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Information Technology Project Management

Project Scheduling and Budgeting


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Instructions
Ensure that you have completed all readings for topics 1 - 7:
Assignment requirements based on the following Grand Wines Project case study.
As the project manager of this project, you are required to present an initial project report to the project
sponsor that includes the following specific project outputs to show how you propose to implement this
project:
Minimum suggested project management related deliverables include:

Identification of milestones

Scope of the project

Schedule of the project

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Resource & Budget management

Project risk management

Project quality planning and management

Microsoft Project file(s) submission

Case study Grand Wines


You are an employee of Grand Wines Ltd and project leader of a proposed project to equip each of the
companys 20 sales representatives with a wireless data entry device by which they could instantly
communicate customer orders to the companys central sales database in Sydney. The sales
representatives operate over all areas of NSW and service around 400 independent wine and liquor
stores in the state.
Currently, the sales representatives complete customer orders manually and after leaving a copy with the
customer, they forward the customer orders by mail or fax to the sales department in Sydney, where the
orders are entered into the sales database and processed through the inventory system for shipment to
the customer.
The problems with the current process are:

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

be able to demonstrate how to expedite project tasks during project delivery.

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

Scope of the project


(10 Marks)

Comprehensive
Highly detailed
description of the scope description of the
of the project.
scope of the project.

Detailed description of Adequate description Incomplete or no


the scope of the
of the scope of the
answer to the topic
project.
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

Resource & Budget


management
(10 Marks)

Comprehensive
description of the
resource and budget
management of the
project

Project risk
management
(10 Marks)

Comprehensive project Highly detailed project Detailed project risk


risk management plan risk management plan management plan

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

Detailed description of Adequate description Incomplete or no


the resource and
of the resource and
answer to the topic
budget management of budget management of
the project
the project

Adequate project risk Incomplete or no


management plan
answer to the topic

Detailed description of Adequate description Incomplete or no


project quality
of project quality
answer to the topic
planning and
planning and
management
management

Microsoft Project
file(s) submission
(10 Marks)

Microsoft Project File(s) showing all aspects Microsoft Project


of project planning and management
File(s) showing some
comprehensively
aspects of project
planning and
management

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.

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