MITS5001: Implementing Project Management Methodology in IT Field

This project charter assignment analyzes a case study for an IT project management scenario, focusing on the implementation of a project management methodology within the IT field. The assignment includes a detailed background of the consulting company SIGMA, which aims to enhance its business by implementing software tools to provide project management information to its clients. The project's goal is to improve profitability by reducing internal costs through the use of standardized tools and techniques. The scope of the project involves implementing a new section on the company's intranet to improve client access to information. The assignment identifies key stakeholders, including the CEO, project manager, project team, and various consultants. It outlines project milestones, constraints, and assumptions, referencing relevant literature to support the analysis. The project charter addresses various phases, including initiation, planning, requirement gathering, resource collection, design, coding, testing, documentation, installations, and training, providing a structured approach to project execution.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project management
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
Project Title................................................................................................................................2
Background................................................................................................................................2
Project goal.................................................................................................................................2
Project scope..............................................................................................................................2
Key stakeholders........................................................................................................................3
Project Milestones......................................................................................................................4
Constraints and assumptions......................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Project Title
The project title can be presented as the implementing project management
methodology in IT field.
Background
According to the case study, the SIGMA is a consulting company who provides lots
of project management based information to various organization for accomplishing their
projects. This company offers the information through their intranet site as well as website.
Under this intranet site, the company put some expertise to handle the potential customers.
The CEO of this organization wants to increase their business by providing more information
to the potential customers [1]. Moreover, this company wants to implement such software
tools by which all project management related information as well as services are easily
accessible for the customers.
Project goal
The project goal is described in terms of project objectives. Here, as per the case
study, SIGMA which is a consulting company provides the project management based
information to the other organizations for finishing their project [8]. For increasing their
business growth, they implement an intranet site through which the potential customers can
be handled by expertise by providing information. In addition to this, they want to implement
such software tool by which the customers can easily access all the information [5]. This
business strategy makes the improvement of the profitability by decreasing the internal costs
by implementing standard tool as well as techniques or project management related
knowledge to the in-house consultants. If the customers can easily access the information
therefore it creates a few number of manpower decreases which makes the profitability for
the organization.
Project scope
Based on the case study, the company have faced some problems regarding their
internal operation. Basically, the company has a corporate website for marketing purpose. On
the other side, the intranet can be used for managing the potential customers as well as human
resource related information where the experts can consult with project management related
information and resolve various complex categorised project through the e-mail system [2].
Moreover, the organization also has a project management based system by which they can

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able to track a number of projects along with their scope as well as time and also cost. All of
these factors make the organizational operational activities so complex and in that case, only
the experienced project supervisors can manage all the complex situation and provide the
suggestions about the process of working effectively.
In this case, the project scope delivers that the organization wants to implement a
particular section in the intranet by which the customers can access the information which
makes profitability for the organizations [4]. Moreover, the implementation of new section in
intranet makes the complex situation simpler. Moreover, such security practices need to
implement in this intranet site so that only the potential customers can access the information
and this security practice block the unauthorised users coming from the outside background.
Key stakeholders
Here, the key stakeholders are given in below:
 Company CEO – The CEO of this company provides the direction by which the
company implement the software tool in the intranet [3]. He provides the instructions
by which the project manager continues the project of the implementation of the
software tool.
 Project manager – The project manager is an individual who supports the
supervision of the project of implementation of software tool in the intranet.
 Project team – The project team can support the whole project and they provides their
best performance in this project.
 Senior consultants – The senior consultants involve to manage the potential
customers regarding various projects [6]. They handle the complexity on projects and
provide the project management related information.
 Software developer – For increasing the profitability, the organization wants to
implement the software by which the customers can access the project management
based information. In this case, the software developer can help to develop the
software in the intranet site of the company.
 Security developer – The security developer involves to develop the security
practices in this intranet site so that the unauthorised persons cannot enter this intranet
site.
 Potential clients – The customers are considered as the assets of this organization and
also the organization always loyal about its customers. They always meet the

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requirements of the customers so that it can enhance the profitability of the
organization.
Project Milestones
Milestone Duration Starting date Ending date
Initiation phase 7 days 01-04-2020 07-04-2020
Project planning 10 days 08-04-2020 17-04-2020
Requirement phase 12 days 18-04-2020 29-04-2020
Collecting resources 15 days 30-04-2020 14-05-2020
Design phase 7 days 15-05-2020 21-05-2020
Coding 6 days 22-05-2020 27-05-2020
Testing 5 days 28-05-2020 01-06-2020
Documentation 8 days 02-06-2020 09-06-2020
Installations 4 days 10-06-2020 13-06-2020
Provide training 15days 14-06-2020 29-06-2020
Constraints and assumptions
Project constraints are as follows:
 The intranet site is mentioned as the valuable asset for this consulting company.
 The project manager leads the whole project of implementation of software tool on
the intranet site of the company [7].
 The new software executes on the present software as well as hardware but requires a
minimum amount of technical support.
 There must implement a security practice by which the site can block the
unauthorised users and can enter only the potential customers.
 The new section of the intranet site can introduce the accessible of the clients so that it
makes more profit for the organization.
There exists some assumptions within this project and they are:
 The project will meet their milestone in proper timing as described in milestone table.
 The project will purchase a particular software for supporting the new section of the
intranet site.
 This makes the development of the in-house capability.

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 This project will maintain the project management based principle for fulfilling its
objective.
 This project will involve the project manager and other team mates for running the
project successfully.
 This project will deliver a quality based software for the customers accessing the
information easily.

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References
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[2] B. Lientz, and K. Rea, Breakthrough technology project management. Routledge,
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[3] P. Savolainen, and J.J. Ahonen, Knowledge lost: Challenges in changing project
manager between sales and implementation in software projects. International
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[4] W.A. Bishop, A project management framework for small-and medium-sized entities:
Accounting software implementation. Journal of Economic and Financial
Sciences, 11(1), pp.1-11, 2018.
[5] J.R. Meredith, S.J. Mantel Jr, and S.M. Shafer, Project management: a managerial
approach. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
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[8] S.A. Aljawarneh, A. Alawneh, and R. Jaradat, Cloud security engineering: Early
stages of SDLC. Future Generation Computer Systems, 74, pp.385-392, 2017.