Project Management and Indigenous Communities

This assignment delves into the application of project management principles within the context of Indigenous communities. It encourages a critical examination of existing frameworks and strategies, emphasizing the importance of cultural sensitivity and community engagement. Students are tasked with analyzing relevant literature and real-world examples to identify best practices for successful project implementation in Indigenous settings.

ASSESSMENT TASK 2
PROJECT PLAN
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Notes to the Author
[This document is a template. It has been tailored to suit the assessment. All fields within the template should
be completed as per the project scenario provided.
 Blue italicized text provides an explanation of what should be included for each section. Remove all
blue text prior to submission. Where there are two or more options for you to decide between,
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1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION (7 MARKS)
1.1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND BACKGROUND (2 MARKS)
The paper focuses on the School of engineering and Technology (SET) indigenous
committee that is interested in promoting indigenous as well as cultural perspectives into SET
unit curriculum in order to aware students as well as staffs about the significance of indigenous
culture. In order to promote awareness about indigenous culture, the committee wants to
develop a training program for the staffs as well as students of the CQU university so that they
can properly understand about the culture, history as well as languages that are associated with
local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
The project mainly reflects on hosting indigenous cultural awareness training for Central
Queensland University (CQU) for creating cultural awareness among the students of CQU as
well as within the employees about indigenous history, culture, languages as well as protocols. It
is identified that the committee mainly engages in the idea of developing cultural awareness
training program which was mainly hosted by the School of engineering and technology
indigenous committee. It is identified that the main objectives of the project is to raise indigenous
cultural awareness among the different university students who are from different cultural
background.
1.2 JUSTIFICATION
1.2.1 Output / Outcome / Benefit
Output Outcome Benefits
Raising indigenous culture
awareness training among
the students as well as staffs
of the university.
The cultural awareness
training that is hosted by SET
generally helps in promoting
the significance of indigenous
culture, history as well as
languages among the
students as well as staffs. In
addition to this, the training
program will be helpful in
creating better mix in the
culture within the university
which helps in enhancing
unity among the students as
well as staffs of the university.
Most of the students of the
universities are interested in
joining the training program
so that they can learn about
the significance of indigenous
culture, history as well as
languages which further
helps in educational
development of the students
within the University.
2 STAKEHOLDERS (10 MARKS)
2.1 Stakeholder List
Key Stakeholder List (6 MARKS)
Stakeholder Category
(i.e. Sponsor /
Supplier /
User)
Description of
Interest
Description of Influence
1 ADC business
consultancy
Sponsor The sponsor mainly
helps in promoting the
The sponsor mainly
provide proper amount of

indigenous cultural
awareness training
program which mainly
results in enhancing
the number of clients
for the project.
funds that is needed for
promoting the indigenous
cultural training awareness
program.
2 Lindy Tagai Team
coordinator
The team coordinator
mainly engages in
organizing the team
participants who are
involved within the
project
Proper management skills
of the team coordinator are
utilized in order to
coordinate the team of the
project properly.
3 Bambam smith Cultural faculty
of indigenous
origin
The faculty of cultural
indigenous origin
mainly involves in
spreading as well as
educating the Torres
Strait indigenous
culture, history as well
as languages among
various participants of
the project.
The faculty must have
proper as well as
appropriate knowledge
about indigenous culture,
history as well as
languages so that he can
easily spread as well as
educate the significance of
the culture to the staffs as
well as employees of CQU
university.
4
Education
suppliers Pvt. Ltd.
Supplier The supplier mainly
provides the
requirements as well
as needs that are
generally required for
hosting the training
program
The suppliers mainly
involves in supplying proper
tools for the project that
mainly includes
blackboards, papers, pen,
markers which are needed
for promoting the
indigenous program.
5 Ethan Williams Program
organizer
The program
organizer mainly
involves in organizing
as well as executing
the entire project of
indigenous cultural
awareness training
program as per the
plan that is made.
The program organizer
mainly raises cultural
awareness among the
employees as well as
students of CQU university
for developing as well as
promoting education.
6
SET indigenous
committee
Project
coordinator
The project
coordinator manages
as well as coordinates
the project properly
for completing the
project successfully.
The project co-ordinator
mainly raised cultural
awareness among various
students by developing as
well as promoting
indigenous cultural
awareness.
2.2 Stakeholders Engagement Assessment Matrix (3 marks)
Stakeholders Engagement Assessment Matrix
Stakeholder Unaware Resistant Neutral Supportive Leading
1. Sponsor 
2.Team
coordinator


3. Cultural
faculty of
indigenous
origin

4. Supplier 
5. Program
organizer

6. Project
coordinator

2.2 Obtaining expert judgement (1 mark)
QUESTION: Briefly explain at least two different methods or techniques to obtain this expert
judgement from groups and/or individuals?
The two different methods or techniques are explained below in order to obtain expert
judgement from various group or individuals. The two different techniques or methods include:
Quantitative Technique: It is identified that quantitative technique is mainly used for
analyzing whether the stakeholder are able to perform different amount of duties within specific
period of time. Moreover, this technique can be utilized for analyzing the performance of the
stakeholder as per the workload that is assigned to them.
Qualitative Technique: It is identified that qualitative technique is mainly utilized for
analyzing the performance of the stakeholder in context to quality of output that is provided as a
part of duty within the project.
3 REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT (5 MARKS)
3.1.1 Traditional Owner/s of the land on which CQ University campuses are located (1
mark).
QUESTION: State whether it is appropriate to have a single key stakeholder representing the
Traditional Owners of the land on which Central Queensland Campuses are located. Provide an
explanation for your response.
It is analyzed that it is not appropriate to have a single stakeholder who mainly takes the
responsibility of representing the traditional owners of the land on which the campus of central
Queensland is located. This is because one individual person cannot be able to take the entire
responsibility of representing the various campuses of the universities at a time as the selected
stakeholder can represent as well as evaluate only one particular campus at a single time only. If
the stakeholder is to present ass the lands of the Queensland campuses then the person will have
to analyse various conditions that are associated with each of the campuses and thus the time that
the person will get in collecting data as well as information about each campus is less which
ensures that the collected that can be inaccurate. Hence, it is quite preferable to select one
stakeholder from each of the campus of Central Queensland so that they can be able to represent
only one land of ownership.
3.1.2 Opening statement style (1 mark)
QUESTION: Which of the two opening statement styles ‘Welcome to Country’ or
‘Acknowledgement of Country’ is appropriate for the Project Executive to use and provide a brief
explanation justifying your answer.
It is identified after analyzing the entire problem that Acknowledgement of country will be
very much appropriate for the entire opening statement of the program as “welcomes to Country” is
more suitable for the foreigners but not for the indigenous people because they are the people

who mainly prefers to be acknowledged their existence within the country.
3.1.3 Requirements gathering for training package (1 mark)
QUESTION: Is the suggestion of using a previously developed cultural awareness training program
an appropriate method of requirements gathering? Briefly explain your answer.
It is identified that previously developed indigenous cultural awareness training program is
not considered as an appropriate method of requirement gathering. This is because the previous
model can only be utilized in the template but the contents of the two training programs are quite
different from each other and each of the detail needs to be changed that is not possible by
searching the internet appropriately.
3.1.4 Requirements traceability (.5 mark)
QUESTION: What document could be used to track or ‘trace’ requirements throughout the project
life cycle?
It is identified that a central resource log database can be utilized for using the platform of
cloud. Once the resources are used, the site manager of the project will enter within the server for
automatically updating the central resource log that is generally set up within the central cloud
system.
3.1.5 Requirements prioritization process (1 mark)
The project board are concerned they may have competing requirements from a number of
stakeholders. To manage this they would like to define a requirement prioritisation process that can
be shared with all stakeholders prior to requirements gathering.
QUESTION: What is requirement prioritisation and why would it be important to communicate this
process to stakeholders?
It is identified that requirement prioritization is one of the procedure with which the
resources are provided to the stakeholder that is based on the priority of the duty within the project.
Hence, if any type of competing requirements arises, a priority plan must be created where the
various tasks must be arranged in context to priority. Thus the resources are generally assigned to
the tasks with the highest priority.
3.1.6 MoSCoW Technique (.5 mark)
QUESTION: List the five components of the MoSCoW technique
The various five components of the MoSCoW technique are as follows:
1. Must have
2. Would have
3. Could have
4. Should have
5. oS for easing the pronunciation

4 SCOPE (10 MARKS)
The scope of the project is divided into in-scope as well as out scope.
In-scope: The in-scope of the project is as follows:
 Spreading indigenous culture among other natives as well as foreign students
 Raising cultural awareness among various faculties as well as students
 Conducting cultural awareness program
 Acknowledging indigenous culture with the help of the program
Out scope: The out-scope of the project is as follows:
 Information about the suppliers are not provided
 Cost related with agreement are not provided
4.2 WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (3 MARKS)
Figure 1: WBS
(Source: Created by Author)
4.3 WBS DICTIONARY (6 MARKS)
Spread indigenous culture
WBS ID 1.1.1
Description of work In order to spread indigenous culture among various
foreign as well as native students
Cost Estimate $6,360
Start and Finish Dates 7/10/18 to 8/3/18
1.0 Indigenous Cultural
Awareness Training
Project
1.3 Training
Content
1.2 Delivery
Mode
1.1 Needs
Assessment
1.3.2 Cultural
unity
1.3.1 Cultural
diversity
1.2.2 Indigenous
culture
acknowledgement
1.2.1 Cultural
awareness
program
1.1.2 Raising
cultural
awareness
1.1.1 Spread
indigenous
culture

Raising cultural awareness
WBS ID 1.1.2
Description of work For raising cultural awareness among various
faculties and students
Cost Estimate $4,720
Start and Finish Dates 8/6/18 to 8/24/18
Cultural awareness program
WBS ID 1.2.1
Description of work For conducting cultural awareness program
Cost Estimate $7,720
Start and Finish Dates 8/27/18 to 9/27/18
Indigenous culture acknowledgement
WBS ID 1.2.2
Description of work For acknowledging indigenous culture with the help
of the program
Cost Estimate $7,720
Start and Finish Dates 9/28/18 to 11/1/18
Cultural Diversity
WBS ID 1.3.1
Description of work For informing students as well as staffs about the
significance of cultural diversity
Cost Estimate $7,960
Start and Finish Dates 11/2/18 to 12/7/18
Cultural Unity
WBS ID 1.3.2
Description of work For brining cultural unity among the faculties as well
as students
Cost Estimate $9,840
Start and Finish Dates 12/10/18 to 1/21/19

5 SCHEDULE (5 MARKS)
5.1 SCHEDULE
Spreading indigenous culture
Activity Description of Work Start Finis
h
Duration
(days)
1 Preparation of program plan Tue 7/10/18
Mon
7/16/
18
5 days
2 Inviting faculty of indigenous origin Tue 7/17/18
Wed
7/25/
18
7 days
3 Introducing the program Thu 7/26/18
Fri
8/3/1
8
7 days
Raising cultural Awareness
Activity Description of work Start
Date
End
Date
Duration
(days)
1
Dividing the team
Mon
8/6/1
8
Mon
8/13/
18
6 days
2 Providing proper knowledge about cultural
awareness
Tue
8/14/
18
Mon
8/20/
18
5 days
3 Conducting cultural awareness training
program
Tue
8/21/
18
Fri
8/24/
18
4 days
Cultural awareness program
Activity Description of work Start
Date
End
Date
Duration
(days)
1
Creating team
Mon
8/27/
18
Tue
9/4/1
8
7 days
2
Assigning details about the program
Wed
9/5/1
8
Fri
9/14/
18
8 days
3
Teaching benefits of indigenous culture
Mon
9/17/
18
Thu
9/27/
18
9 days
Indigenous culture acknowledgement
Activity Description of work Start
Date
End
Date
Duration
(days)
1
Team creation
Fri
9/28/
18
Tue
10/9/
18
8 days
2 Understanding the importance of indigenous
acknowledgement
Wed
10/10
/18
Thu
10/1
8/18
7 days
3
Getting acknowledgement
Fri
10/19
/18
Thu
11/1/
18
10 days

Cultural diversity
Activity Description of work Start
Date
End
Date
Duration
(days)
1
Making teams
Fri
11/2/
18
Wed
11/1
4/18
9 days
2 Assigning study materials about cultural
diversity
Thu
11/15
/18
Mon
11/2
6/18
8 days
3
Teaching advantages of cultural diversity
Tue
11/27
/18
Fri
12/7/
18
9 days
Cultural Unity
Activity Description of work Start
Date
End
Date
Duration
(days)
1
Making separate team
Mon
12/1
0/18
Fri
12/2
1/18
10 days
2
Assigning study rooms
Mon
12/2
4/18
Thu
1/3/1
9
9 days
3 Preparing participants for embracing
cultural diversity
Fri
1/4/1
9
Mon
1/21/
19
12 days
6 BUDGET (5 MARKS)
QUESTION: What is the hourly AUD $ rate used in your calculations?
The hourly rate that is utilized in the project is as follows:
Resource Name Std. Rate
Team co-coordinator $45.00/hr
Cultural faculty of indigenous origin $40.00/hr
Program organizer $40.00/hr
Project co-coordinator $35.00/hr
Spreading cultural awareness training
Activity/Deliverables June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Preparation of
program plan $1,600.00
Inviting faculty of
indigenous origin $2,240.00
Introducing the
program $2,520.00
Raising cultural awareness
Activity/Deliverables June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Dividing the team $1,680.00
Providing proper
knowledge about
cultural awareness
$1,600.00
Conducting cultural
awareness training
program
$1,440.00
Cultural awareness program
Activity/Deliverables June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
Creating team $2,240.0
0
Assigning details
about the program
$2,240.0
0
Teaching benefits of
indigenous culture
$3,240.0
0
Indigenous cultural acknowledgement
Activity/
Deliverables
Jun
e
Jul
y
Au
g
Sep
t
Oct Nov De
c
Ja
n
Fe
b
Ma
r
Team creation $1,560.0
0
$1,000.0
0
Understanding the
importance of
indigenous
acknowledgement
$1,060.0
0 $900.00
Getting
acknowledgement
$2,000.0
0
$1,200.0
0
Cultural Diversity
Activity/
Deliverables
Jun
e
July Au
g
Sep
t
Oc
t
Nov Dec Jan Fe
b
Mar
Making teams $1,520.0
0
$1,000.0
0
Assigning study
materials about
cultural diversity
$1,560.0
0
$1,000.0
0
Teaching advantages
of cultural diversity
$1,880.0
0
$1,000.0
0

Cultural Unity
Activity/
Deliverables
Jun
e
July Au
g
Sep
t
Oc
t
No
v
Dec Jan Fe
b
Ma
r
Making separate
team
$150
0 $2,600.0
0
$1,000.0
0
Assigning study
rooms
$100
0 $1,880.0
0
$1,000.0
0
Preparing
participants for
embracing cultural
diversity
$150
0 $2,000.0
0
$1,360.0
0
7 RISKS (5 MARKS)
Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training Project
Risk Register
Name Description Likelihood Impact Response
type
Mitigation strategy
Risk 1 Lack of proper
interest
High High Internal In order to resolve this
issue, it is quite important
to raise proper cultural
awareness among the
students as well as staffs
of CQU university
Risk 2 Lack of
appropriate
cultural
knowledge
Medium High Internal It is quite important to
appoint team members
who have in depth
knowledge about
indigenous culture.
Risk 3 Racism Medium Medium Internal It is quite important to
implement strict rules as
well as regulations that
are important for
mitigating the issues that
are associated with
racism
Risk 4 Resistance from
indigenous
people
High High External In order to mitigate this
problem, it is quite
necessary to
acknowledge the
indigenous culture of
Aboriginal and Torres
Island.
Opportunit
y
Lack of cultural
unity
Medium High Internal it is quite important to
teach cultural unity to
both the staffs as well as
teachers of the CQU
university
8 TOLERENCES (1 MARK)
Tolerance Specific Tolerance allowed

Tolerance specified for time 140 days
Tolerance specified for cost $44,320
9 LESSONS (2 MARKS)
Previous lessons learned Proposed action to address
(in current project)
Lesson 1
The first lesson involved an ‘off-the-shelf’
online training program which failed to
properly interface with the universities
learning system.
It is quite important to install proper
information system within the organization
which have very high speed of internet
connection
Lesson 2:
The second lesson involved the use of a
generic cross cultural training package
which failed to properly address the
nuances which exists between different
indigenous groups located in various
geographical areas.
It is very much necessary to invite people
from different indigenous culture
background who have proper in-depth
knowledge about various indigenous
culture and tradition.
Project Submission Approval
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with the information presented within this document.
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