Background Your project consulting company has won a tender to implement a new information management system in a geotechnical company. The company wants to Increase their responsiveness and maximise resources to improve their business. They believe that a well designed and implemented information management system can substantially improve this capability. They have agreed to a contractual sum of R340 000 for the system to be delivered and users trained within 4 months. Your proposal should outline how each of the following steps (all planning and preparation inclusive) would be effected: 1. Define Project objective. 2. Define Completion Criteria (Deliverables) 3. Identify Resources 4. Define Tasks (mind mapping) 5. Define WBS 6. Allocate Resources to Task (Activity detail) 7. Create Dependency Relations 8. Prepare Schedule (Gantt Chart) 9. Prepare network Diagram and Review Critical path 10. Set Milestones and Control Points. GENERAL PROJECT TASK The following needs to be done: Formalize support Assess requirements Assess capabilities Define the system Develop an implementation plan Implement the system Maintain the system You know Budget = R340 000 Team consists of project champion from company, steering group and development team. Delivery to be under 4 months Requirements 1. All client information required is asked. 2. The report must be submitted in a word document 3. The main body of the report must be no more than ten pages. 2 Report Format Use the following headers (necessary for grading). Annexure printouts must be from MS Project to get that sections points/marks. These must be saved as individual files within a zipped folder Mancosa PAT 2017. The proposal component of your project should not exceed 10 pages. 1. Introduction (10) State the objective i.e. why your help is needed. State the project goal, plus any constraints or conditions. Break down the goal into several general services your team will offer, and the value that each service offers to the implementation of the management information system. 2. Assumed Resources (10) List all resources that will be needed, including your project team. Discuss assumed resources, including client information needed. Especially note external resources and requirements, e.g. suppliers. 3. Cost Estimates (20) Present the specific tasks you will do as a mindmap on MS Word and as a WBS on MS Project, and give cost estimates, with sub-totals at each level and total estimated cost. Briefly discuss the estimates, where the costs mainly go, and efforts made to save costs 4. Schedule and dependencies (20) Discuss the project dependencies and list the tasks on the critical path. Discuss the critical path tasks, and methods used to shorten the critical path. 5. Milestones and Deliverables (10) List and discuss the milestones and the deliverables for each. Be very specific about each milestone, including the project finish milestone. 6. Project Control and Risks (20) Explain the general strategy that will be used to manage the project to completion. Project must have at least two phases. Discuss how they connect to each other, and the milestones. Explain why you took this strategy. Summarise 10 most important project risks, and how they will be dealt with if they occur. 7. Summary (10) Briefly summarise, giving the overall project cost, the project benefits as bullet points, and the general strategy. Give the client a list of meetings, with details like who, when and where and estimated times, and desired deliverable.