Analysis of Queensland Health Payroll System Project

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
Project Management Assessment
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
1. Analysis of Queensland Health Payroll Project...............................................................2
1.1. Project Background..................................................................................................3
1.2. Reasons behind the Project Failure...........................................................................3
1.3. Analysis on basis of Scope Management.................................................................4
1.4. Analysis on basis of Cost management....................................................................5
1.5. Analysis on basis of Communication Management.................................................5
2. Recommendations............................................................................................................6
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................7
References............................................................................................................................8

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT
Analysis of Queensland Health Payroll System Project
Introduction
The significant aim of the report is to provide a detailed analysis of a completed project.
In this context, the Queensland Health Payroll system project is chosen which will be analyzed in
terms of different project management contexts. The said project will be analyzed in terms of
different project management frameworks, principles, processes and practices. There were a
number of reasons behind the failure of this project (Glass, 2013). The Queensland health system
payroll provides public healthcare services to Australia and it constitutes over 65,000 workers.
The payroll system of this organization was becoming obsolete and thus the organization had
embarked on development of a new payroll system. On analyzing the project, it has been found
out that there were a number of factors that lead to the failure of the project (Duffield & Whitty,
2015). The report will be identifying the different issues associated with management of a
project that lead to the failure of the project. The failure of the project will be analyzed on basis
of the PMBOK knowledge areas which includes scope management, human resource
management, quality management, integration management, communication management, time
management, risk management, procurement management, cost management and stakeholder
management (Mesquida & Mas, 2014). The detailed analysis of the failure of the Queens land
health payroll project is analysed in the following paragraphs.
1. Analysis of Queensland Health Payroll Project
There are a number of reasons behind the failure of a project which includes insufficient
resources, inappropriate allocation of the resources, poor communication and misaligned goals.
One of the most significant reasons behind the failure of the project is lack of planning.
Furthermore, there were unclear roles and responsibilities of the project team coupled with weak
governance structure (Eden & Sedera, 2014). The project itself was complex and therefore it was
in need of effective project planning and monitoring which were absent in the entire project thus
leading to the project failure. These were some of the very few reasons behind the failure of