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Case Study
The purpose of Assignment 3 is to evaluate Project Management tool usage and presentation, while also being able to evaluate an overall understanding of how project success can be measured and used for decision making purposes. You will be provided with a case study of a fictional Project being run by a fictional business.
This will include both an online Quiz in FLO, and submission of several Project Management tools. The FLO quiz will have both directly answered questions (numerical, and yes/no), and text answers, to evaluate understanding of the content.
Case
The project undertaken by Cutting Edge Sensors Ltd. Involves providing packaged sensor components to local University labs (Southeast University, Markham Brown University, and Piping Shrike University).
They must negotiate with the University Supply Officers for each University, who each have an interest in making sure that the project is on-track.
Their materials supplier (Bosworth Minerals) has a dedicated sales rep, Bob Smith. Additionally, for some reason the local newspaper is intending to run smear pieces about the way Cutting Edge disposes of their waste, their media rep is Joanne Walters.
The Cutting Edge Sensors Ltd. project team consists of 7 team members, and several consultants. Four Electrical Engineers, Joe Peters, Mellissa Watson, Jeffery Eclectus, and Robert Dawes. One Senior Electrical Engineer, Andrew Coddington. One Research Specialist Dr. Rosaline S. Alagato. One Project Manager, Nigel Crowe.
Consultants to the project include; Nick Frangello (Legal support), Peter Mathis (Accounting), and Gary Jones (Public Relations).
Every week there is an online Teams meeting between the Engineers and Nigel. There is a daily in-person meeting between the Engineers and Andrew. Every four months, there is a meeting between Nigel and Peter to cover any accounting issues. Gary has requested that Nigel and Andrew email him any updates on the project to the media. Every month, Nick is contacted by Nigel via Zoom, to discuss any relevant legal issues. Rosaline provides updates via a weekly email to the team to discuss any research on a fortnightly basis.
Cutting Edge Sensors Ltd. Wants to identify which quality control issues to deal with immediately, as they have limited resources available to allocate. The issue they are having is that the production line is being halted due to various manufacturing faults. The specific issues that are causing the halts are as follows. Sensors not being adequately soldered to boards (96 halts per month), screws not being tightened to spec (159 halts per month), incorrect thread tolerances (35 halts per month), tools not being replaced in time (130 halts per month).
Tasks:
Question 1 Stakeholder Analysis
Write up a list of the stakeholders involved, use the Stakeholder Analysis Matrix from the lecture slides as an example. Include any relevant information (including imaginary contact details). Management would like this in a formal Blue coloured table.
Question 2 Communications Management Plan (PM tool)
Write up a Communications Management Plan for this project communications. Use any templates you find, or examples from lecture materials. Management requests this table be coloured red to emphasise the importance.
Question 3 Quality Management (Pareto Chart)
Use a Pareto Chart to plot this information, and identify which issues are best addressed to cover at least 80% of the overall halting issues.