Reference no: EM132637171

Project Activity Report Writing following AGILE methodology

Purpose: This assessment will allow students to work as a team of 3 or 4, demonstrate their understanding of AGILE project management methodology and apply their knowledge to initiate and manage a case study project using AGILE software. Students will learn emerging application of AGILE methodology in IT project management and utilise various software tools to manage the project. This assessment contributes to learning outcomes c and d.

Assessment topic: Students are given a project case study scenario including details of required project resources, timeframes and outcomes required. They will set up their project team under Slack and Trello and run the case study project as an Agile project using the provided case study information.

Task details: "We Do Amazing Things" is an Australian based IT Managed Services provider. They provide a range of IT infrastructure management to companies that do not have internal IT staff. The managed services could be for on premise equipment and services or SAAS (Software as a service) application. "We Do Amazing Things" work in various industries and the most common are not for profit, aged care and sporting organization. The recent Covid-19 Pandemic placed a lot of pressure on the clients that "We Do Amazing Things" manage.
Several clients requested the implementation of MS Teams. The POC was completed successfully.

"We Do Amazing Things" has secured a large project with one of its clients Hoops Australia. Hoops Australia is a 4-site organization based in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The project requires "We Do Amazing Things" to implement MS Teams to all 4 sites.

Some of the specific requirements (not limited to) that the Hoops Australia authorities have indicated are following:
o There are 2 sites in Sydney, 1 in Melbourne and 1 in Brisbane.
o The 4 sites have 111 computers.
o They currently have an on-premise Alcatel phone system
o The solution must include Teams voice.
o Hoops Australia is already using O365 with emails.
o Hoops Australia would prefer to migrate data into Microsoft Teams.
o Confirm that all the sites have the minimum internet speed to support the business o requirements.
o Hoops Australia would also require a SharePoint based Intranet website.
o Hoops Australia need the new setup to be completely functional within 2 months o and needs to be available 24/7.

You are an employee of "We Do Amazing Things". The company has designated you as a Project Manager and has asked you to form a small team to implement and deliver the project on due time.

Submission Requirements: Students are required to form a small group of 3 - 4 persons. Agile Methodology MUST be used for this assignment.

o Each group must setup team on SLACK and communicate between team using SLACK. o Furthermore, group also needs to setup team on Trello and manage project using Trello. o Project reports must follow Agile methodology format.
o Group must be able to demonstrate communication between members,
division of responsibility, agreement and disagreement between team.

The weight of the assignment is 15% of the overall marks of the unit. Each group should upload required document/s using appropriate submission folder on the Moodle before the deadline.

Submission of the Complete Project Plan must be made using Turnitin submission folder available on the course Moodle page. Appropriate citation using Harvard referencing technique must be used where application. Plagiarism of the assignment submission will be considered as academic misconduct and may result in penalty.

Action Required
Setup team on SLACK (Screen print of set-up and message exhibiting co-operation)
Use TRELLO for Project Management (Screen print of Storyboard, user stories, showing assignment to sprints)