Project Management Question Answer 2022

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Project management
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Table of Contents
Question 1........................................................................................................................................2
1a) Describe each method that is PRINCE2 Agile and SCRUM................................................2
1b) Benefits and drawbacks of each method...............................................................................3
1c) Examples of the type of projects that are suitable.................................................................4
1d) Conclude with recommendations and proper justification....................................................4
Question 2: IT Project management planning techniques...............................................................5
2a) Gantt chart in Excel...............................................................................................................5
2b) Gantt chart in MS project......................................................................................................6
2c) Experience comparison..........................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Question 1
1a) Describe each method that is PRINCE2 Agile and SCRUM
According to Cooke (2016), PRINCE2 agile is one of the adaptive governance methods
that is mainly used for project delivery which further combines with the senior management’s
ongoing requirement for confirmation of business value. PRINCE Agile generally combines both
PRINCE2 as well as Agile in a way that helps in maintaining integrity of the PRINCE2 based
project principles, processes as well as roles. In addition to this, it helps in delivering both
efficiencies as well as core benefits which are associated with Agile methods (Patil 2019).
Furthermore, it generally helps in increasing the rate of on-time as well as on-budget project
delivery with proper project outcomes that is continually confirmed for meeting different
requirements of the business quite successfully.
On the other hand, it is stated by Ramakrishnan et al. (2018) that scrum is one of the
methodologies that generally involves small project team that is mainly lead by the Scrum
master whose main responsibility is to remove all the obstruction from the project and further
assists in finishing the work on time. It is one of the methodologies that is mainly designed for
guiding the project team in both iterative as well as incremental delivery (Pejcinovic, Bass and
Wong 2018). Furthermore, in scrum, top priority items will be selected for a fixed, regular as
well as time box which is generally known as sprint that further strives for proper pre-determined
as well as mutually agreed goal of the project.

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1b) Benefits and drawbacks of each method
The benefits as well as drawbacks of both PRINCE2 Agile as well as Scrum method is
mainly reflected in the below table:
PRINCE 2 Agile SCRUM
Advantages
 Enhanced rates on on-time as well as on-
budget project delivery with project
outcomes that are generally confirmed for
meeting the business-related requirements
quite effectively.
 It helps in creating much more cohesion
between the project team that helps in
delivery as well as senior management of
the organization (Azanha et al. 2017).
 It is analyzed that greater communication
as well as transparency will be achieved
on ongoing project status
 It is analyzed that the reliability of
utilizing different types of practices-based
framework with appropriate training
generally recognizes certification.
Advantages
 It is identified that scrum generally have
much more transparent as well as
visibility in comparison to other PM
methodologies.
 It can easily make changes and further
helps in accommodating different types of
changes quite effectively.
 It is considered as a methodology that
generally helps in saving cost of the
project quite effectively (Bass, Pejcinovic
and Grant 2016).
 It further helps in improving the morale of
the entire team by effectively managing
and organizing the entire team that allows
the people to become much more creative.

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Disadvantages
 It generally requires proper senior
management buy-in for becoming
successful
 It generally needs much more time as well
as commitment and there will be very
much high demand from the sides of
developers as well as clients
(Ramakrishnan et al. 2018).
Disadvantages
 It is analyzed that scrum generally
requires very much experienced persons
that generally have some chances of scope
creep.
 Scrum generally requires much more
experiences as well as commitment for the
project team (Pejcinovic, Bass and Wong
2018).
 It is analyzed that scrum master generally
helps in ruining the entire procedure of
development.
1c) Examples of the type of projects that are suitable
It is found that scrum is one of the methodologies as well as framework that is mainly
utilized for various types off software development project that have proper goal of delivering
the new software within the time period of 2 to 4 weeks. Whereas PRINCE2 Agile is used for
both construction as well as software development projects and further assists in delivering the
project on time and on budget.
1d) Conclude with recommendations and proper justification
It is found that PRINCE2Agile will be the most suitable project management software in
comparison to Scrum. PRINCE2 Agile is selected as it helps in increasing the rates of on-time as
well as on-budget project delivery with proper project outcomes that are generally confirmed for
meeting different types of requirements (Patil 2019). Whereas it is analyzed that scrum generally

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requires very much experienced persons and the chances of scope creep in the project is also
very high (Cooke 2016). Moreover, PRINCE2 Agile is selected as it helps in developing proper
cohesion between the delivery team and higher authority of their organization and further helps
in increasing transparency of the project by effectively communicating with each team of the
project quite effectively. Furthermore, it allows the entire project team to properly focus on both
the management as well as delivery of the project quite effectively.
Question 2: IT Project management planning techniques
2a) Gantt chart in Excel
1 Planned Start Date
Predecessors
PERIODS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 ## ## ## ## ##
Website project 1 100
Initiating 1 20
Validate
project 1 6
Create outline
business case 7 12
Obtain project
approval 19 2
Planning 21 20
Creating
project 21 20
Executing 41 60
Requirement
gathering 41 5
Analysis 46 15
Analyse
requirements 46 4
Ideentificatio
n of 50 6
Identification
of non- 55 5
Design 60 17
Site software
development 60 5
HTML design
and creation 65 5
Database
design and 70 7
User interface
design and 77 5
Testing 82 3
Implementation 85 5
Support 90 15
Training 90 7
User support 97 1
Monitoring and
controlling 98 1
Closure 99 1
Select a period to highlight at right.
Activity Planned Start
Day
Planned
activity
duration
(days)
Plan DurationPeriod Highlight:
Figure 1: Gantt chart in excel
(Source: Created by Author)

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2b) Gantt chart in MS project
Figure 2: Gantt chart in MS project
(Source: Created by Author)
2c) Experience comparison
After using both the tool for creating schedule, it is analyzed that MS Project is a better
tool for managing the work of the project effectively. It is found that though excel sheet starts off
blank but it is very much limited in context to creation of schedule where use of MS Project
helps in creating schedule quite easily by adding as much number of activities that a user wants
(Tonchia 2018). In addition to this, project update details are inefficient in excel and thus it can

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lead to more errors in the calculation of total number of days when it is compared with MS
project. Moreover, as project requires a number of people to work on a specific task at once
however the latest plan of the excel is not suitable enough to reflect all the information clearly
where MS Project reflect each of these single details (Sharon and Dori 2017). Therefore, it is
analyzed that MS project helps in providing much better in-built capabilities for managing the
work of the project in comparison to excel.

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References
Azanha, A., Argoud, A.R.T.T., de Camargo Junior, J.B. and Antoniolli, P.D., 2017. Agile project
management with Scrum. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business.
Bass, R.B., Pejcinovic, B. and Grant, J., 2016, October. Applying Scrum project management in
ECE curriculum. In 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
Cooke, J.L., 2016. PRINCE2 Agile An Implementation Pocket Guide: Step-by-step advice for
every project type. IT Governance Ltd.
Patil, A.V., 2019. Comparative Analysis between Sequential and Iterative Project Management
Approaches. interfaces, 6(07).
Pejcinovic, B., Bass, R.B. and Wong, P., 2018. Assessing Scrum Project Management and
Teamwork in Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses.
Ramakrishnan, M., Shrestha, A., Cater-Steel, A. and Soar, J., 2018. IT service management
knowledge ecosystem–literature review and a conceptual model. In Proceedings of the 29th
Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2018). Australian Association for
Information Systems.
Sharon, A. and Dori, D., 2017. Model‐Based Project‐Product Lifecycle Management and Gantt
Chart Models: A Comparative Study. Systems Engineering, 20(5), pp.447-466.
Tonchia, S., 2018. Project time management. In Industrial project management (pp. 117-129).
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.