Reference no: EM132861983

Purpose: This assessment will allow students to work as a team of 3 or 4, demonstrate their understanding of the basic concepts of PMBOK including defining the project charter, scope, scheduling, budget and project plan. Students will learn how IT projects are managed in the industry and will also play various roles a typical project team comprised of, such as project manager, team member and other stakeholders.

Assessment topic: Students are given a project case study scenario including details of required project resources, timeframes and outcomes required. They need to complete and submit each of the PMBOK reports required periodically, which will form a complete project plan for the project.

Task Details: PMBOK Case Study

Project Background: An Australian based IT Managed Services is AusIT Pty Ltd. They currently provide a range of Websites for external customers. They are currently working in various industries and the most recently for Aged Care.

They have recently won a contract to provide to develop a Website (Extranet) tracking Covid 19 vaccination of heath care worker and residents of nursing home for Wesley Mission.

Project Objective - Appoint your team to implement a website that is re-usable later by other clients but provides for Wesley Mission to keep track of residents and health care workers vaccination. It needs to complete in 6 months and budget is maximum $1.5 Million.

It is development project of Content Management System/Website.
Modules needed are
o Residents details
o Health Care Worker details
o Product Details on various Vaccinations including costs
o Vaccination Program Planning (Schedule, Milestones, Tracking)
o Overall Vaccination Statistics
o Link to existing Wesley Mission Website. CMS underlying website is WordPress
o ABOUT: unique aspects vaccination program like history, contact details, etc. [like a typical website]
o Module that will focus on education of resident health care workers on vaccinations and associated risks

Desired Outcomes:
o You need to select the Content Management System and development tools. Wesley Mission has suggested WordPress for the CMS.
o The system needs to be fully available on robust infrastructure in cloud.
o You need to specify the production environment, that Wesley Mission will provide.
o Set-up resources (development and test environment) and development teams and project management resources.
o Will need Credit Card and Paypal interfaces. (Word Press has)
o Interfaces to financial systems through standard file format interface (Word Press has).
o It requires advanced security.

Purpose: This assessment will allow students to work as a team of 3 or 4, demonstrate their understanding of the basic concepts of PMBOK, specifically creating a:
o Project Charter
o Scope Statement
o Stakeholder Register
o Risk Treatment Log
o Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
o Schedule [Critical Path Management (CPM), Network and Gantt Chart]
o Budget
o A group team member contribution log (Report)
o Overall Project Plan