The aim of this assignment is for you to gain adaptive project management experience. You will act as an adaptive project manager for an ICT project. You will need to perform tasks such as the following:

• Create and maintain a product backlog
• Develop a sprint plan
• Manage quality and risk issues and
• Present a sprint review.

You may complete this assignment alone or in a group of up to three people. Distance students who are working on the assignment alone must still perform their presentation live either face-to-face or using Zoom to at least one other student.

1. Update plan to reflect project progress

You will be provided with a rough project plan and development files of an ICT project representing progress made in the project at the end of its first sprint, that is, Sprint 1. You will need to create a plan using the specified project management tool to reflect the project status at the end of Sprint 1.

2. Create Sprint 2 Plan

In Week 4, you will submit your plan to the unit website. You will not receive formal feedback for this plan until after your presentation.

3. Present Sprint 2 Review

In Week 5, you will be provided with a new set of development files. To prepare for your presentation, you will need to update the plan that you submitted in Week 4 to reflect the progress made in the project.

In Week 6, you will present a review of Sprint 2.

Each team member should talk for between 3 to 5 minutes each.

Oncampus student will present their sprint reviews in the Week 6 class. The lecturer might record presentations for moderation purposes. Groups must be prepared to present even if one or more team members are not present at the Week 6 class. Students who do not present will receive 0 marks for the presentation components of the assessment.

Distance students will present their sprint reviews in an online Zoom session. Distance students who are working in groups can present their components of their sprint review to their group. Distance students who are working alone must form groups of at least two for the presentation. You will present your sprint reviews to your group members and record the presentation including the video feeds of all group members and your shared desktops. In Week 6, you will submit a link to a cloud hosted copy of your video.

Plagiarism

Sharing ideas about project management concepts and techniques between groups is encouraged. Any ideas you reuse should be referenced. Sharing of project management files or copying, for example, user stories, subtasks, issues or controls, between groups will be considered plagiarism. If you are in doubt about whether you can share something, first obtain email consent from your lecturer.

Plagiarism will dealt with according to University policy. Plagiarism penalties and academic misconduct charges may apply to all group members. Your assignment might be assigned a zero grade or reported for further action.

Teams

You may complete this assignment alone or in a group of up to three people. You will form your own teams.

Alternative Project

With the written permission of the unit coordinator, you may work on an alternative project for, for example, your work or hobby.

Further details are provided on the unit website.

The Stage Presence criteria will be marked individually. Your mark for Presentation content will be marked individually but may be affected by your entire groups’ Presentation content. Subject to moderation, students in a group will usually receive the same mark for all other criteria.

The following table is indicative of the actual marking criteria. The criteria are equally weighted. Please check the unit website for updates.

The aim of this assignment is to allow you to gain predictive project management experience. You are to complete predictive project management tasks for a collection of project scenarios and simulations.

You will develop and manage project scope, schedule, integration, human resources, communications, stakeholder, quality and risk using predictive techniques and tools, for example, MS Project and MS Excel. You will create recommendations to proactively manage or correct project issues. You will complete scenarios such as the following:

• Model project scenarios in MS Project using concepts and techniques such as milestones, summary tasks, progressive feed, lead times, lag, slack, hammock tasks, 2-levelled WBSs and rolling wave elaboration on a WBS
• Manage scheduling using the Critical Path Method (CPM).
• Perform resource levelling and project crashing using MS Project
• Calibrate a COCOMO model to predict the duration of a project
• Apply PERT to provide better estimate of the average duration and variation in duration of a project
• Manage costs by applying Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques in MS Project and interpreting the results
• Manage quality using techniques such as Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Interpret defect run charts, escaped defect control charts and Pareto charts
• Calculating risk leverage factors to assess the cost effectiveness of risk responses
• Create or interpret a decision tree and calculate expected monetary values (EMV not EVM) to assess risk response options and
• Play project management simulations

The scenarios will be distributed to you in two quizzes. Quiz 1 will provide feedback before the due date. You may have unlimited attempts at Quiz 1 until the deadline. You may submit Quiz 2 as many times as you like: only the last submission will be marked. Both quizzes will be available by Week 4. Quiz 1 is worth 20% and Quiz 2 is worth 15%.

Plagiarism

The assignment is individually assessed. Sharing of any files related to this assignment will be considered plagiarism. All your submissions may be checked for plagiarism.

The assignment is individually assessed. You will be assessed on aspects such as the following. Most of the criteria will be weighted similarly. Criteria such as those related to Scope and schedule management in MS Project (≈5 scenarios); and Managing costs using EVM (≈4 scenarios) will be more heavily weighted.