Assignment 2: Project Management
This is the first time I have to write up a project management plan and I have no clue how to go about doing it. So I looked up for some examples on the net and here are some of the links:
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/080104/project.html
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/mega/megaiii.htm
http://www.wm.edu/mast/pdffiles/project_plan.pdf
Luckily for me, I found an example of a project management plan from QUT IT students. So after looking through all the examples and combining elements that are required for this assignment, this is the outline of my report:
Executive Summary
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Project Background
1.2 Purpose and objectives
1.3 Project Success Criteria
1.4 Scope, Inclusions and Exclusions
1.5 Dependencies and Assumptions
1.6 Constraints
1.7 Benefits for completion of project
1.8 Evolution of the Plan
1.9 Quality of products
2.0 Project Team
2.1 Client Liaison
2.2 Internal Structure and Individual roles
2.3 Project Task Management
3.0 Risk Management
4.0 Project activities and production timeline
4.1 Estimate activity duration
4.2 Identify project activities
4.2.1 Processed focused schedule
4.2.2 Project Milestones and Deliverables
4.2.3 Gantt Charts
4.3 Shape of project and methodologies
5.0 Creative Development
5.1 Sound/music art environments
5.2 Chosen 3 sound/music art environments
5.2.1 Audio Map
5.2.2 Roomful of Strings
5.2.3 The Room
5.2.4 Storyboards of 3 sound/music art environments
5.2.4.1 Audio map
5.2.4.2 Roomful of Strings
5.2.4.3 The Room
5.3 Prototyping
5.3.1 Out of the box - Sound Web
5.3.2 In the box - Labyrinth
6.0 Feasibility
6.1 Needs analysis (generic)
6.2 Needs analysis for "Sound Web" (Out of the box design)
6.3 Needs analysis for "Labyrinth" (In the box design)
7.0 Cost Benefit analysis
7.1 Balanced benefit case
7.1.1 Customer perspective
7.1.2 Financial perspective
7.1.3 Internal Process perspective
7.1.4 Organisational learning perspective
8.0 Testing and Evaluation
9.0 Refinements to prototype
10.0 Conclusion
References
Appendix
My Project management checklist