Addis Ababa University School of Commerce

Digital Marketing and Ecommerce Graduate Distance Program

Digital Project Management (DMEC 512)

Tutor: Dr. Minale Ashagrie Email: minale.ashagrie@aau.edu.et

TMA 1

1. From CHAOS report, one can learn that the success rate of IT project with in allocated
budget, time and scope is less than the average of other projects in service industry. List
and discuss the main factors that IT projects are unable to achieve their goal with specific
budge, scope and time. Search two local and two international IT projects ( one
successful and one failed for each category ) and discuss the reason why those firms
become successful, failed to achieve or over budgeted accomplishment and reflect your
assessment. (5 points)
2. Assume that your firm ABC PLC awarded a 5-million-birr project for development and
commissioning of e-commerce platform. As you are a project manager, expected to
prepare a project charter to have a clear understanding with the client/stakeholders.
Prepare a project charter for this project which has a life span of 6 month for
development and implementation, and 3 months of warranty period. (10 points)
3. Most of the time IT projects failed to meet clients desired business goal while handover
of the projects. The main reason of such a failure is loosely defining of project scope
during preparing of Term Of Reference (TOR). Assume that you are a member of a
committee who is responsible to prepare ABC PLC business requirement to outsource the
development of e-commerce presence. Your duty in this team is to define and manage the
project scope. Based on the project management body of knowledge, define the scope of
the e-commerce presence project that should includes project scope management plan,
list of requirements, defining scope, creating WBS, and validation of project scope. (10
points)