Workplace delivery of ICA50405 – Diploma of Information Technology (Networking)

Project management – Lab 4

Assessment cover sheet

Project management – Lab 4

Student’s name / Student’s ID
Qualification / ICA50405 – Diploma of Information Technology (Networking)
Assessment / Project management
Units of competency / National ID / Title
BSBPMG505A / Manage project quality
ICAA5158B / Translate business needs into technical requirements
PSPPM502B / Manage complex projects
Assessment description
This assessment creates a framework for the understanding of a large, complex project.
Due date / Date submitted
Student’s declaration
Yes / No
 /  / I/We have read and understood the details of the assessment.
 /  / I/We have been informed of the conditions of the assessment and the appeals process.
 /  / I/We agree to participate in this assessment.
 /  / I/We certify that the attached is my/our own work.
Student’s signature / Date
Assessment results
 / Not yet competent /  / Competent
Comments/Feedback from assessor to student
Comments/Feedback from student to assessor
Assessor’s name / Date
Assessor’s signature
Student’s name / Date
Student’s signature

Instructions for students

1.In order to meet the criteria, you will need to complete all parts of this assessment.

2.This assessment can be done during or outside of class time.

3.Discussion with other team members is encouraged, however, all work submitted must be substantially your own.

4.You may be required to explain or demonstrate your understanding of any component of this assessment.

5.If you are quoting work that is not your own, it must be appropriately referenced.

6.Submitted work must meet presentation standards appropriate to the workplace or your registered training organisation, eg header/footer, consistent formatting, spelling, grammar.

7.All work must be submitted by the due date.

8.If you have any questions, please see your trainer.

Performance measurement

1.You will need to complete all components without errors.

2.All files are to be correctly saved with appropriate names or as instructed.

3.Failure to do either of these tasks will result in a non-submission of assessment.

Date / <RTO to enter date (during the course of the semester)>
Assessment / Project management – Lab 4
Assessment tasks / 1. Demonstrate each completed lab exercise to your trainer.
2. Submit the completed lab with answers to all questions.
3. Paste your final configurations at the end of each completed lab.

Submission checklist

Please make sure that you have the following documents ready for submission.

Organisational structure / 
Project mandate / 
Project approach / 
Business case / 
Initiation stage plan / 

Project management – Lab 4

Reading

Recommended texts
Bentley, C 2005, PRINCE2® Revealed: including how to use PRINCE2® for small projects, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford

Office of Government Commerce, Great Britain 2009, Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2®, TSO, Ireland

Read the chapter ‘Starting a Project’ from PRINCE2® Revealed: including how to use PRINCE2® for small projects.

Templates

The following templates are available:

  • BusinessCase.doc
  • ProjectApproach.doc
  • Project Mandate.doc
  • StagePlan.doc
  • AcceptanceCriteria.doc.

Assumptions

It is assumed that students will be familiar with using Microsoft® Project to produce Gantt charts and network diagrams and have learned the concepts of critical path, dependencies and sequencing activities from prerequisite Certificate IV units.

Insights

View the insight presentations:

  • Starting a Project Process
  • Organisation Component
  • Business Case Component.

Lab activity

Introduction

For this first part of the project, you are to organise the annual ‘IT Expo’ for the college.

For the second part of the project, you are to produce a technical industry project.

Project background

Every year the college hosts an ‘IT Expo’ for surrounding high schools for their Years 10, 11 and 12 students. The purpose of the expo is to help high school students make good decisions about the courses they may be enrolling in after high school graduation. The expo provides a glimpse into the technology taught in networking. The expo is expected to feature hands-on demonstrations on a range of networking technology.

In the past the featured demonstrations have been:

  • How to make wireless cantennas
  • How to upgrade your PC
  • Broadcast storms on switches
  • Sniffing chat sessions on the network
  • Routing VLANs
  • Basic server administration
  • Proxy server demonstrations and more.

Demonstrations have usually been 15 minutes in duration and it has been a firm requirement that the demonstrations are designed with a hands-on component – the high school students must have a small activity to do as part of the demonstration.

Project description

Your project is to organise this year’s IT Expo.

You are to:

  • find out what aspects of networking students would be interested in
  • design several demonstrations (five to six demonstrations with some time in between for a snack)
  • plan, organise and host the event and communicate with teachers
  • provide feedback on the event.

The starting process for this project

In you project team you are to undertake the startingprocess for this project. The team is to:

  • create an organisational structure
  • write the project mandate
  • write the project approach
  • create a first draft of the business case
  • create an initiation stage plan
  • present the documentation to the project board for approval to move to the next phase.

You are to work collaboratively with your team. This means that you should discuss, as a team, the following items.

  • Creation of the project team. What roles will be required? What responsibilities will those roles have?
  • What are the project objectives?
  • What options can be considered to host the expo (outsourcing is not an option that the project board will approve).
  • What are the benefits to the college of hosting an expo?
  • What are the risks to success?
  • What tasks need to be done in the initiation phase?

Work as a team to document the answers to these questions.

Trainer sign off

Organisational structure
Project mandate
Project approach
Business case
Initiation stage plan
Authorisation
Trainer’s name
Date

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