Project Management - Sample Assignment

Project Management

Contents
1. Project Preliminaries Description..................................................................................................2
2. Purpose..........................................................................................................................................2
3. Problem Domain............................................................................................................................2
4. Project Scope:................................................................................................................................3
5. System Design...............................................................................................................................4
6. List of Required equipment and Devices.......................................................................................7
7. Cost Estimation plan......................................................................................................................8
8. Justification...................................................................................................................................9
9. Work Breakdown Structure...........................................................................................................9
10. Sustainable global economy and Environmental Responsibilities...........................................11
11. Conclusion...............................................................................................................................11
12. References...............................................................................................................................11

1. Project Preliminaries Description
The AusED Inc. is an online private organization which is capable of providing online
education to students living all over the world. The student can select online course according
to their requirement. The organization is capable of providing online education program,
undergraduate and post graduate courses, and others. The students can gain specialization in
area of networking, database management, and application development. The enterprise is
divided into three divisions which are classified as sales, operations, and course delivery. The
sales division focuses on deploying marketing operations for the sales of course program. The
course delivery division is responsible for managing course material to the students,
education administration system, and teaching assessment plan. The organization also
provides special study centres for the students such as work stations, student supporting staff
for enquiries, facilities of photocopying and printing, facilities of video conferencing, tutorial
groups, and connection of student devices to the AusED organization through the wireless
networking connectivity, Social Network connectivity between student and staff, and
organization of presentation areas.
2. Purpose
The owner of the company is looking forward to design a new and advanced system for the
organization to manage effective communication and flow of information between students
and organization.
3. Problem Domain
The existing working structure of the enterprise is composed of accounting system based on
MYOB software, the open source software named as Sugar CRM software for maintaining
effective relationship with students, and Microsoft exchange server 2007 for managing
exchange of e-mails. The organization requires new system for student management system
and providing effective improvement plan. It is difficult for managing the centralization flow
of control between various units of the organization (Nedeva, 2014). The organization is
facing problem in handling centralized control in providing different facilities and operations
to the students such as work stations, student supporting staff for enquiries, facilities of
photocopying and printing, facilities of video conferencing, tutorial groups, and connection of
student devices to the AusED organization through the wireless networking connectivity,

Social Network connectivity between student and staff, and organization of presentation
areas. The organization wants to develop a new technological environment for the enterprise
which is composed of Off-line Moodle and photo-exam to provide security policies to the
students.
4. Project Scope:
The scope of the project is to design a new technological plan for providing effective and
centralised control over the various facilities provided to the students (Gogan, Sirbu, and
Draghici, 2014). The following table shows the in-scope and out-of scope activities.
Project Scope
In-scope activities
 Analysis of the problem domain with the existing architecture of the company
 Feedback from the students
 Development of the centralization system
 Organizing flow of activities within the working architecture of the enterprise
 Managing effective communication between the organization and the distance learner
 Managing local databases for ensuring the discussion on the Moodle forum
 Applicability of updating local database of the student
 Completion of the exam papers on the personal computer of the students
 The application should run on different operating system used by the students such as
MS Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Ubuntu, and others (Umek, Kerzic., Tomazevic,
Aristovnik, 2015).
 Organization of the on-board camera for doing photography periodically
 Inclusion of reliable time-stamping procedures
 Secure transmission of data for the central location database
 Diversification of the organization working facilities and functional program of the
enterprise
 Extension in the educational services
 Managing reliable connection for improving the performance of student assessment
tasks
 Deployment of Off-line Moodle Platform (Ferse, and Breiter, 2014)
 Purchasing of the required hardware and software
 Security