ITC571 Project Proposal and Plan On Emerging Technologies and Innovation - Assessment item 2

Assessment item 2 - Project Proposal and Plan

You are required to prepare for this Assessment Item by:

1. READING the Subject outline,
2. COMPLETING Topic 2 Project Planning
3. BUILDING your PLAN up from the  Project Title and Abstract in Assessment Task 1

WHAT TO DO:

1. Follow the Study Schedule and work with the Topics in uni site as they provide a "scaffold" for your learning in this subject.
2. Develop a detailed Capstone Project Proposal and Plan using project management software (as listed in the Study Schedule) and the skills you have acquired from IT Project Management to develop a project plan with a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), milestones and Gantt chart. These tools may help.

• MicrosoftProject Pro (http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/project/);
• Open source tools like GanttProject (http://www.ganttproject.biz/);
• OpenProj(http://sourceforge.net/projects/openproj/)
• OpenProject (https://www.openproject.org/about).
• ProjectLibre (http://www.projectlibre.org/)

3. Begin using the 'project blog' as a tool beyond the weekly progress reportsfor your chosen emerging technology topic:

1. The blog helps you to store your notes, project files and links in a cloud-based service.
2. Consider sharing the site with your peers as a way to tell a story and harness each others knowledge.

4. The blog is ideally updated each week with 3 or 4 entries for documenting your project notes and as the foundation for editing and writing the Capstone Project Report. An ideal blog entry will have around 50-150 words (150-600 words a week).