SUBJECT: SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

WEEK 3: HOMEWORK’
STUDENT NAME: HOÀNG THU GIANG
STUDENT ID: 20021340

1. Initiating
● Project objectives:
○ Core business goal: provide world-class project management consulting services
to various organizations.
○ strategic goals: continuing growth and profitability
● PM identified:
○ Choose PM of the project: Erica Bell
● Constraints:
○ The proposed intranet site must be a valuable asset for JWD Consulting.
○ Current consultants and clients must actively support the project, and it must pay
for itself within one year by reducing internal operating costs and generating new
business.
○ The Project Management Office manager must lead the effort, and the project
team must include participants from several parts of the company, as well as from
current client organizations.
○ The new system must run on existing hardware and software, and it should
require minimal technical support. It must be easily accessible by consultants and
clients and be secure from unauthorized users.
● Authorization: Identify key stakeholders and their priorities for the project
○ Vendor: Joe Flamming
○ Project team : Erica Bell and her team (Michael Chen, Jessie Faue, Kevin Dodge,
Cindy Dawson)
○ Support staff
○ Client
○ User
○ Suppliers

Stakeholder register
 After this phase, organize a kick-off meeting to reach consensus

2. Planning:
● Statement of work: Determine requirements
○ Access to several project management templates and tools
○ Access to relevant project management articles
○ Links to other, up-to-date websites, with brief descriptions of the main features of
the external sites.
○ An Ask the Expert feature
○ Appropriate security
 ○ The ability to charge money for access to some information.
○ Other features suggested by users, if they add value to the business.
● Project plan:
○ Use a Gantt Chart to show detailed project plans: All tasks, time estimates, and
development dependencies

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● Project glossary: includes terminology used in the project

● Assumptions, constraints, critical success factors:
○ The proposed intranet site must be a valuable asset for JWD Consulting.
○ Current consultants and clients must actively support the project, and it must pay
for itself within one year by reducing internal operating costs and generating new
business.
○ The Project Management Office manager must lead the effort, and the project
team must include participants from several parts of the company, as well as from
current client organizations.
○ The new system must run on existing hardware and software, and it should
require minimal technical support. It must be easily accessible by consultants and
clients and be secure from unauthorized users.
3. Executing
● project deliverable and deliverable acceptances
○ Project management–related deliverables
○ Product-related deliverables

● Issues:
○ Michael seemed to be bored and often left the room to make phone calls to clients
○ Cindy had to convince Kevin that it was worth buying some software from other
sources
○ Cindy also discovered that their estimate of $10,000 was only about half the
amount they needed for software services.
4. Monitoring and controlling
● Performance/status reports
○ Project team members submitted a brief progress report every Friday to show
work performance information.

5. Closing
● Final project report table of contents
○ Erica and her team prepared a final report, final presentation, and lessons-learned
report in closing the project. Erica reviewed the confidential, individual
lessons-learned reports from each team member and wrote one summary
lessons-learned report to include in the final documentation.
● Acceptance documentation
○ Erica had Joe sign a client acceptance form, one of the sample templates on the
new intranet site that the project team suggested all consultants use when closing
their projects