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Business Analytics Project Management

Assessment Description
Data Labelling services to be offered by Uber

The Uber Data Labelling project has now progressed to the stage where it is necessary to prepare a Gantt chart to manage project timing. To do this, the Project Manager meets with their 3 Project facilitators.

Task

You are to form a group of 3 to 4 class members. One of you will be the Project Manager. The other group members will be Project Facilitators.

The group will discuss the challenges that they are facing/ likely to face in accessing services from Uber's IT department, especially your interface with the Data Science team within the IT Department. You have learnt this team is already stretched with other tasks within the broader Uber operations, especially from the new division seeking to offer self-driving cars within 12 months.

You have also met with the Uber Sales Directors, who have informed you they have already acquired several large business customers, on the basis that your service will be operational within 6 months. This has added pressure to the timing of a full functioning data labelling service.

One of the Project facilitators has met with representatives from your People and Culture function. They have expressed deep concerns about risks associated with this project, whether the data labelling were to be erroneous and lead to human misfortune. They believe a lengthy consultation process is needed before progressing with this project.

Another Project Facilitator has met with Uber's Chief Risk Officer. They are excited by a data labelling service being offered to third party businesses but are unclear about data privacy and security issues. They advocate proceeding with caution and consulting them at each step, to allay any concerns they may have. They mention they have a response time of two weeks after each step, as they also need to consult with other stakeholders, including the Chief Ethics Officer and Uber's internal hackers.

The third Project Facilitator had a family emergency in India and needed to go home for an extended stay. They have now returned to your office, but they are distressed by their personal circumstances and are unable to concentrate on this project - they feel they don't need any more stress in their life. However, the scale and timeframe of this project require them to deliver their fair share of project co-ordination. In the project team meeting, you decide to allocate them facilitation that involves monitoring progress of tasks by others, but you have your doubts as to whether they will truly assist or just be a burden for the rest of your team.

Your Questions for Assessment 2

Prepare a Gantt chart. In so doing, provide a rationale for each task, timeframe and dependency.

List all the stakeholders you consulted with in the preparation of the Gantt chart. Explain the type of information each stakeholder provided and the justification for this information.

Develop a Risk Management plan, based on identified risks. Who did you consult with in the development of this risk plan?

Define the risk appetite of your project, as nominated by your Project Owner/ Project Sponsor. Based on this risk appetite and the probability/ impact of each risk, place each risk on a heat map. What is the treatment plan for each of the risks in the "red" region?

Discuss how you will engage your Data Scientists. Likewise, how will the rest of your leadership team engage your Project facilitator, who is stressed by family health issues? How will you set boundaries with the People and Culture Department and the Chief Risk Officer?

What contingencies were allocated to this project and provide an example of when you would activate a contingency fund?

Your referencing must include at least 2 direct references from lecture slides in addition to other supporting material.

Question 1

This question requires you to list tasks on a GANTT chart with the dependencies shown between the tasks. Examples of activities include determining the type of data to use in the project, how to build a data model to assist with data labeling, preparing a pilot program. The GANTT chart will appear similar to the diagram below. In so doing, you will also need to nominate timeframes.

Question 2

Stakeholders were first considered in Assessment 1 - for example you will need to brief Data Scientists on the type of data you need in a cleansed format; you will need to liaise with operational, sales and marketing people to bring the project to a commercial venture. Each of these stakeholders will have their own information needs eg an operational person will need to know the resources for executing the data project. Get expert-level assignment help in any subject.

Question 3

A risk management plan will include the content to populate a risk register, as displayed below.

Question 4

In this question, you will need to apply the leadership skills you practiced in class during week 9.

Question 5

Contingencies are activated when the evaluated risk exceeds the risk appetite of the organisation for the Uber Data Labelling project. The contingency fund requires additional resources in case the risk increases and additional resources are needed to manage the resultant risk eg if additional resources need to be deployed because the project is falling behind its required schedule for launch.