Question:
Students will be required to produce a project management report which should include and discuss project documents related to their projects. These documents should include business case, project charter, work breakdown structure and identification of a critical path, may it be Gantt chart or network diagram. Students should also critically evaluate ethical, social and legal responsibilities during a project by referring to current project management literature. This assignment will be submitted at the end of the module.
Tasks
Task-1: Prepare a business case for your selected project. Pay particular attention to the following areas in your project business case:
a)Strategic case for the project with a justification for undertaking the project.
b)An evaluation of cost/benefits and risks of alternative options while providing a rationale for the selected options.
c)A summary of the benefits (both tangible and non-tangible) that will arise from the completed project and any unavoidable drawbacks.
Task-2: Prepare a project charter and based on this, produce a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). You also need to perform a critical path analysis based on your work breakdown structure.
Task-3: Evaluate the role of project managers in the context of their ethical, social and legal responsibilities during a project. Critically evaluate how project managers have performed and give your judgment about the quality of the project managers work as well as their limitations.
Task-4: Write a critical summary of the quality assurance of the project management. How do these change the life cycle of the project?
Prepare a business case for your selected project.
(a) The business case must provide a strategic case (executive summary) and a justification for undertaking the project.
(b) The business case must provide a rationale for your choice of project including costs, benefits and risk of alternate options while providing a rationale for the selected option.
(c) You are required to provide a summary of the potential benefits the project will bring, and any potential drawbacks.
Prepare a project charter for the project. The project charter should clearly state the scope, objective and people participating in the project. Prepare a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) for the project from the project charter developed in task 1 of this assignment. A critical path analysis shows the shortest time to complete a project. You are required to develop a critical path for the work breakdown structures developed in this task earlier.
A project manager is responsible for completing the project while observing all ethical, social and legal aspects during the completion of the project. You are required to evaluate the role of the project manager in this context. Critically discuss the main tasks the project manager performed during the project, and give your judgment about the quality of the project managers work.
Quality assurance activities are part of the project evaluation process. In this task, you are required to write a critical summary of other quality assurance activities. How do these reflect the life cycle of a project?
Your report is well laid out and formatted according to the given requirements. Your report is free from grammatical and spelling errors. The Harvard referencing style has been used to cite the work where necessary and a list of references is also provided.
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