Project Management Assignment –
Objective: You are encouraged to see the role of a project manager within the broader perspective of strategic business management, understanding where projects come from and why they are selected.
Outcomes –
1. Identify and explain the changing social and organizational effects, on both individuals and society as a whole, of information systems and technology projects.
2. Evaluate the tools and techniques that need to be applied for the effective and successful implementation of a computer based project.
Tasks: Read the following tasks, understand and present your response in a document not more than 12 to 14 pages.
Assume that you are a project manager in Muscat ICT Systems Company which is located in KOM. Muscat ICT Systems Company undertakes projects based on specific client requirements. These projects typically include development of:
- Transaction Processing Systems
- Business Intelligence Systems
- Management information Systems
- HR Systems
- Hospital Management Systems
- Banking Information Systems
- Inventory Management Systems
- Payroll Systems
- CRM Systems
- Knowledge Management Systems
- Logistic Management software
Choose any one of the above or any other systems development project or a research based project of your liking (if you are choosing any other system/project, prior approval from your faculty need to be taken) which you would like to head and complete the tasks given:
Task 1: Submit a work proposal for this assignment by the end of 06/08/2019, which must include:
- Understanding of deliverables – a detail description of deliverables;
- General overview of proposed plan – initial understanding of solution to task2 and task3;
- Resources identified.
The work proposal must be submitted in a word file through the link available in Moodle.
Task 2: Write the scope statement for the selected project. Your scope statement must include:
- Specific objectives
- Cost
- Duration
- Proposed technology that will used in the project
You can read the research paper “Significance of Scope in Project Success” by Muhammad Nabeel Mirza, and an article “Improve Project Success with Better Scope Management” by Avneet Mathur, which highlights the key aspects needed to consider while capturing the scope of the project. It’s very important that you consider and completely mention the factors needed to write the scope statement. The above links can help you to identify the factors needed to write the scope statement.
Task 3: Upon review of the scope statement presented in task 2, the management of Muscat ICT Systems Company decides to include sustainable factors into the project. Identify, Analyze and present five factors to be included in the scope document of task 2 to make the project sustainable.
Task 4: Identify any one Project Management software/tool (excluding MS-Project) and present a synopsis showing a usage of project management software/tool. You have to select or prepare a project plan (work breakdown structure) using the tool. The synopsis should not be more than one or two pages and should be competently presented. Any referenced extra resource should be added as appendix.
The assignment should not be more than 12 to 14 pages in (size A4) paper. Use CU-Harvard referencing style.
