TRIDENT UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL
ITM 423: System Acquisition, System Development and Project Management
Module 3: IT Project Roles, Responsibilities and Staffing Session Long Project
May 2014 Term
June 22, 2014
Assignment: Utilizing your assigned software incorporate staffing into your project plan; allocate and distribute your personnel resources as you think they will be needed and then prepare a brief 2-3 page paper summarizing these activities – personnel definition & plan design
Finally, attach and/or include your plan report from your software
Incorporating Staffing into our Project Plan utilizing Basecamp Project Management Software
In the previous Module we analyzed the project lifecycle in detail as we started
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As the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) it will be on them to ensure their course material is available for all who require it and that it is complete. If they need to update their particular course material then they need to have that ability. Another aspect of the faculty members is having an open line of communication to other faculty members as well as to the students. Perhaps a common area such as an open forum or a messaging capability can be incorporated into the project plan that will be easy and robust enough so that it streamlines communication.
Students – Students can play a role in helping to develop the project plan in that they can help test out various features and give feedback on what works and what doesn’t work. Just like in rolling out a new curriculum there needs to be a phase where everything gets worked out with a test class (or multiple classes) to validate the material and tests/assignments. Feedback from former students can also be of some value in determining the best way to add in new features that also contain the things that worked very well in the past.
Plan Design
The specific plan design will incorporate each of the personnel above into our project that we have started in the previous Module. With Basecamp this is accomplished by creating a project and then selecting the Team and/or Client tabs. From there we can add individual team members or even a group account. Once added you have
This is to ensure that the necessary raw materials and physical resources are available at each stage, and that the workforce on site has the right skills for the scheduled work. The project management team will need to produce a series of planning documents that can be accessed throughout the project. Each member of the project management team must know their role and responsibilities, including which sections of the workforce they will be directly managing.
In this work related project analysis various information will be for gathering information. Some of the areas that will be covered are; methods of searching, interviewing techniques to gather the information, agreement for articulating requirements, and strategies to gather information for computerization. Requirements must
Provide a project charter of your selected project in accordance with the charter template found in Doc Sharing. The project will be the project your team will use for the remainder of this course.
The project team is also a driving force, making sure that create a plan that works.
Select one (1) project from the working or educational environment of your choice and specify the main work process (e.g., suppliers and customers involved, work flow, etc.) of the project that you have selected. Next, suggest at least two (2) actions that a manager can take in order to improve the work process of the project in question. Provide a
The scope of the project involves replacing these computers and getting new desks to accommodate the new desktops. Newer software will be added to the computers, including an updated operating system. College staff members will have to be trained on the use of the new computers and the software. The training will include live training and hardcopy training materials. The project has a deliverable of upgrading all the classroom computers in the business department. The college has 5 classrooms in the business department, and each classroom has 25 computers. All 125 computers will be replaced with newer all-in-one desktops with touchscreens. The vendor has been determined, and you will work with this vendor upgrade the computers.
A. Describe the resources, (equipment, staff (number of staff and their qualifications and facilities) that you have to fulfill this contract.
Select one (1) project from the working or educational environment of your choice and specify the main work process (e.g., suppliers and customers involved, work flow, etc.) of the project that you have selected. Next, suggest at least two (2) actions that a manager can take in order to improve the work process of the project in question. Provide a rationale
A group of three people will including me will make a project brief first, secondly one of us will make project plan which will show background of project, aims and objectives of project and also will show resources, evaluation of project and approvals.
There are some specific assumptions going into this project, which may or may not play out as true in actual implementation. One of them involves everyone coming in will have experience with our project in one sense or another, or at least some experience with the University. In playing off this assumption we may not need to expend as much time and energy in training and will be able to press ahead with implementation without delay.
To create a new project you just need to click on the Create a Project link at the top and the software steps you through everything. On the main Basecamp page they also include testimonials from many companies that used this tool to become a success. You’ll also be able to step through an actual Basecamp project from KEEN Footwear and all of the things that the tool provided them, to include a video of their grand opening. Personally, I found that added touch very welcoming and made me want to give this product a try for a project of my own. So far I’ve been dabbling with this product for a couple weeks now and haven’t really seen where there was something I wanted to add that I couldn’t. It’s still early on, but I may stumble upon something as I really get into using the product more.
The nature and scope of a project is determined at the initiation stage. This involves analyzing the business needs, developing goals, budgets, tasks, deliverables, and the stakeholder analysis. The project planning stage determines the planning team, develops the scope, and identifies work breakdown structure and activities that will be needed to complete deliverables. The planning stage also estimates time and cost activities, develop schedule and risk plan, and gain formal approval for work to begin. The executing stage involves all processes used to meet the project requirement and involves managing people and resources. The process that entails the identification of potential problems and
During the project planning phase, I can work effectively towards the development of project management subsidiary plans to execute, monitor and control and close projects. I will contribute towards the planning of the scope in assuring that the project includes all the work required and only the work required. I will do this by conducing interviews, focus group, facilitated workshops etc., I can clearly define and document stakeholder needs to meet project objectives that will be
• who will be responsible for planning and management of project operations as well as the roles of other bodies and organizations associated with the project
Project Requirement: As per project requirement as a team we need to select a project based on different criteria like timing of project, complexity, probability of success and enjoyment of team. We need to execute the project as per the project management methodology and prepare different documents during life cycle of the project starting from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure. One of the team member has to take leadership role of project manager and guide the team during project execution. At the end of semester we need to submit a project notebook with detailed summary of project and different documents generated during project.