COVER PAGE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COMMITMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF ACRONYMS

PROJECT EVALUATION (RUBRIC)

(Note: The following structures and chapters are based-on the PMIS book, in which they are the content,
case studies, and references so that students can follow them to do project effectively)

CHAPTER 1. OVERVIEW
Background of …………company
Business strategy and business case of company
- SWOT analysis
- Robson’s analysis of the five forces and IS opportunities
- Investment appraisal (IRR, NPV, ROI)
Business Intelligence strategy of company
Introduction to the project of company

CHƯƠNG 2. OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

Objectives
Business objective
For example: To increase sales of France Vacances’s products by 20 per cent through the
introduction of an internet-based booking system and to convert 20 per cent of existing
telesales business to internet bookings.
Project objective
For example: To introduce an internet-based booking system for France Vacances and to
provide facilities to deliver management information on the usage of the internet-based
system.
Scope
For example: The following are included in the scope of the project:
- Analysis of the requirements.
- Production of a detailed requirements specification.
- Design, development and implementation of the internet systems, including a new
website and the secure communications links.
- Training France Vacances staff in the use of the new systems.
- Specification of the interfaces required from France Vacances’s existing customer
database and booking system (the development of the links at the France Vacances
end to be done by its own IT department).
- Specification of the additional hardware required to support the new system (to be
obtained from France Vacances’s usual suppliers, the procurement to be managed
by the IT department).
- ‘Skills transfer’ to France Vacances’s IT department so that ongoing maintenance
and development of the new system can be handled in-house.
- The development of the MIS aspects of the new system will be dealt with
by France Vacances’s IT department, supervised by E-Con.
Constraints
For example:
- France Vacances wants to have the new system up and running for the start of the
winter season’s bookings at the end of June.
- The project shall be managed using the PRINCE2® project management method.
- Specifications and other deliverables shall be produced according to E-Con’s
established quality system.
Authority
For example: The authority for the project will be David Martin, director of France
Vacances, who will work with a project board that also includes Jean Hunt, France
Vacances customer services manager, and Barbara Currie, E-Con account manager. The
authority’s responsibilities will include:
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Resources
For example:
E-Con will provide the following resources:
France Vacances internet project structure
-Project manager (Richard Vaughan)
-Team manager (Siobhan Reid)
-Project analyst (David Cooper)
-Analysts (Pam Stephanou and Don Short)
-Web developers (Greg Martin and Janet Vine).
France Vacances will provide the following resources:
-Team manager (Peter Clay)
-Analyst/programmer (one – name to be agreed)
-Reasonable access to other personnel for fact-finding, training, testing etc.
-A fixed price of $300,000 has been agreed for those parts of the project being
undertaken by E-Con. France Vacances has been advised to budget up to $50,000 for the
work being undertaken by its own IT department and for user and management
involvement in the project.
The PID (project initiation document) is put before the project board on 5 April and
approved
Generic project organization and roles
CHAPTER 3. DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE AND APPROACHES
Suggest an approach to systems development  The incremental approach
System development lifecycle and project lifecycles:
- Feasibility study
- Inception
- Analysis of requirements and production of requirements specification
- Technical design
 - Code and test of programs
- Integration and system test
- User training
- Acceptance testing
- Implementation.
CHAPTER 4. PROJECT PLANNING: UNDERSTANDING THE WORK
Work breakdown structure for …………(name) project
Product breakdown structure for …………(name) project
Dependency diagram for …………(name) project
CHƯƠNG 5. PROJECT PLANNING: ESTIMATING, SCHEDULING, AND
RESOURCING
Estimating
CoCoMo 2
CoCoMo elapsed time estimates
PERT estimating
Estimate for …………(name) project
Scheduling and resourcing
Critical path network for …………(name) project
Network analysis results for …………(name) project
GANTT chart for …………(name) project
CHƯƠNG 6. MONITORING PROGRESS AND QUALITY
Documenting quality control
Checkpoint meeting report
Quality control report
Change control form
Extract from …. (name) project risk register
CHƯƠNG 7. PROJECT EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION
References
Appendix