In this Assignment students undertake an analysis of the MIS Project Management at First National
Bank Case Study in the Project Management: Case Studies book (Kerzner 2013).
All projects at First National Bank (FNB) have project managers assigned and are handled through
the Information Services Division (ISD). The Case describes one project, the development of a
corporate database, and the resulting failure.
Students are required to perform tasks and answer the following questions:
1. Why the ISD was created?
2. What is the ISD position in the FNB organizational chart? Justify the ISD position in the chart.
3. What is the FNB Project Management structure (functional, project and matrix)? Explain.
4. What is the FNB Project Proposal Life Cycle? Who is involved and how in the Cycle?
5. Who are the stakeholders involved in the FNB Information System Development project?
6. How you would you describe Initiating and Planning FNB Information System Project
Management Process Groups in relation to the Project Management Knowledge Areas?
7. Provide a SWOT analysis of an FNB Information System Development project and explain
why the project failed.
You are a social worker at the McQuarrie Youth Service and you are involved in the full range of their services including outreach, drop in centre, and the homelessness and accommodation services. Over the past few weeks Aaron has been increasing the frequency of his contact with you. He shares with you his troubles with family, his recent fatherhood, his offending and sense of failure and anger with the world, and his hopes and aspirations to be a good provider and father for his daughter
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