Case Study:

mount taken is one of the top institutions in the country. They are a privately-run school providing the best teaching and sports facilities to its pupils. The school has a reputation of having its students top rank in HSC exams every year.

However, due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, the school had to shut its classes and had to move its content online. Due to the sudden closure and government-imposed lockdown, students were left halfway in the semester with their classes discontinued until further notice. The school currently lacks a proper IT infrastructure and is currently using a cloud platform (like Microsoft One-drive) to share its content. Even though it does the job, this is very inefficient and is costing the school a lot of money and man hours in the process.

Given most schools only have basic level of IT support, the Principal and the Board of Trustees of the school have contracted your company to build a proposal to lead the project for building an IT infrastructure to help support the delivery of the content online to thousands of its students. This involves setting up of servers to help store the content and build a platform to deliver lectures in real-time to students. The students can also download the transcript of the lectures and get their questions answered by the teachers. The teachers should be able to upload assessments and workshop materials on the platform, review the submissions and provide feedback to the students making the process more efficient and scalable.

The current student groups range from year 7 to year 12. Also, there are many subjects taught in the during different time periods and one of the challenges faced by the school is how to deliver them simultaneously across the platform. The principal wants you to assemble a team of IT technicians and deliver the project within 6 weeks. To do that, he wants you document a detailed report to be presented to the board of trustees to get their approval for this project.

Review the case study above and consider the following questions

question

There are risks with any approach, and the Project Manager understands this. Outline some of the key risks with using the agile method project management methodology. Assess how these risks might impact on project budget, schedule and quality as expressed in the time- quality-cost triangle theory.