find someone who works as a project manager or someone who works on projects, such as a worker in your school IT department or the president of a social club. prepare several interview questions to learn more about projects and project management and then ask your question in person, through email over the phone or using other technology. write a summary of your findings?

Purpose:
The purposes of the assignment:
1. Understanding a real-time and time-critical system
2. Understanding Entity Relationship Diagram and Data Flow Diagram in terms of a real-time
software system
3. Analysing a real-time system and the flow of the corresponding software
Introduction:
The banks in Australia (and most of the other countries having a modern banking system)
provide the customers to transfer money between two accounts in real-time. In most of the Australian
banks, the transfer software/app, popularly known as Real-time Money Transfer (RMT), has an
identical flow. As for example, a transfer starts after the usual log in and standard authentication. After
that, the user selects a recipient for the transfer. Having proper authentication (if required), if the total
amount to transfer is less than the current balance of the user, the system transfers the money
immediately to the recipient. Some of the systems allow the sender to send an email to the recipient to
let him know about the transfer. Although the transfer seems to be a straight-forward one, most of the
bank enforce additional authentication to ensure the smooth and safe transfer of the money. You are
now the in-charge of developing this software in a new Bank. Your task is to oversee the development
of this Real-time system required to ensure secure money transfer.

Draw an AOA Network Diagram. Put the node numbers in circles and draw arrows from node to node, label each arrow with the activity letter.

Question #3.: Consider the project mentioned in question 2 and answer the following:

i. Draw a UML use case diagram for the Data Collection and Storage system. You’ll have to make a few assumptions about the way a user interacts with this system.

ii. Develop a class model for the Data collection and storage system

Question #2

Consider the following case study:

Data Collection and Storage During the pandemic of COVID-19, it is quite difficult to get the household and other necessities in a lock down situation. To facilitate people, the home delivery services, and courier services need the exact house address so that the things can be delivered at the doorstep without wandering. To cope with this problem, we need to develop a system that will provide not only the physical address but also the shortest routing path from source to the destination. The aim of the project is to build a prototype that will starts from studying the existing approaches around the world and then establish a systematic approach towards the formulation and normalization of data, then infrastructure to collect reliable data, and evaluate and store centralized data.

The outcome of the project will be:

I. A mobile application to collect from user the describable address of the current location, and current coordinates from the mobiles GPS receiver.

ii. A database system allowing storage and querying the data

Defining and testing practical approaches to offer incentives to the members of the public to collect and submit data using their smart devices. For example, we can design a mobile application for restaurants, bakeries, etc. that d

Common techniques for selecting projects include focusing on broad organizational needs, categorizing
projects, performing financial analyses, developing weighted scoring models, and using balanced
scorecards. Perform a financial analysis for Project A. Assume the projected costs and benefits for this
period are spread over four years as follows: Estimated costs are GH¢ 200,000 in year 1 and GH¢ 30,000
each year in years 2, 3 and 4. Estimated benefits are GH¢ 90,000 in year 1 and GH¢ 350,000 each year
in years 2, 3 and 4. Use a 10% discount rate and round the discount factors to two decimal places.
Calculate the Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI) and year in which payback occurs.
In addition, write a paragraph explaining whether you could recommend investing in this project, based
on your financial analysis.
[10 marks]
2. Consider the given Network Diagram Data for a Large Project Y. All duration estimates or estimated
times are in weeks and the network proceeds from Node 1 to Node 8.

Project Background: Cyclone IT is an Australian based IT Managed
Services provider. They provide a range of IT infrastructure management
to companies that do not have internal IT staff. The managed services
could be for on premise equipment and services or SAAS (Software as a
service) application. Cyclone IT work in various industries and the most
common are not for profit, aged care and sporting organization. The
demand for their Managed services has recently been sky rocketed and
they have started servicing midmarket (50 to 250) seat organizations. This
has meant a need for more automated Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) and Monitoring and Management System (MMS) system to be
implemented. In order to meet the demands Cyclone IT has decided to
implement ConnectWise as the CRM system and Labtech as the MMS
system.
Project Objective – Cyclone IT appointed your team to outline the business processes
and technological requirements to implement the CRM and MMS applications.

Do a functional decomposition of the home security system software you described in problem 5.1. Estimate the size of each function in LOC. Assuming that your organization produces 450 LOC/pm with a burdened labour rate of $7000 per person-month, estimate the effort and cost required to build the software using the LOC-based estimation technique described in Section 5.6.3.

Assessment topic: Students are given a project case study scenario including details of
required project resources, timeframes and outcomes required. They need to complete and
submit each of the PMBOK reports required periodically, which will form a complete project
plan for the project.
Task Details: PMBOK Case Study
Project Background: Cyclone IT is an Australian based IT Managed
Services provider. They provide a range of IT infrastructure management
to companies that do not have internal IT staff. The managed services
could be for on premise equipment and services or SAAS (Software as a
service) application. Cyclone IT work in various industries and the most
common are not for profit, aged care and sporting organization. The
demand for their Managed services has recently been sky rocketed and
they have started servicing midmarket (50 to 250) seat organizations. This
has meant a need for more automated Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) and Monitoring and Management System (MMS) system to be
implemented. In order to meet the demands Cyclone IT has decided to
implement ConnectWise as the CRM system and Labtech as the MMS
system.
Project Objective – Cyclone IT appointed your team to outline the business processes
and technological requirements to implement the CRM and MMS application

Select a project at your target company Provide background of the case project Recommend the best project delivery method for your project based on the criteria that YOU think is most crucial to this project. Be mindful that the types of delivery methods that need to be evaluated are Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build and CM@Risk. You must document all your assumptions and rationale for the selection of the project delivery system. All yours suggested grading (the criteria, weights, and scores) should come with justifications and explain why you gave such grade to each element of the selection matrix. Evaluate and recommend the best financial contract type for your project based on the criteria that YOU think are crucial to this project. The types of contract that need to be evaluated are Lump sum contract, Guaranteed Maximum Price Contract and Cost-Plus Fixed Fee Contract. All grading must be justified and explained. Evaluate and recommend the best procurement method for your project based on the criteria that are crucial to this project. The types of procurement that need to be evaluated are Competitive, Negotiated and Best Value. All grading must be justified and explained. Develop Risk Management Plan including Risk Register, Risk Quadrant Analysis, and risk mitigation plan

(a) GBI decided to modify the ERP system to suit its business processes. Given the level of skill in the project team, was this a good decision? (2 Marks) (b) As GBI has now decided to modify the ERP system, explain three important things that GBI should be aware of. (3 Marks)

Provide five examples of software development projects that would be amenable to prototyping. Name two or three applications that would be more difficult to prototype.

5. Research and critique current and future issues in IT project management in a global context.
S2. Demonstrate theoretical and practical implementation of leadership, team building, and performance
management approaches for IT projects.
S3. Utilise decision making and problem-solving approaches to resolve and pre-empt range of problems on IT
projects.
A1. Construct written and verbal approaches to developing and presenting IT project documentation.