ASSIGNMENT (GROUP PROJECT)

The aim of this project is to provide the practical experience of working through the complete life cycle of a project. This project will also give students an opportunity to research and exercise variousproject management methods.

Background

You manage a small IT consulting company, MQ IT Solutions. Your main area of expertise is in IT Project Management. The company has a very good track record of setting-up IT project systems; providing project management training and auditing IT projects. You have a software expert, a marketing guru, an accountant, (also administrative support staff for the groups comprised of 5 members) and you are the project management expert in your team. You charge a flat rate of $100.00 per hour for any consultancy assignment.

Carla
Carlais one of the Directors ofMQ IT Solutions. Carlarequiresa project report for all the consultancy assignments taken by the company.

Background Story
There is a growing recognition by governments and private institutions that a mobile disaster management system (MDMS) could help to minimize the fatalities of human lives when natural disasters occur.

Daisy, your client leads a small IT team in an organization (around 100 employees), whichspecializes in producing digital imaging products (e.g., digital cameras). This business is located in a city where there arefrequent earthquakes. Daisy is in the process of changing the traditional telephone-based disaster management system of the organization to a new system, which focuses on making use of mobile technology as a means of enhancing the organization's response capabilities in times of nature disaster such as earthquake. For example, such a mobile disaster management system could get information updates from the nation's disaster alert system, provide information for people to help,useinformation from social media such as twitter, facebook to understand hot topics and predict tipping event, and push disaster alerts to individual mobiles. Another important application is the rehearsal of efficient disaster recovery procedures after natural disasters .

Nonethelesswith this idea in place, there is no existing commercial off-the-shelf software suitable to be purchased for the organization. There arealso no prior similar projects to refer

to. Apart from being within this limited budget, Daisy also wants to have a Cloud-based implementation.
With a limited budget of $100,000,000 (for the project and the consultancy company), Daisy has approached MQ IT Solutions, to advise her and her team onfeasible approaches to carry out the project. Daisy hopes to have following main features in the system:
o Cloud-based;
o Support most wired, wireless and mobile devices;
o Support push-functionalities (e.g., pushing alerts to users);
o Open Source;
o Incorporate information from social media such as Twitter;
o Easy to integrate with current systems.

Deliverable
This is a high level Project Plan Report.

It is expected that students assist each other to produce a high quality report, which will be marked on its merits. Individual marks will be subject to "Peer Group Assessment" moderation (see later).

The usual 10% penalty per day, or part thereof, will apply.

This is a Turnitin assignment. Do not wait until the last minute to submit as Turnitin can take up to 24 hours to process a submission. Your submission time will be time stamped by iLearn. You will fail if 30% (excluding references) or more of the report has been plagiarised.

The final report should not be more than 30 pages of text (one and a half-spaced, 11 font size Times New Roman).

You need also to fill out the peer assessment sheet (individually, anonymously), evaluating the contributions of yourself and each of your team members.

Use this form to rate the members of your assignment group. Your rating is meant to reflect the overall contribution of the person to your group's work. The BEST is 10 and the WORST is 1. Each member of the group must complete a rating form unless you believe there is no issue in the group.

Write the person's name, group member and your rating.