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Project Management

Table of Contents
1. Case Study..............................................................................................................................3
2. Scope Statement.....................................................................................................................4
Project Owner, Project Sponsor and Project stakeholders.....................................................4
Project Goals and Objectives.................................................................................................4
Project Requirements.............................................................................................................4
Project Deliverables...............................................................................................................4
Project Milestones..................................................................................................................4
3. Estimates................................................................................................................................5
Analogous estimate................................................................................................................5
Parametric estimate................................................................................................................5
Bottom up estimate................................................................................................................6
4. Stakeholder Management Plan...............................................................................................7
5. Work Breakdown Structure....................................................................................................7
6. Communication Plan............................................................................................................10
7. Risk Analysis.......................................................................................................................10
8. Procurement Plan.................................................................................................................11
8. Gantt Chart...........................................................................................................................12
9. Critical Path..........................................................................................................................12
10. Critical Chain.....................................................................................................................13
11. Cost Baseline......................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................17

1. Case Study
The project involves the implementation of a comprehensive project management system for
an organisation. With the implementation of the system, there would be greater clarity among
the project management team regarding the diverse aspects of project management such as
project scope definition, project feasibility, stakeholder management, project communication,
project procurement and project costing. The project management system would be
developed by a third party and so there is an urgent requirement to educate the organisational
staffs regarding how to efficiently utilise the system and obtain the desired benefits from the
system. The project management system would be simultaneously running on 20 computer
workstations and there would be a central server that would facilitate the client request
handling process. The system would make use of data that would be imported via comma
delimited files or XML.
The project would require the successful delivery of the following minimum high level work
activities:
1) Server installation
2) Requirements gathering
3) Installing the server software
4) Installing Windows 10 on all PCs
5) Testing of each workstation
6) Parsing and importing of raw data
7) User acceptance testing of the software
8) Providing training to the staffs
9) Providing real time technical support
10) Project Review

2. Scope Statement
Project Owner, Project Sponsor and Project stakeholders
The project owner and project sponsor is a commercial organisation that wants to implement
a project management system within their business that would provide them greater leverage
in their business. The main stakeholders in the project are project team leader, location
manager, system developers, system testers, system users, project sponsors/owners.
Project Goals and Objectives
To streamline and optimise the future project management activities undertaken by the
organisation through the adoption and utilisation of advanced software systems. This would
help in increasing the efficiency of future projects by eliminating the scope of human errors
during the project implementation process. This would help in radically increasing the
chances of project success. The implementation of the project management systems would
eventually help in providing greater long term business dividends to an organisation.
Project Requirements
The project requirements include the following:
 20 computer workstations that have Windows 10 installed in them.
 1 server to facilitate request handling from client PCs.
 Highly qualified and experienced software engineers who have the technical
knowledge and competency in dealing with software projects.
 Software Testers.
Project Deliverables
The project management system upon successful completion would be integrated within the
existing organisational system and this would help the organisation is optimising their future
project management functionalities resulting in successful future projects.
Project Milestones
1) Developing and designing the Project management systems
2) Comprehensive Debugging and Testing of the system
3) Training the organisational staffs in the effective handling and utilisation of the system.
4) Reviewing the system against the client specifications and requirements.