Developing Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training Program For CQU University

Project Description and Background

1 Project Description (7 Marks)

1.1 Project Description and BACKGROUND (2 marks)

The school of engineering and technology (SET) indigenisation Committee mainly aims to promote proper understanding about various indigenous perspectives among the staffs as well as students of CQU university. The committee mainly hosted one of the training programs within the university in order to promote indigenous culture and for providing proper understanding about the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait island culture, tradition, history as well as languages. It is quite important to provide proper understanding about the significance of cultural awareness among the people.

The project mainly focuses on development of indigenous cultural awareness training program for the university of Central Queensland in order to create cultural awareness among the students as well as staffs of the university about indigenous culture, tradition, history as well as languages. In order to execute the project successfully, SET committee requested the training program to include content that are associated with indigenous history, languages as well as tradition. The program will be conducted either by utilizing face to face components or by utilizing online training components.

1.2 Justification

1.2.1 Output / Outcome / Benefit

Output	Outcome	Benefits
As an output, indigenous cultural awareness training program was conducted by the SET indigenous committee for the students as well as staffs of the CQU university.	Due to the indigenous cultural awareness training program, proper understanding about the culture, tradition as well as languages of local Aboriginal Torres Strait island is spread among the staffs as well as employees of the CQU university so that they can be able to understand the significance of indigenous culture	The indigenous training program was mainly hosted so that the students of the entire university can be able to know about it which will be further helpful in enhancing the involvement of the people within the project of indigenous cultural awareness training program that is hosted by SET indigenous committee.

	Stakeholder	Category (i.e. Sponsor / Supplier / User)	Descriptionof Interest	Descriptionof Influence
1	Lindy Smith	Cultural faculty of indigenous origin	The faculty mainly engages in promoting the understanding of various indigenous perspective among the staffs as well as students of the CQU university so that they be able to know about the culture, languages as well as history of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island.	They generally influence both the students as well as employees of CQU university for engaging within the project so that proper cultural awareness about the indigenous culture, history, tradition as well as languages can be spread.
2	Alfred Williams	Team coordinator	The team co-ordinator mainly engages in managing as well as organizing people into teams so that they can easily work as per their capability within the project for making the project of indigenous cultural training awareness program successful.	The co-ordination that is created by the team co-ordinator within the project team helps the team members to work properly in order to spread awareness about the culture, tradition as well as history of the indigenous culture
3	Education supplier Pvt. Ltd.	Supplier	The suppliers mainly helps in providing all the requirements that is needed in order to successfully complete the indigenous cultural awareness training program project.	The materials that are supplied by the supplier generally includes pen, markers, blackboards as well as papers that are generally needed in order to develop the indigenous culture training program for the staffs as well as employees of CQU university.
4	William Tagai	Program organizer	The program organizer mainly involves in handling the entire operation as well as functions of the project by assembling as well as distributing various types of study materials among the students as well as staffs of the university in order to make the project successful.	Proper organization as well as management of the project assists in successfully promoting the understanding about various cultural perspective on the culture as well as tradition of indigenous people within the Queensland campus university.
5	Ethan smith	Project coordinator	The entire project is co-ordinated as well as managed with the help of the project co-ordinator so that the entire training program will be completed successfully within the estimated time and budget that is assumed.	Due to proper co-ordination as well as management, the project co-ordinator helps in raising cultural awareness about the significance of indigenous culture within the members of CQU university.
6	MTB business consultancy	Sponsor	The sponsor mainly involves in spreading awareness about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture, history as well as languages within the university of CQU.	In order to make the project off indigenous culture and tradition, the sponsor of the project provides fund as per the requirement of the project.

2.2 Stakeholders Engagement Assessment Matrix (3 marks)

Stakeholder	Unaware	Resistant	Neutral	Supportive	Leading
Cultural faculty of indigenous origin					ü
Team coordinator			ü
Supplier	ü
Program organizer				ü
Project coordinator				ü
Sponsor				ü

2.2 Obtaining expert judgement (1 mark)

QUESTION: Briefly explain at least two different methods or techniques to obtain this expert judgement from groups and/or individuals?

It is found that in order to obtain expert judgement from various groups and individuals, two methods or techniques are generally used. The techniques are as follows:

Quantitative technique: The quantitative method is mainly utilized in order to determine that the project team members are performing well in context to the duties or tasks that are assigned to them. In addition to this, the method is quite helpful in identifying the capability of doing work of the team members within a specific period of time.

Qualitative technique: The qualitative method or technique is mainly used in order to determine the performance of project team members in reference to quality based output that is generally provided as a part of project operation.

QUESTION:State whether it is appropriate to have a single key stakeholder representing the Traditional Owners of the land on which Central Queensland Campuses are located. Provide an explanation for your response.

The representation of traditional owner of land which is generally located within the compasses of CQU University by a single specific stakeholder is not identified to be appropriate. This is because it is quite difficult for a single individual to represent different campuses of the CQU University at a single time. If a single stakeholder is asked to represent all the university campus then they will generally involve in collecting proper information about the campuses that are represented however the time that is present for collecting information about the all the university campus is not appropriate and therefore it can be ensured that the collected information might be inaccurate. Thus it is quite preferable to represent each of the university campus by a single stakeholder.

QUESTION: Which of the two opening statement styles‘Welcome to Country’ or ‘Acknowledgement of Country’ is appropriate for the Project Executive to use and provide a brief explanation justifying your answer.

It is identified that out of the opening styles acknowledgement of country is considered to be proper for the executive as they are the people who like to be acknowledged as the residents of the country however “Welcome to Country” is one of the opening statement that is generally utilized for the foreigners.

QUESTION: Is the suggestion of using a previously developed cultural awareness training program an appropriate method of requirements gathering? Briefly explain your answer.

Justification

The suggestion of using earlier developed training program on cultural awareness is not found to be suitable as the project of indigenous cultural awareness training program varies with the earlier developed project and in order to utilize the concepts of previous project, huge number of changes are required to be done within the previous project which not an not considered appropriate. Thus it is identified that the suggestion is not helpful for developing the training program project within the CQU University.

QUESTION: What document could be used to track or ‘trace’ requirements throughout the project life cycle?

In the entire life cycle of the project, central resource log is generally used for tracking as well as tracing the requirement of the project. It is identified that central resource log which is cloud based is updated by the site manager of the project when the resources are used.

QUESTION: What is requirement prioritisation and why would it be important to communicate this process to stakeholders?

Requirement prioritization is defined as a procedure with the help of which, the relative importance as well as urgency of different requirement are managed for coping with different limi of project resources.

It is very much necessary to communicate the procedure of requirement prioritization to the stakeholders as it is generally considered as one of the procedures with the help of which resources are generally provided to the stakeholders and the distribution of the resources are based on priority of stakeholder’s duty. Therefore, if any type of competing

QUESTION: List the five components of the MoSCoW technique

The five different components of the MoSCoW technique are:

1) Would Have

2) Must Have

3) Should have

4) Could have

5) oS For erasing pronunciation

The project scope is mainly divided into in-scope and out-Scope.

In-scope: The in-scope of the project is:

To organize indigenous cultural awareness training program
To increase cultural awareness among people
To enhance both cultural unity as well as diversity
To teach people about the significance of indigenous culture
Completion of entire project within proper time and budget as per the assumptions

Out-scope: The out-scope of the project is as follows:

Proper information about the suppliers are not provided
Absence of team members who have in-depth knowledge of indigenous culture

Increasing cultural awareness
WBS ID	1.1.1
Description of work	Enhancing significance of cultural awareness among staffs as well as students of CQU university.
Cost Estimate	$4,320
Start and Finish Dates	04/07/18 to 26/07/18

Spreading awareness about indigenous culture
WBS ID	1.1.2
Description of work	Spreading awareness about the importance of indigenous culture among the people.
Cost Estimate	$14,840
Start and Finish Dates	27/07/18 to 29/08/18

Indigenous cultural content
WBS ID	1.2.1
Description of work	In order to spread awareness among the people, important content about indigenous culture are distributed
Cost Estimate	$15,280
Start and Finish Dates	30/08/18 to 03/10/18

Cultural awareness content
WBS ID	1.2.2
Description of work	Proper content on cultural awareness is provided to the people so that they can gain proper knowledge about the significance of culture.
Cost Estimate	$17,380
Start and Finish Dates	04/10/18 to 07/11/18

Cultural unity
WBS ID	1.3.1
Description of work	In order to raise cultural unity among people proper information about cultural unity is provided with the help of training sessions.
Cost Estimate	$19,680
Start and Finish Dates	08/11/18 to 19/12/18

Cultural diversity
WBS ID	1.3.2
Description of work	In order to teach about the significance of cultural diversity within a society, the training session is generally undertaken
Cost Estimate	$27,240
Start and Finish Dates	20/12/18 to 04/02/19

Increasing cultural awareness

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Creating program	Wed 04-07-18	Mon 09-07-18	18 days
2	Finding methods for raising cultural awareness	Tue 10-07-18	Tue 17-07-18	5 days
3	Conducting the program of cultural awareness	Wed 18-07-18	Thu 26-07-18	6 days

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Making teams	Fri 27-07-18	Tue 07-08-18	8 days
2	Identifying techniques for spreading indigenous culture	Wed 08-08-18	Thu 16-08-18	7 days
3	Conducting program	Fri 17-08-18	Wed 29-08-18	9 days

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Creating groups	Thu 30-08-18	Fri 07-09-18	7 days
2	Providing details about the program	Mon 10-09-18	Wed 19-09-18	8 days
3	Reflecting importance of cultural content	Thu 20-09-18	Wed 03-10-18	10 days

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Creating groups	Thu 08-11-18	Mon 19-11-18	8 days
2	Providing proper study materials	Tue 20-11-18	Mon 03-12-18	10 days
3	Arranging seminars	Tue 04-12-18	Wed 19-12-18	12 days

Activity	Description of work	Start Date	End Date	Duration (days)
1	Creating teams	Thu 20-12-18	Tue 01-01-19	9 days
2	Assigning study rooms	Wed 02-01-19	Wed 16-01-19	11 days
3	Providing knowledge about cultural diversity	Thu 17-01-19	Mon 04-02-19	13 days

QUESTION: What is the hourly AUD $ rate used in your calculations?

The hourly rates of the project team members are provided in the table below:

Resource Name	Type	Max. Units	Std. Rate	Accrue At	Base Calendar
Project planner	Work	100%	$35.00/hr.	Prorated	Standard
Project manager	Work	100%	$30.00/hr.	Prorated	Standard
Organizer	Work	100%	$30.00/hr.	Prorated	Standard
Supervisor	Work	100%	$25.00/hr.	Prorated	Standard
Volunteers	Work	100%	$25.00/hr.	Prorated	Standard
Management team	Work	100%	$30.00/hr.	Prorated	Standard

Activity/Deliverables	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Creating program		$1,200.00
Finding methods for raising cultural awareness		$1,440.00
Conducting the program of cultural awareness		$1,680.00

Activity/Deliverables	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Making teams		–	$3,520.00
Identifying techniques for spreading indigenous culture		–	$4,480.00
Conducting program		–	$6,840.00

Activity/Deliverables	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Creating groups				$5,040.00
Providing details about the program				$5,440.00
Reflecting importance of cultural content				$4,800.00

Activity/Deliverables	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Dividing people into teams					$3,220.00	$2,100.00
Utilizing methods of online and face to face conversation					$2,100.00	$2,220.00
Providing information about significance of cultural diversity					$4,630.00	$3,050.00

Cultural Unity

Activity/Deliverables	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Creating groups						$2,440.00	$1,400.00
Providing proper study materials						$4,200.00	$3,000.00
Arranging seminars						$4,340.00	$4,300.00

Activity/Deliverables	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar
Creating teams							$2,000.00	$4,840.00	$840.00
Assigning study rooms							$3,000.00	$4,000.00	$920.00
Providing knowledge about cultural diversity							$5,000.00	$6,000.00	$1,480.00

Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training Project

Name	Description	Likelihood	Impact	Response type	Mitigation strategy
Risk 1	Improper interest among people: If the people are not interested in the project then it will be quite difficult to spread awareness about indigenous culture. Therefore it is quite important to grow some interest among the people for making the project successful.	Medium	High	Internal	For mitigating this issue, it is quite necessary to raise cultural awareness among the people so that they can actively engage within the project.
Risk 2	Lack of cultural knowledge: If the team members of the project do not have proper cultural knowledge then it will be quite difficult for them to complete the project successfully.	Medium	High	internal	For mitigating this issue, it is very much necessary to involve those team members in the project who have proper in-depth knowledge in the indigenous culture.
Risk 3	Racism: If the people who are involved in the project follow racism then it would be impossible to complete the entire project within the assumed budget as well as time.	High	High	Internal	In order to mitigate this issue, it is very much important to implement proper rules and regulations so that the problem of racism does not occur during the phase of project progress.
Risk 4	Resistance from various indigenous people: If the indigenous person does not want to involve others in this project then they will obstruct project progress.	High	High	External	It is very much necessary to acknowledge the people of aboriginal and Torres Island so about the project so that they does not create any obstruction within the project.
Opportunity	Lack of cultural unity	Medium	High	Internal	It is very much necessary to teach about the importance of cultural unity to the people as well as staffs of CQU university.

Tolerance	Specific Tolerance allowed
Tolerance specified for time	155 days
Tolerance specified for cost	$98,680.00

Previous lessons learned

Proposed action to address

(in current project)

Lesson 1

The first lesson involved an ‘off-the-shelf’ online training program which failed to properly interface with the universities learning system.

In order to resolve the issue that occur within the university, it is quite important to install proper information system which must be connect to high internet speed connection so that the training program will be successfully interface within the universities learning system

Lesson 2:

The second lesson involved the use of a generic cross cultural training package which failed to properly address the nuances which exists between different indigenous groups located in various geographical areas.

In order to mitigate this issue, it is very much important to invite people from different geographical areas who have different indigenous background culture for discussing about the importance as well as significance of indigenous culture and tradition

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