The purpose of assignment is to assess students on the following Learning Outcomes: LO1: Describe and apply project management principles to implement a complete IT project lifecycle. LO2: Prepare a comprehensive and detailed project plan, including project initiation scope definition, a high-level timeline and budget, resource plan, change management strategy, stakeholder and communication management plan, and human resource management strategy. Assignment Overview The purpose of this assignment is to develop a well-analysed project planning document based on the overall parameters of a project and establish the appropriate project management and quality environment required to complete the project. Since a business case has given, you must take this description as the basis to analyse and identify project issues, apply different project management tools and techniques to plan and manage the project. If you find that the description below is not detailed enough, you can make your own assumptions. But any assumptions must be reasonable and documented. The project assignment should include various phases of a project life cycle, such as initiating, planning, executing and closing a project. Project Management Plan helps the management team to maintain a constant focus towards delivering the project in accordance with the customers' needs, wants, and expectations. The development of such a plan is comprised of the business case, project objectives and goals, success criteria, scope, high level schedule, stakeholder accountabilities, the communication plan, benefits and costs, governance and resourcing, the management approaches and a high level risk plan. Such information ensures a consistent understanding of the project, help to set expectations, and identify resources necessary to move the project to the next level of detailed planning. In order to ensure the project success, it is imperative that good project management principles are used early in the planning stage of a project. As the project becomes more defined, the Project Management Plan will become the tool by which the project will be effectively managed. Students should include the major aspects of the project as if they were the Project Manager and it is a requirement of the subject that they include the use ofsoftware (Microsoft Project). The assignment will be marked on the basis of depth of subject knowledge, analysis, properly referenced and synthesized of a suitable and well-argued response. Failure to complete and submit the assessment by the due time and date without prior approval will result in a fail for the subject. ITSU3007 Manage IT Projects Copyright 2023 VIT, All Rights Reserved. Assessment will be on the basis of the realistic nature of the project and how well it is presented. Make sure that the timeline and the quality of the work is realistic, justifiable and sufficiently attractive to win a tender for a real project. Your assignment report must develop a project plan that: o Project Charter o Construct Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) o Estimate time breakdown for each phase of the project o Determine resource needs for your project o Draw a Gantt Chart for your project o Stakeholder analysis for your project Note: Use of Microsoft Project to complete WBS, allocate time and resources and prepare Gantt chart Diagram. Submission Guidelines Your scope and other requirements should, match the project based on its type, nature and size. You need to be realistic and logical as much as you can. The word limit for the assignment is 2000. The Font size needs to be "12" with font type as Times New Roman or Arial. Plagiarism: Your project and work should not be similar to other's work. Otherwise, that would be considered as either collusion or plagiarism. Submit your report into the corresponding Moodle drop-box for the assignment. Note that this will be a turnit-in drop box and you will be provided with a similarity score. This will be considered when grading the assignment. Note that incidents of plagiarism will be penalised. If your similarity score is high you can re-submit your report, but re-submission is only allowed up to the due date. If you submit your assignment after the due date and time re-submission will not be allowed. Late Submission: All work is due by the due date and time. Late submissions will be penalised at the rate of 10% per day including weekends. ITSU3007 Manage IT Projects Copyright 2023 VIT, All Rights Reserved. Business Case Scenario Imagine you are a project manager for a wireless telecommunications carrier in charge of a project for a new consumer product called Voice Activated Dialing (VAD). The product is critical to the corporate strategy to become one of the top three carriers in the markets where your company offers wireless service. Project Justification: Market research and customer feedback indicate that a demand for Voice Activated Dialing (VAD) has increased 40 percent over the past three months. One of our competitors has already announced a launch date for this product, and two others are expected to follow within the next two months. Our market share growth is expected to decline by 20 percent if we do not add VAD as part of our product mix. Product Description: The product features included in Voice Activated Dialing are dialing by speaking a phone number or name into the phone and the ability to create address book entries from a website. Voice Activated Dialing does not include the ability to add/edit/delete address book entries over the phone or an interface to personal information managers. Major deliverables: Product requirements defined System requirements defined System requirements developed Sales training developed Customer service training developed System enhancements implemented 3,000 Sales consultants trained 500 Customer service technicians trained Marketing communication plans executed in all markets VAD available in all markets Success Criteria: The launch of VAD will generate $2.5 million in incremental annual revenue for the corporation. The additional training required for sales consultants to be knowledgeable in offering the VAD product will increase the total sales consultant training package time by no more than two hours. Project Requirements The project is expected to be commenced and fully implemented within 18 months. The project is expected to have a one-off cost of $ 1, 500,000. The overall process includes Initial planning, Scoping, Development, Deployment, Testing ITSU3007 Manage IT Projects Copyright 2023 VIT, All Rights Reserved. and Training. Major stakeholders of this project are Executive Director, IT Manager, Project Manager and Project Team Members from functional, software, hardware and quality assurance team and contractor. You must research and estimate the resource requirements and task allocation. If so, make sure that you list all the assumptions as well as the constraints. Marking Guide/Rubric: 50 Marks Assignment Task Description Marks Introduction Write an introduction for this report. 5 Project Charter Design a project charter that includes, background of the project, project objectives, main project success criteria, roles and responsibility of project stakeholders, and risk and dependencies. 12 Gantt Chart Construct a Gantt Chart schedule that includes, work break-down structure (WBS), start and end date of each task, responsible person to perform the task and proceeding task/s. 15 Stakeholder Analysis List all the key stakeholders who receives communication 8 Report Layout & References Report layout, language and style should be good. Follow the IEEE style. 10