Your New Project

You have just been appointed as Project Manager of a large development and implementation project. The project will develop an application for an Australian Government department.

1.You project team will be spread over several locations

2.The project is based in Melbourne, which is your location

3.Your business analysts are in Sydney and Melbourne

4.There is a software development team in Mumbai, India

5.There is another development team in Cardiff, UK.

6.The implementation team is based in Canberra.

7.Communications Infrastructure

The task of your group is to map out the approach your team will take to creating a communications infrastructure for the project. The infrastructure must provide for:

1.secure sharing of documents between members of the project team

2.sending of messages between project team members

3.meetings involving members from all the sites

4.small meeting involving 3 or 4 people

5.moderate groups of 5 to 8 people

6.large project meetings involving all the team.