IT 625 Final Project Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric
Scope, Cost, and Quality Planning Report Draft
Note: In order to successfully complete this project, you will need to carefully review the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document and the Medical
Informatics case study documents, located in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course in Blackboard.
Overview: In this milestone, you will analyze the Medical Informatics case study in order to complete a draft of the scope, cost, and quality planning report. The
detailed guidelines for what should be included in your scope, cost, and quality planning report draft are outlined below. In addition, you may need to use MS
Project to generate documents which support your ideas. You should use the headings provided in the outline as headings in your draft to ensure that you have
considered all of the required elements. The purpose of these milestones is to provide the opportunity to complete pieces of your final project through the
course of the term, and obtain instructor feedback as part of grading that you can then apply to your final submission. Keep in mind that your final project,
submitted in Module Nine, will be composed of the information you have gathered in each of the five milestones, crafted into a comprehensive, cohesive, wellwritten, and professional project proposal.
Specifically, the draft of your scope, cost, and quality planning report should include the following:
A. Project Scope Planning: Establish the project scope plan and controls. What are the business requirements? What are the system requirements
(software and hardware)? In establishing your project scope plan, you might consider these aspects:
1. Requirements (requirements traceability matrix)
2. Existing work breakdown structure
3. Person responsible for each requirement (responsibility assignment matrix)
B. Project Cost Planning and Control: Establish a cost control plan with strategies to help maintain prospective value of the new project with respect to
expected expenditures and added business values. As you are developing your cost control plan, you could consider aspects such as these:
1. The cost–benefit analysis
2. The TCO
3. Budgeted vs. actual costs
4. The earned value of the project
C. Project Quality Planning: Craft a plan for ensuring quality of the project outcomes that identifies acceptable performance standards and recommended
recovery strategy. Ideas to consider may include:
1. Key performance indicators of quality
2. Important factors in defining quality
3. How to measure quality
Guidelines for Submission: This draft must follow these formatting guidelines: double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, with APA
citations only if outside sources are cited. There is no minimum length for this draft; however, it should address all of the critical elements listed above.
Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information,
review these instructions.
Rubric
Critical Elements
Project Scope
Planning
Proficient (100%)
Outlines an actionable plan to
capture and control project
scope
Project Cost Planning
and Control
Outlines a cost control plan
with suggested strategies to
help maintain prospective value
of the new project as the
project develops
Project Quality
Planning
Drafts a quality plan to identify
acceptable performance
standards and recommended
recovery strategy
Needs Improvement (75%)
Outlines a plan to capture and
control project scope, but lacks
detail, or plan is not applicable
or actionable
Outlines a cost control plan
with suggested strategies to
help maintain prospective value
of the new project as the
project develops, but strategies
are not appropriate given
project information
Drafts a quality plan to identify
acceptable performance
standards and recommended
recovery strategy, but with gaps
in accuracy or detail
Not Evident (0%)
Does not outline a plan to
capture and control project
scope
Value
30
Does not outline a cost control
plan with strategies to help
maintain prospective value of
the new project as the project
develops
40
Does not draft a quality plan to
identify acceptable
performance standards and
recommended recovery
strategy
Total
30
100%
