ASSIGNMENT BRIEF

QUALIFICATION UNIT NUMBER AND TITLE

PEARSON BTEC HND IN COMPUTING (RQF) 06 MANAGING SUCCESSFUL COMPUTING PROJECT (LEVEL 4)
INTERNAL VERIFIER UNIT TUTOR
MARIAM QASIM KANWAR KHAN
DATE ISSUED SUBMISSION DATE RESUBMISSION DATE
24 JANUARY 2022 04 MAY 2022 08 MAY 2022

ASSIGNMENT TITLE MANAGING COMPUTING PROJECT

LEARNING OUTCOME AND ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

PASS MERIT DISTINCTION

LO1 ESTABLISH PROJECT AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND TIMEFRAMES BASED ON THE CHOSEN THEME

P1 DEVISE PROJECT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES FOR

A CHOSEN SCENARIO

P2 PRODUCE A PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN

M1 PRODUCE A COMPREHENSIVE PROJECT
THAT COVERS ASPECTS OF COST, SCOPE, TIME,
MANAGEMENT PLAN, MILESTONE SCHEDULE
QUALITY, COMMUNICATION, RISK, AND
AND PROJECT SCHEDULE FOR MONITORING
RESOURCES.
AND COMPLETING THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
P3 PRODUCE A WORK BREAKDOWN LO1 & LO2
OF THE PROJECT
STRUCTURE AND A GANTT CHART TO PROVIDE D1 CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE PROJECT
TIMEFRAMES AND STAGES FOR COMPLETION MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND APPROPRIATE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES APPLIED

LO2 CONDUCT SMALL-SCALE RESEARCH, INFORMATION GATHERING AND DATA COLLECTION TO

GENERATE KNOWLEDGE TO SUPPORT THE PROJECT

P4 CARRY OUT SMALL-SCALE RESEARCH BY

APPLYING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE M2 EVALUATE THE ACCURACY AND

RESEARCH METHODS APPROPRIATE FOR RELIABILITY OF DIFFERENT RESEARCH METHODS

MEETING PROJECT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES APPLIED

LO3 PRESENT THE PROJECT AND COMMUNICATE APPROPRIATE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON LO3
MEANINGFUL CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM THE EVIDENCE FINDINGS AND/OR ANALYSIS D2 CRITICALLY EVALUATE AND REFLECT ON
THE PROJECT OUTCOMES, THE DECISION-
P5 ANALYSE RESEARCH AND DATA USING M3 EVALUATE THE SELECTION OF
APPROPRIATE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES APPROPRIATE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MAKING PROCESS AND CHANGES OR

ACCURACY AND AUTHENTICITY TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENTS OF THE INITIAL PROJECT

AND JUSTIFY RECOMMENDATIONS
MANAGEMENT PLAN TO SUPPORT

JUSTIFICATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND

P6 COMMUNICATE APPROPRIATE
RECOMMENDATIONS AS A RESULT OF

RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS TO DRAW

VALID AND MEANINGFUL CONCLUSION LEARNING DURING THE PROJECT

LO4 REFLECT ON THE VALUE GAINED FROM CONDUCTING THE PROJECT AND ITS USEFULNESS TO
SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE LO4
P7 REFLECT ON THE VALUE OF UNDERTAKING M4 EVALUATE THE VALUE OF THE PROJECT D3 CRITICALLY EVALUATE HOW THE PROJECT
THE RESEARCH TO MEET STATED OBJECTIVES MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND USE OF QUALITY SUPPORTS SUSTAINABLE ORGANISATIONAL

AND OWN LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE RESEARCH TO MEET STATED OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE.

SUPPORT OWN LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE

SUBMISSION FORMAT
The submission is in the form of a detailed report, MS Project Work file and following evidences:
 Project aims and objectives
 Project team, roles and responsibilities
 Project Scope Statements and WBS
 Detailed Project Plan in descriptive form as well as MS Project file.
 Requirement Gathering Instruments developed for research duly filled from all the participants.
 Requirement Analysis Report
 Project Presentation
 Project Output
 Log Book
 Self-reflective note

The report should be written in a concise, formal business style using single spacing and font style times new roman and size
12. You are required to use headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with
research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Please also provide a bibliography using the Harvard
referencing system. The recommended word limit is 4,000. However you will not be penalised for exceeding the word limit.
Your PowerPoint Presentation should be of 15 min. length and should have proper explanation given in the speaker notes
section.

Note: You are required to submit your work for plagiarism checking. No work will be considered if it contains plagiarism
more than the acceptable level defined as per ICMS’s plagiarism policy.

ASSIGNMENT SCENARIO AND GUIDANCE

SCENARIO
The National Incubation Centre-NIC is Pakistan’s largest technology incubation centre; the first purpose built creative space in
Pakistan buzzing with innovators, mentors, change-makers and passionate leaders.

NIC has collaborated with ICMS and signed an MOU where students will receive funding for their research projects. NIC wishes
to create research opportunities for new researchers in education sector and hence students of ICMS have been given a chance
to work as junior researchers for NIC.
As a student of Level 4 Pearson (Computing Program), you are also titled as a Software Project Manager and assigned with a
computing project related to the theme of “Remote working”. You are required to participate in the event and complete the
required tasks.

You may select any one of the following topics related to “remote working”:

1. How can employee ‘visibility’ be supported by implementing tools that can automatically monitor employees' at-home use of
networks and applications and send early warning signals or reports of problems? Such technology gives detailed insight into
what issues remote workers encounter when they interact with enterprise systems.
2. What are the different ways organisations can gauge how productive workers are at home, beyond preventing technology
problems? Employees, too, increasingly want their bosses to know how they're performing remotely to ease bosses' minds that
they're using their "unseen time" wisely, or because they feel frustrated about not being recognised for the work they do at
home.
3. What are the key cyber security risks of working remotely e.g. employees downloading unsecure apps or sharing their work
devices with family members?
4. Look at the benefits and challenges of integrating tools for enterprise IT teams, such as integrating third-party products
together.

PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND GUIDANCE

This will be a formal project and you will be submitting it for panel review at multiple stages hence, you must ensure that you
keep a complete project trail along with all the required documentation and planning schedules.

You have 16 weeks to complete this project and submit your report to the department for review.

While following the project planning approach, you will identify the aims and objectives for your project and will develop a
formal project plan using an appropriate project management tool. Your plan must cover the aspects like scope, cost, time,
quality, risk, and resources required for the project with formal identification of main achievement points. You will follow the
proper project management lifecycle approach while developing your project plan as well as throughout your project.

During your requirement gathering or system evaluation activity, you will use both qualitative and quantitative research
methods to identify requirements for meeting the aims and objectives of the project, and based on your gathered information,
you will evaluate the accuracy and reliability of the project management and research methodologies used.

After completing this part, you will start working on your project.

Once your project is completed, you will be required to analyse the outcomes and present your recommendations to the panel
in form of a report and presentation. Make sure that your recommendations are based on valid, accurate and meaningful
conclusions. You should also include an evaluation of tools and techniques used at project development stages.
Once you have analysed and closed the project, you are required to give a self-reflection of the whole project as to how the
project management processes and research skills facilitated you in meeting aims and objectives, towards your own learning
and how it valued towards the organizational performance.

Furthermore, you will maintain a Logbook for all the activities that you have performed during the life span of this project and
will include it in your evidence for submission.

PROJECT EVALUATION
Your project will be evaluated in three stages:

Stage 1: Proposal Defence

Selection of Project Topic from the provided list and identification of Aims and Objectives: - You will appear in-front of the panel
for your project selection by the 3rd week of your Project.

Stage 2: Post-Project Report, MS Project File and Project Output

You will appear in front of the panel for your Post-project report by the 16th Week of your research.

Stage 3: Final Evaluation

You will submit your complete evidence at the end of the semester and it will be evaluated for final grading.

EVIDENCE CHECKLIST SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE REQUIRED BY STUDENT

LO1 Project report, Project plan and schedule, MS Project File, WBS, Gantt Chart
Requirement Gathering Instrument dully filed by all the participants, Research analysis, outcome and
LO2 AND LO3
recommendations
LO4 Self-reflective note