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Recover and manage a client system implementation project

You are the Project Manager for the Brightwater implementation.

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The situation

What has happened

Project PRJ-26-031, the student management system implementation for Brightwater Community College, has slipped a week in stage 2 because the vendor's only consultant was unavailable. The risk is in the register as RC-26-020. The sponsor, the college's business manager, wants a recovery plan at the next status meeting and has asked whether the December target date still holds. The budget is 96,000 dollars with milestone 2 just invoiced. Some data migration work the college asked for in stage 2 was not in the original scope. The Projects Office Manager wants the stage 3 schedule and budget rebaselined, a change request prepared if scope has moved, the risk treatment updated and an honest status report written.

Your brief. Rebaseline stage 3 scope, schedule and cost, prepare a change request for the out of scope work, strengthen the vendor risk treatment, manage stakeholder expectations through an accurate status report and update the project and risk records.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Baseline and slip summary
  • Change request
  • Rebaselined stage 3 schedule and budget
  • Updated risk register entries and stakeholder plan
  • Sponsor status report and meeting minutes

Documents to use

Systems to use

Projects Register

Tracks client and internal projects with their manager, dates, budget and stage, and holds milestones and status reports.

Risk and Compliance Register

Holds Meridian's risks, incidents, audit findings and compliance obligations with ratings, owners, treatments and review dates.

Client Relationship Manager

Holds every client and prospect with their segment, service line, engagement value, contacts and the log of interactions and actions.

Invoices and Debtors

Records every invoice raised to clients with its amount, dates and payment status, and drives the overdue follow up sequence.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Business Services Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

BSBPMG530Manage project scope
BSBPMG531Manage project time
BSBPMG533Manage project cost
BSBPMG538Manage project stakeholder engagement
BSBPMG540Manage project integration

Qualifications

BSB50820Diploma of Project Management
BSB40920Certificate IV in Project Management Practice
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

The change request must separate in scope from out of scope work with quantified impact. The schedule must show dependencies and a date that follows from them. The budget must reconcile to the remaining funds. The risk treatment must reduce the vendor dependency rather than merely note it. The status report must be honest about the slip and clear about decisions needed. Records must be consistent across systems.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.