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ITECH 7401 Leadership in IT Project Management

Team Business Case

Purpose
To provide students with practical experience in working in teams to develop a project business case in order to solve a unique and complex IT business problem.

Assessment Details
Background
A business case is the first deliverable in the IT project life cycle. It provides an analysis of the organisational value, feasibility, costs, benefits, and risks of several proposed alternatives or options.
A business case helps to determine whether or not a project justifies an organisations investment into a project. The business case defines the problem and its impact and performs a cost benefit analysis for the proposed solution. It also looks at possible alternative solutions. The business case should also provide a check to see that the project aligns with the organisation's strategic plan.

Requirements
In this assignment, you will be required to form teams of approximately four (4) people. One team member is to be elected the project leader for the duration of the project. Teams will prepare a project business case based on an IT project case study and should use their own initiative regarding assumptions and the scheduling all deliverables.

An electronic copy of a case study will be available from your tutor or course lecturer (alternatively your team may wish to propose their own project-please get permission from your lecturer before proceeding with this).

Ideally the business case should contain details of the following:
• description of project background
• description of project objectives (including link to organisational mission statement)
• description of the current situation (including a SWOT analysis)
• outline of problem/opportunity statement
• details of critical assumptions and constraints
• an analysis of options and recommendations
• financial analysis (npv, roi and payback figures)
• preliminary project requirements (project preliminary scope and WBS level 3)
• budget estimate (cost model and baseline)
• schedule estimate (including summary schedule, Gantt chart and network diagram)
• list of potential risks

A suggested business process report structure is as follows.
Title page Executive summary Table of contents
1.0 Introduction
Business Case Report for: [insert case study name]
Project background
Mission statement and project objectives
SWOT analysis
Problem/opportunity statement
Critical assumptions and constraints
Analysis of options and recommendations
Financial analysis
Project scope and WBS
Cost model and baseline
Schedule, Gantt chart and network diagram
List of risks [team member
3.0 Conclusion
4.0 References
5.0 Appendices [innovation tasks]

Referencing
Reference lists and in-text references should be presented in APA format.

Attachment:- Leadership in IT Project Management.rar