B I F _ 6 _ I S P I S P r o j e c t M a n a g e m e n t IS Project Management (BIF_6_ISP) Resit Coursework Specification for Semester 2 Coursework Additional Information Issued Due Date %Weight Resit Coursework : IS Project Planning and Monitoring This is an individualbased resit coursework 21th of August 17 60% IS Project Planning and Monitoring The Project specification You joined at ABC Software Development Company as a junior Project Manager on a temporary basis two months ago. You have now been asked to choose one of the following three IS projects and demonstrate your Project Management skills to the Head of Software Development Team to make your job permanent: 1. Mobile apps development for a company 2. Online based game development for children and 3. Decision Support System development for a company. You need to design and develop a unique holistic technological platform to facilitate your development for commercial use. The designed and developed product of the project would be free from errors, cost effective and easy to use and integrate with a range of known systems/devices. In order to meet these goals, certain technologies must be considered in the designed system. As a project manager, you need to complete your chosen project within 2 months and assume that two or more staffs (such as part time analysts, developers and testers) assist you to complete the project on time. For the project, you need to study and research well to break down tasks and construct suitable work packages (WPs) to meet clients’ needs fully. Make sure you have done minimum 4 WPs or maximum 6 WPs and number of tasks minimum 10 or maximum 16 for the project. You also need set appropriate time, predecessor and cost for each task.B I F _ 6 _ I S P I S P r o j e c t M a n a g e m e n t To demonstrate your PM skills and get your job permanent, you need to submit a report to the Head of Software Development Team meeting the following requirements: Requirements 1. Requirement 1: a. Define a WBS Dictionary – This Dictionary is used to define tasks, WPs, task durations, dependencies, predecessor and successor relationships. b. Define a Resource Calendar – The resource calendar is used to define holidays and the Human resource availability, which helps in scheduling the actual working time in the network diagram. c. Milestones and Deliverables – Determine milestones and deliverables for each task d. Ethics – Include ethic aspects in your project design and development. 2. Requirement 2: a. Gantt chart – make a Gantt chart using suitable software b. Describe the benefits of using Gantt chart for a project. 3. Requirement 3: You need to carry out the following: a. Network Diagram – Make an initial Network Diagram b. Critical Path – Determine the critical path c. Slack time – Calculate free slack time for each activity. 4. Requirement 4: You need to crashing the project to 1, 3 and 5 days: a. Network Diagram – Make updated Network Diagrams to show crashing b. Evaluation – Evaluate if your project is worth to crash 1, 3 or 5 days in terms of cost and other factors. 5. Requirement 5: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Provide a Risk assessment for all the tasks, both in terms of time and financial aspects and produce a Rick Assessment Table. Also provide a Risk Assessment Matrix to enhance your findings. Report The report must be to a professional standard and should have the following format: Executive Summary, Introduction, a Section for each a b o v e requirement 1 t o 6 and a Conclusion. You may also want to include a reference section for relevant sources. Your report must also include images and diagrams, where necessary to enhance your presentation. The report must include as a minimum 3000 words. Deadline Your report must be submitted via Moodle by 22:00, Monday 21 August 2017.CWK2 – IS Project Management 2016-17 Marking criteria for this Semester 2 Resit coursework Evaluation Design (50 marks) 8 - 10 6- 7 5 - 4 0 - 3 The project is well-designed, sound criteria and appropriate method chosen. All aspects of the design considered with documentation. The project is reasonably designed, good criteria and appropriate method chosen. Some aspects of the design considered with good documentation. The project is limited. There seems to be little or no effort to address comparison criteria. Lacks detail with weak documentation. The project is poorly designed with lacks consistency and is generally poorly documented Analysis & Findings (30 marks) Shows a thoughtful, in-depth analysis of the project design and is reflective in nature. The reader gains important insights. An in-depth analysis of the evaluation project design is given with limited attempt at reflections/lessons learned. The reader gains important insights. The analysis is basic or general in nature. The reader gains few insights. The analysis is vague or not evident. The reader is confused or may be misinformed. Significantly increases audience understanding and knowledge of the topic; Major ideas summarised and the audience left with a full understanding of presenter's position; Relaxed, selfconfident and holds the attention of the audience. (20 marks) Significantly increases audience understanding and knowledge of the topic; Major ideas summarised and the audience left with a full understanding of presenter's position; Relaxed, self-confident and holds the attention of the audience. Raises audience understanding and awareness of most points; Includes some data or evidence which supports conclusions or ideas; Fairly consistent use of direct eye contact with the audience. Raises audience understanding and knowledge of some points; Includes very thin data or evidence in support of ideas or conclusions; Occasional but unsustained eye contact with the audience. Fails to increase audience understanding or knowledge of the topic; Totally insufficient support for ideas or conclusions. Major ideas left unclear, the audience left with no new ideas; No effort to make eye contact with the audience. B I F - 6 - I S P _ I S P P r o j e c t M a n a g e m e n t Page 3