The deliverable this week is the Course Project: Introductory Project Plan, which is a written plan that will describe the IT project you have selected from one of the options with instructor’s approval.
It assumes that you have already acquired proficiency in the skills of a project’s work, decomposition, estimation, scheduling, resource planning, and tracking. This comes as a result of having fulfilled the PROJ585 course prerequisite of PROJ586. You will be expected to function and think as if you were managing an IT project team responsible for the planning, estimating, scheduling, implementation, delivery, and overall project management of an IT project.
A sample outline of what should be included in the Course Project: Introductory Project Plan is listed below.
PROJ585 Introductory Project Plan Outline
Title Page
Table of Contents
1.
Introduction (from the Course Project: Project Chart)
A. Project Purpose
B. Project Goals
C. Project Scope
D. High-Level Budget
E. High-Level Time Estimate
F. Project Assumptions, Constraints, and Exclusions
2.
Information Technology Project Process and Methodology (ITPPM)
A. Overall Approach to Delivering the Product and Reason for Choice
B. Phases of the IT Project Process (ITPP)
C. Intersection of PMLC (project management life cycle) and ITPP (describe how your IT project phases maps to project management life cycle)
3.
Project Estimates
A. Estimation Techniques
B. Estimates of Effort, Cost, Duration
4.
Risk Management Strategy
A. Risk Response Table
1. Detailed List of Risks (at least 10 risks)
2. Risk Impact
3. Risk Response Strategy
B. Risk Monitoring
5.
Schedule
A. WBS (specific to key tasks of the selected IT project)
B. Resource Table
C. Responsibility Matrix
D. Major Milestones and Target Dates
6.
References Page
Deliverable
The content of the submission should be at least five pages long (excluding the title page, table of contents, and other supporting items) and be in a project plan format. Using the outline format above, create your Introductory Project Plan. For each of the Course Project: Introductory Project Plan sections, describe each section in sufficient detail to address the requirements of that section.
