NAIDOC Celebration Week Project Plan

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PROJECT PLAN
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1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
1.1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND BACKGROUND
Committee of NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance) and CQU
University are preparing for NAIDOC celebration week that is planned to be held in universities
the main campus. The celebration takes place completely for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander community to earn knowledge regarding its protocols, customs and culture. It is held to
rejoice the culture, achievements and history of Australian indigenous community. The
celebration generates great opportunities for participants in several activities to enhance this
Australian indigenous community.
Different events like flag hosting, posters of NAIDOC, the competition of quiz and art along with
many discussions. This celebration of the week has a theme that is ‘Because of her, we can’ that
explains directly women’s contribution towards her nation or society is something incredible that
must be enthusiastically appreciated and celebrated. To implement events in better way
activities needs to be properly managed and organised so SET (School of Engineering and
Technology) committee has introduced a project for university students to manage an organise
the celebration week of NAIDOC. This proposed project will enhance staff members and
students knowledge because of their active participation in occurred competitions and activities.
This celebration provides an opportunity to them to develop a collaborative relationship among
general people of Aboriginal communities.
1.2 JUSTIFICATION
The NAIDOC celebration week project expects the better accomplishing output of a particular
activity and event carried out successfully. This particular celebration can be managed in form of
stages which are specifically achieved. Different limitations related to time, duration and price
arise providing different methods to manage work of occurring events accordingly that are
decided entirely by the committee of NAIDOC. The results are outputs that are achievable which
benefits both the university and committee. We can calculate benefits with respect to skills,
knowledge and performance of students academics. The celebration week of NAIDOC enables
to earn knowledge or information regarding staff members and students regarding history and
culture of the community of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. The business case of
celebration week of NAIDOC reflects outcomes, generated outputs and gained benefits that are
described below.
Output Outcome Benefits
 At the time of
celebration week of
NAIDOC new events
and activities are
announced.
 In these announced
competition staff
members and students
participate actively to
develop cultural
knowledge regarding
the community
practices of
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander.
 Enhances the
information of staff
members and students
regarding Australian
indigenous community.
 SET generates reports
that calculate
academic skills of
students who
participate actively.
 Students are involved
with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander
people for creating a
collaborative
relationship with them.
 Develops healthy and
friendly environment
during NAIDOC
celebration week and
allows community
people to merge
themselves with staff
 Enhances the quality
of knowledge received
by staff members and
students and
generates project
interest in students.

members and
students.
 For celebration week
of NAIDOC, SET has
introduced an
academic project for
management of
celebration week by
students and gaining
information.
 Staff members and
students receive
opportunities while this
celebration to
participate actively so
as to gather
information related to
protocols and culture
of people of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait
Islander.
 SET used to evaluate
students’ academic
performance by
generating a report.
 It saves both cost and
time of CQU University
by organising this
week celebration
inside the campus and
making staff members
and students as
volunteers.
 Using protocols of
project management
NAIDOC Celebration
Week is managed.
 Develop project
management
implementation
practically.
 Enhances the
information of staff
members and students
regarding Australian
indigenous community
 Techniques of Project
management help in
successfully achieving
celebration week of
NAIDOC.
2 STAKEHOLDERS
2.1 Key Stakeholder List
Stakeholder Category
(i.e.
Sponsor /
Supplier /
User)
Description of Interest Description of Influence
1 Students Supplier  High Interest
 They can participate in
the different activity of
the function.
 Can volunteer the
different event of
NAIDOC week
 Low influence rate
 They get knowledge
about the abnormal
community.
 They get the knowledge
of protocols that are
followed by this
community.
2 Staff Members Supplier  High Interest
 They are responsible
to manage all events
and activities of the
function.
 Manage the crowd and
the guest that come to
the event.
 Moderate influence rate
 Get some basic outside
world knowledge with
the help of this event.
 Gain knowledge of the
project management.
3 SET Team Sponsor  High Interest
 This helps the SET
 Moderate influence rate
 They work in the

team to grow a project
during this week
period.
 Students and staff of
CQU University get
engaged in the
program.
function to prepare an
academic report.
 They help in the
successful completion
of Week.
4 Aboriginal &
Torres peoples
User  High Interest
 They involve in the
different activities of
the week function.
 Their presence makes
the event more
successful.
 Low influence Rate
 They increase their
value in staff and
student.
 Student gets an
advantage to work with
them.
5 CQU University Sponsor  High Interest
 They provide the
resource to the project
community for the
successful completion
of the event.
 University also verifies
and provide an area to
the project community.
 High influence Rate
 The student of CQU
University gets proper
knowledge about the
culture of Australian
traits.
6 Material Supplier Supplier  High Interest
 They provide basic
requirements of the
function on time for the
successful completion
of the event.
 Low Influence rate
 The material used in the
function is planed with
these stakeholders.
7 Management
Team
Sponsor  High Interest
 They will conduct the
function with total
responsibility and
awareness.
 Moderate Influence rate
 They get a chance to
evaluate the
performance of their
team and staff.
(Eskerod, Huemann, and Savage, 2015)
Power Interest Curve