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MGT210 Project Management

TASK 2 Project ‘Request for Proposal’ (case study) Option 2

HYPOTHETICAL PROJECT

To deliver a project management plan for a training presentation on Leading and Managing Project Teams

Request for Proposal (RFP)

Reference Number: MGT210RFP2

Project team leadership and management is in demand in the corporate, private, and public sectors. The client would like to develop a commercially viable training lecture/presentation that could be provided to help small to medium sized [SME] business managers understand the value of knowing how to lead and manage projects internally, and/or how to choose when to seek an external PM contractor to provide project management planning and direction.

Your Project Team is invited to respond to this request for proposal to develop a project management plan to develop a training presentation package that can be

Delivered into the SME business sector through commercial mechanisms, initially in SE Queensland; then

Expanded into a national training program using a licensee or franchise model.

Part 1: Preliminary Task – develop a Project Charter

(Due in Week 5 Tutorials – 10% of course grade)

Your Project Team, based on information, sought from and/or provided by the Project Sponsor, initially will submit a project charter (agreement) to secure the opportunity to develop and submit a project management plan.

This project charter must be submitted to the Project Sponsor representative (i.e. Your tutor) in your respective tutorial of Week 5. An indicative template for the project charter, outlining major areas of consideration, will be provided. Your Project Team may wish to provide additional content as deemed appropriate.

NB: this document needs to be agreed to by both parties in writing and included as an appendix to the Project Plan

Part 2: Preliminary Project Management Plan development

Your Project Team will, following full scoping of the project, provide a preliminary Project Management Plan to the Project Sponsor, or their representative, no later than 11:59pm on Friday of Week 11.

· Indicative guidelines for the preliminary project plan, outlining major areas of consideration, will be provided.

· Your Project Team may wish to provide additional content as deemed appropriate. Subject to Project Sponsor representative’s approval, the Project Team will be paid a hypothetical fee of $2,000 for the provision of this document (this figure to be included in the Phase 1 preliminary project management plan budget).

Budgetary information

The total expenditure budget allocated for the development of this project management plan, exclusive of any project management fees, is anticipated not to exceed $20,000. The project must have defined and quantified ROI targets.

PROJECT SPONSOR:

For further information please contact your project sponsor (you may cc your Project Sponsor Representative i.e. your tutor):

Melissa Innes (Project Sponsor)

Email: [email protected]

Please see the Task 2 Assessment folder on Blackboard for additional information regarding the completion of this two-part task.