Please generate power point slides (ppt) for this project plan. 

It is worth 50% of my grade. Please don’t fail me. 

Please finish the work by 11:59 pm 23rd March 2021. 

You should not copy the ppt example given. You will have to make your own one. The example is just for the reference. 

Assignment 2: Project Plan (50%)

This assignment is designed to demonstrate your understanding and application of core

project management concepts and provide evidence of project management skills developed

throughout this unit.

Description: You are a Project Manager at IT Development Company. You have been

assigned to deliver a project that is worth $500,000 fixed price over 6 months. It is a software

development project – your team is supposed to develop a new version of “Murdoch Student

LMS App”. The requirements are all understood and signed off.

Your task is to present an approach to starting the project up, proposed project timeline, how

you would monitor/control the project, how you would manage stakeholders and your

approach to commercial control. Keep it high level, aiming the presentation at management

rather than technical.

Your presentation should clearly define the following:

• The project’s objectives;

• The scope of work to be completed within this timeline;

• Proposed plan for the delivery;

• Billing schedule;

• Key milestones (these could be aligned with the billing schedule);

• Examples of risk and issue logs;

• Your approach to reporting and stakeholder management.

All the above-mentioned points should be presented in PowerPoint. Marking emphasis of this

assignment will be on critical evaluation and demonstration of an understanding of the

principles in project management.

1

Software development project

EXAMPLE

Dr. Vita Akstinaite

2

Background & Assumptions

▪ Describe your Project Background here

▪ List your project Assumptions

3

(VA: in the next few slides please explain your project approach; the

one in the example does not necessarily means that it works for your

project!)

Overall Project Approach

4

INITIATION
ANALYSIS &

DESIGN
LAUNCH /
RELEASE SUPPORTDELIVERY CLOSE

Example of a Project Approach

5INITIATION

Project Board

• Simon Peters (Director)

• TBC (Company/Client)

• TBC (client)

• TBC (service provider)

Technical

• Technical Lead

• Lead/Senior Developer(s)

• Developer(s)

• Consultant(s)

• Tester(s)/QA(s)

Adoption and change

• BA

Oversight

• Vita Akstinaite (Delivery)

• TBC (Technical)

Project Management

Additional resource

• BA

• Architect

• Designer

•

Infrastructure

• Testing Lead

• Support

6ANALYSIS & DESIGN

▪ Explain your requirements here:

▪ Functional requirements (i.e., hardware, software)

▪ Non-functional requirements (i.e., user experience)

▪ Visual design (i.e., how the app is going to look like?)

7

Deliverables (Example)

Stage/Schedule Deliverable Acceptance criteria

Test, Deploy & Extended

Support

Services

Systems Manual

The systems manual is a comprehensive document that

describes in detail the information and activities required to

ensure the system can be supported and managed on an

ongoing basis. The systems manual must include:

1. inventory of system components 2. installation instructions

3. configuration documentation 4. interface and batch jobs

5. release notes 6. backup and disaster recovery plan

Summarise here what are you going to deliver? The app itself, probably some support

for the app too? What about Help Desk? Additional services?

8DELIVERY

▪ Iterations

▪ Product backlog

▪

Reviews

▪ Testing

Analysis

Design

ImplementationTesting

Requirements

Deployment

Planning

9

Proposed timeline

▪ Example of how your plan could look like – change to what works for your plan and list all your activities

Month May’19 Jun’19 Jul’19 Aug’19 Sep’19 Oct’19 Nov’19

Initiation

Analysis and Design

Iterative development

UAT

Infrastructure

Migration

Training

Support (TBA)

Discover

Deploy

Strategy

Kick-off

Reviews

Go live sign-off

Deliver: Development Iteration Cycles

Test

MigratePrepare

Basic Advanced

Set Up

10

Billing

Activity Cost / Billing milestone

Initiation

$300,000 (to be split accordingly)

Discovery and Design

Development iterations

Testing (UAT)

Training
Support

Enhancements

Activity Cost / Billing milestone

Project kick off (payment upfront) 25 %

Deploying to UAT/Production 50 %

Project Closure 25 %

Explain here how you are going to charge your client, when and what sums

11

Monitor: Project Status

Jun July Aug Status

12. 19. 26. 02. 09. 16. 23. 02. 09. 16. 23. 30.

• Finalise documentation

• Acute flags (LTC) – confirm/customise

• Testing

Activity

• Build GP data load process for EMIS
• Receive pseudonomysed EMIS data

• Hammersmith data

• Key events

Go live

Kick-off

Weekly meetings Milestones Achieved

Responsibility

Laura

• Develop LTC/QoF process (SystemOne)

Matt

26.01

04.02

Matt
Matt

• EMIS/System One integration

TBC

• Build referrals data

• Build A&E data feed

• Build Social Care data feed

• Costing for Primary Care & Social Care

• Amending costing algorithms for MH, CIDS,
SUS data feeds

Matt

• Reporting tables

TBC
TBC
TBC
TBC
TBC

Simon

Simon

• Adding security layers for Tableau views TBC

TBC

• Environments set up (TBC) TBC

30.03

.20.03

• Deploy + Data load at SECSU
Laura

TBC

Ready to go/

In progress

At

Risk

On

hold

Deploy
TBC
UAT
TBC

• Population segmentation Matt 20.02

• Load received System One data

TBC
TBC
TBC
04.02

19.02

• Build incremental load process for SystmOne

TBC TBC

TBC
TBC

06. 13. 20. 27.

Sep

24.02

• Showing Dr Tahir’s data
TBC

TBC
TBC
TBC
UAT

DeployGo live

Explain how you are monitoring the progress visually!

12

Commercial control

FINANCIALS Budget Actuals To Date Forecasts

Commercial Basis Fixed price. Budget at

Complete

$k

Actual Cost

$k

Percent

Complete

Estimate To

Complete
$k

Estimate At

Complete
$k

Budget

Variance $k

Forecast

Finish Date

300.00 20.0 7% 280.00 300.00 0.00 15/11/19

Explain how you are you tracking your costs.

13LAUNCH / RELEASE

▪ Explain how you are going to Launch your app? Will you provide any training or post-launch support?

14SUPPORT

▪ Do you support go-live and post go-live issues?

▪ Hosting environments?

▪ Support – 1st, 2nd, 3rd line?

▪ Operational improvements

▪ Additions to the app

15CLOSE

What will be the process of closing your project?

▪ Client sign off

▪ Handover to support (if agreed)

▪ Final reports, closure in systems

▪ Final invoicing / Finance team

16

Ensuring project success

List here your project success factors. What will make this project work? For example:

▪ Ensuring involvement and alignment from all stakeholders

▪ Timely feedback

▪ Relevant workshops / meetings / reviews

▪ Monitoring risks

▪ Process for dealing with change

17
Anything else you want to add about your project

▪ ☺