Posted: August 24th, 2015

Workplace Project Initial Scoping Activity and Progressive Workplace Project Status Reports

Workplace Project Initial Scoping Activity and Progressive Workplace Project Status Reports

Assessment one: Individual Assignment
(Part 1) Workplace Project Initial Scoping Activity – Word Limit: 800 – 1,000 words

Your task for this assessment is to develop a project scoping document (Scope of Work). As a guide, your document should include at least the following:
? Scope description.
? Criteria for acceptance.
? Project deliverables.
? Exclusions and constraints.
? Assumptions.
? Sign-off from sponsor.

I would like to elect a project based on a software implementation e.g an Accounting software or a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool or a website with e-commerce capability. This is because as part of this capstone course in part 2 you have you provide 2 x project updates. Please see details below.

For the time being please use fictitious details below. Per above please provide a scope of work based on a software implementation within a workplace.
Company can be call ABC Pty Ltd
Employee no. 800 staff
Names of Project lead, Sponsor, project team can all be fictitious
Industry can be retail.

Part 2
Assessment Task 2: Progressive Workplace Project Status Reports – Word Limit 1,000 – 1,200 words for each report (2 project status reports)

Following formal approval to proceed with your project, you are required to commence your project and produce two Project Status Reports.

As communication procedures vary between organisations, there is no set structure or format for the reports and dot points are acceptable. However, these reports should be of a professional standard which would be suitable to submit to a board of management.

As a guide, it is expected that your reports will at least cover following:
? Project name
? Business Name
? Date of status report
? Project progress, including highlights
? Project performance (you are encouraged to use a colour code to assist in demonstrating your project performance)
? Issues – categorized
? Timeline details
? Budget status
? Planned deliverables/activities for the next/or remaining time period
? Review of risks

At the conclusion of your status report, you are required to reflect critically on the progress of your project. Your reflections also do not need to be completed in formal report format. However, where you refer to business theories, you are required to cite your sources of information following the APA and include a list of references.

It is important to note that only a very small percentage of this section of your report would be description of project events. The purpose of the critical reflection is to demonstrate your ability to learn from your experiences and draw connections to academic theory.

You will need to examine the reasons for events that occur; your successes/failures and consider how your approach might differ in the future.

Related text books – Project Management Institute. (2004). A guide to the project management body of knowledge– PMBOK guide, (3rd ed.). Newtown Square, PA: PMI.

Larson, Honig, Gray, Dantin & Baccarini (2014). Project Management: The managerial process. (1st ed.). North Ryde, Australia: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN: 9781743071809

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