ITSU3007

Manage I.T. Projects

Project Report

July 2020
ITSU3007 Assignment

Assessment type: Group Assignment with maximum of 5 team members

Weightage: 30%

Report Submission: Due week 12

The purpose of assignment is to assess students on the following Learning Outcomes:

LO1: Describe and apply project management principles to implement a complete IT project lifecycle
LO2: Prepare a comprehensive and detailed project plan, including project initiation and scope definition

LO3: Analyse the key features and processes required to execute, control and coordinate the project
LO4: Evaluate requirements for project closure, acceptance and support
________________________________________________________________________________ The
aim of this report is to demonstrate the skills and knowledge of how the processes under project
management knowledge areas are carried out through the project management life cycle. You are
required to select a specific IT/IS project and apply these skills and knowledge according to the
requirements stated below.

The project can be implementing/upgrading an infrastructure, a system or both. Major examples of

these projects can be (but not limited to):

• Information system development

• Smartphone app development

• Hardware infrastructure development

• Website/web service development

Rememeber that these are only examples. In your report you need to specify what exactly the project is
and what is its main objective(s).

Hint: It is recommended that you discuss with your lecturer your selected project to make sure that you
are in the right track. This communication is also recommended while you are developing your report by
time.

Requirements: In your project you are required to consider all the activities/processes under knowledge
areas including Scope Management, Time Management, Cost Management, Quality Management,
Human Resources Management, Stakeholders and Communication Management, Procurement
Management, Risk Management, Change Management and Integration Management.

You need to elaborate how these processes are mapped and carried out under each phase of your
chosen project. For time and cost estimate, you need to elaborate how the activities are carried out. You
do NOT need to develop a project schedule and a budge estimate. For example under,

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1. Integration Management
a. Elaborate how you would go about developing project charter under initiation phase
b. Develop a brief project charter.
2. Scope Management –
a. Discuss the various steps required to define, develop and manage scope.
b. Develop a detailed scope statement including scope items, exclusions, deliverables,
assumptions, constraints and risks.
c. Develop a scope management process and change request management process that
you will be following in your project

3. Time Management
a. Discuss the various steps required to define, develop and manage schedule.

4. Cost Management
a. Discuss the various steps required to define, develop and manage budget.

General Instruction

1. Your scope and other requirements should, match the project based on its type, nature and size. You
need to be realistic and logical as much as you can.

2. The word limit for the assignment is 3500.

3. The Font size needs to be “12” with font type as Times New Roman or Arial.

4. Plagiarism: Your project and work should not be similar to other group’s work. Otherwise, that would
be considered as either collusion or plagiarism. Submit your report into the corresponding Moodle drop-
box for the assignment. Note that this will be a turn-it-in drop box and you will be provided with a
similarity score. This will be considered when grading the assignment. Note that incidents of plagiarism
will be penalised. If your similarity score is high you can re-submit your report, but re-submission is only
allowed up to the due date. If you submit your assignment after the due date and time re-submission
will not be allowed.

5. Late Submission: All work is due by the due date and time. Late submissions will be penalised at the
rate of 10% per day including weekends.

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Elements of Excellent Good Fair Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Allocated

Assessment Marks
Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction Introduction does 3
presents the presents the presents the needs not cover all the
project and project and project and improvement in topics and the
application of application of application of the way topics flow does not
project project project are covered meet the
management management management throughout the requirements.
knowledge and knowledge and knowledge and assignment and
skills very well skills well which skills well which the flow needs
which are covered are covered are covered improvement,
throughout the throughout the throughout the
assignment and assignment and assignment and
provides a good the flow seems to the flow needs
flow. be fine. improvement
Report Layout Excellent Good Grammar, Grammar, A few grammar Several Grammar 2
Grammar, spelling spelling and spelling and and spelling erros and Spelling
and sentence sentence sentence errors
constructs constructs constructs need
improvement
Knowledge All knowledge All knowledge Presentation of All Phases and Missing phases, 20
Areas areas and areas and knowledge areas knowledge areas knowledge areas
individual individual and how they are are covered, but and processes
processes under processes under carried out needs a few processes
them are them are improvement are missing
addressed and addressed but
elaborated on how needs to be
they are carried elaborated on
out within a how they are
project carried out within
a project
Conclusion An excellent A good summary Summary of the Summary of the Summary of the 2
summary of the of the report is report needs report needs report is not
report is provided provided and is improvement and improvement comprehensive
and is comprehensive is comprehensive and is not and is missing
comprehensive comprehensive several key
conclusions
Referencing In-text referencing In-text referencing References and References are In-text 3
and references are and references are in-text provided but in- referencing and
provided in IEEE provided but a referencing are text referencing references are
Style style has not been provided but is not provided missing
followed missing in a few
places

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