ISYS5001, Semester 1 2017 TEAMWORK GROUP ASSIGNMENT (ONLY 3 MEMBERS) Due Date:Week 14 29 May [email protected] p.m. Submit your completed assignment to blackboard under the Assessment Folder (On behalf of the group, one student must submit assessment 2 power point slides and each group member must submit self-peer evaluation forms under his/her account to the blackboard.These forms can be submitted to the blackboard under Assessment 2. Worth:this assignment is worth 35% of your final grade. Unless you have specific approval for an extension, any overdue assignment will attract a penalty of 10% per calendar day. Any assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked. All requests for an assessment extension must meet the requirements set out in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual: consolidated policies and procedures (http://policies.curtin.edu.au) Presentation Standard – Power Point Slides • 20 Power Point Slides • Times New Roman • 20pt for normal text • 30pt bold for major headings, 25pt bold for minor headings • Header: Group number plus your names; make sure to use the following format: 10pt, italics, right aligned. • Footer: Page numbering (centered at the bottom of each page); make sure to use the following format: 10pt, italics, left aligned • Assignment should be spell and grammar checked. • The assignment should contain no less than ten academic journal references and textbooks, which are dated 2006 or later. Make sure to use Endnote software for the references' section. • Whenever you need to quote ideas and/or the quotes of any other author, you should acknowledge this, using the Chicago referencing method (Chicago Author-Date 16th ed.) • N.B.: The use of WIKIPEDIA online encyclopaedia is not allowed • To save your files for Assessment 2, please use this format (to the blackboard or dropbox …etc).: Group #_Assessment 2_File Name • For Each file make sure to add your name (plus ID#) as well your peers. Assessment 2 PowerPoint slides(Worth 20%) (Please use the following headings for your power point slides) 1. Project Key dates; 2. Project Objectives; 3. Project Assumptions; 4. Cost benefits; 5. WBS, OBS, (Define the project team roles and responsibilities, please complete this exercise via MS Project); 6. Critical Path (from the WBS using MS Project); 7. Team Organization Structure; 8. Communication Plan; 9. Risk Plan and Register Risks; 10. And finally closing plan; 11. For WBS, OBS and other large documents please upload them to an online storage (i.e. Dropboxor SkyDrive…etc) and lateradd the Dropbox or SkyDrive link(s) in the PowerPoint slide(s) for the specific slide title. From the Policy on Plagiarism (check section 8.6 under the Unit outline) • The majority (95%) of your written work should be in your own words. • Cutting and pasting large sections of text from the Internet or a book (even with referencing) is an example of plagiarism and will automatically incur a zero grade. • Direct quotes should be in quotation marks with a page number & Year reference to the original. • Each sentence or paragraph that has been written from researching sources should contain a reference. • If you are unsure of what constitutes plagiarism, check with the Unit Coordinator (Tomayess Issa) before submitting work for assessment. • Resubmission of a plagiarized assignment will not be permitted. Case study – AH Company LTD AH is a significant Western Australian fashion business. It has experienced strong growth for several years. Through its clever fashion marketing and astute acquisitions, it has projected growth of 17% pa revenues for each of the next 7 years. Last year the business had revenues of $100 Million. The company is very profitable and has good reserves of cash and lines of credit. Physically, the business consists of offices for administration, marketing (Online and Traditional) and fashion facility, which while fully paid is very expensive to operate compared to modern facilities. The main office is in the city. While it owns this property, it believes it can realize $10 Million through its sale. As well, the business has 14 branches scattered throughout the city with total annual rental of $0.95Million. A preliminary plan has been developed to improve efficiency and allow for continued growth. The elements of the plan are: • The business will relocate all its current facilities to one, situated in an industrial centre on the edge of the city. The total land acquisition costs will be $3.5 Million and $12 Million for the office and administration, marketing (Online and Traditional), fashion facilities and equipmentand internal and external office design. The land will allow growth for at least 22years projected and the planned facilities will allow growth for at least 6 years; • A new IT system will be introduced. It is an off-the-shelf systemwidely used in the industry, and will integrate all administration, marketing (Online and Traditional), and fashion functions of the business. IT hardware will be moved from the old premises (this was upgraded only last year and is thought to have the capacity required). However existing communications services will need to be transferred, new processes built (the new system works differently from the old one), and implementation, testing, evaluation andtraining arranged. The new IT system will cost $1.95 Million to purchase. In addition, consultants from the software vendorestimate their team can configure the systems and oversee the implementation requirements in 8 months – 4 months of configuration in their offices and 4 months of on-site support of the in-house project team. Their team will charge a fixed fee once the scope is finalised and this is estimated at $140,000 per month. • The plan stipulates that there must be no disruption administration, marketing, and fashion functions of the business, so this suggested the transfers be completed over a weekendONLY. Your Role The CEO of AH fashionLtdhas heard that your “ISYS5001Group”small consulting companyis the best company to project manage this project. She calls you in for a meeting and after the usual pleasantries and cups of tea you get down to business. She is so impressed with you that she gives you the assignment on the spot, and is happy to pay you what you want (so you will of course add that in to your costing). However she warns that you must succeed and will “never work in this town again if it goes wrong”. The stakes are high! Between you and the CEO you agree to do the following: 1. Detail the business case, since it is currently quite general. You agree but realise you will need to do research on the electronic products and the technologies you are dealing with. 2. You will plan the details of the project. You are allowed to choose its design (for instance you may have a highly outsourced team, or you may nominate some sub-projects, etc). Whatever plan you choose, you undertake to provide the lowest cost/shortest implementation possible. You are allowed to outsource but will also be supplied internal staff as required. You realise straight away this will require you to: • Produce a WBS, OBS and tasks using MS Project (or equivalent); • Design the tasks so that critical path duration is minimised; • Determine the cost benefit; • Determine and assign resources; • Selectyour team, policies and team structure; • A risk plan and register of risks; • Acommunication plan • A closing plan • You will produce a project charter in a format that is suitable for presentation to the board. Your business case will be incorporated into the charter. Because this is to be presented to the board you decide to do this in no more than 20PowerPoint slides rather than a traditional report. • You will be sure that scope, project design, milestones, risk plans, risk registers and team design are all representedsummarised from other steps detailed above.  Peer reflection (Worth 15%) Each Peer should submit the following to the blackboard:  2 Peer reflection  1 Personal reflection on what you have done for this assignment  A copy of your draft resources/notes that you developed or located for this assignment (these do not need to be in final form, they are simply to provide an idea or what you have contributed to the assignment) a. Please make sure to submit your peer reflection, personal reflection and your notes in one document to the blackboard (under your account). b. To save this file, please use this format Group #_Assessment 2_File Name, as well for this file, make sure to add your name (plus ID#) as well your peers. This assessment is targeting the following Curtin’s Graduate Attributes: • Collaborative Team Working • Critical thinking skills • Applied Discipline Knowledge and Skills This evaluation is designed to encourage you to think about and understand how well you and your pair performed the team activity in order for you to develop these important skills. Research indicates that students who reflect on their performance have more control over future performance of targeted skill(s), are better able to articulate their progress and demonstrate increased self-confidence in a range of situations. The 15 markswill be allocated as follows: • Quality of the responses in the Evaluation Schedules • For the timely completion of both Evaluation Schedules (A & B) 7 marks • Lecturer mark for the Group functioning as determined by – Your information that you have provided on your own contribution to this assignment – the compilation of group perspectives on peer performance (from the group member’s evaluations) 6 marks • Draft notes/resources • The organisation of these forms and materials 2 marks Note: the lecturer mark is where the lecturer can reward effort, contribution and leadership capacity on an individualised basis, however, all students have the capacity to receive full marks on this component of the assessment if s/he has proved a superior contribution to the group functioning. As this is an assessable task you need to understand/follow the instructions: 1. These evaluation forms are confidentialand enable the lecturer to get an insight into how well the team/group process functioned and to track your contribution. Fill out this evaluation on yourself and your group members (peers) honestly and submit to the blackboard Peer Evaluation, as well make sure to submit with the same document your draft notes/resources as PDF. 2. Ensure to put your name on the Self/Peer Evaluation Schedule (A) and your pair members’ name on the Self/Peer Evaluation Schedule (B). 3. Your Lecturer will read your group’s work and identify how well the pair functioned. This will also reveal if he/she needs to make any organisational changes to the activity the next semester. 4. Please Note: This is your opportunity to tell the lecturer if there were any problems with the pair interactions, division of workload etc., so be as honest as you can. Even if your group did not function well, you have the capacity to earn the individual marks if you made every effort to complete the assignment well. 5. Your feedback will be collated with your peer and marked according to insights provided about what you learned from doing this experience, honesty of responses and level of completion.   Team working Skills – Tracking individual workload Assessment Self/Peer Evaluation Schedule (A) Note to students:- Bullet points in the first column should be answered in terms of … “What did I do ….?” Aspects of Team Working Self-Reflective Comments for: ______________________________ (write your name here) Student ID: _________________________________________________ Individual Roles and Responsibilities • What roles/activities did you undertake in this assignment? (eg, researcher, editor, sequencing data, draft writer, collation of materials) • Explain how your contribution to the group made a difference to the final product? Generating and Creating Ideas/Strategies • Did I contribute original/new ideas? Cite examples. • Synergy – How well did I build on the ideas of others to produce a superior outcome? Cite examples. Research • Did I undertake an equal share? • Was my information accurate and in my own words/not plagiarised directly off the web? • Was my information up-to-date? -from credible sources eg journals, texts, conference papers etc? Collegiality • What did I do to support our discussions positively? • What did I do to mediate potential conflict? What is your attitude to working with your partner? Has it been OK, if not, why not? and what have you done about it? Organisational skills: • Did I make it to all team meetings on time? • What are my time management skills like? • How well did I work to the timeline? - did you get your materials to each other on time? - did you make it to the meetings on time? etc Final Outcome/Product • Discuss how your contribution increased the quality of the final assignment. • How relevant is your assignment to real life? Self-reflection comments: 1. What did I learn from this group activity (in terms of the process of working in teams – not content/information)? 2. What would I need to change for further develop about how I worked with my partner in order to make future team activities more successful? 3. List 3 strengths you have in team working and 2 weaknesses that you need to continue to improve. Professional Skill - Team Working Self/Peer Evaluation Schedule (B) Aspects of Team Working Peer-Reflective Comments for: ______________________________ (write your partner’s name here) Student ID: _________________________________________________ Individual Roles and Responsibilities • What roles/activities did she/he undertake in this assignment? (eg, researcher, editor, sequencing data, draft writer, collation of materials) • Explain how his/her contribution to the group made a difference to the final product? Generating and Creating Ideas/Strategies • Did he/she contribute original/new ideas? Cite examples. • Synergy – How well did he/she build on your ideas to produce a superior outcome? Cite examples. Research • Did he/she undertake an equal share? • Was his/her information accurate and paraphrased/not plagiarised directly off the web? • Was his/her information up-to-date? -from credible sources eg journals, texts, conference papers etc? Collegiality • What did he/she do to support our discussions positively? • What did he/she do to mediate potential conflict? What is your attitude to working with your partner? Has it been OK, if not, why not? and what have you done about it? Organisational skills: • Did he/she make it to all team meetings on time? • What are his/her time management skills like? • How well did he/she work to the timeline? - were material received on time? - did he/she make it to the meetings on time? etc Final Outcome/Product • Discuss how his/her contribution increased the quality of the final assignment. Other comments about your partner: List 3 strengths and 2 weaknesses that you have identified in your partner from this team working assignment.