PSB7010CL Assessment Brief
Module: Strategic Project Management PSB7010CL
Assignment Type and Weighting: Report and 100%
Assessment is made up of multiple submission: No
Submission Procedure: Electronically via Blackboard (Turnitin)
Word Count: Project Management Report (4,000 word) +/- 10%
Assignment Title: Individual Written Report
Assessment Learning Outcomes
L01. Critically examine the strategic importance of projects to organisations and develop effective project strategy in line with the international environments and business strategies.
L02. Systematically appraise the key constraints impacting projects, including time, cost, quality and risks and manage these constraints appropriately.
L03. Critically evaluate and devise effective management solutions and approaches for stakeholder engagement and project success.
L04. Apply knowledge and skills of managing a diverse team to ensure project coherence across a range of business functional areas, taking responsibility, where relevant for the work and roles of others.
Details of the task
You are expected to research on a project and demonstrate your understanding on strategic project management in the private or public sector. Based on the research case study project from a chosen company, you need to develop the below:
- Organization (e.g. culture) and project background
- Business case
- Project organization structure
- Scope management
- Schedule management
- Cost management
- Stakeholder and communications management
- Resource management
- Risk management
- Project Control System
- Critical reflection on the project
Your written report should:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the scale and scope of project management in private and public sectors.
- Critically discuss how the project team has been structured and organised
- Identify potential resource conflicts, their importance of meeting project costs and schedule objectives.
- Evaluate a strategy to ensure effective use of resources, assets and people within the project.
- Evaluate project management tools and methods.
- Identify project control systems that ensure an effective project management approach.
- Ensure project coherence across a range of business functional areas.
Provide Project portfolio with supporting evidence (e.g. meeting minutes, presentation slides, records, documentations)
Other Information
Report Deliverables:
- This report should be composed with 4,000 words +/-10% allowances.
- Word count must be indicted on the first page.
- Word count excludes Table of Content and Reference List.
- A written report shall be word processed with Ariel or Times New Roman font type, size 12, 1.5 line spaced and overall margin 2.5cm; include relevant charts, diagrams, graphs, images and/ or tabulations.
- A written report must be supported with a variety of sources; citations and references must adhere to APA Referencing System. Minimum of 20 peer reviewed academic journals
- A recognisable filename must be used to upload into the TurnItIn for plagiarism inspection, for instance, “Student CU ID_CompanyName”.
- A fail grade will be awarded for student who fail to submit on time.
- Allowance for plagiarism is 15% and below, excluding the list of references. Should there be any instances where the plagiarism is above 15%, a low or a fail grade will be awarded.
