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Project Ideas:
must plan a project relating to production of services, events, infrastructure or applications development based on their area of expertise. Some project ideas are given below but this list is not meant to be exhaustive.
| Infrastructure | Applications | Research |
| Design of new networks/ communication infrastructure
Design security systems of various types Design of smart device systems Design a system of IoTs or integrated systems |
Applications to integrate systems.
Mobile applications to offer new services. Applications to monitor data from sensors or devices. Applications to evaluate customer satisfaction of business transactions |
Conduct data collection, analysis, and modeling for profiling smart device users |
Project Deliverables.
Project Part 1 – Business Case
Investigate requirements and business needs for a real or fictitious business that requires a project. A business case must be written using the following outline. Refer to the template on BBLearn.
- Introduction: Description of Business and its operations and its activities. This section can also describe a situation that needs a project. Include both current condition, and predictable/new context where computing problems/needs may raise in the future.
- Description of Project – What is the project? Why is it necessary? What are the issues that require a solution?
- Suggested solution – What is the solution? What does the solution include? Provide one or more diagrams/schematics/images to show what the final product would look like.
- Feasibility and high level cost estimation
- Benefits of the proposed solution to the organization. What is the business value provided by the project? What are the tangible and intangible benefits
- Who are the main stakeholders? What is their role in the project? What is their impact on the project?
Business case must be approved by your instructor before you begin on subsequent parts of the project
Project Part 2: Charter, Stakeholder Register, Communication Plan and Scope Baseline
- Charter: This part requires you to initiate the project by writing a detailed project charter. Charter should include project identification, project objectives, deliverables, milestone dates and description, constraints (resources and technology), assumptions and risks.
Your instructor will be the sponsor of the project and needs to sign the charter to commence planning.
- Communication plan designed using a standard template
- Stakeholder register using a standard template
- Scope Baseline including a list of product and project requirements. Exclusions and assumptions must be listed.
- WBS Outline is created in MS Project
- WBS Dictionaries are created
Resources: Templates and MS Project to create a WBS.
Project Part 3: Resource, Schedule, Cost and Risk Plans
The contents of this report include the following plans:
- Resources: Develop a resource plan for your project using a Resource breakdown structure. Create and assign resources to your tasks in MS Project
- Schedule:
- Estimate duration using the PERT technique. Apply this to one of the major summary tasks in your project schedule
- Develop a network diagram to one of the major summary tasks of your project and identify critical paths. Write a short description explaining the significance of the critical path
- Cost:
- Apply analogous/bottom up and parametric techniques to determine project budget. Demonstrate how MS Project can be used to create a project budget
- Risk Register
- Identify risks and categorize into 3 important groups as related to your project
- Analyze risks and prioritize them using qualitative techniques and develop
- Create a response strategy
Project Part 4: Project Status Reports and Earned Value Analysis
- Develop a scenario describing the current situation that your project is in. Using the appropriate formulas, prepare a status report and a forecast of your project performance. Indicate current variances and indices and forecast the estimates and variances at completion.
- Develop progress reports using MS Project showing
- Tasks completed
- Cost usage
Please follow the below template for the project requirements :
Table of Contents
Requirements and Justification. 5
Solution and Proof of Concept 5
Suggested Development Approach. 5
P2 – Project Charter and Stakeholder Register 6
Introduction to Project Management Methodology. 6
Introduction to Project Initiation. 6
Introduction to Project Planning. 10
Stakeholder Engagement Plan. 11
P4 – Project Monitoring and Control – Earned Value Analysis. 18
Project Monitoring and Control 18
Coursework Project Report
P1- Business Case
Organization or Department
<<Write a short description of the organization or the department with a request for a new system. Describe some of their problems. Identify opportunities for developing an innovative and futuristic solution >>
Requirements and Justification
<<Write about the unique product/system created by this project and the business value provided by this project. Write the reasons why this product is necessary. Consider factors like cost reduction, support of organization’s vision, increasing efficiency, introduce new technology, etc. Write high level functional and non-functional requirements of the product>>
Business Value or Benefits
<<Provide some tangible benefits such as savings/income and intangible benefits. Tangible benefits should be measurable>>
Solution and Proof of Concept
<<Describe the suggested solution. Identify the innovation and business value in the suggested solution. Provide a wireframe/mockup or graphical illustration of the solution as a proof of concept >>
Project Details
<<Identify the project that will create the proposed system. List and explain project deliverables>>
Stakeholders
<<Identify some key stakeholders and explain their interest in this project. Include the project sponsor, product owner/user project manager and the core team >>
Cost Estimation
<<Provide a rough estimate of costs of purchasing/developing a solution to satisfy requirement. Consider initial expenses including costs of hardware, software and implementation and training. Including a source will be a benefit>>
Suggested Development Approach
<<Provide a justification for the approach that is most relevant for the development of this system>>
P2 – Project Charter and Stakeholder Register
Introduction to Project Management Methodology
<<Write a description of the PM methodology that you will use to manage this project. References are required>>.
Introduction to Project Initiation
<<Write a description of how projects are initiated. Write a short description of project charter and stakeholder register>>
Project Charter
<<Complete all sections of the project charter. Review your business case when creating this charter>>
| Project Identification | |
| Project ID | |
| Name or Title | |
| Description | |
| Project Sponsor | |
| Project Manager | |
| Start Date | |
| Finish Date | |
| Budget | |
| Project OBJECTIVES (purpose) |
| Project’s criteria for success (must be measurable) |
| Project SCOPE – HIGH LEVEL (INCLUDE PRODUCT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SCOPE) |
| key Project DELIVERABLES | |
| Name | Description |
| HIGH LEVEL SCHEDULE | ||
| Item | Major Events / Milestones | Dates |
| CONSTRAINTS (Time, budget AND TECHNICAL) |
| Constraint Description |
| ASSUMPTIONS |
| Description |
| RISKS |
| Description |
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Stakeholder Register
<<Create this information based on your research. Data may be fictitious; however, the role and influence should be relevant. Describe an engagement technique to be used per stakeholder. Include a minimum of 5 Stakeholder groups. Review your course slides before completing this section>>
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| Project Start Date | ||||||
| Project Manager: | ||||||
| Name | Position | Contact Details | Role /Responsibility | Interest | Influence on Project Outcome | Stakeholder Engagement |
P3 – Project Plans
Introduction to Project Planning
<<Write a short description of the planning phase in a project. This description should be related to the approach used>>
Communication Plan
<<Write a short description of the importance of planning communications in a project. Write the objectives, types of communication and complete the communications plan table>>
Objectives of Communication
<<Write three objectives of communication here>>
Types of Communication used:
<<Describe the types of communication that is applicable to your project>>
Communication technology used:
<<Explain the types of communication technology that is applicable to your project>>
Communication Matrix
<<Complete the communication matrix>>
| Project Title:
Project Start Date Project Manager: |
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| Communication type | Stakeholders Involved | Frequency of distribution | Distribution method | Monitoring and Control |
Stakeholder Engagement Plan
<<Write a short description of the importance of engaging stakeholders in a project. Complete the engagement table >>
| Project Title:
Project Start Date Project Manager:
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| Project Phase | Project Activity | Stakeholders Involved | Method of Engagement (How?) | Purpose of Engagement (Why?) |
Project Scope Baseline
<<Write a description summarizing processes in scope management and methods used to gather requirements. Describe the inputs used and documents produced. Refer to course text here>>
Scope Statement
<<Write a description of what is included in the scope baseline. List inclusions and exclusions to the product and project scope. Write a list of scope not included >>
- Product Scope inclusions
- Project Scope inclusions
- Exclusions
WBS Outline is created in MS Project
<<Paste a screenshot of WBS here>>
WBS Dictionaries
<<Using the template below, create WBS Dictionary entries for 5 work packages>>
| WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE DICTIONARY
PROJECT TITLE: WBS ITEM NUMBER: WBS ITEM NAME: |
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| TASK DESCRIPTION (WHAT WORK IS AUTHORIZED) | |
| ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA | |
| DELIVERABLE(S) | |
| RESOURCES ASSIGNED | |
| DURATION | |
| COST | |
| DEPENDENCIES AFTER (SUCCESSOR) | DEPENDENCIES BEFORE (PREDECESSOR) |
| DUE DATE | APPROVED: PROJECT MANAGER |
| WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE DICTIONARY
PROJECT TITLE: WBS ITEM NUMBER: WBS ITEM NAME: |
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| TASK DESCRIPTION (WHAT WORK IS AUTHORIZED) | |
| ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA | |
| DELIVERABLE(S) | |
| RESOURCES ASSIGNED | |
| DURATION | |
| COST | |
| DEPENDENCIES AFTER (SUCCESSOR) | DEPENDENCIES BEFORE (PREDECESSOR) |
| DUE DATE | APPROVED: PROJECT MANAGER |
| WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE DICTIONARY
PROJECT TITLE: WBS ITEM NUMBER: WBS ITEM NAME: |
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| TASK DESCRIPTION (WHAT WORK IS AUTHORIZED) | |
| ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA | |
| DELIVERABLE(S) | |
| RESOURCES ASSIGNED | |
| DURATION | |
| COST | |
| DEPENDENCIES AFTER (SUCCESSOR) | DEPENDENCIES BEFORE (PREDECESSOR) |
| DUE DATE | APPROVED: PROJECT MANAGER |
| WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE DICTIONARY
PROJECT TITLE: WBS ITEM NUMBER: WBS ITEM NAME: |
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| TASK DESCRIPTION (WHAT WORK IS AUTHORIZED) | |
| ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA | |
| DELIVERABLE(S) | |
| RESOURCES ASSIGNED | |
| DURATION | |
| COST | |
| DEPENDENCIES AFTER (SUCCESSOR) | DEPENDENCIES BEFORE (PREDECESSOR) |
| DUE DATE | APPROVED: PROJECT MANAGER |
| WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE DICTIONARY
PROJECT TITLE: WBS ITEM NUMBER: WBS ITEM NAME: |
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| TASK DESCRIPTION (WHAT WORK IS AUTHORIZED) | |
| ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA | |
| DELIVERABLE(S) | |
| RESOURCES ASSIGNED | |
| DURATION | |
| COST | |
| DEPENDENCIES AFTER (SUCCESSOR) | DEPENDENCIES BEFORE (PREDECESSOR) |
| DUE DATE | APPROVED: PROJECT MANAGER |
Project Resource Plan
<<Write a short description of resources that need to be planned for in a project. Create a hierarchical resource breakdown structure for each product deliverable or phase>>
Resource breakdown Structure
Resource Sheet and Resource Assignment in MS Project
<<Insert a screen shot of the resource sheet with costs created in MS Project. Currency should be set to AED. Resources should be of type work, material, and cost>>
Project Schedule
Estimation of activity duration
<< Estimate duration for ALL activities in PLANNING or EXECUTION using 3 scenarios. Calculate duration using the PERT weighted average formula. Use the weighted average rounded to ZERO decimal places to create a project schedule. Use a table to present this information>>
Sequence of activities and Network Diagram
<<Produce an activity list and a network diagram for any deliverable in the PLANNING or EXECUTION phase of your project. Create the network diagram for level 3 tasks. Use the estimated duration and calculate early start, early finish, late start, and late finish. Calculate float and critical path. This diagram should be produced using software. Paste the image here>>
Project Schedule created in MS Project
<<Insert a screen shot of expanded tasks list from MS Project. Image should include these columns: WBS number, Task Name, Duration and Predecessor>>
Gantt Chat
<<Insert a screen shot of the Gantt chart from MS Project>>
Milestone List
<<Insert a screen shot of a list of milestones from MS Project>>
Project Cost Estimations
Estimation of project costs
<<Write a brief description explaining the two different cost estimation techniques that is applicable to this project>>
Summary Tasks and costs
<<Insert a screen shot of project summary tasks and their costs from MS Project>>
Task Cost Overview Reports
<<Insert a screen shot of project task costs overview report for level 1 tasks in a graphical format from MS Project>>
Risk Plan
Risk Breakdown Structure
<<Create and insert a picture of a Risk Breakdown Structure as shown in your course slides. You will need to show 2-3 risks for each category>>.
Risk Register
<<Complete the risk register as applied to your project>>
| Project Title:
Project Start Date Project Manager: |
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| No. | Risk | Description | Category | Potential Responses | Risk Owner | Probability | Impact | Response |
P4 – Project Monitoring and Control – Earned Value Analysis
Project Monitoring and Control
<<Write a brief description of how and why projects are monitored and controlled>>
Earned Value Analysis
<<Develop a scenario describing the current situation that your project is in. Using the appropriate formulas, write a status report and a forecast of your project performance. Indicate current variances and indices and forecast the estimates and variances at completion>>
Project Status Reports
<<Generate progress reports using MS Project showing Tasks completed, Resources overview with work remaining and cost overruns or variances. Insert screen shots or three reports here>>
References
Files to be Attached:
MS Project Files