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Assignment - Group Project

Project Execution Plan

Assume that your team has been appointed as the Information Technology (IT) project planners for the project

PROJECT: DEVLEOPMENT OF A NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

Introduction:

Your group has been appointed by a potential client to build a new Information Technology Centre in your capital city. The land owned by the client with an approved budget of $40 million only for the new IT Centre. In addition to the Centre, the client allocated additional fund of 25 million for the latest IT Technology support to cater for the IT needs for the next five years.

As the IT Project Manager of the project you are requested to submit a Project Execution Plan (PEP) for this development.

The group has to develop a project execution plan to manage the activities required to construct the IT Centre.

The tasks required include:
• Develop a scope of this project. This requires to develop the scope for the facilities and IT support independently
• Developing a budget for construction of the IT centre and ensuring that the owner can provide the funds and are committed to funding the project
• Obtaining planning permits and approvals from the relevant authorities.
• Design and construction of the IT Centre.
• Completion and handover.

Your team should produce a Project Execution Plan (PEP) which sets out how the project is to be executed. The project schedule forms part of the PEP document.

The Basis of Schedule which may form part of the PEP sets out the underlying assumptions going into the plan and how the plan is to be constructed, scheduling units, choice of calendars, choice of planning tool, etc. Will the schedule be resourced? Will the resources have costs associated with them? What will be the availability (calendar) of the various resources? That is, what are the work and non-work days (Public holidays, RDOs etc)?

All other assumptions must be stated clearly at the beginning of the report(s).

Stage 1 (Wk. 4) - Prepare project Charter

Prepare:
• Prepare Project Scope.
• List of assumptions used in the project (if any)
• Planning methodology - outline the technique for the delivery of the project.
• Use Template to prepare the full report on Project Charter

Stage 2 (Wk. 4-7) - WBS and Manual Scheduling
• Project calendar showing start and finish dates, weekends, RDO's, and public holidays, etc.
• Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), an Organisation Break Down Structure (OBS) and a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM).
• List of tasks, durations and their logical relationship.
• Execution program (a manual PDM diagram or a Gantt chart).
• Estimate the cost of the project as per the WBS and listed activities.
• Develop a risk register using RBS as per WBS to identify and prioritize all risk associated with this project.
• Sub-contractors or consultants schedule for the project.
• References if any.

Stage 3 - Computerized Planning
Prepare the following by utilising a project management software application MS Project 2016:
• A list of tasks and work breakdown schedule for the project including activity durations
• A project Calendar
• A PDM diagram and a Gantt Chart
• A weekly Gantt Chart of all activities sorted by WBS
• A list and cost of all resources (own and/or subcontracted).
• Final cost and detail budget reports as per WBS
• Various resource schedules in the form of Gantt Charts
• A budget and cost forecast. Also, develop an "S" curve using the software
• Other relevant reports to support the PEP

Provide a final report (Stage 1,2 & 3) detailing all computerised planning work. The report must be typed and submitted in a professional format.

Attachment:- Group Project.rar