BUSI 1329/1288 Project Planning & Project Management Assessment Title Weight towards final grade Length Due Date Anonymous Submission Required? Anticipated Return Date Header Sheet number Group Assessment 30% 2,000 Mar 3 2017 at 3 -PM Yes Mar 24 2017 Individual Assessment 70% 3,000 Apr 5 2017 at 3-PM Yes Apr 28 2017 Individual Assessment (70%) A series of project reports will be provided to you at the beginning of teaching week 8. Please choose two of these reports, write a 3,000 word essay to: 1. Assess, compare and discuss the planning of your two chosen projects with focus on discussing the following aspects: a) How the Project Scope Statement was produced? b) How the stakeholders were managed? c) How the WBS and CPA were produced? Your chosen project reports must be attached in the appendix of your essay. By reading the given project reports, you must comment on the above tasks a-c based on the information you have gathered in the reports. The structure you can consider to use can be found in the table below. Question Assess your 1st Chosen Report Assess your 2nd Chosen Report Compare and Conclusion a) How the Project Scope Statement was produced? Are the objectives SMART? Are the deliverables correctly defined? Are the defined deliverables within the project’s boundary? Are the technical requirements (if applicable) associate with the deliverables and are they correct? Are the milestones correct, logical and reasonable? Are they defined in the correct format?... etc. Are the objectives SMART? Are the deliverables correctly defined? Are the defined deliverables within the project’s boundary? Are the technical requirements (if applicable) associate with the deliverables and are they correct? Are the milestones correct, logical and reasonable? Are they defined in the correct format?... etc. Is the project clearly defined –do you understand what the project team is going to deliver? Which one do you think is a better work and why? b) How the stakeholders were managed? What was the method used to define a project’s stakeholders and how? What was the strategy used to manage them and how? (thinking of using the analysis matrix) What was the method used to define a project’s stakeholders and how? What was the strategy used to manage them and how? (thinking of using the analysis matrix) Which project plan has provided a better stakeholder management method and why? c) How the WBS and CPA were produced? Is the WBS in line with the project’s scope? Has the WBS provided sufficient details of the project (the number of levels and activities defined)? Are the WBS activities arranged in a logical way? Are there sufficient paralleled activities on each WBS level? Is the CAP consistent with the WBS? Is the critical path clearly and correctly pointed out?...etc. Is the WBS in line with the project’s scope? Has the WBS provided sufficient details of the project (the number of levels and activities defined)? Are the WBS activities arranged in a logical way? Are there sufficient paralleled activities on each WBS level? Is the CAP consistent with the WBS? Is the critical path clearly and correctly pointed out?...etc. Which WBS and/or CPA provided better solution to the project and why? 2. Provide solutions and/or suggestions to one of your chosen projects on the following questions: d) How the project risks should have been managed in the given project? e) How the organisational structure should have been designed for the given project? f) How people should have been managed in the given project? Based on your assessment of the chosen project reports, you are further requested to provide solutions on managing the project’s risk, structure and people. The structure you can consider to use can be found in the table below. Question To consider d) How the project risks should have been managed in the given project? What is project risk management system – how many steps and what are they? Discuss your solutions step by step as following the above system. e) How to the organisational structure should have been designed for the given project? What types of organisational structures are available for managing a project? Which type of structure as you see is the most appropriate one for this project and why? Provide an organisational chart to illustrate your design. f) How people should have been managed in the given project? What is the role a project manager usually plays in a project (a manager? a leader or …). What could be the most effective way to manage a team (examples can be added to assist the discussion)?...etc. Please note that you should write in continuous prose using sentences and paragraphs appropriately spaced for clarity. You may attach diagrams in the appendix at the end of the essay for illustrative purposes which will NOT be included in the word count. Please note that this essay should be Harvard compliant. .