Project management report - project management plan for a technical/software project -- 2

Assessment Title & Description: Creating a Project Management Plan Based on a case study of your choice, identify and produce a project management plan for a technical/software project that you, as a team, select. The project should be at initiation stage and be implementing change, the project will be adding new services or product. You must be able to establish specific project objectives. The project must have a requirement for different project resources, including people. It is important to balance the selection of a project with sufficient complexity and size to clearly demonstrate the team’s understanding of and ability to apply the project management concepts, models, tools, and techniques that you have studied on this course. The project chosen can be currently underway, an in-company or in the public domain (in any sector) or a project of your own choosing. This cannot be an already completed project. Task: 1. Formulate a comprehensive project plan for your project (Report). The project plan should cover from time now to completion. This project plan must be professionally presented and, at a very minimum, must include: • Clearly defined Goal(s), Objective(s), Deliverables, and Milestones • Detailed Project Requirements (Business, Solution, Transition, Project, Quality, etc.) • Acceptance Criteria • Project Assumptions and Project Constraints • Scope Plan including Change Management Process (change control process) • Schedule Plan; Appropriate Diagrams and Gantt Charts. • Project Budget and Earned Value Management analysis (planned and accumulative planned; Actual and accumulated actual costs • Detailed Resourcing Plan aligned to tasks and activities • Project Communications Plan including Stakeholder Analysis • Comprehensive Risk Plan including analysis, risk register including quantitative and qualitative risk assessment, risk tolerances and risk thresholds. • Templates for Change Control, Risk Register, and others as required • Stakeholder definition of done in a template format. 2. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of your project plan. Strict adherence to allocated time for your presentation (20 minutes). You are planning the project from the perspective of the project manager and you should assume that you are looking to gain approval to implement or continue this project. To get this approval, you should assume that you are making your presentation to the project board. Your group should be prepared to vigorously defend your assumptions, suggestions, and planning recommendations before this panel of assessors.