CMGT 410 Wk 5 – Apply: Summative Assessment: Measuring Progress and Requirements

The IT department is more than halfway through the completion of the skills gap project. The project stakeholders want to make sure the project deliverables meet their requirements and the goals of the project. The stakeholders are most concerned with the quality of courses, employee usage of courses, the integration with employees’ annual review HR software, ease of use for managers and the HR department, and the expansion of skills for employees. The stakeholders for the project have asked you to create evaluation criteria that will be used to judge the project at its completion, 3 months into its usage, and 12 months after being launched. You may want to review the case study as you complete this assignment.

Complete the following in a 3½- to 4½-page Microsoft Word document:

(A page of written text is about 300-320 words, so I will be looking for more than 1000 words. Excessive spacing and long bullet lists are ways that a paper is artificially lengthened. You can have these lists, but I am going to look for a minimum of 1000 words regardless of the number of pages.)

Develop a list of 6 to 8 standards or requirements for your project that you will use to evaluate its success.

(Hint: read the first paragraph above to get an idea of what the stakeholders are looking for the project to provide. This will give you some good standards or requirements for you to evaluate success)

Write a brief description of each standard or requirement. For example, a requirement might be that 90 percent of employees have logged in to an assigned course within 3 months.

Write an explanation based on the list of standards and requirements on how you will measure progress at its completion, 3 months into its usage, and 12 months after being launched. Discuss why the evaluation requirements change over time. Support your answer with 1 credible source outside of the course materials. (I recommend that you identify the measurements you will use embedded within the identification of each standard.)

Additionally, as a project comes close to being completed, project management doesn’t end. It is always important for each project to end by identifying lessons learned and how those lessons can be used by the organization in the future.

Write a discussion on how to close a project and the value of creating a list of lessons learned. Consider how properly closing out projects can help an organization in the future. (This should be more than a couple of sentences to give this important element its proper attention!) Here is a high-level discussion on the process for closing a project that may help. If you need to understand a bit more about lessons learned, this is a good discussion that you can read.

Submit your assignment.