Group Brainstorming Exercise 32541 Project Management Managing a Project – Software Purchase Scenario Brightmouth College is a higher education institute which used to be managed by a local government...

The subject is Project Management, and the scenario and questions are shown in the attached file. please answer the question base onPM knowledge include Topics from Project Management Fundamentals and Agile Project Management and other knowledge about the project management, thank you.


Group Brainstorming Exercise 32541 Project Management Managing a Project – Software Purchase Scenario Brightmouth College is a higher education institute which used to be managed by a local government authority but has now become autonomous. Its payroll is still administered by the local authority and pay slips and other output are produced in the local authority’s computer centre. The authority now charges the college for this service. The college management is of the opinion that it would be cheaper to purchase an ‘off-the-shelf’ payroll package and do the payroll processing themselves. Scenario Source: Hughes B. & Cotterell, M. (2006) Software Project Management, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, Birkshire, UK, Page 7. 1. If you were the Project Manager, bearing in mind that an ‘off-the-shelf’ package is to be used, rather than developing the software from scratch, how would you manage this project?