CQ University Project: Initiating and Planning Aboriginal Awareness

This project plan outlines an initiative by CQ University and the NAIDOC committee to raise awareness about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, aiming to create a cross-cultural environment and provide equal opportunities. The project includes stakeholder analysis (University Dean, NAIDOC Officer, Students, Parents, Professors), requirements management, scope definition through a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), schedule, cost baseline, risk assessment, and lessons learned. The project aims to increase cultural diversity, provide equal education opportunities, and improve the university's image, with benefits including increased employment chances and potential migration to Australia. The plan utilizes the MOSCOW technique for requirements prioritization and emphasizes stakeholder communication strategies. The project's goal is to integrate indigenous communities and cultures within the university framework.

INITIATING AND
PLANNING
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Project Description.....................................................................................................................1
Project Background................................................................................................................1
Justification................................................................................................................................2
STAKEHOLDERS....................................................................................................................3
Stakeholder’s engagement assessment matrix...........................................................................6
Stakeholder communication.......................................................................................................7
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT.......................................................................................8
Traditional Owner/s of the land on which CQ University campuses are located..................8
Opening statement style.........................................................................................................8
Requirements gathering for each event..................................................................................8
Requirements traceability.......................................................................................................8
Requirements prioritization process.......................................................................................8
SCOPE.......................................................................................................................................9
Work Breakdown structure........................................................................................................9
WBS DISCTIONARY...............................................................................................................9
SCHEDULE.............................................................................................................................11
COST BASELINE...................................................................................................................15
RISKS......................................................................................................................................16
TOLERANCES........................................................................................................................17
LESSONS LEARNED.............................................................................................................18
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................19

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Project Background
The current project is all about the spreading awareness about the Aboriginal and
Torres Strait islander’s people who are far away from the people living in the urban areas.
These people are not acquainted with the lifestyles of all the urban people and used to live in
peace as they are isolated from the city areas (Penrose, Roe, Johnson & James, 2018). The
aim of the current project is introduced equal opportunities for all the isolated people and the
urban people to create a cross-cultural environment. With the help of this project, CQ
University and NAIDOC committee intend to take an initiative for all the aboriginal people
who want to take education to improve their current conditions. An individual has different
intentions behind the taking of education is for a pleasure, dream, to transform their existing
condition (Reilly & Rees, 2018). The intention of a student behind taking education
motivates them to take important decision for its life and also to achieve all its career goals
within a given span of time.
Another objective of this particular project is to bring out all the characteristics of this
indigenous community to aware the staff members and the existing students of CQ University
with the diverse culture of Australia (Teasdale, 2018). These people live in the outskirts of
the Queensland Australia are count as a part of the country but did not get the similar
recognition as a country people just like other citizens residing in the country’s Special
commission named as National aboriginal’s and islanders day observance association has
created to take care about the basic needs of this community and also worked for providing
recognition to this community as against the normal people of the urban areas (Llewellyn,
Boon & Lewthwaite, 2018).
This study aims to develop objectives in awaking students about this community to
offer equal amount respect and opportunity to these people to judge the talent of these people
by giving admissions in this University to promote the cultural and social inequality
mentality of the university among the whole (Townsend & et.al., 2018) Australia and the
entire world. The university campus of CQ is extended to different cities of Australia such as
Rockhampton, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth who provides educational services to
the entire domestic and the international students intend to make their career in different
streams. This initiative taken by an entity will get achieved by spreading this social campaign
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to all the current campuses of the university to promote their activities and seek the feedback
of the staff members, parents and especially all the students of the university.
JUSTIFICATION
Output Outcome Benefits
Admission of aboriginal and
Torres straits islanders
Presenting better picture of
CQ university in the society
Donors give huge donations
to the university for allowing
indigenous community
members in its university.
Recognition of new
community
Increases the cultural
diversity of Australia.
This helps in decreasing the
social and cross-cultural gap
in the country which invites
culturally diverse people to
take admission in this
university.
Equal education opportunity It promotes social equality in
the society by disregarding
unequal society measures of
class, caste, creed, religion.
By creating equal education
opportunity in this university
will increases the external
image of the university in the
world in attracting the
attention of all the
international students
towards this institute.
Increasing employment
chance
With the current initiative of
an entity, people living in
Australia and other people
will give preference to this
university in the terms of job
opportunities where
emotions, values are given
more preference.
By giving jobs to the local
citizens and other
international candidates will
improve the productivity of
the University which also get
the support of the
government.
Migration of people in
Australia
The population of Australia
will get increased and so as
Migration of people in
Australia from another
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the increment in the students
from one period to another.
country will increase the
gross domestic product of the
country which induces the
economic segment of the
country due to the initiative
was taken by the CQ
University. In the result of
this, the government will also
appreciate the current action
of the university by helping
the educational university in
both monetary as well as the
non-monetary ways used by
the government to meet the
existing needs of the
University. Tax deductions
and donations received by
CQ university from the
government as their activities
are helping the whole nation.
STAKEHOLDERS
Stakeholder Category
(i.e.
Sponsor /
Supplier /
User)
Description of Interest Description of Influence
1 University Dean Sponsor The university dean has
significant influence in
this project as they started
this project to aware its
students about the cultural
University’s dean has a
stronger influence in the
project as their action will
assess the overall direction
of a project as true or false
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dynamicity of Australia by
revealing the secret
community in the
knowledge of the CQ
university’s students (Li,
Zhang & Skitmore, 2018).
Each and every
information provided by
the dean will help in
moving ahead in this
project as the completion
of the current project
depends on the facts and
the information provided
by the dean who are the
sponsor of this project.
information supplied by
them will directly affect the
entire accuracy of a project.
2 NAIDOC officer Sponsor The officer who handles
the special committee for
taking care of the needs
and the expectations of the
aboriginal people living on
the mainland of Australia
is isolated from the urban
boundaries of Australia
(Assan & Hunt, 2018).
The officer aims to offer
educational opportunity to
all the isolated people of
Australia by giving equal
career opportunities to
them to fulfil their dreams
through CQ University.
As a sponsor of a project,
they strongly influence this
project as they have exact
facts and the information
related to the total number
of families living on the
islands as this committee is
appointed for the upliftment
of the indigenous
community will provide
authentic and reliable
information.
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3
Students
User One of the objectives of
this project is to aware its
students about the cultural
diversities of Australia in
the form of Aboriginals
and Torres Strait Islanders
(Davison, 2018). Students
try to make the
environment comfortable
for all the outsiders by
showing their human side
towards the people who
are new this place.
Students have a medium
influence on this project as
the rude behaviour of the
student will not attract any
indigenous community
people towards this
university as they feel
isolated and uncomfortable
at this place.
4 Parents User Seeking approval of the
parent is essential to move
ahead in this project as the
opinions of all the parents
are essential before
implementing any
initiatives taken by the
higher authority (Li, Ng &
Skitmore, 2017). Parents
of existing students are the
member of the family of
CQ university whose
concern is essential to be
considered by an entity
before making any
decisions.
If the majority of parents
are against this policy then
the University cannot make
any decisions as parents of
the students play an integral
role in suppressing or
inducing the aim of a
project.
5 Professors/
lecturers
Supplier Lecturers/professors play
an important role in
guiding all the students
Higher influence of
professor/lecturers in this
project as the negative
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about this initiative of the
university as a teacher will
easily convey the opinions
of the university about this
initiative (Heldman,
2018). The lecturer will
help in creating social
campaigns with the help of
all the students on this
social action by explaining
the significance of the
action taken by the top
management of the CQ
University and all its
advantages and the
disadvantages.
comments of the students
and parents on the aim of a
project by changing the
mentality of all the
individuals.
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Aboriginal and
Torres straits
islanders
User People for whom the
policy developed by the
university will actively
participate in this project
(Nederhand & Klijn,
2018)
The feedback of these
islanders is essential for the
progress of the current
project as resistance or
acceptance of islanders
towards this project will
help a project manager in
moving ahead in concluding
the same.
STAKEHOLDER’S ENGAGEMENT ASSESSMENT MATRIX
Stakeholder Unaware Resistant Neutral Supportive Leading
1. University Dean
2. NAIDOC Officer
3. Student
4. Parents
5.
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Professors/Lecturers
6. Aboriginal and
Torres straits
islanders
STAKEHOLDER COMMUNICATION
Communication method PULL or
PUSH
Justification
One to one counselling
session
PUSH One to one counselling session comes
under push method where a counsellor
will directly communicate with the
Islanders in resolving all their doubts in
selecting its career goals without taking
care about the social boundaries or any
other restrictions (Novikov & and et.al.,
2018).
Group meeting PULL In a group meeting, University dean and a
NAIDOC officer will communicate all its
staff members about this initiative to
convey all the information thoroughly
among all the participants of involved
directly or indirectly in this project such
as students, parents, society members,
donors whose interest gets affected with
this (Rogers, 2018).
Email communication PUSH Using this communication approach
sensitive information related to this topic
is communicated to teachers, volunteers in
the form of students without disclosing
the same in front of the public (Li, Xia, &
Zajac, 2018).
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REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
Traditional Owner/s of the land on which CQ University campuses are located
In context to the traditional owner of the land on which the CQ university campuses
are located should be more than one key stakeholder as a recommendation of the project
executives. The reason behind the selection of this approach is that one owner of all the 5
campuses handless lots of work pressures and the responsibilities of all the staff members and
everything about the business (Zhang, Fang, Yang & Zhang, 2018). So, one or more
traditional owner of all the campuses will help in supervising the work practices of all the
campuses easily.
Opening statement style
‘Welcome to Country’ as an opening statement is apt to use by campus leaders in
inviting all the individuals who access the website of all the university campuses as this
denotes the culture of the University by using polite tone in its opening statement (Singla,
Ahuja & Sethi, 2018).
Requirements gathering for each event
Yes, it is appropriate to use the previously design event program as they have
experience of handling the overall event (Maia, Teixeira & Mateus, 2018). Changing the
content of the event according to the current aim of the project is sufficient to present the
social initiative in front of the community of Australia by presenting the actual image of
Aboriginals in front of the local residents.
Requirements traceability
By using centralized management system in which login credentials are given to all
the participants of the projects from different campuses to share all the information updates,
documents shared on this platform to be accessed by the authorized party.
Requirements prioritization process
Four components of MOSCOW technique which is used in prioritizing the overall
requirements of a project are given as below:
 Must have- This includes all the important project activities which is significant for
an entity (Hoffman, Howlett, Breslin & Dowling, 2018).
 Should have- Items covered in this stream is important for an entity but not at all
urgent
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 Could have- Less important tasks of a project
 Won’t have- Unnecessary projects tasks
SCOPE
WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
WBS DISCTIONARY
<Initiation>
WBS ID 1
Description of work Market survey
Cost Estimate $500
Start and Finish Dates 14 May and end on 24 May
<Planning >
WBS ID 2
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Description of work Identifying participants of research
Cost Estimate $600
Start and Finish Dates 25 May and end on 30 May
<Data Collection >
WBS ID 3
Description of work Primary and secondary collection
Cost Estimate $2500
Start and Finish Dates 31 May and end on 8th June
<Data analyze>
WBS ID 4
Description of work Analyzing of collected data
Cost Estimate $3000
Start and Finish Dates 9th June to 15th June
<Implementation>
WBS ID 5
Description of work Executing the policy
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