You are to prepare and submit Assessment 3 as an individual, based on the Virtucon/Globex scenario( information about this project in below), and your peer to peer learning from Assessment 2. This is NOT a team assessment. You are required to develop a charter for the Project including:

Include the Project description and overview you developed as part of Assessment 2.

Part One: MOV - Measurable Organisational Value (This is the goal of the project and is utilised to define the value that your team project will bring to your client) Identify the desired area of impact - Rank the following areas in terms of importance: Strategy / Customer / Financial / Operational / Social With reference to your project, identify one or two of the following types of value:

Better - is improving quality important to your client?

Faster - does your client want to increase efficiency?

Cheaper - is cutting costs important?

Do more - does your client want to continue its growth?

Develop an appropriate metric - this sets the target and expectation of all the stakeholders. It is important to determine a quantitative target that needs to be expressed as a metric in terms of an increase or decrease of money. Determine the timeframe for achieving the MOV - ask yourselves, when do we want to achieve this target metric? SUMMARISE THE MOV IN A CLEAR CONCISE STATEMENT OR TABLE

(Note: the MOV should inform everyone what the project will achieve, not how it will be achieved. It should also focus on the organisation, not on the technology that will be used to build or support the information system).

Part Two: Define Scope and produce a Scope Management Plan Define the scope of the project and detail how the scope will be managed. Provide a list of Resources Identify and detail the resources for the project using MS Project where appropriate, including:

People (and their roles), plus any extra personnel that is required for the project.

Technology - any hardware, network and software need to support the team and your client.

Facilities - where will most of the teamwork be situated?

Other - for example, travel, training etc.

Part Three:

Using MS Project, develop a schedule using a high-level Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). It should include:

Milestones for each phase and deliverable

This will tell everyone associated with the project that the phase or deliverable was completed satisfactorily.

Activities / Tasks

Define a set of activities/tasks that must be completed to produce each deliverable.

Resource Assignments

Assign people and resources to each individual activities.

Estimates for Each Activity / Task

Develop a time estimate for each task or activity to be completed.

Project Budget

Develop a budget using the time and resources estimated for each task or activity

A summary of the WBS should be clearly provided in the report. You must include complete screenshots of your own MS project file in your assignment report and keep your MS project file with you. You lecturer might request your files to be sent individually for marking.

Part Four:

Project Risk Analysis and Plan

Document any assumptions you have made about the project

Using the Risk Identification Framework outlined in your text as a basis, identify five risks to the project one for each of the five phases of the methodology.

Analyse these risks, assign a risk to an appropriate member, and describe a strategy for the management of each specific risk.

Part Five:

Quality Management Plan. It should include:

A short statement that reflects your teams philosophy or objective for ensuring that you deliver a quality system to your client.

Develop and describe the following that your project team could implement to ensure quality;

A set of verification activities

A set of validation activities

Part Six: Closure and Evaluation

Researching for the closure checklist and project evaluation

a. To prepare for this task, you will be required to provide an annotated bibliography. (550 words)

Write an Annotated Bibliography for three (3) relevant texts or readings around project evaluation. The Annotated Bibliography is a critical examination of the most relevant, recent and scholarly research on the topic area that is not just a summary of the articles you have read.

You will submit this as an appendix to your project evaluation documentation.

Ensure that the AB submitted by you is your own work and has not been submitted elsewhere and comply with the University's requirements for academic integrity.

Use the following resource to guide you around the research tools: http://student.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/186444/annotate1.pdf http://libguides.csu.edu.au/itc

b. Develop a closure checklist that the project team will use to ensure that the project has been closed properly. c. Develop a project evaluation outline and discuss how your projects MOV will be evaluated.

i-Crop Project(just read about this project and answer these question after that)

Background

Globex Corporation was founded in 2013 during the merging of two large regional business, Riverina Precision Farming, and B T & Sons Farming Equipment. Globex Corp is primarily located in the Riverina Region of NSW and has three locations, Albury, Griffith and Wagga Wagga. Globex have recently opened a new office at Orange so that we can better service the Central West and meet the needs of the many Stud Farms in the region.

Globex endeavour to provide quality agricultural solutions that are reliable, value for money and exceed the expectations of owners and operators throughout the Riverina and Central West regions of New South Wales.

Project Description

Globex is a long-standing client of Virtucon. Therefore, Globex has contracted Virtucon to project manage the development of a new online cash marketplace platform i-Crop. Virtucon will develop the i-Crop website and app in house, and will endeavour to deliver the solution on time, and as inexpensively as possible while still meeting all project requirements.

This is an entirely new system and does not replace any existing systems. i-Crop will be a value add service for Globex clients who grow and purchase grain. It is envisaged, that by bringing growers and buyers together via a single platform, i-Crop will provide a convenient and easy way to manage, sell and buy warehoused grain.

The Globex brief for i-Crop requires that both the website and app will use an intuitive, easy to use interface and mobile-enabled platform, that enables easy access to domestic and export opportunities anytime, anywhere.

Due to the often remote locations of clients and their limited and unstable internet connectivity, Globex also require i-Crop to incorporate solutions within the platform to manage transaction issues should they occur..

Globex has identified several features for i-Crop which include, but are not limited to:

Transactions

Offers As a crop grower, clients will have the ability to set the cash price they want to sell their current season warehoused grain for, this is called an offer. All offers are immediately placed on the market and can be accepted by their preferred buyers.

Bids Buyers can list cash prices and the tonnes they want to purchase, these are referred to as bids. Growers can view and compare bids based on price and payment terms and easily sell their grain in a few simple steps.

Preferred buyers i-Crop will give growers the ability to build a list of preferred buyers, whose payment terms work for them. Preferred buyers will be the only buyers who can accept an offer a grower creates. This will enable growers to control the selling of their grain to the buyers they know and trust.

Transactions types

Transactions supported include cash transactions between growers and buyers as well as transfer of grain ownership to the buyers upon payment.

All cash transactions are Receival Only payment option, which means growers pay the storage fees and buyers pay the receival fees.

Seasonal sales on i-Crop

i-Crop will only support the current season of grain coming into warehouse for cash transactions. If an offer exists, on changeover of seasons it should no longer be visible. If a bid happens to be placed for an older season it cannot be transacted with.

Information sources

Price and market information

All prices and market information presented is based on the offers, bids and cash prices placed in i-Crop. Prices will include any buyer who places a bid (cash price).

Grain Silo Site information

Grain Silo Site information such as opening hours, locations, and contact details should be available for each registered Grain Silo Site.

System use

How do clients use i-Crop?

Clients can access and use i-Crop via any web browser or via the dedicated app. Apps are available for iPhone/iPad and android phones / tablets.

Is the i-Crop app free?

The app will be free for clients to download however network charges apply.

Connectivity

Internet access, and loss of connectivity.

Based on the nature of a live marketplace information is constantly changing, clients will need to be connected to the internet to ensure the information they are viewing is correct.

If clients happen to lose connectivity part way through placing or transacting with an offer / bid it could either submit or not at all. A solution will be required for clients to be able to confirm if the offer, bid or transaction has gone through, when they reconnect to the internet.

If clients lose connectivity and the screen they are on requires an active internet connection, a message should be displayed to advise them that they are offline.

If the i-Crop platform is unavailable.

If clients have bids and/or offers during an unplanned outage, Globex must contact clients to inform them of their options.

Miscellaneous

Printing

On certain pages within the i-Crop website, clients should be able to use a Print Screen button to print those pages (e.g. delivery summaries).

User accounts

Clients can be both a buyer and grower. Both profiles should be contained in the one login with the ability to switch between roles as necessary. Clients should be able to do this within the website and app easily.

Globex have also requested that:

A cost estimate and budget be prepared for the cost of the system development and implementation

Detailed reporting system to include (but not limited to):

Grain sales statistics (e.g. number/type/value of sales at each Grain Silo Site)

Client usage data by client type (buyer / grower)