Indigenous Ed Project Plan for Equal Opportunity essay.

The Chair of the CQUniversity SET Indigenisation Committee, Ms Natalie Ewin, has tasked you with providing the project board with further information in relation to the project. The Chair will act as the Project Executive for the project board. You are to develop a project plan that reflects the project described in this document and aligns to PMBoK and Prince2 requirements.

Purpose of the Project

The current project is all about the spreading awareness about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander’s people who are far away from the people living in the urban areas. These people are not acquainted with the lifestyles of all the urban people and used to live in peace as they are isolated from the city areas (Penrose, Roe, Johnson & James, 2018). The aim of the current project is introduced equal opportunities for all the isolated people and the urban people to create a cross-cultural environment. With the help of this project, CQ University and NAIDOC committee intend to take an initiative for all the aboriginal people who want to take education to improve their current conditions. An individual has different intentions behind the taking of education is for a pleasure, dream, to transform their existing condition (Reilly & Rees, 2018). The intention of a student behind taking education motivates them to take important decision for its life and also to achieve all its career goals within a given span of time.

Another objective of this particular project is to bring out all the characteristics of this indigenous community to aware the staff members and the existing students of CQ University with the diverse culture of Australia (Teasdale, 2018). These people live in the outskirts of the Queensland Australia are count as a part of the country but did not get the similar recognition as a country people just like other citizens residing in the country’s Special commission named as National aboriginal’s and islanders day observance association has created to take care about the basic needs of this community and also worked for providing recognition to this community as against the normal people of the urban areas (Llewellyn, Boon & Lewthwaite, 2018).

This study aims to develop objectives in awaking students about this community to offer equal amount respect and opportunity to these people to judge the talent of these people by giving admissions in this University to promote the cultural and social inequality mentality of the university among the whole (Townsend & et.al., 2018) Australia and the entire world. The university campus of CQ is extended to different cities of Australia such as Rockhampton, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth who provides educational services to the entire domestic and the international students intend to make their career in different streams. This initiative taken by an entity will get achieved by spreading this social campaign to all the current campuses of the university to promote their activities and seek the feedback of the staff members, parents and especially all the students of the university.

Output	Outcome	Benefits
Admission of aboriginal and Torres straits islanders	Presenting better picture of CQ university in the society	Donors give huge donations to the university for allowing indigenous community members in its university.
Recognition of new community	Increases the cultural diversity of Australia.	This helps in decreasing the social and cross-cultural gap in the country which invites culturally diverse people to take admission in this university.
Equal education opportunity	It promotes social equality in the society by disregarding unequal society measures of class, caste, creed, religion.	By creating equal education opportunity in this university will increases the external image of the university in the world in attracting the attention of all the international students towards this institute.
Increasing employment chance	With the current initiative of an entity, people living in Australia and other people will give preference to this university in the terms of job opportunities where emotions, values are given more preference.	By giving jobs to the local citizens and other international candidates will improve the productivity of the University which also get the support of the government.
Migration of people in Australia	The population of Australia will get increased and so as the increment in the students from one period to another.	Migration of people in Australia from another country will increase the gross domestic product of the country which induces the economic segment of the country due to the initiative was taken by the CQ University. In the result of this, the government will also appreciate the current action of the university by helping the educational university in both monetary as well as the non-monetary ways used by the government to meet the existing needs of the University. Tax deductions and donations received by CQ university from the government as their activities are helping the whole nation.

	Stakeholder	Category (i.e. Sponsor / Supplier / User)	Description of Interest	Description of Influence
1	University Dean	Sponsor	The university dean has significant influence in this project as they started this project to aware its students about the cultural dynamicity of Australia by revealing the secret community in the knowledge of the CQ university’s students (Li, Zhang & Skitmore, 2018). Each and every information provided by the dean will help in moving ahead in this project as the completion of the current project depends on the facts and the information provided by the dean who are the sponsor of this project.	University’s dean has a stronger influence in the project as their action will assess the overall direction of a project as true or false information supplied by them will directly affect the entire accuracy of a project.
2	NAIDOC officer	Sponsor	The officer who handles the special committee for taking care of the needs and the expectations of the aboriginal people living on the mainland of Australia is isolated from the urban boundaries of Australia (Assan & Hunt, 2018). The officer aims to offer educational opportunity to all the isolated people of Australia by giving equal career opportunities to them to fulfil their dreams through CQ University.	As a sponsor of a project, they strongly influence this project as they have exact facts and the information related to the total number of families living on the islands as this committee is appointed for the upliftment of the indigenous community will provide authentic and reliable information.
3	Students	User	One of the objectives of this project is to aware its students about the cultural diversities of Australia in the form of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders (Davison, 2018). Students try to make the environment comfortable for all the outsiders by showing their human side towards the people who are new this place.	Students have a medium influence on this project as the rude behaviour of the student will not attract any indigenous community people towards this university as they feel isolated and uncomfortable at this place.
4	Parents	User	Seeking approval of the parent is essential to move ahead in this project as the opinions of all the parents are essential before implementing any initiatives taken by the higher authority (Li, Ng & Skitmore, 2017). Parents of existing students are the member of the family of CQ university whose concern is essential to be considered by an entity before making any decisions.	If the majority of parents are against this policy then the University cannot make any decisions as parents of the students play an integral role in suppressing or inducing the aim of a project.
5	Professors/lecturers	Supplier	Lecturers/professors play an important role in guiding all the students about this initiative of the university as a teacher will easily convey the opinions of the university about this initiative (Heldman, 2018). The lecturer will help in creating social campaigns with the help of all the students on this social action by explaining the significance of the action taken by the top management of the CQ University and all its advantages and the disadvantages.	Higher influence of professor/lecturers in this project as the negative comments of the students and parents on the aim of a project by changing the mentality of all the individuals.
6	Aboriginal and Torres straits islanders	User	People for whom the policy developed by the university will actively participate in this project (Nederhand & Klijn, 2018)	The feedback of these islanders is essential for the progress of the current project as resistance or acceptance of islanders towards this project will help a project manager in moving ahead in concluding the same.

Stakeholder	Unaware	Resistant	Neutral	Supportive	Leading
1. University Dean
2. NAIDOC Officer
3. Student
4. Parents
5. Professors/Lecturers
6. Aboriginal and Torres straits islanders

Communication method	PULL or PUSH	Justification
One to one counselling session	PUSH	One to one counselling session comes under push method where a counsellor will directly communicate with the Islanders in resolving all their doubts in selecting its career goals without taking care about the social boundaries or any other restrictions (Novikov & and et.al., 2018).
Group meeting	PULL	In a group meeting, University dean and a NAIDOC officer will communicate all its staff members about this initiative to convey all the information thoroughly among all the participants of involved directly or indirectly in this project such as students, parents, society members, donors whose interest gets affected with this (Rogers, 2018).
Email communication	PUSH	Using this communication approach sensitive information related to this topic is communicated to teachers, volunteers in the form of students without disclosing the same in front of the public (Li, Xia, & Zajac, 2018).

Objectives of the Project

Traditional Owner/s of the land on which CQ University campuses are located

In context to the traditional owner of the land on which the CQ university campuses are located should be more than one key stakeholder as a recommendation of the project executives. The reason behind the selection of this approach is that one owner of all the 5 campuses handless lots of work pressures and the responsibilities of all the staff members and everything about the business (Zhang, Fang, Yang & Zhang, 2018). So, one or more traditional owner of all the campuses will help in supervising the work practices of all the campuses easily.

Opening statement style

‘Welcome to Country’ as an opening statement is apt to use by campus leaders in inviting all the individuals who access the website of all the university campuses as this denotes the culture of the University by using polite tone in its opening statement (Singla, Ahuja & Sethi, 2018).

Requirements gathering for each event

Yes, it is appropriate to use the previously design event program as they have experience of handling the overall event (Maia, Teixeira & Mateus, 2018). Changing the content of the event according to the current aim of the project is sufficient to present the social initiative in front of the community of Australia by presenting the actual image of Aboriginals in front of the local residents.

Requirements traceability

By using centralized management system in which login credentials are given to all the participants of the projects from different campuses to share all the information updates, documents shared on this platform to be accessed by the authorized party.

Requirements prioritization process

Four components of MOSCOW technique which is used in prioritizing the overall requirements of a project are given as below:

Must have-This includes all the important project activities which is significant for an entity (Hoffman, Howlett, Breslin & Dowling, 2018).
Should have- Items covered in this stream is important for an entity but not at all urgent
Could have- Less important tasks of a project
Won’t have- Unnecessary projects tasks

WBS DISCTIONARY

<Initiation>
WBS ID	1
Description of work	Market survey
Cost Estimate	$500
Start and Finish Dates	14 May and end on 24 May

<Planning >
WBS ID	2
Description of work	Identifying participants of research
Cost Estimate	$600
Start and Finish Dates	25 May and end on 30 May

<Data Collection >
WBS ID	3
Description of work	Primary and secondary collection
Cost Estimate	$2500
Start and Finish Dates	31 May and end on 8^th June

<Data analyze>
WBS ID	4
Description of work	Analyzing of collected data
Cost Estimate	$3000
Start and Finish Dates	9^th June to 15^th June

<Implementation>
WBS ID	5
Description of work	Executing the policy
Cost Estimate	$1200
Start and Finish Dates	17^th June to 25^th June

<Feedback>
WBS ID	6
Description of work	Taking opinions of participants of the project
Cost Estimate	$1500
Start and Finish Dates	26^th June to 30^th June

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Preparing aim of the project	14^th may	16^th May	2
2	Creating goals and the objectives of research	17^th may	18^th May	1
3	Market Survey	19^th May	24^th May	6

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Identifying research samples	25^th May	26^th May	1
2	Prioritizing the research sample	27^th May	29^th May	2
3	Select the size of sample	29^th May	30^th May	1

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Sampling technique	31^st May	2^nd June	2
2	Interview of student	3^rd June	5^th June	2
3	Secondary data from internet	6^th June	8^th June	2

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	N Vivo software	9^th June	10^th June	1
2	Assessing data 729193	11^th June	13^th June	2
3	Identifying alternatives	14^th June	16^th June	2

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Setting execution criteria’s	17^th June	19^th June	2
2	Assigning responsibility to professor/lecturer	20^th June	22^nd June	2
3	Implementing the initiative	23^rd June	25^th June	2

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Assessing the data	26^th June	27^th June	1
2	Seeking approval of aboriginal’s after admitting in the CQ university	28^th June	29^th June	1
3	Distributing questionnaires	29^th June	30^th June	1

		Weeks
WBS id	Activity name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Preparing aim of the project	$500	$200
2	Creating goals and the objectives of research		$250	$400
3	Market Survey			$500	$650
4	Identifying research samples			$480	$700
5	Prioritizing the research sample				$150	$600
6	Select the size of sample				$450	$650
7	Sampling technique					$1200	$1500
8	Interview of student					$1300	$1450
9	Secondary data from internet					$200	$450
10	N Vivo software					$1800	$1800
11	Assessing data					$700	$800
12	Identifying alternatives						$650	$780
13	Setting execution criteria’s						$700	$800
14	Assigning responsibility to professor/lecturer							$900	$1050
15	Implementing the initiative							$450	$650
16	Assessing the data								$700	$800
17	Seeking approval of aboriginal’s after admitting in the CQ university									$900	$1050
18	Distributing questionnaires									$500	800
	Total weekly cost	$500	$450	$1380	$1950	$4870	$7350	$2930	$2400	$2200	$1950
	Cumulative cost	$500	$950	$2330	$4280	$91500	$16500	$19430	$21830	$24030	$25980

Name	Description	Likelihood	Impact	Response type	Mitigation strategy
Threat	Cross-culture conflict	Higher	Creating problems for all other people such as students of the university and their parents.	Comments of students and parents.	Seminar and group meeting called to resolve all their queries.
Threat	Resistance of aboriginals	Higher	The resistance of these people due to the fear of isolation may lead to the failure of the project.	Less number of aboriginals accepts the educational opportunity.	Counselling sessions arranged to know the fear of the people.
Opportunity	Inviting aboriginal islanders on a equal platform of urban people	Medium	This will opens up a new path for the university in other areas in showcasing its talent.	Increasing image of an entity.	Press conference arranged by the university.

Tolerance	Specific Tolerance allowed
Tolerance specified for time	3 days of safety period is determining by a project manager to meet the delaying occurred in all the project activities.
Tolerance specified for cost	Increasing costs is allowed in this project as this will can’t affect the overall performance of a project.

Previous lessons learned

Proposed activity to address

(in current project)

Work package which activity will be added

Lesson

In the previous project, the university faces the problem of attendance where less attendance of students shows the lack of interest of students towards their course. Attendance was low when students and staff perceived that the event did not relate to them or they had little interest in the event theme.

The problem lower student attendance can increase by increasing the interest of all the students in its course by adding extra curriculum activities other than the study.

Extra curriculum classes will be added to increase the interest of all the students will, in turn, increases the student’s enrolment.

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Outcomes

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