Stakeholder Register and Management Strategy: Project Management

1. Identify at least three business processes that New Century performs and explain who is responsible for the specific tasks. (9 Marks)

2. Prepare a Stakeholder Register and Stakeholder Management Strategy for the above project. Present your answer in the format as shown below. (24 Marks)

Stakeholder Register

Stakeholder Management Strategy

3. Prepare a Project Charterfor this project using the template discussed in class. (24 Marks)

4. Prepare a team contractaccording to the format discussed in class. Minimum two points under each topic are expected. (10 marks)

1. Analyse financial projections provided in the case study and perform ‘financial analysis’ for the project management purpose. Refer to chapter 4 in the textbook for more information. Provide proper recommendation based on your analysis.

(24 Marks)

5. Prepare project scope statement to understand and discuss the scope of the project. (10 Marks)

6. Identify and justify the appropriate SDLC model for this project. Relates and justify the phases of your chosen SDLC model to project management process. (15 Marks)

7. Prepare the work breakdown structure (WBS) for this project at appropriate level. Refer to Figure 3-3 in your prescribed textbook for more information. WBS should be based on the project charter, scope statement, and other relevant information in the case study.

(15 Marks)

8. Using the WBS from the previous question, prepare a Gantt chart for this project that covers the following:

Estimate activity durations

Allocate activity resources

Sequence activities

(20 Marks)

9. Apply Critical Path Method (CPM) to find the earliest possible time by which the project can be completed. Display critical path in your Gantt chart. (5 Marks)

10. Use the critical path from previous question to make Schedule Trade-Offs. Find the float for at least ten activities. (5 Marks)

11. Prepare a communication management plan for this project according to the format discussed in the class. (20 Marks)

12. Consider the following situations:

• You discovered in week 20 that the user interface is too complex for the users that can result in conducting substantial user training before they make the system live. It is estimated that the training material needs 3 working days to be developed and 3 days to actual conduct the training session.
• During the testing phase, on second day of the testing activity, a bug is found in the parts of ordering process. The system is not showing any exceptions, but it is not processing the orders as it should. It is estimated that it will take approximately 3 days to fix the bug but that fix results into updating the order form and related processes. This new change requires 2 days to fix.

Manage the above situations in your project and make the necessary changes to the Gantt chart without changing the deadline. Propose the required changes using the format discussed in the class. (34 Marks)

13. Identify five potential risks in the project and prepare Risk Register for this project according to the format provided in Appendix C. (40 Marks)

2. Individual Task :-

Weekly progress report: To monitor and control the project success, prepare and report weekly progress of the project according to the template provided in chapter 3 of the textbook. One report (for different weeks) per team member is required. This report must be in context of the case study and assuming your group is part of development team

   (13 Marks per Student)

3. Individual Task :-

Individual Presentations: Each team is required to present the project work in the submission week. The presentation duration is 15 to 20 minutes. Teams will be marked according to the criteria in Appendix B. (32 Marks)