Project Charter & Business Case

As part of the course requirements, you will apply the project management principles that you have learnt in this course to a team project. This project is an environment awareness project titled “Save your planet earth”. For example, Global warming is one of the main threat for our future generations caused by our own errors. You are required to research on various ways to guide the Emirati community in order to save our planet earth from possible alarming concerns. This project has several deliverables, which includes project charter, WBS etc. In addition, you are required to create a prototype and awareness poster for your proposals as part of this project.

Each project team will consist of a maximum of 8 students and minimum of 4 students, based on class strength. Although tasks may be divided within the group all students should have a comprehensive knowledge of the proposed project solution.

Finally, you will have oral defense/viva where each student will undergo individual evaluation based on the complete project areas.

Project Requirements

The following documents need to be included as part of your project report.

Phase 1- 5% Due Date: 15th October 2015

1. Project Charter including a Business Case 17 marks

Including the following sections:

· Project Title(0.5)

· Project Start Date(0.5)

· Project Finish Date(0.5)

· Project Manager(0.5)

· Business objective (including description of current situation and problem/opportunity) (1)

· Project Objectives (how the project will address the Business objective) (1)

· Main Project Success Criteria(1)

· Approach(1)

· Critical assumptions and constraints (1)

· Preliminary project requirements (1)

· Budget Information(1)

· Schedule estimate(1)

· Potential risks (1)

· Project Organization (roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders)(1)

· Sign-Off (signatures of all stakeholders listed in the Project Organization)(1)

· Exhibits (if relevant attachments are necessary)(1)

· Administration (spelling, format, language, header, footer, page number)-1.5 each for business case and project charter.

Sample business case: refer Page 93-94 from your e-text.

Sample project charter: refer Page 98 from your e-text.

Phase 2 – 25% Due Date: 19th Nov 2015

1. Scenario

Overview of the organization and why they’re starting this project. 1 Mark

2. Project Charter (including a Business Case)

From Phase 1 (or updated if you have any changes from phase I)

3. Project Scope Management Plan

· Scope Statement - 3 Marks

· WBS organized by process groups (Refer Fig 5-4 PMI Numbering sample on Page 188)

5 Marks

· WBS Dictionary ( A sample of the WBS dictionary for at least one level 3 and two level 4 tasks) 2 Marks

4. Project Time Management

4.1. Select one section of your WBS to do the following: - 4 Marks

· Activities List and sequence (i.e. predecessor)

· Activities duration estimation using PERT

· Network diagram showing overall duration of the section you selected from the WBS. Diagram should include:

· Start and finish points

· Activity boxes including Duration, ES, EF, LS and LF and Float.

· Critical Path highlighted

4.2. Project Schedule developed in MS Project including – 4 Marks

· Tasks and subtasks as per WBS

· Duration, Predecessors

· Milestones

· Project Summary Task

· WBS Codes

· Resources: Cost, material and Work

· Assignment of Resources

· Gantt chart, Critical path report

5. Project Cost Management

Provide the cost estimate for your project. Use of more than one estimation method is recommended. The report should contain details on the estimation techniques used and the rationale for the project estimations. 3 Marks

6. Project Risk Management

Risk Management report should contain the identified risks along with the rationale for prioritization and the risk responses used in the project. 4 Marks

· Risk Classification and prioritization

· Risk responses

7. Administration 2 Marks

Reports should be created using MS Word and formatted professionally to include

· Cover page

· Spelling errors and language errors must be checked

· Report must use tables and figures wherever necessary

· Bibliography and References in APA format

· Academic Honesty statement must be included (Appendix A)

· Appendix B (Detailed product description for each product evaluated)

· Appendix C (Interview and/or survey results)

All documentation should be submitted to BbLearn with your Project Name and group details. A safe assign rating of below 15% is required for all submissions

8. MS project course in Lynda.com and challenge exam 10 Marks

Notes:

Project draft submissions will be evaluated with feedback once only. It is important that all group members are present for this scheduled evaluation meeting as this will help improve your final grades for this assessment.

Project Report/Oral defense will be rated using a rating scale of 0 to 5. To obtain a rating of 5 a thorough completion of requirements with supporting evidence would be required.

Prototype Grading Criteria 10 Marks

Poster Grading Criteria 5 Marks

Project Interview Grading Criteria 30 Marks

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