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Assignment - PMP Development and PM Responses

Overview

The aim of this assignment is to gain experience in the organizing/preparing and carrying out phases of a project. This will be done through the preparation of a Project Management Plan as well as a report  on the PM actions required to address a number of situations encountered during the project life cycle.

Learning Outcomes Assessed

The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment:

- Identify traditional and agile approaches and lifecycles for managing information technology projects;

- Describe project management methodologies, such as the project management body of knowledge;

- Acquire a theoretical knowledge of the project management process groups model;

- Explain the basic components of a project management plan and its importance in improving the success of information technology projects;

- Apply the process groups model to manage information technology projects of various complexities and scales;

- Employ a systems thinking approach to identify critical roles and stakeholders in information technology projects;

- Employ a systems thinking approach to identify critical roles and stakeholders in information technology projects;

- Demonstrate decision-making processes to solve a range of information technology project issues;

- Utilise a range of organisational and self-management skills, emulating real world practice of information technology project managers;

- Adopt a project management framework to write a project management plan, for a simulated real world contemporary information technology project;

- Undertake project management approaches to solve unpredictable and complex information technology software development problems;

- Demonstrate competence in using appropriate project management software.

Assessment Details

Overview

As stated by Schwalbe (2014) a project management plan (PMP) is a document used to coordinate all project planning documents and helps to guide a project's execution and control. She also states that a good PMP is vital to the coordination and integration of information across project management knowledge areas and across the organisation.

In this assignment, you will work in teams of four (4) people to produce a PMP, a description of updates to the PMP and related plans/documents and a record of your experiences working in the team. The teams will be assigned by your lecturer and will be based on your tutorial/laboratory classes. There will be time allocated in the tutorial/laboratory to work on this assignment. One team member is to be elected the team manager for the duration of the project. Teams are expected to meet regularly - at least once a week - and prepare a PMP based on the IT project case study below. They are then expected to provide descriptions of changes to that PMP and related deliverables based on the sequence of events described in the case study. Teams should use their own initiative regarding the  scheduling of all deliverables. Teams will NOT be required to produce ‘product related deliverables' as part of this assignment. The focus is primarily on ‘project management related deliverables'.

However if an event would trigger a change to the product deliverables, it may be of assistance to the reader if information about that change is included. Finally over the course of the assignment, individuals are expected to record information about team meetings, their work and contributions and the contributions of others as well as reflect on their learning about project management through the completion of the assignment.

Case Study: Frontier Touring Company Ltd. - Electronic Client Booking and Ticketing System (eCBaTS).

Attachment:- Assignment.rar