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This assessment is designed to assess your technical skills in planning and communicating a project effectively. You required to work individually, select a project case (either from the provided links to the real-life projects or a project case from an organisation of your selection). The project should be in final stage of initial process, with either a signed off project charter or in the stage of getting the approval of the project charter.

You are required to write a report of scope management plan, schedule management plan and cost management plan. This report should include an introduction to the project case, a stakeholders' register, a brief project charter, project Scope management that includes: project justification, inscope and out-of-scope, constraints, Limits, assumptions, technical requirements, statement of work (SOW) and priority matrix (use the provided template). WBS structure (minimum of three levels), WBS dictionary, work packages and linking WBS to OBS, scope verification and validation methods, scope change control, and designing the change control boards (CCB) and roles and responsibilities.

You are required to continue working with your group on the selected project and develop and write a schedule management plan that includes processes, tools and techniques to be used and documents to be developed as per your client's requirements, define activities (activity list, proper activity logic, activities identification), milestones list, activities sequence, relationships (F_S, S_S, S_F, F_F), Lags, leading times, project network and critical path(s), estimates of activity duration (basics of estimation, durations, resources estimation and allocation), roles and responsibilities in scheduling, and monitoring and controlling schedule (EVA relevant to project schedule)

Just provide a description of the methods and tools. Since we are moving to online teaching and you don't have access to MS Project at APIC Lab, you are required to develop schedule plan, and develop schedule baseline using the Technique of Gantt Chart you learned in class, and to develop resources plan (resource sheet and allocation for each activity) using tables and figures by using MS Word.

You also require to develop and write project cost management plan that includes: plan cost management (identify processes, tools and techniques to be used and project documents to be developed as per your client's requirements), define cost elements (labour, material, variable cost), identify types of cost (direct, indirect, fixed, variable), determine the estimating method (s): (top-down, bottom-up), use estimating techniques (analogous, parametric, three-point method) to estimate budget (creation): establish time-phased budget, provide a discussion on monitoring and controlling cost (EVA relevant to project cost including forecasting and variances), and establish a cost baseline. This all can be done in MS word.

1- Don't spend too much effort in writing the project charter in detail

2- Don't spend too much effort in writing about the stakeholders register, you only need to add small table of main stakeholders, meeting frequency, responsibility, contact method, just for main stakeholders

3- for the WBS dictionary, you don't need to do this for all work packages, one prepackage dictionary is enough as long as you put your WBS components (main deliverable, sub, and activities) in a table and explain the work of each component, and you can add column of main resources or main responsible..etc

4- it is your option to select the tool you want to present your graphs, charts and tables, I mean you can use the excel sheets I provided or if you prefer using word is up to you, as long as all presented in clear way

5- remember this assessment is technical document and does not require literature review, it is mainly application of the knowledge and skills