Itc508 Information Technology Project Management Assessment Answers

In this scenario, the problems, opportunities and the directives can be uniquely identified and discussed. The problem to keep in mind regarding the project is that an online system must be built that has the capability to handle the votes of over 600,000 electors. This online portal must also deal with cross border access for Australians to vote from overseas as well. To identify the opportunities involved a closer look into the project’s aspect must be poured. The project brings out situations that allow scope for improvement and innovation. Opportunity management within this project helps to recognize the utilization of leadership and sponsorship resources alongside identifying the international and political aspects of the project. In case of recognizing the directives involved in this project management, the Government laid path to implement the rules and regulations of election must be adhered to. Directives include the policy to make every elector recognize their duty to vote and to check their authenticity.

The stakeholders involved in this project are needed to deal with all the adversities of it. They are:

• The Australian Government.
• Project Manager
• Survey Supervisor
• Survey Team.
• Survey Experts.
• IT project management team.
• The general citizens.

Below is the Communication Management Plan for the whole project:

A project scope statement is a necessary tool to outline a projectdeliverables and identify every key constraint, assumption and success factors involved (Pheng 2018). The project scope statement for this project is listed below:

Specific- It must be made sure that the questions in the process were simple and significant towards solving the problem.

Measure- The survey should be analyzed properly. Those responsible for the process are required to go through the details of each respondent’s answers to the survey process.

Agreed upon- The stakeholders in the survey process must all comply with the conclusion and the policies of it. The respondents are required to make sure that their private information is kept concealed. The supervisors must also take into consideration all aspects and calculations in the process of reaching to a specific and united conclusion.

Relevant- The goals that the survey process was destined to achieve must be checked before the release of the final project.

Time- The survey report is to be presented to the government and the IT team within one month of the completion of the survey process.

Project Submission:

Specific- The user interface must be kept as simple and sophisticated as possible.

Measure- The rules and policies laid down by the government for the building of the project must be ensured thoroughly.

Agreed upon- The client must agree to the product efficiency in performing such great a task. All bugs in the product shall be reported and fixed until the final confirmation is achieved.

Relevant- There must be thorough testing of the product based on the results that it is destined to attain.

Time- The project is meant to be compiled and delivered after the development process with in a time span of twelve months.

Use Case Points;is one of those software estimation techniques, which the process of prediction of the software size in software development (Estler et al. 2014). Use Case Points is used when the UML (Unified Modeling Language) and the (RUP) Rational Unified Process methods are in use for software development.

Object Points are an approach used in;the software development process;under certain models like COCOMO-II. These are a way of estimating effort size. They are not necessarily related to objects of OOP. The objects that are referred to, include reports, screens, modules of the language. The number of complexity and objects of each process are estimated and a total weighted Object-Point count is computed and utilized to base estimates of the needed effort.

One disadvantage of using this technique is that it takes a lot of time in the planning of the system.

Object Point is an efficient and cheap method for cost estimation. In addition to that, it is also easier to estimate and therefore saves time.

The technique requires core experts. The estimations made can be very inaccurate without the presence of an expert.

Outsourcing certain parts of this project would prove to be of immense risk. This, being a Government project with national and political interest; it would only be preferable for trusted development farms to deal with. This would make it difficult to adhere to the government policy and regulations regarding the project.

The Rural Outsourcing concept would also not be a clever option for this project. To hire novice startups or freelancers to deal to with a nationally important project is not recommended. There would be a bulk of private data to be dealt with in the process. Additionally, it would be difficult for the Government to supervise such tasks and integrate to the parent process.

Part A: Financial Analysis

Part B: Project Status

Provided data is:

BAC = $500,000

PV = $125,000

RP = 90%

AC = $150,000

Section a: Cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index (CPI), and schedule performance index (SPI)

BAC = $500,000 (Budget at Completion)

PV = $125,000 (Planned Value)

RP = 90%

AC = $150,000 (Actual Cost)

Therefore, cost variance (CV) = EV – AC

Schedule variance (SV) = EV – PV

Cost Performance Index (CPI) = EV/AC

Schedule Performance Index (SPI) = EV / PV

Now, EV = RP% * BAC = (90% * $500,000) = $450,000

CV = $450,000 - $150,000 = $300,000

SV = $450,000 - $125,000 = $325,000

CPI = $450,000 / $150,000 = 3

SPI = $450,000 / $125,000 = 3.6

Section b: Project status as per CPI and SPI

The CPI value is estimated at 3 and SPI value is estimated at 3.6; therefore, CPI and SPI being greater than one. The project is on budget and ahead of schedule; therefore, the project is continuing with proper allocation of budget and time.

Section c: Estimation of EAC and time taken

Estimate at Completion = Budget at Completion / Cost Performance Index

                                      = $500,000 / 3

                                     = $166666.67

Schedule Performance Index = Earned Schedule / Actual Schedule = 3months /9months = 0.33

Schedule variance = Earned Schedule - Actual Schedule = 3months – 9months = -6months

Estimated Duration = Planned Duration / SPI = 12months / 0.33 = 36 months

There are certain breakdown risks that come from online election system that is undertaken by Australian Government.

The storming phase of Tuckman model is that storming phase in a project starts when conflict starts between the members of the team and in their working styles. While completing a project, different people may have different working styles. Storming phase happens when these conflicts arises. There may also question about the goal of the team and this may resist them to take tasks.

The company is interested in the implementation of a Maturity Model to the project of Online Election Portal and all the future projects. Currently, the company considers itself as having processes in place and the resources for supporting these processes. However, they have decided to improve by implementing anyone of the maturity model between OPM3 and CMMI.

Knowledge: This represents acquiring an understanding of the model and the implementation.

Assessment: The comparison between the OPM infrastructures to a specific OPM infrastructure.

Improvement: The determination of the changes that are feasible at a specific time and the implementation of the changes.

The major components of Capability Maturity Model Integration are as follows:

CMMI for Development: It represents the service and product development processes.

CMMI for Acquisition: It represents the supply chain management, acquisition and the outsourcing processes.

CMMI for Services: It addresses guidance for delivering the services within a specific organization.

References

Estler, H. C., Nordio, M., Furia, C. A., Meyer, B., & Schneider, J. (2014). Agile vs. structured distributed software development: A case study. Empirical Software Engineering, 19(5), 1197-1224.

Pheng, L. S. (2018). Project Scope Management. In Project Management for the Built Environment (pp. 63-77). Springer, Singapore.