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CC2005 Project Planning and Management
Individual Assignment – Spring Semester, 2012/13
CC2005 Assignment Scenario 1 Date: 13/2/13
In this assignment you are asked to develop plans for a financial system to organise
the accounts for Tina Salmon, who runs the “Kipper Thai” oriental fish restaurant
based in Barnet, with another branch in Stratford. The restaurants attract diners in
the London area, and also offers a take away service; some customers have accounts for
entertaining business clients. Tina Salmon has a number of suppliers, and sometimes
switches between suppliers for certain ingredients if a discount is available. The
restaurant prides itself on using fresh ingredients, and will buy imported fresh goods
rather than frozen produce, although this does sometimes mean extra paperwork (e.g.
calculating the cost at the appropriate exchange rate). Tina Salmon needs to maintain
financial records for a variety of reasons:
Legal requirements (for taxation and audit purposes)
Customer accounts
Order and invoice management
Calculating menu pricing (there are different rates for eat in or take away)
Testing different supplier discount options
Sales reports
Inventory control
The calculation of staff wages is carried out separately, but could be a future project.
You have been appointed as the Project Manager responsible for organising Tina
Salmon’s financial system. This system should be up and running by the end of the June
2014. The following constraints are set:
Overall budget of between £25,000 and £80,000
The project start date is 10th
October 2013.
Tina Salmon has allowed a wide range for the overall budget of the project, as Tina is
willing to pay more for a more flexible and sophisticated system, which could be
enhanced and extended to deal with other aspects of the business in the future.
At no additional cost to the project you have a small office with telephone, fax, computer,
email and internet access. You have one member of support staff. Any additional staff
and resources required must be fully and realistically costed within the overall budget.
You will be asked a range of written questions in week 6 relating to your project
plans, requiring answers in a specific format. You may wish to keep a logbook for
your own use, but this is not part of the assessment. Note that this assignment
requires project planning; you are not asked to implement your proposals.
You must decide how you are going to plan and organise this project. You should
consider the following issues:
Identification of key stakeholders and their needs
The scope of the project
Planning and organising activities (work breakdown structure)
Legal/regulatory constraints (data protection, for example)
Equipment requirements, and hire or purchase
CC2005 Project Planning and Management
Individual Assignment – Spring Semester, 2012/13
CC2005 Assignment Scenario 2 Date: 13/2/13
Software requirements
Contingency plans (for equipment, for example)
Cost-benefit analysis (against the objectives of the project)
Identification of external and internal factors affecting the project
Identification of constraints that apply to your project.
SMART objectives for the project addressing:
What is the purpose of Tina Salmon’s financial system?
How will the success of Tina Salmon’s financial system be measured?
You should develop project plans, including:
A Gantt chart for scheduled work broken down into suitable work
packages, activities and tasks (which will include activities running in
parallel)
Resource plans detailing how all resources have been allocated and costed
Identification of the activities to be carried out, and the dependencies that
exist between these activities
Identification of any potential risks, the assessment of those risks, and how
you would manage them throughout the life cycle of the project
Time and staffing needed for the systems development life cycle
Time and staffing required for end-user training
Time and staffing required for data entry
You may assume that requirements analysis could take up to 5 weeks, then design and
development could take up to 8 weeks, and up to 4 weeks would be required for testing
and debugging the system. You may find you do not need as long as this for your
project; these times are given as guidelines, but should not be exceeded. You will also
need to schedule all other activities involved in your project.
You will not be able to answer all the questions surrounding the project, but you should
consider how you would solve problems. For example, you might not know whether
contracts will be necessary, but you can schedule time to meet a solicitor or adviser.
You should also prepare a brief summary of the main features of your project, explaining
the merits of your proposal, and consider issues which lie outside the scope of your
project. You should also consider possibilities for further work arising from this project.
Final Deadline
The deadline for the submission of your solutions to the report questions issued in week 6
is 10th
May 2013. You may submit your work earlier than this if you wish to do so.
You should hand in your assignment to the Undergraduate Office. A header sheet should
be attached to your submission. Your assignment must be in the format and sequence
specified on the question sheet. Do not include computer disks in your submission, and
do not submit your work by email.