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Identification of milestones
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.
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
Marking criteria
Marks given will be dependent on the quality of the answers and the suitability and correctness of the
proposed project as represented in Microsoft Office Project. You need to identify project milestones
SMART criteria i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Results-based, and Time-specific. The following
areas will be examined using the marking criteria in the marking rubric given below.
HD
DI
(100% 85%)
(84% 75%)
Comprehensive
Highly detailed
identification of project identification of
milestones
project milestones
CR
PS
(74% 65%)
(64% 50%)
Detailed identification Adequate
of project milestones identification of
project milestones
Comprehensive
Highly detailed
description of the scope description of the
of the project.
scope of the project.
Schedule of the
project
(10 Marks)
Comprehensive
Highly detailed
Detailed description of Adequate description Incomplete or no
description of the
description of the
the schedule of the
of the schedule of the answer to the topic
schedule of the project schedule of the project project
project
Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS)
(10 Marks)
Comprehensive WBS Highly detailed WBS Detailed WBS of the Adequate WBS of the Incomplete or no
of the project
of the project
project
project
answer to the topic
Comprehensive
description of the
resource and budget
management of the
project
Project risk
management
(10 Marks)
Project quality
planning &
management
(10 Marks)
Comprehensive
description of project
quality planning and
management
Task
Identification of
milestones
(10 Marks)
Highly detailed
description of the
resource and budget
management of the
project
Highly detailed
description of project
quality planning and
management
FL
(49% 0)
Incomplete or no
answer to the topic
Microsoft Project
file(s) submission
(10 Marks)
Microsoft Project
File(s) showing few
aspects of project
planning and
management and
missing some
important steps
No submission or
incomplete Microsoft
Project File
Requirements
Students are required to submit a project report describing their proposed project solution for the above
task, along with all the appropriate Microsoft Project files.
All referencing in the project material must be in accordance with the APA style guide. A guide to the APA
style of referencing (the style now used by the Faculty of Business) is available at:
http://www.csu.edu.au/division/studserv/learning/pdfs/apa.pdf
Online submission via Turnitin is required for this assignment.