You are an employee of Grand Wines Ltd and project leader of a proposed project to equip each of the company's 20 sales representatives with a wireless data entry device by which they could instantly communicate customer orders to the company's central sales database in Sydney. The sales representatives operate over all areas of NSW and service around 400 independent wine and liquor stores in the state. Currently, the sales representatives complete customer orders manually and after leaving a copy with the customer, they forward the customer orders by mail or fax to the sales department in Sydney, where the orders are entered into the sales database and processed through the inventory system for shipment to the customer. The problems with the current process are: At least one-day is lost in supplying customers with products because of the delays in getting orders into the system. Sales representatives do not know the latest inventory position of their products when they accept orders from the customer. Delays in delivery can result when orders are placed on "back-order" because of a lack of stock. Orders are often "lost" or entered into the sales database incorrectly through human error. The sales representatives and many customers are dissatisfied with the current situation. Competitive wine companies have improved their order systems and are outperforming Grand Wines Ltd in terms of delivery speed, order accuracy, availability of ordered stock and overall customer satisfaction. Your CEO has stressed the importance of the project to the company and asked you to use your skills as a project manager to make sure the project is successful by following the relevant project management processes. You have been assigned a project leader of this project. Your manager has given you guidance that the project needs to be completed within 6 months and that costs should be minimised wherever possible. Assignment requirements Ensure that you have completed all readings for topics 1 - 10: Based on the Grand Wines Project case study. As the project manager of this project, you are required to present an initial project report to the project sponsor that includes the following specific project outputs to show how you propose to implement this project: Minimum suggested project management related deliverables include: Stakeholder analysis Identification of milestones Scope of the project Schedule of the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Resource & Budget management Project risk management Project quality planning and management Microsoft Project file(s) submission Rationale This assessment has been designed to allow you to show your ability to: be able to demonstrate how a practicing project manager actually applies project management skills, methods, techniques and tools; be able to use an industry standard project management software tool (Microsoft Project); apply project management skills, methods, techniques and tools to a real world problem typical of a project manager; be able to describe what exactly a quality system is and how it is achieved in project development; be able to identify how the disciplined application of quality assurance can lead to significant productivity gains; and be able to demonstrate how to expedite project tasks during project delivery. Marking criteria Task HD (100% – 85%) DI (84% – 75%) CR (74% – 65%) PS (64% – 50%) FL (49% – 0) Discussion of Project Scope and Stakeholders (10 Marks) Comprehensive and concise discussion of the scope and stakeholders involved in the project Highly detailed discussion of the scope and stakeholders involved in the project Detailed discussion of the scope and stakeholders involved in the project Basic mention of stakeholders and scope Incomplete or no answer to the topic Identification of milestones (10 Marks) Comprehensive identification of project milestones Highly detailed identification of project milestones Detailed identification of project milestones Adequate identification of project milestones Incomplete or no answer to the topic Scope of the project (10 Marks) Comprehensive description of the scope of the project. Highly detailed description of the scope of the project. Detailed description of the scope of the project. Adequate description of the scope of the project. Incomplete or no answer to the topic Schedule of the project (10 Marks) Comprehensive description of the schedule of the project Highly detailed description of the schedule of the project Detailed description of the schedule of the project Adequate description of the schedule of the project Incomplete or no answer to the topic Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (10 Marks) Comprehensive WBS of the project Highly detailed WBS of the project Detailed WBS of the project Adequate WBS of the project Incomplete or no answer to the topic Resource & Budget management (10 Marks) Comprehensive description of the resource and budget management of the project Highly detailed description of the resource and budget management of the project Detailed description of the resource and budget management of the project Adequate description of the resource and budget management of the project Incomplete or no answer to the topic Project risk management (10 Marks) Comprehensive project risk management plan Highly detailed project risk management plan Detailed project risk management plan Adequate project risk management plan Incomplete or no answer to the topic Project quality planning & management (10 Marks) Comprehensive description of project quality planning and management Highly detailed description of project quality planning and management Detailed description of project quality planning and management Adequate description of project quality planning and management Incomplete or no answer to the topic Microsoft Project file(s) submission (10 Marks) Microsoft Project File(s) showing all aspects of project planning and management comprehensively Microsoft Project File(s) showing some aspects of project planning and management Microsoft Project File(s) showing few aspects of project planning and management and missing some important steps No submission or incomplete Microsoft Project File Report structure and Referencing (10 Marks) Report is very well written, structured and includes several high quality in-text references Report is structured correctly and contains some references. Report is basic and contains minimal references Report is very poorly written or lacks structure. No references are included. Presentation Report with cover page, table of contents and reference list.