project management

QUESTION 1 (20 MARKS) (a) An IT system was developed to help identify, manage and track a pandemic. The project in question was initiated by the Canadian goverment as a follow up to experiences gained from the 2003 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak. Although that outbreak was relatively limited in scale, it prompted health officials to consider how they would handle a bigger outbreak such as the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that killed tens of millions of people worldwide. The resulting project was titled "Panorama' and stemmed from a federal government mandate that sought to create a "seamless public health system that will allow public health professionals to coordinate activities in a carefully planned infrastructure. Co-sponsored by the provincial Government in British Columbia (BC) and the federally funded non-profit Canada Health Infoway" (whose mandate is to help province adopt digital health solutions), the plan was to build a system that could be used on a national basis. In principle, the vision was solid but in execution, the project was plagued with problems. The original 2006 plan called for a number of available COTS systems (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) to be integrated and adapted. Integrating the requirements of different provinces within the inherent constraints of a COTS based approach however proved much more difficult than thought. By 2008, the problems clearly manifested and the strategy was dropped. Following a reset, the project pivoted to a solution based on custom software development. At the time the audit report was written 7 years later (2015), the system was partially operational, but de scoped requirements, quality problems and issues launching the product resulted in a system that fell short of its original aims. According to the report, key requirements that had been dropped from scope resulted in a system that cannot be used to manage interprovincial outbreaks, the main reason for which the system was built The above is an example of project failure. Describe project failure and any FOUR (4) of its possible causes. (10 marks) (b) Let's say you're building an app. A product owner takes input from stakeholders. These can be executives, customers or both. They'll say something such as, "We want an app where users can create and sell widgets to each other. From these interactions, the product owners create a backlog The backlog is a list of all tasks that need to be completed to achieve the overarching goal. Next the team holds a pre-iteration meeting. They review the backlog and determine how much work they can take on Once they commit to the work and rev it up, the iteration begins. An iteration typically takes a few weeks, but no longer than a month. At the beginning of each day, the team will meet for a stand-up meeting. These are brief, everyone stands up to ensure the meeting is brief), and you review the previous day's work and make adjustments if needed. At the end of the interation, the team and stakeholders review progress, commit Continued.../ AAD 114 DPM014 PROIECT MANAGEMENT 22.21 their work, make adjustments for the next iteration and reiterate. This continues until the overarching goal is reached.? Identify the FOUR (4) types of project life cycle and the type of project life cycle described in the above case (10 marks)