IT Centre Development in Australia: An Agile Project Management Plan

This project outlines the development of a new information technology centre in Australia, with an approved budget of $25 million plus an additional $15 million for advanced IT technology. The project assumes the IT centre will support future IT needs, completion will take approximately 182 days, and the approved budget will suffice. Agile project management methodology is employed to reduce challenges and expedite completion. The project's timeline spans from June 18, 2018, to March 1, 2019, with weekends observed as holidays. Key project phases include initiation, planning, designing, development, testing, and closure, each with specific tasks, durations, and logical relationships detailed in the work breakdown structure (WBS). The organizational breakdown structure (OBS) and responsibility matrix outline roles and responsibilities. The project also includes a risk register addressing potential issues like budget estimation and technical problems, along with mitigation measures. Furthermore, the document provides a bill of quantities and cost estimation, resource schedules, S-curve analysis, and a bibliography of cited works.

Development of a new information
technology centre

Project description
 The project reflects on the development in
Australia.
 It is found that for developing the centre of
information technology, the amount of budget that
was approved is $25 million and additionally $15
million was also provided for utilizing latest IT
technology within the data centre.
 This is generally done so that the data centre can
successfully support the IT requirements of the
clients quite effectively.

Assumptions
The list of assumptions that are generally made
while developing the IT centre in Australia are listed
below:
The IT centre must be developed in such a way
that it will support all the IT needs for the next
coming years
The time that will be needed for finishing the
development of the IT centre will be around 182
days
The amount of budget that is approved will be
enough for successful completion of the entire
project.

Planning methodology
 It is identified that in order to develop the
information technology centre, agile project
management methodology is mainly utilized within
the project.
 Agile methodology is used for developing the
information technology centre
 So that the entire development can get finished
within the time that is expected by utilizing the
advantage of Automated tools during the testing
phase of the project

Planning methodology
 Agile project methodology is very much advantageous in comparison to other
methodologies as with the help of agile methodology, the challenges as well as issues
that are mainly related with the project can successfully get reduced.
 Moreover, it is found that the use of agile methodology is quite useful in finishing the
entire project faster as compared to the time that is expected earlier.

Project calendar
 Project start date: The initial or starting date of the project will be around 18-06-18
 Project end date: The end date of the project will be on 01-03-2019.
 Weekends: Saturday as well as Sunday are weekends and considered as holiday for all the
employees.

Project calendar Contd.
Monday 11th June Queen’s birthday
Monday 1st October Labour day
Tuesday 25th December Christmas Day
Wednesday 26 December Boxing day

Work breakdown Structure

Organizational breakdown structure (OBS)

Responsibility Matrix
Project
manager
Sponsor Contractor Designer Tester Financial
managers
Supervisor
Project needs analysis A, R I C
Project plan
development
A, R I C
Feasibility analysis I C A, R
Project task scheduling A, R I C
Estimation of project
resources
I C A, R
Allocation of resources I C A, R
Communication plan
development
A, R I C

Responsibility Matrix Contd.
Project team allocation A, R I C
Blueprint creation C I R, A
Assigning IT needs
Necessary equipment
purchase
C I R, A
Recruitment of
development team
C I R, A
Assigning new hardware C I R, A
Assigning software
requirements
C I R, A
Data warehouse
development
C I R, A

Responsibility Matrix Contd.
Network system
development
C I R, A
Application of security
system
C I R, A
Creating connection
between the systems
C I R, A
Hardware testing I A, R C
Software testing I A, R C
Testing of data
warehouse
I A, R C
Reviewing project A, R I C
Sign off A, R I C
Data warehouse A, R I C