IT Final Project

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Milestone one

Introduction

The project aims to establish a program that will permit learners to trail their academic advancement. The scholar degree evolvement project must generate a more manageable web format that helps learners view their college education progress. The tool will help learners to correctly and promptly access the info on their advancement towards program and unit accomplishment. The website will offer learners a safe way to browse indispensable information without the concern of intruders gain access to their data. The project will also support multiple browsers and all graphical elements provided by the service provider. It will have a protected website’s back-end to help effectively collect all the data the learners need without any access problems.

The project’s end objective is to offer a service tool where learners can securely access the needed info about their advancement within the school program they are following. The project must ensure that it houses all relevant information that learners need to keep track of their education progress in their classes and overall program. The project's objective is to ensure that every learner can access the information, hence the essentiality of a back-end. The info utilized in this project is derived from the student charters created for this project: Student Degree Progress Project Charter. The document offers direction on the info enclosed in the learner degree advancement tool that will get introduced from a scholar info system attained from records input into the structure by hand or automatically. The project’s outcomes depend on the charter's information, which summarises the project's aim and desired achievements. Effective implementation of the project will help learners view their progress towards completing their academic education.

Key stakeholders and roles

The primary stakeholders for the project include team supporters Shila Cole, Ana Fischer, and John Jones, Arthur Bowman as the core stakeholder, John Doe as the manager and Jane Smith as the project sponsor.

Every stakeholder plays an essential role that ensures the project’s success. Derakhshan, Turner & Mancini (2019) establishes that stakeholders are crucial to project governance and hence need to have a comprehensive framework that outlines the roles, associations and situations of the internal and external participants in the authority arrangement. The sponsor is the individual that is held accountable for the project. The sponsor is tasked to present the business case, approve the project's budgeting process and estimates, appoint the project manager and have the authority to deal with arising team issues or cancel the project. The project manager has many tasks to ensure that he carries his role. Some duties include involvement in the budget process, creating charts and schedules for the team, and engaging in risk analysis, resource planning, cost assessment and scope definition. The core stakeholder also plays an integral role in the project's success and is tasked to ensure that the project fits the company's strategy. The core stakeholder also offers needed details about the project's requirements and engages in the financial planning process. The individual is also tasked with ensuring effective resource distribution. Lastly, the team members are people that work on the project directly. In other words, they are the lifeblood of the project and hence engage in task completion in the provided time frame.

The various stakeholders play a significant role in the project from the planning and implementation phases. The sponsor acts as the group's champion, where the individual is mandated to ensure that other stakeholder' views are heard, ensuring effective communication among all stakeholders. The sponsor also appoints the manager, who must provide the project's framework adhered to by the team members. The manager also needs to ensure that resources are availed on time to prevent delay. The manager also sets the milestones for the team members. This aims at helping the team members set needed targets and ensure they achieve them at a given time. The project manager ensures that everything is set for the commencement of the project and communicates with the team members in the entire project phase to ensure results are achieved. The core stakeholder needs to ensure the project follows the company's expectations. This involves ensuring that the project adheres to the requirements to attain objectives or outcomes.

Reference

Derakhshan, R., Turner, R., & Mancini, M. (2019). Project governance and stakeholders: a literature review.  International Journal of Project Management,  37(1), 98-116.