This is a condensed version of the assignment. Please refer to the unit website for the full version.

Time Management

Please complete the unit’s Weeks 1 & 2 activities before attempting this assignment. You will be able to finish this assignment after completing the unit’s Week 3 activities. You are encouraged to use the weekend at the end of Week 3 to finalise this assignment.

Objectives

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

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

You may complete this assignment alone or in a group of up to three people.

The project is expected to run for 2 sprints. The first sprint has already been completed; you will review the first sprint and plan the second sprint.

1. Create 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

You need to create a plan for Sprint 2.

3. Present Sprint 1 Review and Sprint 2 Plan

You will present a review of Sprint 1 and your Sprint 2 plan.

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

Distance students: you are to record and submit your presentation. Oncampus students: you may either submit a recording or present in-class in Week 5.

You must present live in front of at least one other person. If you record, the video should be framed to include the presenter(s), your audience and your desktop(s).

Alternative Project

With the written permission of the unit coordinator, you may work on another Agile systems development project for, for example, your work, an open-source community or a charity. You need to demonstrate the current status of the project to the unit coordinator before permission will be given for an alternative project.

Teams

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

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.

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.

This is a condensed version of the assignment. Please refer to the unit website for the full version.

Time Management

Please complete the unit’s activities up to and including Week 4 before attempting Quiz 1. You will be able to finish Quiz 1 after completing the unit’s Week 5 activities. You are encouraged to use the non-teaching week between Weeks 5 and 6 to finalise Quiz 1.

Please complete the unit’s activities up to and including Week 7 before attempting Quiz 2. You will be able to finish Quiz 2 after completing the unit’s Week 8 activities. You are encouraged to use the weekend at the end of Week 8 to finalise Quiz 2.

Objectives

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

Task Description

You will manage project constraints such as quality, risk, scope, schedule, human resources and stakeholders using, 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 scenarios using MS Project
• Manage scheduling using the Critical Path Method (CPM).
• Manage quality using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Create and interpret control charts
• Calculate Risk Leverage Factors to assess the cost of risk responses
• Calculate Expected Monetary Values (EMV not EVM) to assess risk responses
• Calibrate a COCOMO model to predict the duration of a project
• Apply PERT and Monte Carlo to better understand a project’s duration and
• Manage schedule and costs with Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques

The scenarios will be distributed to you in two quizzes.

Quiz 1

• Attempts: Although multiple submissions are possible, only the last submission of Quiz 1 will be marked.
• Feedback: You will receive feedback for Quiz 1 two weeks after the due date.
• Availability: Quiz 1 will be available by Week 4.
• Weight: Quiz 1 is worth 15% of the unit.

Quiz 2

• Attempts: You have unlimited attempts at Quiz 2 until the deadline.
• Quiz 2 will provide feedback before the due date.
• Availability: Quiz 2 will be available by Week 7.
• Weight: Quiz 1 is worth 20% of the unit.

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. Refer to the quizzes for question weights. Some criteria such as those related to Scope and schedule management in MS Project; and Managing costs using EVM will be more heavily weighted.

This is a condensed version of this assignment description. Please refer to the unit website for the full version.

The in-class test will take place in your Week 11 class. Online in-class tests require a webcam and headset. For academic integrity purposes, you will be required to share your webcam and desktop stream on a tool such as Zoom.

Objectives

In this assessment, you will apply common project management techniques to, for example, evaluate the status of a project and recommend corrective action where necessary.

• Review and plan sprints
• Recommend corrective actions by interpreting burndown charts
• Manage scheduling using the Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Cost effectively crash a project
• Manage budgets and schedules using Earned Value Management
• Estimate task durations using models such as COCOMO, PERT and Monte Carlo
• Collect ICT project metrics such as defect rates, SLOC and cyclomatic complexity
• Develop or interpret run charts and control charts to analyse trends in project metrics
• Focus quality management by developing and interpreting Pareto charts
• Focus quality management through Fault Tree Analysis
• Calculate risk leverage factors to assess the cost effectiveness of risk responses
• Create or interpret a decision tree and calculate expect monetary values to help choose between risk response options
• Use techniques and formulae of Time Value of Money, Present Value and Return on Investment to prioritise projects
• Systematically select projects using pairwise ranking
• Design or critique the organisational structure of a project

You will be provided with one or more snapshots of an ICT project. You will need to construct or modify files such as MS Project files and MS Excel spreadsheets.

The following table contains indicative criteria.