Unit 5 – eProject

The project definition / ProposalThis document must include:

DEFINITION1. Background2. Client Requirements.3. Benefits to the organisation4. Stakeholders5. Project Scope

Unit 5 – eProject

The project definition / ProposalThis document must include:

PROPOSAL1. Timescale2. Costs involved3. Roles and responsibilities for members.4. Project outcomes and objectives – Success Criteria.5. Model outcomes and objectives - Success Criteria.6. Constraints and limitations to the project.7. Research on other scenarios leading to…8. Proposed solution / applications to use and technical justification.9. Other factors – Security/Legal, backup procedures, training

Unit 5 – eProject

The project definition / ProposalThis document must include:

To included at CA apart from amendments to rest of the document.

1. Summary of group contribution and summary of individual contribution (after Roles)

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Background

A detailed background of the company and scenario presented in the task – leading to the problem that needs to be addressed.

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Client Requirements

A list of detail requirements set out by the scenario with a explanation and analysis of each one.

Expand also to include logical assumptions that are not necessarily in the scenario.

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Benefits to the organisation.

What benefits will the solution have for the organisation. For instance in what way will having a numerical model benefit the organisation.

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Stakeholders

Who are the interested parties for this task, who is associated with this project? From Project manager to the company to the individual user – to competitors. What is their stake in this? How will it affect them.

Talk about these in context of the task and not generically.

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Project Scope

What is the scope of this project? For instance what areas will you need to go into in order to complete this project? What areas does this project reach into? (research, model development, subject knowledge, programming knowledge etc?) What factors will need to be considered for a project of this scale?

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Timescales

What timescales are you looking at for this project? Are there any particular deadlines that need to be met? What milestones are there? Does certain things need to be completed before other tasks can continue? What are the dependencies and their timescales?

What timescales have been allocated for the subtasks as well as the main tasks.

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Costs

What costs are involved with the project? Can these be itemised – for instance – Research, design, development, testing, documentation, installation, material resources, project staff resources, other expenses?

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Roles and responsibilities

What are the roles for each team member? What parts of the project are they responsible for?

NOTE: - Your responsibilities will change in the controlled assessment – so this will need to be updated here.

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Project outcomes and objectives.

What are the objectives of the project as a whole? What do you need to do as a team or individually to complete the project? Is there any success criteria you can talk about for this?

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Model outcomes and objectives

Looking now more specifically at the model itself – what are the objectives for this?

Can you give specific measurable success criteria for this? What are the input success criteria, the processing success criteria and the output success criteria?

Look again at the requirements and expand on them.

What needs to be delivered at the end to the client?

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Constraints and Limitations to the project.

What are the limitations you can identify in the project? For instance are there any limitations to the software you are using to develop your model? Will there be any constraints that will hinder the projects development?

What risks are there in the implementation of the project? What threats are their to the system that need to be considered? (Especially when you are using computers and processing data)

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Research

ACTUAL RESEARCH CAN BE DONE ON A SEPARATE DOCUMENT.

1) Reference to the research you have done and the ideas it has given you for how you will implement this system. What conclusions have you drawn from this.

2) This should lead naturally into the proposed solution. (The next section)

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Proposed solution / Technical justification.

1) What is your proposal for how you are going to meet the requirements• What software are you using and why• What methods are you going to employ with the software and why – link

this back to the requirements saying how they might meet them.• Technical justification of the software and methods you are going to use.• What are your system requirements and why is it adequate for the task.

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Other items.

1) Security• Discuss the security implications for your system – how are these going to

be managed2) Legal

• Are there any legal implications that need to be considered?3) Backup procedures

• What backup procedures are you going to use for your system?4) Training

• Are there any training considerations for the staff using the system or the team producing the system.