Assessment item 3
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Charter
Value:30%
Due Date:28-sep-2018
Return Date:21-Oct-2018
Submission method options:Alternative submission method
Task
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You are to prepare and submit Assessment 3 as an individual, based on theVirtucon/Globexscenario, and your peer to peer learning from Assessment 2. This isNOT a team assessment.
You are required to develop a charter for the Project including:
Include the Project description and overview you developed as part of Assessment 2.
Part One:
MOV - MeasurableOrganisationalValue
(This is the goal of the project and isutilisedto define the value that your team project will bring to your client)
•Identify the desired area of impact - Rank the following areas in terms of importance: Strategy / Customer / Financial / Operational / Social
•With reference to your project, identify one or two of the following types of value:
•Better - is improving quality important to your client?•Faster - does your client want to increase efficiency?•Cheaper - is cutting costs important?•Do more - does your client want to continue its growth?
•Develop an appropriate metric - this sets the target and expectation of all the stakeholders. It is important to determine a quantitative target that needs to be expressed as a metric in terms of an increase or decrease of money.
•Determine the timeframe for achieving the MOV - ask yourselves, when do we want to achieve this target metric?
•SUMMARISE THE MOV IN A CLEAR CONCISE STATEMENT OR TABLE
(Note: the MOV should inform everyone what the project will achieve, not how it will be achieved. It should also focus on theorganisation, not on the technology that will be used to build or support the information system).
Part Two:
Define Scope and produce a Scope Management Plan
Define the scope of the project and detail how the scope will be managed.
Provide a list of Resources
Identify and detail the resources for the project using MS Project where appropriate, including:
•People (and their roles), plus any extra personnel that is required for the project.•Technology - any hardware, network and software needs to support the team and your client.•Facilities - where will most of the teamwork be situated?•Other - for example, travel, training etc.
Part Three:
Using MS Project, develop a schedule using a high level Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). It should include:
•Milestones for each phase and deliverableoThis will tell everyone associated with the project that the phase or deliverable was completed satisfactorily.•Activities / TasksoDefine a set of activities / tasks that must be completed to produce each deliverable.•Resource AssignmentsoAssign people and resources to each individualactivities.•Estimates for Each Activity / TaskoDevelop a time estimate for each task or activity to be completed.•Project BudgetoDevelop a budget using the time and resources estimated for each task or activity
A summary of the WBS should be clearly provided in the report. Your MS Project (or ProjectLibre) file must also be submitted for marking.
Part Four:
Project Risk Analysis and Plan
•Document any assumptions you have made about the project•Using the Risk Identification Framework outlined in your text as a basis, identify five risks to the project – one for each of the five phases of the methodology.•Analysethese risks, assign a risk to an appropriate member, and describe a strategy for the management of each specific risk.
Part Five:
Quality Management Plan.It should include:
•A short statement that reflects your team’s philosophy or objective for ensuring that you deliver a quality system to your client.•Develop and describe the following that your project team could implement to ensure quality;oA set of verification activitiesoA set of validation activities
Part Six:
Closure and Evaluation
Researching for the closure checklist and project evaluation
a. To prepare for this task, you will be required to provide an annotated bibliography.(550 words)
Write an Annotated Bibliography for three (3) relevant texts or readings around project evaluation. The Annotated Bibliography is a critical examination of the most relevant, recent and scholarly research on the topic area that is not just a summary of the articles you have read.
You will submit this as an appendix to your project evaluation documentation.
Ensure that the AB submitted by you is your own work and has not been submitted elsewhere and comply with the University's requirements for academic integrity.
Use the following resource to guide you around the research tools:
http://student.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/186444/annotate1.pdf
http://libguides.csu.edu.au/itc
b. Develop a closure checklist that the project team will use to ensure that the project has been closed properly.
c. Develop a project evaluation –outline and discuss how your project’s MOV will be evaluated.
Rationale
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This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:
•beable to research and critically evaluate how apractisingIT project manager applies IT project management techniques, project management skills, methods and software tools in the IT industry.•beable to understand and apply appropriate communication practices within a project management context.•beable to research and apply established IT project management principles, skills and techniques to a case study.
Marking criteria and standards
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Criterion
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High Distinction
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Distinction
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Credit
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Pass
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Fail
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Provides an MOV and identifies the target and expectations of all stakeholders in a suitable format.
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The MOV illustrates the student’s detailed consideration of the target and a thorough analysis of the expectations of all stakeholders.
The format is logical, clear and well-structured.
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The MOV illustrates the student’s detailed consideration of the target and an attempt at analysis of the expectations of all stakeholders is evident.
The format is logical and appropriate to the information presented.
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The MOV illustrates the student’sgeneralisedconsideration of the target and an attempt at analysis of the expectations of most stakeholders is evident.
The format is suitable to the information presented.
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The MOV illustrates the student’sgeneralisedconsideration of the target; however analysis of the expectations of all stakeholders is not clear.
The format is suitable to the information presented.
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The MOV fails to cover one or more specified project requirements.
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UtilisingMS Project, provides a list of resources associated with the project – including reference topeople, technology, and facilities and associated costs
(10 Marks)
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Evidence of expertlyutilisingMS Project to create a comprehensive list of resources, demonstrating in-depthanalysis of the project’s needs.
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Evidence of expertlyutilisingMS Project to create a list of all resources required for the project; demonstrating analysis of theproject’s needs.
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CorrectlyutilisingMS Project to provide a list which identifies most of the resources required for the project;some evidence of analysis of project needs.
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Key resources are correctly identified and documented.
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Key resources have not been identified.
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Produces a Scope Management Plan (SCM).
(10 Marks)
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Consistent application of industry standard language and formatting.
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Well written with some demonstration of industry standard language and formatting.
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Well written with demonstration of academic standard language and formatting.
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Well written but lacks acceptable formatting.
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Writing is not of an acceptable standard.
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UtilisingMS Project -evidences the processes involved with a WBS, including budget.
(15 Marks)
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Demonstrates high level project management skills, integrating and applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of WBS design, correctly and comprehensively addressing all project requirements.
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Demonstrates competent management skills, applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of the WBS design, correctly addresses the all project requirements.
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Demonstrates essential management skills, applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of the WBS design. Essential project requirements addressed.
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Demonstrates minimal management skills and needs some improvement in applying project management tools in meaningful and purposeful ways towards completion of WBS. Not all project requirements are clearly addressed.
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The WBS design fails to correctly address one or more essential project requirements.
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Provides a project riskanalysis and plan using the risk identification framework as a basis for discussing alternate strategies for the management of such risks.
(15 Marks)
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All steps in project riskanalysis and alternate strategies are comprehensively discussed and presented in the context of the project, with evidence of thorough consideration of the framework to validate the alternatives.
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All steps in project riskanalysis and alternate strategies are clearly discussed and presented in the context of the project, with reference to the framework to validate the alternatives.
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Evidence that key steps inproject risk analysis and alternate strategies are discussed and presented in the context of the project, with some linkages back to the framework to validate the alternatives.
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Key steps in project riskanalysis and alternate strategies are accurately presented. Minimal reference to framework in the discussion presented.
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One or more key steps inproject risk analysis and alternate strategies are not presented.
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Produces a quality management plan which includes a statement about the team’s philosophy and verification and validation activities.
(15 Marks)
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All required project steps are correctly identified and appropriatelycontextualisedfor the selected project.
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All required project steps are correctly identified and are applied to the selected project with somecontextualisation.
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All required project steps are correctly identified and are applied to the selected project.
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Most required project steps are correctly identified and applied to the selected project.
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Multiple project steps are missing or not applied to the selected project.
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A closure checklist is produced alongside the development of aproject evaluation that is evidenced by research.
(10 marks)
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The closure checklist is detailed, and has been used accurately to close the project. Theevaluation has been professionally documented and is evidenced by research.
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The closure checklist is detailed, and has been used accurately to close the project. Theevaluation has been well documented and is evidenced by research.
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The closure checklist has been used appropriately to close the project, and the evaluationhas been adequately documented and is evidenced by research.
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The closure checklist has been used to close the project, and theevaluation has been addressed and is evidenced by research.
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The closure checklist has not been addressedadequately,the evaluation islacking detail and is not evidenced by research.
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Referencing of sources (APA 6thedcitation) to reinforce findings.
(10 marks)
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All written evidence is professionally communicated using correct referencing.
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All written information is good with appropriate referencing
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All written information is generally wellorganisedbut more clarity of communication is required in terms of referencing.
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All written content is loosely connected, and there is ineffective use of referencing.
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No apparent logical order of written content, and there is a lack of referencing.
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