Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training Project

assessment task 2

Project Plan

Student name and student number:

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Campus: Insert campus or distance

Tutor: Insert tutor name

Tutorial number: Insert the tutorial number you are enrolled in.

Notes to the Author

[This document is a template. It has been tailored to suit the assessment. All fields within the template should be completed as per the project scenario provided.

· Blue italicized text provides an explanation of what should be included for each section.
Remove all blue text prior to submission.
Where there are two or more options for you to decide between, revert the option you are keeping to black and remove the other.

2 Stakeholders (10 Marks)

(List 6 key stakeholders or stakeholder groups. In this list you must include at least one key stakeholder that is a sponsor, supplier or a user. Be specific when listing who the stakeholder or stakeholder group’s are and include the category in the second column. Do not include the project manager as a stakeholder.)

(The description of interest should describe the stakeholder’s (or stakeholder groups) main interest in the project. The description of influence should describe the potential influence the stakeholder or stakeholder group has on the project. Please refer to and complete the table immediately below titled ‘Key stakeholder list’.)

2.1 Stakeholder List

Key Stakeholder List (6 MARKS)

2.2 Stakeholders Engagement Assessment Matrix (3 marks)

(The Project Board has asked you to complete a ‘Stakeholders Engagement Assessment Matrix’. Please complete the matrix below for the six stakeholders previously identified).

Stakeholders Engagement Assessment Matrix

2.2 Obtaining expert judgement (1 mark)

(In order to create a stakeholder management plan judgement and expertise should be sought from relevant groups or individuals.)

QUESTION:
Briefly explain at least two different methods or techniques to obtain this expert judgement from groups and/or individuals?

3 REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT (5 marks)

3.1.1 Traditional Owner/s of the land on which CQ University campuses are located (1 mark).

The Project Board has asked whether there can be a single key stakeholder representing the Traditional Owners of the land on which Central Queensland Campuses are located.

QUESTION

: State whether it is appropriate to have a single key stakeholder representing the Traditional Owners of the land on which Central Queensland Campuses are located. Provide an explanation for your response.

3.1.2 Opening statement style (1 mark)

(The Project Executive would like to open the inaugural cultural awareness program and seeks your advice regarding which statement should be used when opening cultural awareness training programs. The Executive are not sure if it should be a Welcome to Country or an Acknowledgement of Country. The Project Executive is not of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent).

QUESTION

: Which of the two opening statement styles
‘Welcome to Country’ or ‘Acknowledgement of Country’
is appropriate for the Project Executive to use and provide a brief explanation justifying your answer.

3.1.3 Requirements gathering for training package (1 mark)

(The Senior Supplier representing the company engaged to design, produce and implement cultural awareness training program provides the following information to the project board:

One of their lead designers previously developed a Muslim cultural awareness training program for the local community. The designer is confident they could access exactly the same training program and modify the content accordingly to suit the language, customs and protocols - which he can research all online. Using this desk top research and design would save both time and money, as there would be no need contact anyone outside the current project team.)

QUESTION: Is the suggestion of using a previously developed cultural awareness training program an appropriate method of requirements gathering? Briefly explain your answer.

3.1.4 Requirements traceability (.5 mark)

As multiple campuses will be involved in the project, the project board has requested requirements be tracked centrally.

QUESTION: What document could be used to track or ‘trace’ requirements throughout the project life cycle?

3.1.5 Requirements prioritization process (1 mark)

The project board are concerned they may have competing requirements from a number of stakeholders. To manage this they would like to define a requirement prioritisation process that can be shared with all stakeholders prior to requirements gathering.

QUESTION: What is requirement prioritisation and why would it be important to communicate this process to stakeholders?

3.1.6 MoSCoW Technique (.5 mark)

The project board wants use the MoSCoW technique to assist with prioritising any requirements that are gathered for this project.

QUESTION: List the five components of the MoSCoW technique

4 SCOPE (10 marks)

[The scope needs to address both the work breakdown structure (WBS) and the WBS dictionary]

4.2 Work breakdown structure (3 marks)

The WBS must comprise 3 levels and 6 work packages (see diagram below. Please note: The third level comprises work packages. You need to insert a name in each of these work packages.

Note: This WBS is not intended to represent the full project scope of the training project.

4.3 WBS Dictionary (6 Marks)

[Complete the WBS dictionary below. The dictionary describes each element in the WBS diagram. In this assessment you are required to complete a table for each of the six work packages within your WBS.]

Note: This WBS is not intended to represent the full project scope of the training project.

5 Schedule (5 MARKS)

5.1 Schedule

[The project executive has asked for the plan to be completed before work starts on the project. A project board member has suggested project work be completed in time for NADOC week 2019. However, project work cannot be started earlier than 1 June 2018 and the project should be finalised on or prior to 30 March 2019.]

[Select only five (5) only of the six (6) work packages previously listed. In the tables that follow, list at least three (3) work activities for each of the five (5) work packages selected. Also include the start and end dates and duration in days for each activity.]

6 Budget (5 MARKS)

[The project executive has stated the project plan needs to be funded from existing budgets and only wants to understand the remaining budget for key project activities/deliverables. For the purpose of the assignment use the activities identified in section 5.1 above. In addition, it is assumed that workers are paid the same hourly rate.]

QUESTION: What is the hourly AUD $ rate used in your calculations?

7 Risks (5 MARKS)

[Please complete the risk register below to describe five (5) risks associated with the project. The five (5) risks are to include four (4) threats and one (1) opportunity.]

Risk Register

8 TOLERENCES (1 mark)

[In the table below indicate what tolerance is specified in the project for cost and time only.]

9 LESSONS (2 marks)

[One of the project team members shared two lesson learnt from a previous cross cultural project they were involved in.

The first lesson involved problems encountered in trying to interface an ‘off-the-shelf’ online training program with the learning system used by the University.

The second lesson learnt involved a major supplier providing a generic cross cultural training package which failed to address the various nuances existing between different indigenous groups located in various geographical areas.

Please complete the table below regarding what specific action is proposed to address these previous lessons – in the current project.]

Project Submission Approval

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Assessment Task 2
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REFERENCES

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