Itm 423 - Module 3 Session Long Project

TRIDENT UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL

ITM 423: System Acquisition, System Development and Project Management

Module 3: IT Project Roles, Responsibilities and Staffing Session Long Project

May 2014 Term

June 22, 2014

Assignment: Utilizing your assigned software incorporate staffing into your project plan; allocate and distribute your personnel resources as you think they will be needed and then prepare a brief 2-3 page paper summarizing these activities – personnel definition & plan design

Finally, attach and/or include your plan report from your software

Incorporating Staffing into our Project Plan utilizing Basecamp Project Management Software

In the previous Module we analyzed the project lifecycle in detail as we started to gather more details as we put together a project plan for implementing a new TUI learning management system. Just like the real-world scenario of Trident University utilizing Desire2Learn to implement their design, we’ve been given the opportunity to try our hand at this utilizing our own software. This provides great insight as to what it takes to develop an effective plan while keeping in mind all of the aspects that go into creating the site.

For this assignment the aim is to identify and define the personnel who will be involved in the implementation process and utilize our software to add them and allocate resources as needed. The goal is to be able to brainstorm and put together a comprehensive listing that identifies each key player and define their roles in the process. My particular software that I will be using to add in my key players/personnel will be the Basecamp project management software, which has several built-in features to quickly enable to designer to add personnel and roles.

Basecamp as described on their site has helped over 285,000 companies finish more than two million projects just within this past year, which even includes a complete package of the Keen Footwear project/documents (Basecamphq.com,...