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Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
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Course Name Bachelor of Networking (BNet)
Unit Code BN205
Unit Title Project Management
Assessment Author Krishna Paudel
Assessment Type Group Assessment
Assessment Title Assignment 2
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.
c) Reflect on cu
ent project management ethics, research, theory and
practice
d)explain projects effectively through planning, leadership, monitoring,
teamwork, global awareness
Weight 25% of the total assessments
Total Marks 100
Word/ Page limit N/A
Release Date Week1
Due Date Week 11 (11:55 PM on Thursday 29th September 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:
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procedures-andguidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment
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Academic
Misconduct
Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the
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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mit/institutepublications/policies-procedures-and-
guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-MisconductPolicy-Procedure. For
further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity Section in
your Unit Description.
Assignment Description
Task Name: Business Case
Purpose: This assignment provides students with practical experience in working in teams to develop
a project business case to solve a unique and complex IT business problem.
Assessment Details: A business case is the first deliverable in the IT project life cycle. IT provides
an analysis of the organization value, feasibility, costs, benefits, and risk of several proposed
alternatives or options.
A business case helps to determine whether or not a project justifies an organizations investment into
a project. The business case defines the problem and its impact and performs a cost benefit analysis
for the proposed solution. It also looks at possible alternative solutions. The business case should
also provide a check to see that the project aligns with the organization’s strategic plan.
For help and guidance on preparing a business case, see:
https:
www.pmi.org/learning/li
ary
usiness-cases-project-scope-analysis-6119
Requirements: In this assignment, you will be required to form teams of 3-4 students. On team
member is to be elected the project manager for the duration of the project. Teams will prepare a
project business case based on an IT project case study (attached or provided with this assignment)
and should be creative and use their own initiative regarding assumptions and the scheduling all
deliverables.
The business case should contain details of the following:
Introduction, description of project background
Outline of problem / opportunity statement and project objective
Cu
ent situation and analysis of options and recommendations
Details of critical assumption and constraints
Preliminary project requirements (preliminary scope planning) and deliverables
Cost estimate of required resources (hardware, software, and personnel)
Work
eakdown structure (shown in MS project Gantt Chart)
Risk and communication Plan
The report should be professionally presented with cover page, table of contents, references. Each
member’s individual contribution towards the business should be presented in the appendix.
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usiness-cases-project-scope-analysis-6119
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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.
Description Marks
Introduction, background, and objectives 10
Cu
ent situation and analysis of options and recommendations 10
Project requirements and scope planning and deliverables 20
Work
eakdown structure (Gantt Chart) 15
Cost estimate and benefit analysis 15
Risk and Communication Plan, 15
Critical assumption, and constraints 10
Presentation and references 5
Total 100
Reshaping Kiama Café’
Kiama Café is a traditional meet and greet cafe in Kiama, New South Wales. Kiama is a costal
town south of Sydney and is traditionally famous for the whale watching, surfing, and
swimming. During the last couple of years, the population of the town is growing rapidly, and
the town is open for new business opportunities. One of the demands is to have a venue for
functions and parties. Kiama Café’s owner Mr David is experiencing the changes in the
customer and visitor demography and thinking to harness the opportunity. Owing to the
prime location of Kiama Café, he will have comparative advantage whatever business he
starts. Mr Wilson, a local IT entrepreneur and owner of ‘Ours IT services’ at Sydney is a regular
visitor to Kiama café knows growth aspiration of Mr David. Mr Wilson is aware that many
usinesses in Sydney want to have a day out at serene place like Kiama for meeting and
conferences and proposed to prepare a business case for Mr David. The plan is to extend the
usiness to new services like conferences, family functions and dining services supported by
state-of-the-art IT system.
‘Ours IT Services’ at Sydney provides IT consulting services for small and medium business-
like Kiama Café including new installation and maintenance services. Mr Wilson is busy in his
other commitments at present and hires you as a prospective project manager for this
project. If you are successful in this project, you have chance of being a permanent member
of Mr. Wilson’s team. Your first task is to prepare a business case for Mr David on behalf of
‘Our IT Services’ and take responsibility of the project once it is accepted by Mr David.
Mr David intends to employ 10-20 full time staff to assist him running this club which will be
enamed as ‘Kiama Events and Cafe’. Mr David is nostalgic to the history of his café business
and does not want to remove the café from the business name. ‘Kiama Events and Café’
expect around XXXXXXXXXXcustomers at peak capacity and planning to start service at the
eginning of the December 2022. You have three months to complete the project because
Mr David want to start the new business before Christmas 2022. There will be one big
conference hall, one dining hall and two to three small family function rooms. Your job is to
design and roll out a complete IT solution for Mr David. Some of the requirements are online
ooking, projector and sound system family function and conferences. Mr David wants to
keep staff record, inventory etc in computer system. Mr David is flexible to reasonable and
justifiable budget, but he is not flexible in time and quality of service and installed system.
You anticipate several challenges if this project bid is successful, but Mr Wilson has promised
you to provide services of experience team members including sparkies, technicians, system
and network engineers who have worked with him for the last ten years. Mr Wilson has
suggested you that as this is new business endeavour and have potential for growth you need
to consider bare minimum to reduce the cost and modular design for future extensible IT
solution. Mr Wilson is confident that you will prepare a convincing business case so that Mr
David will agree to contract “Ours IT Services” for this project.
The project will be considered a success, if it comes in on time, on budget, within scope and
key stakeholders have been pleased with the communication and reporting processes.