Project Management Principles

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Student FULL name: Fanouris Alexiadis, Zeno Fan Chen, Cesar Reina, Mehrnoosh Enjelasi, Jane Sichen Zhang, David Sotomonte.
Student ID: 93102919, 11457153, 11177680, 11276413, 11366008, 11365994
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Date submitted: 15/3/2012********************************************************************************



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Date: 15/3/2012


Target Group Project Initiation Plan

Table of Contents

ExecutiveSummary……………………………………………………………………………3
1. Project Background and Context…………………………………………………..…….4
2. Project Definition…………………………………………………………………….……..5
3. Assumptions and Constraints…………………………………………………….……….7
4. Governance Structure…………………………………………………………………..….8
5. Resource Plan……………………………………………………………………………....9
6. Communications Plan……………………………………………………………………..10
7. Risk Analysis……………………………………………………………………………….148. Quality Plan…………………………………………………………………………………17
9. Initial Project Plan………………………………………………………………………….20
10. Marketing Plan……………………………………………………………………..………22
11. Closure and Conclusion……………………………………………….………………….25
12. References………………………………………………………………………………….26












Executive Summary
This report is a Project Initiation Plan for the Action Research Action LearningAssociation (ALARA). The report provides ALARA with guidance in the form of a strategic plan for the organising committee in preparing the 2012 Australiasian Conference.
The Venue proposed to hold the conference is the University of Technology Sydney. A project manager is proposed to manage the conference and will come from the volunteer committee. The project constraints are time and budget, there are nosponsors.
The Target Group has proposed a structured committee approach which is defined in the resource plan. All conference communication will be controlled by the project manager; the communication plan identifies the approach for communicating and delivering communication activities for the ALARA conference.
The risk management plan developed mitigates all the identified risks. The mainrisks identified are lack of project managers, participants and sponsors.
The target group’s key proposal is to secure key partnering sponsors for the conference. A conference requirement is to develop one on one interaction as part of the action learning process. The target group proposal to ensure this is best achieved by installing individual stalls for one on one interaction.1. Project Background and Context
Action Learning Action Research Association (ALARA) is a strategic network of people who are interested in using action research and action learning techniques to generate collaborative learning, research and action to transform workplaces, schools, colleges, universities, communities, voluntary organisations, governments and businesses.

As part of theassociation’s core functions they have announced the 2012 ALARA Australasian Conference, scheduled to take place on the 27-28 August 2012 in Sydney Australia.

The Target group project team has been tasked with preparing a Project Initiation Plan (PIP) to hold the ALARA Australasian Conference. The theme the target group proposes for the conference is Action in Learning and Research = SustainableOutcomes for a Better World. The PIP will be presented to the association’s committee, detailing the conferences:

• Assumptions/Constraints
• Governance Structure
• Resource plan
• Communication strategy
• Risk analysis
• Quality Plan
• Initial Project Plan including cost and time
• Procurement strategy.

The project benefit is to ensure that the Target Group provides ALARA...