Challenge

This project was transitional in nature so required reviewing project artifacts that were inherited from the client's original hire. The original project manager fell short in some key project planning aspects. The client was unhappy with the list of requirements as well as the risk and communications plans they were given, and saw that they were filled with errors and missing information. As a result, the goal of this project was to fix what the client was given and present to them an improved set of project artifacts.

Approach

First, we evaluated the original documents at determined what was correct or incorrect, and what we can conserve.

Next, we chose a suitable methodology that suited the project based off the client's needs and preconditions. We decided that the hybrid methodology, Agifall, would be best suited for this project and provided our justifications to the client.

Then, after analyzing the requirements already drafted by the previous manager, we were able to provide detailed requirements to the client in the form of epics and user stories that were composed correctly .

Next, in order to layout the scope of the project, we put together a hybrid work breakdown structure that would involve a total of six sprints, two for each epic. We also provided a project schedule in the form of a Gantt chart, and a project budget that quickly estimates the cost based off the schedule.

Finally, both the project communications and risk management plans were drafted. For the risk management plan, we included three documents: the roles and responsibilities document, the risk matrix, and the risk register. Keeping it simple for the communications plan, we chose a more Agile approach to communications and provided a some points as to how general communication was to happen between everyone involved in the project.