individual team members are expected to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the project report and answer verbal questions. Student involvement and contribution to group work will be assessed via this viva voce activity.
This assessment is to be completed in team of maximum 4 students. A group participation form, which is available in LMS, needs to be completed, signed by all group members and submitted till session 5. Once submitted, the teams will remain fixed and no member additions or deletions will be allowed unless by approval of your unit facilitator.
Objective(s)
Students are required to identify key project parameters during the phases of the project life cycle, which could accurately estimate the project flow and resources, project milestones and detailed work breakdown and scheduling. Students are required to employ project execution and monitoring techniques, which lead to a successful project closing, risk assessment and control and recommendations.
The following LOs are assessed in this assessment.
LO2 Apply standard project management techniques and demonstrate use of associated software tools models using visual tools.
LO3 Critically analyse project quality, including risks and project issues.
LO4 Demonstrate effective communication and team management skills, techniques and strategies required of a project manager.
LO5 Compose project documentations and explain the processes involved in their preparation.
LO6 Assess the importance of cost management and resource availability on project plans and perform project crashing calculations.
INSTRUCTIONS
The purpose of this group assessment is to develop a well-analysed and well-researched project management report based on analysing and identifying the overall parameters of a project and establish the appropriate project management standards required to complete the project. Since a project scope statement is given, the statement should be used to analyse and identify project issues, different project management tools and techniques to manage the project, conduct project risk assessment and make recommendations for improvements in the future. Assumptions can be made where required. But the assumptions must be reasonable and documented.
The assessment is based on the realistic nature of the project and how well it is presented. Make sure that the breakdown of the tasks, timeline, and the quality of the work is realistic, justifiable and sufficiently attractive to win a tender for a real project.
Task 1: Initially you will select your chosen company, where the workflow of sourcing raw materials, manufacturing product needs to be studied, identified and pictured clearly. The main goal of this project is to improve the supply chain management processes for procurement and product manufacturing via via deployment of a new supply chain management software.
Task 2: Your next task is to design a project charter that includes, background of the project, project objectives, main project success criteria, roles and responsibility of project stakeholders, and risk and dependencies.
Task 3: Design a Gantt Chart schedule that includes, work break-down structure (WBS), start and end date of each task, responsible person to perform the task and proceeding task/s. It is important to mention that, WBS is required for all the stages (i.e., workflow analysis, configure setting, prototyping, training and releasing the software) mentioned in this project. Moreover, you should include the relevant sub-stages necessary to complete the project. It is compulsory that students use Microsoft Project to complete WBS, allocate time and resources.
Task 4: Discuss a risk assessment plan. This should include: identifying possible risks, performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and planning for risk responses. To identify risks, you should apply common risk identifying techniques (for example, brainstorming, Delphi technique, interview, SWOT analysis, fish bone diagram etc.). For the simplicity, you need to apply risk assessment plan at only one stage of the project (i.e., workflow analysis, configure setting, prototyping, training and releasing the software).
The report should be prepared in Microsoft word and uploaded on to the LMS. The word limit of the report is 2000 words. The report must use Times New Roman, 12-point font size and single line spacing with appropriate section headings.