COMP8790 – Strategic Project Management Assignment 1 Major Assignment Strategic Project Management Report Due Date (Week 6 – Thurs 1st April 2021) (Submitted on ilearn before 23.55pm) Weight 20% of overall unit assessment 1. Task Description 1.1 Overview You are required to work with a real life organisation in order to produce a Project Management Report which oversees 2-3 projects for the company chosen. The Report should guide and enable your client to make a rational selection from options for a proposed computer application or system. If your project is large or if you have any doubt about how suitable it is, check with your lecturer before starting. Choice of organisation: Being a Masters student we would hope that you have a some real life work experience that you can utilise for the potential organisation. If that is not the case consider a company that you can handle, think about the context of the projects that they potentially have running. 1 1.2 Report submission requirements Your Report is to include the following sections and components. You are advised to use this outline as a starting point for your Table of Contents. The final submission is to be formatted as a report document with page numbering, section headings, and all other appropriate report formatting requirements, including executive summary and appendices. Section 1 - Initial Investigation This section should include background information for the system under study. You should include: o Name and background information on the organisation being studied; o Simple organisation chart showing the overall structure of the business; o Description of area of the organisation under study (with possible causes of problems in current operations and possible solutions); o System Vision Document – problem description, anticipated business benefits and system capabilities; o Work Breakdown Structure for your tasks to complete the System o Estimated time and costs for your analysis tasks to complete the projects o What project(s) shall not go ahead? o Risk Analysis chart and feasibility analysis as to whether to proceed. Section 2 – Detailed Analysis This section should include detailed analysis of the specific area of the business under study. You will need to include summaries and evidence of your data gathering activities, including the details of at least one interview. You may consider presenting this evidence as Appendices in your report (interview details as signed Minutes of the Meeting, as well as the results of your other data gathering techniques). This section should demonstrate your ability to use the following tools: Project Proposal Assumptions Projects that are being considered Project Plan Variance Request Schedule Budget Issues Issues & Risks Log Future work required to implement the recommended system using a Gantt chart showing Critical Path Analysis. 2 Section 3 - Conclusions and Recommendations This section should summarise your findings based on the information generated above. Please include your recommendations for the next step in the development of this information system; 1.3 Software You are required to use appropriate computer software packages to produce output for many of the above techniques. This approach should assist you with the inevitable changes that you (or another analyst, in a real life system) will need to make, and also gives a better quality and hence more readable result. Project Libre is an excellent tool to use for free at home. 1.4 Accuracy This is a major assessment for this unit. You are required to put into real-life practise many of the skills that are addressed in this Analysis unit. Because for most of you this will be the first time that you have undertaken such an exercise, you are allowed to take “poetic license”. This means that wherever possible you must describe the requirements of the information system that you are investigating, using the range of tools and techniques described above. However, if the requirements are not well suited to utilising all of the above tools and techniques, you may “bend slightly” the system requirements in order for you to demonstrate (to your lecturer/tutor) that you can use each of the above approaches in a meaningful way. For example: should your chosen business have only 3 employees, you may add 2 extra employees to demonstrate your knowledge of constructing an organisation chart 3. Length As each student’s assignment will refer to a different business, there is no set length for this assignment. However, you should refer to the rubric available on the website for marking criteria and each section should be of sufficient length to adequately describe that section. The word count should be around 2000 words approximately 4. Marking criteria Marking criteria is available via a rubric on ilearn. 5. Submission Format You will be required to check this assignment through Turnitin on ilearn. Please leave adequate time to review your assignment for originality, through the Turnitin process. Your final major report assignment submission should be in the form of ONE Microsoft Word document, including the Turnitin statement. You should include your diagrams in this Word document, as clear graphics. Note: any graphics that cannot be clearly seen will NOT be marked. Your Word document should be named as: Lastname _FirstIinitial_MajorReport.doc (or docx). For example, my submission would be named Mansour_M_MajorReport.doc or Mansour_M_MajorReport.docx. 6. Advice Because you will need to gather and analyse a lot of data, you should start this assignment as soon as possible. You should aim to identify a suitable organisation to study by Week 2 of semester. More advice on choosing a suitable organisation/information system is possible with discussion with your lecturer. 7. More information If you need more information about completing this assignment, then you should contact your local lecturer in the lecture time. 3 8. Original work Your assignment must be your original work. Assignments form a major part of course work. Exchange of ideas with other people can be considered educationally valuable; however, excessive collaboration will be regarded as plagiarism, which is a University offence. For example, the copying of significant parts of a document, even if subsequently modified, is plagiarism. Such academic dishonesty will be penalised in accordance with the University's rules and regulations. You must not copy material from books, magazines, internet sources or other students’ assignments. Of course, you may include direct quotes from any source, but these must be small (e.g. one sentence or one paragraph) and must be properly referenced, using the Harvard Referencing Style. The value and relevance of including materials from another source must be fully explained. If plagiarism is found in your assignment, you may receive zero marks for this assignment. The assessment process may require some students to attend an interview in order to explain aspects of their assignment. 9. Problems to avoid Start early to allow sufficient time for thorough analysis, report writing and production of many analysis diagrams. Do not copy materials from any source, unless referenced. Explain the value and significance of any external materials. Do not use an organisation from other units in this degree program. 10. Retain duplicate copy You are strongly advised to retain a copy of original work, and progressive versions of your work during the session. In the event of any uncertainty regarding the submission of assessment items, you may be requested to reproduce a final copy and/or any previous versions of your work. 11. Penalty for late submission A penalty of 10% per calendar day will be applied to all late assignments. An extension of time will only be considered (not necessarily approved) when a written request is submitted with appropriate supporting documentation and in accordance with University guidelines. 12. Marks and Feedback Marks and feedback comments will be returned via a hardcopy of the Rubric on ilearn. 4
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