Assignment 1
ITECH 2250
IT Project Management Techniques
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Due Date: Week 5 – Monday 5:00 pm
Weight: 10%
This is an individual assignment. There is an expectation that no two submissions will be the same.
Objectives
This assessment task relates to the following course objectives:
Observe real world information technology problems and apply project management
principles and techniques to solve these problems;
Employ a systems thinking approach to identify critical roles and stakeholders in
information technology projects;
Demonstrate decision-making processes to solve a range of information technology
project issues;
Utilise a range of organisational and self-management skills, emulating real world
practice of information technology project managers.
value the importance of effective communication to solve problems on information
technology projects
Task
During the Project Initiation phase, an important artefact is the Project Charter. This artefact clearly indicates
for the project team and all stakeholders the project objectives, scope and vision. In this assignment, you are
provided with a case study project description below. You will create a Project Charter for this project that
will be managed following the adaptive methodology of Agile Scrum. In a project managed using
traditional project management methodologies, the Charter would be a document of just a few pages (around
4) formally outlining the key objectives, schedule and stakeholders. In an Agile project, this artefact would
be displayed in the project team room.
Background
After top management determines which projects to pursue, then it becomes important to notify the organisation
about the projects. The Project Charter is used to authorise the project and nominate the project manager. The
Project Charter formally recognises the project and provides a summary of the details of the project.
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Requirements
For this assessment task, students are required to create a Project Charter for the case study provided:
Green Computing Research Project. The Project will be managed using the Agile SCRUM PM
methodology. You (project manager – PM) has made a presentation about your proposed approach for
developing the research report to the senior leadership committee meeting in order to get approval for the
project. You presented a Business Case to the committee to secure their approval for this project. The
Business Case includes many of the details that will form the Project Charter.
At the conclusion of the presentation, the committee authorised you to implement the project. To get the project
started, you need to draw up a Project Ch ...
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1. Assignment 1
ITECH 2250
IT Project Management Techniques
Page 1 of 6 CRICOS Provider No. 00103D ITECH 2250
Assignment 1 Semester 2 2015– Project Charter
Due Date: Week 5 – Monday 5:00 pm
Weight: 10%
This is an individual assignment. There is an expectation that no
two submissions will be the same.
Objectives
This assessment task relates to the following course objectives:
apply project management
principles and techniques to solve these problems;
and stakeholders in
2. information technology projects;
-making processes to solve a range of
information technology
project issues;
-management skills,
emulating real world
practice of information technology project managers.
problems on information
technology projects
Task
During the Project Initiation phase, an important artefact is the
Project Charter. This artefact clearly indicates
for the project team and all stakeholders the project objectives,
scope and vision. In this assignment, you are
provided with a case study project description below. You will
create a Project Charter for this project that
will be managed following the adaptive methodology of Agile
Scrum. In a project managed using
traditional project management methodologies, the Charter
would be a document of just a few pages (around
3. 4) formally outlining the key objectives, schedule and
stakeholders. In an Agile project, this artefact would
be displayed in the project team room.
Background
After top management determines which projects to pursue, then
it becomes important to notify the organisation
about the projects. The Project Charter is used to authorise the
project and nominate the project manager. The
Project Charter formally recognises the project and provides a
summary of the details of the project.
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Requirements
4. For this assessment task, students are required to create a
Project Charter for the case study provided:
Green Computing Research Project. The Project will be
managed using the Agile SCRUM PM
methodology. You (project manager – PM) has made a
presentation about your proposed approach for
developing the research report to the senior leadership
committee meeting in order to get approval for the
project. You presented a Business Case to the committee to
secure their approval for this project. The
Business Case includes many of the details that will form the
Project Charter.
At the conclusion of the presentation, the committee authorised
you to implement the project. To get the project
started, you need to draw up a Project Charter as the formal
authority for the project. The project sponsor has
appointed you as the project manager. While preparing the
Project Charter report, you need to express clearly
the vision (why do this project), the mission (what is to be
done), and the success criteria for this project.
You will also need to:
5. involved in
the project and the objective for each
Sprint Cycle.
You may need to make other necessary assumptions in
preparing the Charter but make sure these are clearly
stated. (You may be creative with your assumptions to ensure
that your submission is unique.)
The Project Charter will be displayed on the wall in the project
team room for the duration of the project and
includes information such as:
o Start and end dates for each sprint
6. o Milestones/objectives for each sprint
project management methodology including:
o Assumptions, constraints and expectations
o Governance
-off section for all stakeholders
An initial template example for the Project Charter document is
provided.
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Submission
7. Please submit an electronic copy of the Project Charter based on
the example Project Charter template
provided in Moodle. Submit only via Moodle. Partner students
please refer to your course lecturer for
submission instructions. Please refer to the Course Description
for information regarding late assignments,
extensions, special consideration, and plagiarism. A reminder
all academic regulations can be accessed via
the university’s website, see:
http://www.federation.edu.au/students/essential-
info/publications/handbook
8. http://www.federation.edu.au/students/essential-
info/publications/handbook
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CASE STUDY— Green Computing Research Project
You work for We Are Big, Inc., an international firm with more
than 100,000 employees in
several countries. A strategic goal is to help improve the
environment while increasing
revenues and reducing costs. The Environmental Technologies
Program just started, and the
VP of Operations, Natalie, is the program sponsor. Ito is the
9. program manager, and there is
a steering committee made up of 10 senior executives, including
Natalie, who oversees the
program. Several projects operate within this program,
including the Green Computing
Research Project. The CIO and project sponsor, Ben, has given
this project high priority and
plans to hold special interviews to hand-pick the project
manager and team. Ben is also a
member of the program steering committee. Before coming to
We Are Big, Ben sponsored a
project at a large computer firm to improve data center
efficiency. This project, however, is
much broader. The main purpose of the Green Computing
Research Project is to research
possible applications of green computing, including the
following:
• Data center and overall energy efficiency
• Disposal of electronic waste and recycling
• Telecommuting
• Virtualization of server resources
• Thin client solutions
10. • Use of open source software
• Development of new software to address green computing for
internal use and
potential sale to other organizations
The budget for the project is $500,000, and the goal is to
provide an extensive report, including
detailed financial analysis and recommendations for which
green computing technologies to
implement. Official project request forms for the recommended
solutions will also be created
as part of the project.
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11. Ben decided to have five people working full-time on this six-
month project and to call on
people in other areas as needed. He wanted to be personally
involved in selecting the project
manager and to have that person help him select the rest of the
project team. Ben wanted to
find people already working inside the company, but he was
also open to reviewing
applications for potential new employees to work specifically
on his project as long as they
could start quickly. Because many good people were located in
different parts of the world,
Ben thought it made sense to select the best people he could
find and allow them to work
virtually on the project. Ben also wanted the project manager to
do more than just manage
the project. The project manager would also do some of the
research, writing, and editing
required to produce the desired results. Ben was also open to
paying expert consultants for
their advice and to purchasing books and related articles as
needed.
After the project was announced, a new CEO Mr Techno Trend
was parachuted into the
12. company. Techno is a well known advocate of cloud computing
and during his appointment as
the CEO, he made it as his top priority. This means, cloud
computing could well creep into the
research list or replace any one on the list. The team’s other
challenges include one of the key
team members may have to take parental leave in the middle of
the project if he cannot find
alternative arrangement.
Prepare a project charter for the Green Computing Research
Project. Again, assume that the project will
take six months to complete and that the budget is $500,000.
Use the project charter template and
examples of the project charters in Chapters 3 and 4 of the text
book as guidelines. Assume that part of
the approach is to select the project team as quickly as possible.
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Assessment Criteria
Students work will be assessed as outlined below:
outlined in the case study
for each sprint cycle
quality written expression as outlined in the
university General Guide to Writing and Study Skills and
General Guide to Referencing:
http://federation.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/190044/201
4-General-Guide-to-Writing-and-Study-Skills.pdf
http://federation.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/164121/Fed
Uni-General-Guide-to-Referencing-2014.pdf
Assessment Feedback
Student
No.
Marker:
15. 15
dule showing at least 3 sprint cycles
- Start and end dates for each sprint
- Milestones for each sprint
- Objectives for each sprint
15
- Assumptions, constraints and expectations
- Governance
10
- Sign-off section
- Clear Layout appropriate for team room
3
Total Mark [50 marks]
Total Worth [10%]
