As a member of Research and Development department, you have been assigned a mini-project to find out the impact of digital endpoint devices and ways to reduce environmental damages, OR the potential

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As a member of Research and Development department, you have been assigned a mini-project to find out the impact of digital endpoint devices and ways to reduce environmental damages, OR the potential of refurbishing, repairing and reusing digital devices rather than replacing. You need to do primary research (both qualitative and quantitative research) and secondary research to find out that impact and conduct a report for your research. Even it’s a mini-project, you must apply project management (PM) techniques such as project charter with aims, objectives, cost etc. As for time management, you need to produce WBS and Gantt chart with reasonable tasks and time. A project logbook is required to provide evidence of the project development process and ongoing reflection for every week. This logbook will be needed later for your reflection and evaluation in Assignment 2.

As part of QA (quality assurance) policy, in the report you also need to critically evaluate the PM process and appropriate research methodologies applied. Your report must have an introduction stating the project aims and objectives. This must be followed by a copy of your project management plan. Your plan should show the milestones when you will review with your tutor your ongoing progress so far. You will submit your logbook which shows how you have carried out the project.

LO1: Establish project aims, objectives and timeframes based onthe chosen theme

P1: Devise project aims andobjectives for a chosenscenario.

P2: Produce a project management plan that covers aspects of cost, scope, time, quality, communication, risk and resources.

P3: Produce a work breakdown structure and a Gantt Chart to provide timeframes and stages for completion.

M1: Produce a comprehensive project management plan, milestone schedule and project schedule for monitoring and completing the aims and objectives of the project. 

D1: Critically evaluate the project management process and appropriate research methodologies applied