Phase 1 of the project
The premier department and cabinet’s corporate version project plan documented in the year 2016 identified challenges that dominated in the health sector in the entire world and wanted the issue addressed by Inter Agency Projects and Plan Unit. The requirement was to “facilitate a better practice and establishment of a right strategy to help the government in information management and system tasks.” The concerned unit of the IAPPU project unit has the role of identifying, capturing, adding value and marketing of better practice within the business sectors of the Tasmania and other countries in the entire world, to support the agenda in the Tasmania e-government. A document exploring methods in which this function might be adopted and implemented and giving suggestions on the starting focus areas were deliberated and accepted on by the IASC management committee in 15th May 2015.
A better working exercise in the Tasmanian setting is defined as “the sharing, gathering and following implementation of best suggestions that is lessons learnt or innovations regarding what functions well and malfunctions in the organization’s “enterprise tasks”. It aims at the way organizations do enterprise tasks both regarding efficiency and effectiveness. The project was started with the view of assisting businesses and agencies share good practice amongst themselves and also create awareness on the necessity of adopting and sharing better practices. This report was prepared evaluate the appropriateness efficiency of the Tasmanian government project in sharing better practice business project plan. The report will show the progress of the project at different phases and period.
The project to be analyzed is the sharing better practice business project, commercialized under the IAPPU and IASC. The structure of this report comprises of major two stages that is the phase 1 and phase 2. The second phase reports the actual implementation of the project. Its structure is as follows; introduction of the project, scope, the audience, the PMP, the content of the project and the conclusion.
The first phase of the project formally begun in May 2016, with the Project enterprise strategy being approved at this phase by the heading Committee. The intermittent subsistence of outcomes from the 1st stage will be the duty of the Inter Agency Project Plan Unit. This will incorporate more details in the final realization delineation (Ward, 2016). The objective of this Program Business Plan was to develop on a formulation of framework and better organization channels within the Inter Agency Project Plan Unit and across other areas, to enhance distribution of Sharing Better Practice activity (Alam & Gühl, 2016). This plan deeply looks at the implantation stage for this project plan which is (Phase 2).
Phase 2 of the project
The project of sharing better strategy was initiated in Tasmania by a group of business owners who operated in high ranks of the country’s economy. They therefore came together to reason on means that they could improve coordination of activities within their business and other organizations.
The main purpose or aim of this project is enhance the sharing and embracing of good practice notions, within business processes improvement; involving project administration, information systems management and data management within the Tasmanian government. This was aimed at to improve the way people do businesses both regarding efficiency and effectiveness working together across the globe. The government had a goal of enhancing better business practices that would help see the county’s economy grow with a wide margin.
The results for the project were as follows:
- Integrated sharing of better business clues and initiatives, in business improvement activities across the government of Tasmania and other agencies.
- Improved accessibility and awareness of information about better business practices for the Tasmanian government and other agencies in the world.
- Greater popularity of the Inter Agency Project Unit as a reliable platform of better practice information.
The final outcomes of the sharing better practice project task will be released in stages. The first phase will be the setup phase for the project and the implementation phase. Phase 2 will be delivered in the outputs shown below:
Here, the output will involve:
- Renaming the scheme as Sharing on Better Practice so as to motivate an increase of dispensing information by the countries agencies and also be in line with the existing styles within the Tasmanian government organizations and other agencies around the world.
- Giving support for information sharing by agencies either by contributing towards better practice archive on the Inter Agency Project Plan Unit intranet site or noting practices that can be emulated.
- Creating awareness of the available information of better practice and how it can be reached and utilized. The possible ways through which the information will be availed include:
- Emailing each and every IASC reference, communities practice and working groups.
- Contact with each agency under the IAPPU
- Use of internet forum
The information will be from areas such as:
- IT management
- Project management
- Information management
- Records management
- Publishing of the web
- Business Process improvement together with mapping of business processes and business analysis
These sections give rise to the entire IAPPU architecture framework which is known to comprise of many areas of practice. The unit developed the whole project and was given the task to see it through by the Tasmania government.
Identifying coordinators for each key areas. These domain areas are the coordinators who will be responsible for the promotion of sharing information and resources in a given area, the target group of the better practice archive and support of the activities of community practice in the responsible domains (Boshyk, 2016). This will be focused on the Sharing Better Practice governing model designed at Phase one of the project.
The second phase coverage of the task targets consolidates ways for identifying and disseminating of better extant custom as well as the methods for the current backup for sharing better practice data amongst concerned domains and repository communities to support the development of new better community practices where necessary.
Within the scope |
Out of the project scope |
Not certain or not resolved |
Putting into action business processes to second the better practice project plan |
Architectural guidelines implementing tasks |
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Marketing and communication work aimed at naming the inter agency projects and plan unit as the main leader in supporting of the sharing better practices across the government agencies |
Manage policy implementation activities in key areas that include information security and web publishing. |
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Developing and implementing of a good ways for managing the current project of the inter agency better practice site. |
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Identifying and publishing of the domain area contacts |
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Support the existing or established brand communities of actions in every main area, incorporating the EA project and its focus group to work with them |
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Targeted forums |
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Reviewing the project implementing stage (that is phase 2), and give a report to the inter agency steering committee and the overall steering committee to enable endorsement. |
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Outcome realization plan involving measures of performance subject to the business owner and the steering committee approval. |
The assumptions for the project were that:
- The IASC committee will help in recognition of better exercise chances within their agencies and act as responsible for the release of data.
- The current inter agency steering committee working and reference movements will form the basis of the communities of practice for every key areas.
- The Inter Agency Project Plan Unit managers and other areas coordinators will gather practical samples of better practices in their responsibility portions and help disseminate their information.
The challenges involves:
- Resource issues similar to the current improvements and constant continuing maintenance for good practice business project managing structure.
- The scope to which the company workers have the ability and are willing to partner with its initiative is not known.
- The capability of the inter agency projects and plan unit is capable to maintain and support a better practice structure across the government that pressurize gathering, sharing and release of information on the proceedings of the project.
- Existing challenges between sharing within and between agencies.
The stakeholders of the Tasmanian government project on sharing better practices will comprise of:
- The Inter Agency Projects and Plan Unit
- Government Agencies of Tasmania mostly the central management.
- Business process improvement community of practice members
- Inter Agency steering committee
- Information systems community of practice members and information management
- Inter agency steering committee working and reference groups
- Monetary penalties project
- MR project unit
- Project management community of practice members
This parties will need to be provided with the Tasmanian government project guidelines and estimated budgets etc.
Information sharing methods will be launched as portion of the consultation and communication plan and action strategy which is the outcome of stage one. The plan creates upon current consultation and information sharing methodologies involving those utilized for project managing tasks and a business structure tasks
Results of the project
Methodologies includes:
- Website postings on the firm intranet site
- Working with Gartner agency contacts
- Involving the noted areas coordinators in marketing and communication activities
- List server notifications through the project managing website
- Presentations to the inter firm steering committee together with their working and reference groups, incorporating showcasing the designed inter agency intranet site
- A plan of face to face meetings with agency executive managing movements
- Focus groups
This project highly depends on phase two, for capturing better information practices and sharing, on the tasks done by other inter agency project and plan unit staff, in their part of operation
This similar projects involves the following
- The web publishing system and processes project (inter-agency project and plan unit)
- Almost all projects report to the IASC
- The Tasmanian Government Enterprise Architecture project (IAPPU)
- Government reports and documentation of managing system issues project (IAPPU)
- The entire of government communication policy project
- The monetary enforcing penalties project (DJIR
- The information security guidelines implementation activities (IAPPU)
- The information management system and records (Department of Education)
- The MR project (DIER/DPAC)
- Government records and document management system issues project (IAPPU)
The structure of the project management plan for sharing better practice business plan will need to adopt a theoretical framework given by the PMBOK and the Prince. The Tasmanian Government project management plan focuses on the following constituents
- Defining objectives
- Analysis of the stakeholder
- Defining the results
- Project planning
- Project tracking
- Risk management
The project will be financed internally through project units and inter-agency policy, cabinet and department of premier. Major coasts will be wages and salaries.
Uncertainties’ will be controlled under the Tasmanian Government project management principles. The project team maintains the risk register from phase 1 separately and is reviewed at monthly intervals. Regular risk reporting will be included in the steering committee and the IASC condition reports. Currently, the main uncertainties are those which were experienced at Phase 1 of the project and they include:
Risk |
Mitigation strategy |
Barriers to sharing information concerning good practice across and amongst agencies |
Communication plan through; Ø Establishing and recognizing channels between and among agencies via the project task and creating upon the connections developed in the Phase one of the project. Ø Cooperative tasks incorporating: Ø Liaising with the current cross agency forums and reference groups. Ø Developing new and supporting existing communities practice. Ø Using new internet to promote the sharing of data in safe setting. Ø Supporting the implementation of existing standard levels and guidelines across agencies. |
It highly rely upon others for gathering of information relating better practice within the Tasmanian Government Agencies. |
Consultation and Communication strategy plan tasks and use of the project managing good exercise structure. IAPPU and other project managers meetings from the associated projects recognized within the enterprise strategy of the project. |
Project checked by a few stakeholders as aiming to find existing domains of poor practice among agencies. |
Promote the project so as to enable sharing better practice information across the Tasmanian government (strengthening the process established for sharing better Practice project management information). |
Reluctant to adopt and implement the expected better exercise within some agency enterprise sections. |
Information sharing plans. Collaborative works as the above strategy and involve: Initiating of the mentoring programs and developing peer support where necessary. |
Methodology for project administration- the Tasmanian Government project managing techniques utilizing the Governments project managing regulations the latest version.
Output development methodology – this project will use method established in resources project and project management information.
Performance measures- the base data for every result in disagreement with outcome can be weighed will be created, as a section of the realization strategies, the project will also use existing results to estimate tasks carried out by the project managing domain of the IAPPU.
Quality of the output- in the first phase, the IAPPU managing group, IASC, steering committee, and all other important reference groups of the project will be conducted about the suitability of the reason of the initial results. Peer review and Focus groups progress will be put into consideration as well. As the sharing better practice project goes from one level to another, other pin pointed communities of practices will be included according to the results being delivered.
Standards – the Tasmanian government will be used to publish all web-based information and resources by use of its website publishing standards. It also identifies other type of standards in this project.
Monitoring – the project sponsor and the project manager will regularly check and revise the progress of the project.
Risk assessment and management- a specific team will often evaluate planning progress and the risk register. The condition of the risks will be reported to the IASC and the project steering committee through the project condition reports.
Challenges involved
This project will be established in stages. The first stage was the Set Up phase (May 2015- Feb 2016). The project development schedule is given below.
Project main milestones |
Date |
Business processes to support the better practice project |
May |
Schedule for presentations to agency execs |
5 June |
Linking of all agency intranets to intra-government |
30 July |
Finalizing on the version of the quality plan for ongoing management of inter agency better practice site. |
15 August |
Preparing a schedule plan for presentations to the IASC groups |
25 September |
Identifying and publishing the main areas contacts |
30 October |
Outcome realization plan involving performance measures relevant to the business owner and steering committee approval |
15 November |
Analyzing of e-government business forum |
28 February, 2016 |
All results obtained from the sharing better practice project will be released continuously to the IAPPU enterprise element for the current management. The real business owner of this project incorporation is the IAPPU manager with the inter-agency steering committee. The resulting realization strategy involving deciding for the continuing managing of outcomes and reporting results against the aimed goals will be developed as an output of phase 2 of the project.
The sharing better practice project will help agencies to share valuable information across them through the intranet web developed to serve the purpose. This report will help other project managers and committees to help perfect different agencies operations thus improving their relations and productivity. The project aims at the economy of Tasmania through facilitating good working practices between the government and business people
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