Microsoft Word XXXXXXXXXXT2 BN205 Formative Assignment 1 v1.docx Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Moderated by: Min Gurung July 2022 Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines School SITE Course Name...

Microsoft Word XXXXXXXXXXT2 BN205 Formative Assignment 1 v1.docx

Prepared by: Krishna Paudel Moderated by: Min Gurung July 2022

Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
School SITE
Course Name Bachelor of Networking (BNet)
Unit Code BN205
Unit Title Project Management
Assessment Author Krishna Paudel
Assessment Type Individual Formative Assessment
Assessment Title Formative Assignment 1
Unit Learning
Outcomes covered
in this Assessment
After completion of this Assignment students are expected to be able
demonstrate their achievements towards the following unit learning
outcomes:
a) Apply project management skills as a strategic tool, framework, or
methodology for business development.
) Demonstrate project leadership skills; identify and assess risk in design
and executing a major project.
Weight 5% of the total assessments
Total Marks 50
Word/ Page limit N/A
Release Date Week1
Due Date Week 3 (11:55 PM on Sunday 7th August 2022)
Submission
Guidelines
 All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a
completed assignment cover page (identifying student name and ID,
teaching staff and assignment).
 The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt
Cali
i (body) font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page
with appropriate section headings.
 Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed
appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing
style
Extension  If an extension of time to submit work is required, a special
Consideration Application must be submitted directly to the School’s
Administration Officer, in Melbourne on Level 6 or in Sydney on
Level 7. You must submit this application three working days prior
to the due date of the assignment. Further information is available at:
http:
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procedures-andguidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment
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Misconduct
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seriousness of the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or
zero marks to exclusion from the course or rescinding the degree.
Students should make themselves familiar with the full policy and
procedure available at: http:
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Assignment Description

All projects are launched to be successful, but some projects fail. Information Technology Projects
have higher failure rate than other projects. It is important to learn from the past failures and use the
lesson learnt to improve the success rate of future projects. In this assignment you are required to
esearch major Information Technology failure and critically analyse them to find out the shortcoming
so that successful IT project can be delivered in future. You are further required to research and
discuss stakeholder management and need of the technical skills for a successful project manager.


1. Do some research and list five Information Technology project failures in the last decade.

2. Discuss what determines the success or failure of a project.

3. Critically explain the reason of the project’s failure in one of the failures examples in Q1.

4. Stakeholder management is one of the many project management tasks. Describe with an
example project who are the stakeholders and what the project manager needs to do to make
them satisfied.

5. Explain the importance of technical skills for a project manager with an example project.




Marking Criteria

The marking points are mapped with the questions. Full marks are awarded for the co
ect answer
with analysis, description, examples and when the answer responds clearly to the question asked.
Criteria Description Marks
Q1 Five major IT project failures examples 5x1=5
Q 2 Criterion discussion for project success and failure 10
Q3 Why IT project fails? discussion with one example from Q1. 10
Q4 Stakeholder Management with example 10
Q5 Importance of Technical Skill of Project Manager 10
Referencing IEEE References at least 5 references 5
Total 50