IT Project Management Techniques: A Comprehensive Report

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IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Statement of contribution...........................................................................................................4
Role and responsibility taken.................................................................................................4
Deliverable table....................................................................................................................4
Weekly assignment report..........................................................................................................5
Peer Review of Assignment.......................................................................................................6
Assignment lessons learned.......................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
This report will contain a Project management plan for the WOWS scenario given. There will
be certain steps that will be taken in order to produce the deliverable for this project. The
PMP stands for the process management plan and here the WOWs are given as a scenario
according to which this report will contain what were the things that were done in the first
two weeks. Then after one month, four and half months and at the end of six months. So, this
will contain the details of team members, the work they had done, the percentage of work and
meetings that were attended related to this work.

Statement of contribution
Role and responsibility took
As the team consist of three members only, so the role and responsibility will be taken as:
The student 1 is assigned as the project manager of WOWS who believes in hiring the
brilliant and inspired individuals for the company. So, student 1 will act as the project
manager for this company. Now the Student 1 who is the project manager for this company
was assigned the duty of making a team o team for a project.
Deliverable table
Deliverable Name Description Purpose Estimation
Two Analyst
programmers
 One will be hired
for the Analysis of
design.
 The second will be
hired for the
designing of the
SLDC phase.
Both of them will be
in a single team who
will be responsible
to create an SLDC
phase and to analyse
the same for changes
made if any.
They are hired as
$80 per hour rate.
They need to work
for half a day on
project management
and the rest of 4 and
half days on the
development of the
project.
Hiring the existing
programmer
The experienced
programmers will be
hired in order to fill
up the vacant
positions.
They will help thee
project as having
experience in
programming.
The estimation will
be $80 per hour and
they will for 3 days
in a week for 7
weeks.
Project charter
completion
The project charter
is done after the
meeting
This will help to
give the brief on the
budget company will
going to have.
The budget was
$700,000
Making of the
planning process
group
The making of PMP
will be here in order
to understand the
need for a project.
This will help to
know the
appropriate outputs
from the core.
No cost will be
there.
Meeting with the
ML scientists and
WGCI specialist
This will help to
know the problems
and their solution.
The main problem
was having with
employees regarding
their leaves.
The $300,000 is put
aside by the
organisation for
possible extensions.

Weekly assignment report
The weekly report is being completed and given to the team manager in each and every
meeting. Starting week, the problem was seen in which the employees were demanding for
the leaves and parental leaves as well. So, it was needed to be taken into consideration. After
a month, the mixed review was got when the memo was sent by the student and project
sponsors. After four and a half months, the meeting was done in which it helped to know
what is going on in the project and views were taken into consideration. The release time of
the project was decided and a review about the project was taken (Hornstein, 2015).
After the sixth month, when the project was needed to be completed, at that time the project
was finally completed. The project was done within the budget that was specified within the
scope that was agreed. All of the stakeholders were happy and pleased with the
communication done in order to know and reporting as well. And as a project manager, the
project got close.

Peer Review of Assignment
The project was done with the help of a defined team. Student 1 was the project manager in
this WOWS project. Everyone has their involvement in this project and the percentage if
given in accordance with their involvement in the project will be like: -
 Project Manager: - The percentage contribution of the project manager is taken as 46%
in this project. The reason for giving 46% of the contribution percentage is because it was
the project manager who was doing all the work like making the project team and to assist
them as well. At each stage, at each step, it was the project manager who was keeping an
eye on the teamwork and on the project as well. The problems that were arose after the
week was solved with the help of project manager. All of the meeting reports that were
made by the project manager was submitted. The problem from the side of employees was
made after the first week regarding the leaves. The project manager took the help of ML
scientists and WGCI specialists. This is how this problem got solved.
 The Analyst programmers: - a) Analysis programmer: - The analysis programmer will
get 4% of the contribution in this project. The main work of the analyst programmer here
was to make the analysis of the SLDC design that was made by the SLDC designer. The
main reason for giving the 4% of the total contribution percentage is because of this
analysis programmer the SLDC designing got selected and the further process was done.
Every meeting was attended by this programmer.
b) SLDC programmer: - The amount of contribution given to the SLDC programmer
will be 6%. The amount of contribution was given in order to because the SLDC design
was made by the SLDC programmer because of which project steps were recognised. All
of the meetings were attended and no issues were generated.
c) Other four programmers: - All of the other four programmers were given a credit of
30% because they were the reason behind that the project got completed by the end of 6th
month. All of the stakeholders, the client was happy from the project. All of the meetings
were attended by them and no issues were there.
 WGCI specialist and ML scientists: - They were given a total of 14% of total
contribution in the project. The reason behind giving them this much amount of the
contribution is because they were also handling the project and the project wherever got
stuck in between, the problem was solved by them. All of the meetings were attended. The
solve the issue of leaves that arose after the first week.

Assignment lessons learned
Q1.
Ans. The main theme that understood with the help of this assignment, that what is the
problem that may arise in the organisation and how it can be solved with the help of experts.
How teams get a form in a company for any project was learned (Kivilä, 2017).
Q2.
Ans. The success criteria were met and the project got completed after the end of the sixth
month.
Q3.
Ans. When talking about managing the project, how to handle problems of employees were
learned. How the teams can get formed in a company according to the project was learned.
And the main thing which was learned with the help of this assignment, how a team can be
reached at its goal while solving problems in an organisation. (Todorović, 2015)
Q4.
Ans. The event that got right in this assignment was when the workers or the employees were
having a problem related to the leaves and maternal leaves as well got solved in the best
possible way helping the employees to make it possible to take paternal leaves.
Q5.
Ans. The thing which went wrong in this assignment was, during the planning phase of the
company there was no rules and regulations were made for the workers and employees of the
company so that they can take leaves accordingly. This made the problem in which the issues
were raised at the end of the 2nd week.

References
Hornstein, H. A. (2015). The integration of project management and organizational change
management is now a necessity. International Journal of Project Management, 33(2), 291-
298.
Kivilä, J., Martinsuo, M., & Vuorinen, L. (2017). Sustainable project management through
project control in infrastructure projects. International Journal of Project
Management, 35(6), 1167-1183.
Todorović, M. L., Petrović, D. Č., Mihić, M. M., Obradović, V. L., & Bushuyev, S. D.
(2015). Project success analysis framework: A knowledge-based approach in project
management. International Journal of Project Management, 33(4), 772-783.